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Key Points for Paul Taylor

  • Paul Taylor's diverse background encompasses roles as a former Royal Navy Aircrew Officer, Adjunct Professor, neuroscientist, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, offering a unique blend of skills spanning military, academic, and scientific domains.
  • Currently engaged in a PhD program in Applied Psychology, Taylor collaborates with prestigious institutions like the Australian Defence Science Technology Group & The University of Newcastle to develop and validate resilience strategies, addressing crucial mental health challenges in high-stress environments.
  • Leveraging his military experience as an Airborne Anti-submarine Warfare Officer and Helicopter Search-And-Rescue Crew Member, Taylor delivers impactful workshops on stress fitness, leadership, and performance to esteemed clients including major corporations and the Australian Military.
  • From co-hosting TV series and publishing books to spearheading online programs like The Mental Fitness Project, Taylor consistently demonstrates a commitment to innovation in promoting mental wellbeing, resilience, and peak performance across diverse sectors.

Topics for Paul Taylor

  • Becoming stress fit: Why would you aspire to be resilient when human beings are capable of so much more?
     Paul explores the human stress response and how developing high levels of Stress Fitness enables you to adapt positively to the inevitable challenges that life throws at you and ultimately emerge stronger and better. The talk will then go through a range of evidence-based rituals that integrate and optimise the mind, body and brain to move you up the stress fitness continuum.
  • Wellbeing – A biopsychosocial approach
    Western medicine has historically employed a reductionist, dualistic, biomedical model, where there is no role for the mind in physical ailments. This notion is slowly being challenged by the emergence of a new biopsychosocial approach, which recognises the body-brain connection and the impact of both psychological and social factors in both wellness and disease. In this thought stimulating talk, Paul will examine the body-brain connection through a review of placebo science and explore the impact of exercise, sleep, nutrition, gut health, resilience and social connectedness on overall physical and mental wellbeing. 
  • The big 4 of mental toughness
     Paul will use his unique combination of research and practical experience in stressful situations to explain both our stress response systems and the concepts of resilience and stress adaptation. He will then present the ‘Big 4’ practical tools used by US Special Forces that will help us not only survive - but thrive - in the face of modern stressors, and move beyond resilience to being stress adapted, where we grow because of stress exposure.
  • Shift happens
    Behaviour change is a much-studied concept, but still remains the elusive holy grail for many people, who know what to do but aren’t doing it. In this keynote, Paul will explore change from a neuroscience perspective, examine the science of habits, and present a model of behaviour change that he has formulated over the years and successfully used successfully with thousands of individuals to help them close the knowing-doing gap.
  • The forged mind workshop: Invest in your employees
    As businesses transform and adapt it increases the stress and tiredness of staff. When physiological, psychological and emotional resources are insufficient to meet demand, fatigue, impairment and burnout can result. Forging ahead as an organisation without forging the resilience of your people is futile. Build rituals that allow your workforce to:
    • Thrive under pressure.
    • Use stress to their advantage - move away from managing stress toward ‘mastering’ stress.
    • Induce long-term productive adaptation.
    • Improve performance.
    • Enable employees to thrive under pressure in a sustainable way.
    • In this half to full day workshop we explore the science of resilience and teach peak performance tips from the military and elite athletes to provide participants with new insights and daily practices that will move them beyond risk mitigation to performance improvement.
  • High performance teams workshop: Unlock the DNA of high performance teams
     Paul decodes and distils wisdom learned from working closely with senior executive teams in large organisations such as Medibank, Goodman Fielder, Iselect, SAP and CISCO, as well as local governments.
    • This full day workshop is a unique blend of personal experiences and cutting edge research into both team dynamics and social neuroscience.
    • Paul blends his insights from completing a postgraduate diploma in the neuroscience of leadership and the practical applications of high performance teams. employees to thrive under pressure in a sustainable way.
    • Participants complete a pre-workshop questionnaire to identify which areas to focus on in the workshop and additional coaching is provided if required.
  • The executive athlete workshop: Turn good into great habits
    Thriving in the modern work environment requires us to optimise and renew our physical and mental resources in order to create a state of sustainable high performance. This is challenging in the reality of long work hours and high-stress environments, particularly given the challenges of personal lives.
    • This full day workshop includes a proven method of behavioural change.
    • It examines high-performance through the lens of four pillars: Mindset, movement, nutrition and recovery.
    • It combines research from the fields of neuroscience, physiology, psychology and nutrition with practices of elite athletes and military special forces units to give insights and rituals that will positively impact performance as well as physical and mental health.
  • The neuroscience of leadership workshop: Optimise adoption of peak performance principles
    Outcome-based blend of information and facilitated group and individual tasks that is designed to optimise adoption of peak performance principle.
    • In this half to full day workshop, Paul combines military research on leadership and resilience with cutting-edge social neuroscience, physiology and psychology.
    • There is also a strong emphasis on behaviour change, with a number of proven tools used to foster self determination and long-term success of the participants.
    • There are 5 complementary parts that comprise the neuroscience of leadership and these are explored over 2 days (can also be delivered over 1 day).
      • Know Thyself
      • Optimise Energy and Decision-Making.
      • Thrive Under Pressure.
      • Engage/Influence Others.
      • Driving Change.

         

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