How to Perform Under Pressure: The Mindset for Resilience & Mental Clarity

How to Perform Under Pressure

The Mindset for Resilience and Mental Clarity

This is a fun, interactive and motivational workshop designed to help you enter 2026 with clarity, resilience and a stronger performance mindset — even in demanding, fast-paced environments.

If you’re operating under constant pressure, managing people, making high-stakes decisions, or pushing towards ambitious goals, this session will give you practical tools to stay mentally clear, emotionally regulated and highly effective.

This workshop focuses on performing well under pressure — without burning out.

What you’ll learn

🔹 1. Purpose-driven performance

Learn how to find or consciously create purpose in what you do, so your work becomes more focused, meaningful and motivating — even in challenging roles.

🔹 2. Clearing the path to your goals

Discover a purpose-driven awareness technique to identify internal hurdles such as:

• self-sabotaging patterns
• emotional triggers
• distractions and overthinking

…and learn how to remove what’s holding you back so you can move towards your goals with greater clarity and momentum.

🔹 3. Conscious communication & emotional intelligence

Develop the ability to:

• self-regulate in difficult situations
• respond rather than react
• build empathy and perspective
• communicate through asking intelligent questions instead of making assumptions

This leads to better relationships, stronger leadership and fewer unnecessary conflicts.

🔹 4. Stress management, resilience & mental clarity

You’ll learn how to:

• manage stress more effectively
• strengthen emotional resilience
• improve emotional intelligence in real-time
• maintain clarity under pressure

🔹 5. Conscious leadership & energy management

Explore how to:

• lead people through clarity and inspiration
• create psychological safety
• increase your energy levels to sustain high performance
• perform at a higher level without constant exhaustion

Who this workshop is for:

✔ Founders, scale-up leaders and entrepreneurs
✔ Corporate professionals and managers
✔ Anyone operating in high-pressure environments
✔ People who want to improve performance without sacrificing wellbeing

What you’ll leave with:

• Greater self-awareness and emotional regulation
• Practical tools you can apply immediately
• Improved communication and leadership skills
• A clearer sense of direction and purpose
• A stronger, more resilient performance mindset

Why Doug Gordon?

Doug Gordon is a motivational speaker, executive coach and performance expert with a background as a former C-level executive in finance.

He works with founders, senior leaders and high-performing teams to improve leadership effectiveness, emotional intelligence and sustainable performance. Doug has coached leaders in FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 organisations, spoken at Cambridge University, and is widely known for delivering sessions that combine depth, clarity and practicality.

Doug’s approach is grounded, engaging and immediately applicable — blending business experience with mindset, emotional intelligence and performance psychology to help people perform at their best under pressure.