Because success shouldn't be this hard.

Work demands focus, uncomfortable conversations and doing things we don't always feel like doing. We push through with discipline, habits and sheer determination. The work gets done, but it can come at a cost - longer hours, more stress and less energy left when the working day is over.

In this entertaining, challenging and highly practical keynote, behavioural scientist Darren Fleming explores why capable, motivated people can find themselves stressed, distracted or exhausted by work they're perfectly capable of doing.

Drawing on behavioural science, psychology and neuroscience, Darren challenges conventional thinking about mindset and reveals why achieving more doesn't have to mean continually pushing ourselves harder.

Audiences will discover:
​​​​​​​• Why the same situation can energise one person and exhaust another.
• Why pushing harder, building better habits and relying on discipline aren't always
the answer.
• How to regain focus when their attention starts working against them.
• How to recover faster from setbacks and get back to performing.
• How to achieve more without work taking so much out of them.

Mindset Mastery gives people a different way to perform - with less stress, less internal resistance and more energy for what matters both inside and outside work.
Because success shouldn't require giving work the best of you and everyone else what's left.

Best for: frontline teams, operational staff, all-hands events.

In this funny, thought-provoking and highly practical keynote, behavioural scientist Darren Fleming explores why bad moments so easily become bad days - and reveals a counterintuitive way to recover faster when life refuses to cooperate with our plans.

Drawing on behavioural science, psychology and physics, Darren challenges some of our conventional thinking about shit days - why they happen, why we often make them worse, and what we can do to stop a bad moment becoming a bad day.

Audiences will discover:
• Why one small thing can hijack an otherwise perfectly good day.
• The hidden reaction that can keep a shit day going long after the original problem has passed.
• Why trying to think your way out of a shit day makes it worse.
• What your body knows about a shit day before your mind does.
• A surprisingly simple way to help a shit day pass faster - without positive thinking, silver linings or pretending everything is okay.

Entertaining, irreverent and grounded in science, The Four Noble Truths of Shit Days gives audiences a different way to understand the bad days we all have - and a practical way to stop making them last longer than they need to.

Because you can't stop shit days happening, But you can stop helping them stick around.