Andrew May

Andrew May is recognised as Australia's leading expert on performance and productivity. He runs a successful Performance Clinic in Sydney that specialises in executive coaching and workplace training. The Performance Clinic offers solutions for individuals and teams to achieve greater productivity and sustained peak performance.

Andrew is a best-selling author of 4 previous books including Flip the Switch, Between Jobs, the Redundancy Survival Guide; and Switched On Health and Wellbeing Professionals Volumes 1 & 2. Flip the Switch has now sold more than 10,000 copies and is one of Australia's best-selling books in the performance and productivity space.

Andrew has been performance coaching elite athletes and executives for more than 15 years. The success of his program's can be attributed to his understanding that achieving high performance requires an integrated approach to the way we think (psychology), the way we work (productivity), the way we eat and exercise (physiology) and the way we recharge (recovery). He is at the forefront of his industry, constantly breaking new ground and leading the way when it comes to the Science of High Performance.

Andrew's programs are the only scientifically proven Performance Coaching programs measuring the psychological and physiological effects of stress and recovery for executives and corporate workers. Andrew delivers keynote presentations around the world and is a columnist for a number of newspapers and magazines. He is a regular voice on radio and is a popular TV personality. Andrew May's philosophies on work life balance and individual performance were recently chronicled on the critically acclaimed SBS observational documentary, The Nest.

Andrew has worked with the Australian Cricket team as their Physical Performance Manager, with the AFL Sydney Swans and many Olympic athletes. He co-founded Good Health Solutions, Australia's largest corporate health and well being company. With his background as an elite athlete, high performance coach and business builder, Andrew understands the key strategies that give you the power to achieve more in less time so you can be super productive at work, and build a rich and colourful life outside of work as well.

Andrew's presentations and tailored conference programs deliver key strategies to give your team the power to really Switch On when they need to ... and Off when they can!

Conference Keynotes

Switched On Performance
The rapid speed and intensity of modern business demands a new way of approaching performance. Today's workplace is a highly competitive cauldron sharing many similar characteristics with the world of the high performance athlete. Intense effort, thriving under pressure, focused concentration and the ability to recover are all fundamental to success. Being able to consistently perform at your peak requires a balance between intense effort and essential periods of rest and recovery. You cannot be 100% efficient if you are on 24/7.

• Understand the 4 different performance zones - chill, thrill, spill and kill.
• Why more people suffer from Road Runner Syndrome, Presenteeism, ADT and CPA. Plus why we're all turning into Sleep Camels, Deskfast Diners and Button Smackers.
• Tap into your biologically determined Energy Personality and make every day productive and on purpose - even when you're feeling flat!
• Use the Recovery Rocket to help you recover, recharge and reconnect.
• How to be ON when you have to and OFF when you can.

Switched On Leadership
Leadership is not about making as much noise as you can and charging into the opposition team! Some of the best leaders are quiet in nature, yet very loud in their delivery of results. With the merging of generations (Gen Y, Gen X and Baby Boomers), flattening of the world, changing work patterns and an obsession with speed; strong leadership is not just necessary, it is critical. Join Andrew as he explores what he has learnt from working in elite sport for 15 years, and from consulting to some of the world?s largest companies for the past 5 years.

• Proven strategies used by the world's leading coaches to inspire optimal performance and teamwork.
• How to be clear on your teams vision, trademark and behaviours and project a world-class leadership brand.
• True leadership comes from within, not from external motivation sources
• Understand 'Rigid Flexibility' and how fusing tension and opposite attitudes together provides a platform for success.
• How to cut through all of the leadership rhetoric, management speak and consulting theory to come up with a simple, yet results focused one page Leadership Plan.

Staying Switched On : How the Best Get Better
What defines great achievers in business, sport, entertainment and life is their ability to sustain performance. It's not about only having a good month, or a good quarter, or even just a good year and then dropping back again. It's about consistently turning up and delivering time and time again. There is a process and set of behaviours high achievers and the world's best teams follow day in day out.

• Learn the frontiers of modern brain science and how the best play to their strengths and focus on what's right, not on what's wrong.
• Understand 'esrever gnireenigne' and how to begin with the end in mind.
• Why 'happy discontentment' is an essential component displayed by all top performers and how it is different from perfectionism.
• Why the world's best have the world's best support teams, and how you can apply similar strategies.
• How to quickly adapt and learn from mistakes and not get stuck in the 'performance dip'.

Switched on Selling
Switched On Selling is not another sales skills course. It is for sales professionals who already have the basic sales and marketing skills, yet aren't achieving the results they really want or deserve. It is a proven program that focuses on optimal performance of the mind, body and environment; stablishing platforms that position sales people and sales teams for optimal success. Switched On Selling is not about spending more time in the office or on the road. It is all about optimising the time you spend focused and on purpose to guarantee a better result! High performance habits are just as important as sales technique and product knowledge. In today's frantically paced business environment, leading organisations understand the value in
supporting their sales team to optimise productivity and personal efficiency. An example of what you can learn:

• How to get into the optimal performance zone every time you're with a client
• Secrets from elite sporting teams that position them for success
• Daily rituals that ensure sustained sales
• How to avoid the sales rollercoaster with strategies to sustain performance throughout the year
• About positive psychology and how to manage the 50,000 plus thoughts that run through your
  head every day

Performance Improvement Program

Drawing on Andrew's experience working with elite athletes and sporting teams the workshop will focus on practical ways to trigger high performance at work and in life.  All of the concepts and models presented are backed by scientific and evidenced-based research.

The workshop will be delivered in two parts:
1. Recovery Strategies for Sustainability
2. Train your Brain Like you Train your Body (Mental Fitness)

Elite athletes and sporting teams understand the value of recovery and now spend more time, money and resources on recovery than they do on training and competition. Have you ever finished a day or got to the end of the working week and felt totally stuffed, flat and fatigued? Science tells us that if we don't get the right balance between the time we spend in stress (sympathetic nervous system) and in recovery (parasympathetic nervous system) we put ourselves at risk of mental and physical burn out, decreased concentration, immune imbalance and stress related illnesses including cardiovascular disease. This session teaches you the physical science behind the stress/recovery balance so you can be 100% on the job and 100% off the job.

 

Client Ovations: Thanks for your great 'Switched On' keynote at our annual conference. It was our pleasure having you as part of our 'people' day and I thought your speech was fantastic! One of our international guests from London was so impressed with your presentation that he said he's going back this week to let them know what an innovative company we are down here and to speak to International HR about running something similar in UK - all very positive.

EMI Music Australia

I wanted to take a minute to thank you for all of the time and effort you have put into the AXA manager conference program over the last year. Combining the morning wake up activities, masseurs, and the online learning and intranet with your keynote presentations is a perfect way to blend content and practice. The Switched On reviews where you summarise all of our activities and provide us with downloads and photos of the entire experience is always very well received. We are looking forward to running this program with you again next year!

Capability Manager, AXA

Feed-back from delegates clearly shows your talk was not only well received, but a highlight of the event. Your experience and understanding of sustained performance and its impact on our businesses certainly gives us all plenty to think about in planning ahead.

Fitpro

Andrew's energetic style always leaves the audience buzzing. We can always count on Andrew to partner with us and deliver a humorous, thought provoking and very practical presentation. He is a master speaker and the perfect choice to stimulate the audience with a fact filled health message. One of the best I've seen!

Grand United Health Insurance

From the very start your message was powerful and to the point. I was particularly impressed the way you researched the audience and continually linked the key messages back to our specific business and day to day pressures.

Accor Hotels

Andrew recently partnered with Human Resources to develop a specific presentation that outlined the theory behind designing and managing Work Life Balance programs; as well as providing employees with powerful and realistic strategies they could immediately use. This provided a very strong platform for HR to then explain what we are doing on both a global and local initiative. I strongly recommend Andrew May as one of the best in the business I've come across.

Hewlett Packard

Andrew May has now presented to Ernst ' Young employees throughout Australia in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth. His high energy, enthusiasm, subject knowledge and capacity to relate to large numbers of people both professional and non-professional is the reason we contract him again and again. Andrew has an engaging and sense of humour which allows him to draw in and interest his audience. We also belive Andrew is now very aware of our culture and our objectives and he is able to deliver addresses to large or small audiences within an appropriate contextual framework. We have been very satisfied with Andrew's contribution to our health and well-being program and look forward to a long and successful working relationship with him.



Andrew, it was indeed a pleasure to have you work with us again, at one of our national brand conferences in Adelaide during November. The Workshops presented by you were met with an extraordinarily positive response with many delegates expressing a desire to have you return for more at our next event.

Head of Events - Stella Travel Services