Keynote Speaking
Ian O’Grady delivers keynote presentations to help individuals, teams and leaders remain composed, protect judgement and act effectively through pressure, difficulty and change. He works with:
- Decision-Critical businesses.
- Safety-Critical industries.
- Organisations that require peak performance.
Tailored to your Organisation
Ian delivers compelling operational stories with clear, science-backed and immediately actionable tools to enhance performance under pressure in any setting.
Ian combines hard-earned operational experience with established human performance science, translating both into practical strategies for the pressures people face at work.
BASE Keynote
The Critical Point
How to recognise pressure, respond with purpose and protect performance.
Outline
Organisations invest heavily in systems, procedures, competence, qualifications and compliance.
They should. These are essential.
However, The Critical Point exposes a significant gap in current methodology.
It explores the moment stress and pressure begin to negatively impact human performance: so this is not a 'system' problem, it is a 'human' problem.
The Critical Point reveals why qualified and capable people can rush, hesitate, fixate or become overwhelmed—and how recognising a drop in performance creates the opportunity to change what happens next.
Audiences leave with:
- A clearer understanding of how pressure affects judgement, motivation and behaviour.
- Practical ways to recognise the earliest signs of performance degradation.
- Simple tools for regaining composure, reducing complexity and acting purposefully through difficulty.
- A stronger appreciation of recovery, reflection and sustainable performance to avoid 'bad' stress, fatigue and burnout.
"All my students and colleagues are left in awe when Ian comes to visit us.
The blend of real-world experience and cutting-edge science is a real showcase and highlight for our students- absolutely vital in helping us build resilience to help them with effective and targeted clinical decision making in high pressure situations."
Dr Tim Johnson
Deputy Programme Director,
Cardiff University School of Medicine.
