Tim Borys

We all want to be healthy, happy, and well, so why are so few people experiencing that state of being? It’s because of “The Wellness Curveball”.

We all face curveballs every day in the form of challenges, barriers, beliefs, myths, knowledge gaps, and tough situations. They impede our progress towards the health, fitness, happiness and lifestyle we want. This session will help you see these curveballs, introduce you to the 4 Pillars of Personal Performance, and provide simple tools to hit the curveballs out of the park in all areas of life.

You will learn how to:

• Master the 4 Pillars of Personal Performance as a blueprint for lifelong wellness.
• Overcome self-doubt and embrace a mindset that will motivate you to clarify your purpose, passion, values, and goals for life.
• Adopt simple daily habits that enable you to consistently overcome procrastination, avoidance, and excuses to implement your work, wellness, and life goals.
• Eliminate the confusion around exercise and food so you can be healthy and fit while never dieting or going to the gym again!

This session is perfect for people who understand that health and happiness are the foundation of outstanding productivity and performance in work and life…and who want to improve those areas!

A positive, practical, and humorous look at the science of stress, work, and your health…including what YOU can do to thrive in today’s world!

Stress is natural and desired…Seriously! It can even be a positive and motivating force in our life…if we know how to harness it. Unfortunately, for most people, stress wreaks havoc on their bodies, mind, daily function, and productivity. Mindset and leadership coach Tim Borys shares his wisdom, insights, and the important science behind how our mind and body respond to stress.

Tim’s upbeat and practical insights make this seemingly complex and frustrating topic easy to digest. He helps you understand your unique stress circumstances, and provides ways to implement effective strategies each day.

Participants will work through a series of personalized and practical exercises proven to help manage stress and increase happiness and life satisfaction while boosting productivity. You will leave with the tools necessary to take control of your stress and achieve optimal function across all areas of life!

You Will Learn:

• What science says about stress and performance.
• How to identify stressors in your environment.
• Strategies to manage stress and harness it for greater performance.
• Insight from the “stress bucket” analogy.
• How to identify and reverse the stress spiral.
• How to customize strategies for you and your environment.

Strategies for Strength and Success During Tough Times

These days, we hear a lot of talk about “building resilience” or “being resilient”. But what exactly does that mean and why does it seem so darn difficult and daunting to do!?

That’s because resilience isn’t something you “will” into existence. It doesn’t involve “digging deep” and “sucking it up” for eternity to show how “tough” you are. Resilience is a process and journey that involves a combination of mindset, simple, yet highly powerful personal habits, a support network, and a deep look inward.

The good news is, it’s quite simple and anyone can do it when they follow 5 simple “Resilience Rules”. In this session, we discuss the definitions of resilience, grit, and mindset, while looking at the science behind the 5 Resilience Rules.

You Will Learn:

• The difference between stress, burnout, resilience, grit, and mindset…and how they are related.
• How to get back on track quickly when life throws you an unexpected cur
  Format: 45-75 minute keynote (also available as 1.5-2 hr workshop

2 out of every 3 employees are disengaged at work, and almost half of the employees have unhealthy stress levels each day. This is hurting people and costing companies billions every year. The way we are working isn’t working!

The great news is that there’s a simple and effective way to engage people in their work while reducing distress and improving all aspects of their health, happiness, and performance. This session paints the picture of this change and provides practical strategies and tools to create the necessary change.

We will see why stress and resilience seminars often make things worse. Why mindfulness apps and more benefits are failing to produce results, and what to do instead.

You will learn:

• How to create a corporate culture that contributes to the change you desire.
• The role of the critical role of leadership in the change process.
• The importance of “The Long Tail” in learning, development, and behaviour change.
• Simple tips, tools, and strategies for leaders and employees to move from stress and burnout to engagement and excellence.

From our individual cells to our entire body, movement is literally the foundation of life. Yet, as a society, we are more sedentary than ever.

This has profound implications for our mental, physical, organizational, and societal health. Don’t worry, it’s not all doom and gloom!

Join us for this fun and informative session where we explore the small, yet powerful changes that people, companies, and even government can make to harness the power of movement in building better lives, businesses, and communities.

Smile, laugh, and move your way towards a new perspective on personal and business performance.

Learning Objectives

• Gain a clear understanding of how typical habits in modern society have contributed to our current physical and mental health challenges.
• Harness neuroscience to increase energy, focus, and productivity each day
• Apply a proven framework of simple daily actions that improve mood, health, and happiness
• Identify areas of opportunity and leverage them within your work, life, and community to better utilize both your brain and body.

The noise around stress and burnout is deafening these days. Companies are scrambling to address the impact on employees and business results with additional resources and support being mobilized across organizations.

These resources can potentially be helpful, but right now they are failing miserably in the goal of reducing burnout. This is because the traditional approach often misses one important factor that makes all the difference. Join the session to learn the #1 factor contributing to employee burnout and what leaders and organizations can do to dramatically reduce stress and burnout while improving employee engagement, performance and wellbeing.

Leave with the knowledge, tools, and strategies to move the needle on burnout at work.

Attendees will learn:

• What burnout is.
• Definitions and examples
• The real causes of it in the modern workplace
• The links to leadership, corporate culture, and learning & development
• How does it show up at work and how to identify the red flags.
• Humorous, yet very real examples
• The simple (though uncomfortable) way of preventing it
• Shining a spotlight on leadership, belief systems, and corporate culture
• The proven steps that employees, leaders, teams, and organizations can take to create positive change.
• High performance habits
• How to begin shifting corporate culture
• Shift in leadership mindset and skill development
• What the healthy, engaged, high performing workplace of the future looks like
• Paint the vision for success at all levels of the organization.

Great news…Corporate wellness has been a colossal failure! Billions are being wasted on ineffective programs and people are more stressed and unhealthier than ever.

This is good news because we can finally stop pretending that it’s working and commit to rethinking our approach to employee health, happiness, and performance.

There is a proven path to accomplishing these objectives. The cost is low, the return is massive, and it starts by simply reframing our perspective on wellness and its place in any organization.

Tune in to find out the top reasons wellness fails and what the future of work looks like in high-performing organizations.

What you will learn:

• The critical flaws in the current wellness model
• How HR has been set up to fail
• What wellness is
• What it looks like in the high-performing people, teams, and organizations
• What needs to happen for this change to gain traction.

What the future of work means for your health, happiness, and energy in work and life.

We sit more today than at any time in history…and it’s destroying our health, happiness, and ability to perform at work and in life.  Luckily, there’s a better way to live and work. One that honors our body, work realities, and goals.

Would you like to have more energy each day? Leave work feeling great? Have more motivation and enthusiasm to enjoy your evening? The solution is simple – learn to harness movement in your life! Nope…it’s not what you are thinking. The solution has nothing to do with workouts, fitness classes, or going to the gym. InThoseften end up being counterproductive and even dangerous!

Using movement and activity effectively fosters increased productivity, happiness, creativity, and ultimately, greater success in all aspects of your life. Smart people (and organizations) are creating “a movement around movement”, and the outcomes are exceptional.

Forget the fancy equipment, and watered-down wellness initiatives. Creating change should be simple, effective, meaningful and quick to start. This session provides the framework for success that each employee (and organization) can use to transform workplace health, happiness, and performance, by simply moving…the correct way.

You Will Learn to:

• Use movement to be more focused, productive, and effective.
• Master simple daily movements to boost energy, reduce injury, and help you feel great.
• Manage your personal movement strategy for better energy, health, and performance at home and the office.
• Use four essential elements of a healthy workplace to create “a movement around movement” in your office.

The science and strategy behind reaching and exceeding the most important objectives in your life.

Who will benefit from this session:

• People who are stressed, frustrated, burned out, and need a “reset”

Goal setting seems simple, so why do so many goals fail? The answer is a combination of the goal itself, how your brain perceives that goal, and what you do after you set it.

This session is dedicated to showing you that goal setting can be one of the most powerful forces in your life…when it’s done well. We will discuss:

• Your mindset and perception of goal setting…and why that often holds people back.
• The important TYPES and STRUCTURE of Goals.
• How these types of goals can be used to create and build positive habits in your life.
• What the research says about the power of goals and how to stay focused.
• A simple framework (including templates) for you to use in your goal setting process.