Regenerative Performance
Reclaim capacity, protect focus and build a performance rhythm people can sustain.
Customizable keynote available in-person and virtually
Formats: • Keynote 45–60 minutes • Keyshop (keynote + workshop) 90–150 minutes • Half-day or full-day workshop • James tailors each format to the event and the people in the room.
You don’t have to choose between burning out and checking out.
James puts his finger on the pulse of always-on work, sharing experiences that feel uncomfortably familiar. Before your feet touch the floor, you’re checking email. Deep work is pushed to the margins by meetings that should have been emails. By bedtime, your brain refuses to switch off.
Always-on work has become a global epidemic, draining capacity and impairing the recovery that produces our best ideas and differentiates humans in an AI-driven workplace.
James discovered the alternative, first as a full-time racing cyclist, then as an endurance coach to riders with demanding careers: We need to treat knowledge work as a cognitive endurance activity, combining deliberate effort with effective recovery to unlock sustained high performance and avoid the traps of burning out or checking out.
Regenerative Performance equips and inspires audiences to redesign the rhythm of work: from scattered to efficient, distracted to focused and exhausted to energised.
THIS KEYNOTE IS PERFECT FOR:
- Always-on, global, hybrid or client-service organisations.
- Teams experiencing overload, fragmented attention, burnout risk or disengagement.
- Leaders who want productivity, wellbeing and retention treated as one system.
- Businesses building for the long term and committed to creating a workplace where high performance is sustainable.
This keynote's signature model, Cognitive Gears™️ provides a mental operating system for the modern workplace. It turns an overloaded calendar into a diagnosis people can identify and change. The trap is often Middle Gear: busy all day, with little important work finished and no real recovery. This keynote provides a path to change that.
Cognitive Gears™️ provides a framework for identifying:
High Gear: Protect time for the demanding work that deserves your best attention.
Middle Gear: Contain the meetings, messages and switching that expand to fill the day.
Low Gear: Recharge proactively, so energy and perspective can return.
Dr. James Hewitt’s work on Regenerative Performance began with a question he could not ignore: what happens when work spends capacity faster than people can restore it? His PhD at Loughborough University examined always-on work, his experience spans Formula 1 and global leadership teams, and his bestselling book (Regenerative Performance) brings those lessons together.
What Changes:
Less distraction
From being pulled in multiple directions to being efficient and effective.
Deeper focus
From continually distracted and interrupted to focused and making real progress.
More energy
From drained at the end of each day to re-energised and engaged.
What The Audience Leaves With:
An attention audit
A tool to map a week and see where attention and energy are really going.
A time-rescue plan
Rescue time from distracted Middle Gear and reinvest it in focused High Gear work.
A roadmap for recharging
Create team norms that make recovery possible, even when work is demanding.
“We were looking for an inspiring speaker that would be able to share new insights and a new perspective. What we didn’t expect was a total experience.
—Katherine Shenton,
Global Head of Marketing & Communications, QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company
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