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Executive leadership demands high performance. 

But few leaders have the physical capacity necessary.

Using 5 years of data from my proprietary Resiliency Assessment developed in partnership with the University of Minnesota, I've measured resilience across 26 companies and multiple industries. 

The pattern is consistent and concerning:
  • No organizational level meets the “resilient” threshold. Across all roles, average resilience scores fall below 70%, the benchmark associated with sustainable performance. Even C-suite executives, who score highest at approximately 65%, remain below the benchmark for sustainable performance.
  •  Physical resilience is the universal constraint. Across every role, physical resilience scores 15-20 points below mental and emotional domains, averaging in the high 40s to low 50s.

Why This Matters to Your Business

When your leaders operate in chronic stress without adequate physical resilience, that strain cascades down through every level, and your organization absorbs measurable costs:

Decision quality becomes unstable.

Stress reduces cognitive processing speed by 20–30% and increases decision variability by 30–40%.

Leaders makes different choices based on their nervous system state, not the data.

Execution speed slows. 

Stress increases rework, indecision, and conflict, creating friction that delays execution by 20% or more.

Competitive advantage doesn't come from better strategy; it comes from faster, cleaner execution.

Organizational strain compounds. 

Teams with high-stress leaders show 15–25% higher burnout, reduced psychological safety, and increased turnover intent.

Leaders don't just set strategy, they set nervous systems.

The Performance Constraint Most Organizations Miss:

 

Chronic stress changes the chemistry of the brain and body. Elevated stress hormones like cortisol impair prefrontal cortex executive function—the brain region responsible for leadership, planning, judgment, and decision making.

Biology shifts cognitive resources to limbic threat processing, reducing working memory, cognitive flexibility, and ambiguity tolerance.

 

Put simply: you can't think your way out of a biology problem. 

 

Depleted energy systems, poor recovery and sleep debt don't respond to positive thinking, they respond to physiological intervention.

Most organizations try to solve performance issues cognitively, but the real constraint is physiological—it’s the foundation on which mental and emotional resilience are built. They’re addressing the symptoms, not the source.

Cognitive performance improves by 10–20%  

when leaders optimize sleep, recovery, and energy regulation. Better biology means faster processing, sharper memory, and more flexible thinking.

Emotional regulation strengthens

Physical resilience reduces cortisol-driven reactivity, allowing leaders to respond with clarity instead of urgency. Teams experience calmer, more stable leadership.

Decision quality stabilizes  

When nervous systems are regulated, leaders make consistent decisions based on data, not their physiological state. Decision variability drops by 30–40%.

Execution speed increases  

Reduced stress means less rework, fewer conflicts, and cleaner communication—cutting execution drag by 20% or more.

Improved team stability  

Regulated leaders reduce team burnout and turnover.

 The Solution

 The Executive Resilience Program

 
A Comprehensive Approach to Unlocking Leadership Capacity

 

Your leadership team is already working at maximum effort. But effort isn't the constraint—biological capacity is. The Executive Resilience Program targets the physiological foundation that determines decision quality, execution speed, and sustained performance.

This isn't a wellness initiative. It's a performance optimization system designed specifically for high-pressure leadership teams who need measurable results, not generic mindset training.

 

1. The Diagnostic

We start by running my proprietary Resilience Assessment with your entire leadership team. It's a comprehensive measurement tool that scores overall, physical, mental, and emotional resilience across multiple dimensions.

What you'll discover:

  • Baseline resilience scores for each leader and the team as a whole
  • Where the gaps are - where leaders and struggling and where they're depleted
  • Variability patterns that signal operational risk and inconsistent performance
  • Exactly what's constraining your executive team's capacity right now

You'll walk away with a clear, data-driven picture of what's limiting leadership performance and where the highest-impact interventions are. No guessing. No assumptions. Just measured reality.

 

2. The Quarterly Sessions

Once per quarter, I come in-person to work directly with your leadership team. These aren't lectures—they're intensive, hands-on sessions where we build the physiological foundation for sustainable high performance.

We focus on:

  • Physical resilience fundamentals: Recovery protocols, energy regulation, load management, sleep optimization, fueling for high performance and improving the biological systems that determine cognitive and emotional capacity
  • Mental resilience strategies: Understanding how the chemistry of stress affects their cognitive performance and ways to reduce decision fatigue, manage uncertainty, and maintain strategic thinking under pressure
  • Emotional resilience tools: Physiologically-grounded techniques for emotional regulation, stress response, and interpersonal effectiveness

Performance has a physiological foundation. Mental and emotional resilience depend on physical capacity. We build from the bottom up—fixing the chemistry first, then leveraging that foundation for cognitive and emotional gains.

Each session includes:

  • Science-based frameworks tailored to your organization's challenges
  • Micro Strategies leaders can implement immediately
  • Group problem-solving around real leadership scenarios
  • Accountability structures for the quarter ahead

 

3. One-on-One Coaching

Between quarterly sessions, each leader gets a monthly 1:1 coaching session with me. This is where individual challenges get addressed, personal strategies get designed, and real behavior change happens.

In these sessions, we:

  • Diagnose their specific constraints like sleep debt, recovery gaps, cognitive load, emotional reactivity
  • Design their monthly resilience strategy tailored to their role, schedule, and stressors
  • Build their team resilience strategy as to how they show up as a regulated leader who stabilizes their team
  • Troubleshoot what's working and what's not
  • Create accountability for implementation

Leadership is personal. What works for your CEO won't work for your CFO. One-on-one coaching ensures each leader gets targeted support for their unique biology, role demands, and team dynamics.

The result: Leaders don't just learn strategies, they implement them. And they have the support and accountability to make them stick.

 

4. Integration 

Once your leadership team has built their own resilience foundation, we look at how to scale this across the organization. 

We'll address:

  • How to cascade resilience principles down through management layers
  • Which teams or departments would benefit most from targeted interventions
  • How to integrate resilience strategies into existing leadership development, performance management, and culture initiatives
  • Metrics to track organizational impact—decision quality, execution speed, engagement, retention

Great leaders set the tone for thousands of people. When your leadership team is physically, mentally, and emotionally resilient, that capacity cascades. Regulated leaders create regulated teams. Resilient leaders build resilient organizations.

Talk with Jenny About Your Executive Team

 Why Jenny Evans

 

For over two decades, Jenny has been a leading expert on the intersection of stress physiology and performance. What she brings is measured reality and practical tactics, not theory.

Her approach combines performance psychology and exercise physiology to target what actually drives performance: the biological and physiological changes that occur under stress.

Organizations see immediate engagement, lasting behavior change in programs, and measurable improvements in decision stability, execution speed, and team resilience. 

Credentials That Matter

  • 20+ years partnering with Fortune 500 companies and high-pressure organizations
  • 50,000+ professionals equipped with strategies they still use today
  • Background in performance psychology and exercise physiology focused on the biology of stress and human performance
  • Bestselling author of The Resiliency rEvolution, endorsed by leading organizations and used as a training resource across industries

Jenny shows leadership teams that stress isn't a mindset problem they need to overcome—it's a chemistry problem they can solve. And when you solve the chemistry, cognitive and emotional performance follow.

What Organizations Are Saying

Real impact. Real results.

“AT&T University has been recognized multiple times by national publications for our excellence in Executive Development. Jenny Evans played no small role in this success. Incorporating her into our flagship leadership program, Leading with Distinction, raised our game in ways we couldn’t have anticipated. She’s changed our culture for the better.”
— Alyson Woodard,
Director of Executive Development, AT&T
“Jenny is brilliant! She has presented to thousands of our clients for several years, many of whom are CEO's and senior executives of Fortune 500 companies, and she always delivers remarkable results. Jenny enjoys the highest esteem and confidence of myself and our team.”
— Chris Osorio, President, Human Performance Institute
“Your multiple presentations to the EO Global Leadership Academy were outstanding in every way. Both the content and your personal presentation style were exceptional. Each leader felt they could take away great value from your discussions and immediately apply them to their lives. I congratulate you on your exceptional presentations which so directly impact the lives of EO members attending this Academy.”
— Warren Rustad, Global Leadership Academy Dean, Entrepreneurs’ Organization

Your leadership team is already under pressure.

 

The question is whether they have the physical capacity to perform at their best or whether stress is limiting what they can deliver.

 

Great leaders don't just perform better, they're setting the tone for thousands of people across your organization.

Resilient leaders build resilient teams.

Regulated leaders create regulated cultures.

Great leaders make great companies.

 

But only when their biology can sustain it.

 

MY EXECUTIVE TEAM NEEDS THIS