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AI Can’t Lead Under Pressure. But You Must: Inside the Athleadership Operating System (Part II) A neuroscience-backed Leadership Lab for Strengthening Strategic Influence and Team Stability Under Pressure (with Dr. Michael Mannino)
HR leaders are being asked to stabilize teams, influence strategy, and maintain trust under relentless pressure. This session is not about AI tools. It is about the human performance capabilities AI cannot replace. Melissa Dawn Simkins and neuroscientist Dr. Michael Mannino introduce Athleadership, a proven neuroscience-backed leadership conditioning framework inspired by elite athlete mindset and designed to strengthen how leaders respond, communicate, and make decisions under pressure.Through interactive workshop exercises, rapid-response drills, and real-world scenarios, you will begin building your own repeatable operating system for leadership performance in an AI era and beyond. You will leave with the foundation of your own leadership playbook to strengthen mental performance, strategic influence and leadership consistency during uncertainty. This workshop is designed to help HR leaders move from reactive leadership to repeatable leadership performance.
Session Type: Breakout Session
Session Tracks: Leadership & Development
Learning Outcome 1: Build your own leadership playboook to strengthen mental performand and strategic influence and leadership consistency during uncertainty
Learning Outcome 2: Practice neuroscience-backed leadership conditioning framework through Agility, Resilience, Alignment, and Wellbeing to elevate decision making and response under pressure
Learning Outcome 3: Access exercises, rapid-response drills and real-world scenarios as you build your own repeatable operating system for leadership performance in an AI era and beyond
  • Thursday, Jun 1810:45 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
    (2:45 PM - 3:45 PM GMT)

Speakers

MM

Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Syneurgy

Melissa Dawn Simkins

Founder, Athleadership and CEO, Velvet Suite

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