Personal benefits

• Consistently higher energy levels, thanks to less waste and better recovery
• Improved mental fitness
• Better performance, thanks to an understanding of your locus of control
• Sharpened focus and prioritization skills
• Eliminate instances where you 'choke' under pressure
• Live your life mindfully, moment by moment
• Learn and practice techniques to refocus, recharge and de-stress throughout your day

Organizational benefits

• Higher engagement and productivity during times of change or high pressure
• Leaders that have an increased tolerance for pressure and ability to recover quickly from setbacks
• Lower likelihood of pressure leading to negative outcomes such as strain or burn out (e.g. stress leave)
• Improved decision-making through effective regulation of emotions
• An effective component of a plan to comply with the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

The program is divided into three elements:

Resilience Assignments (Self-Paced)

Participants are welcomed into the program with an engaging welcome package that includes a welcome letter, all of the resources they need to complete their self-paced assignments, a timeline to help them pace their work, and a sheet of stickers with resilience quotes, reminders of key content, and check-marks to put on their timeline to mark their progress.

Building Resilience Session (Live)

• Personal Context: Share and reflect on the sources of pressure that makes resilience relevant to you
• Resiliency Map® Debrief Review your pre-program assessment through a comprehensive and engaging debrief. Set your sights on an area of action going forward
• The Role of the Self: Discover the role that awareness and mindfulness play in enhancing resilience
• Focus & Purpose: Create a vision rooted in purpose to help guide your day-to-day decisions
• Perspective: Practice the skill of reframing – a proven method of broadening your perspective and strengthening resilience
• Energy Management: Learn to control your energy levels the same way you would a thermostat. Conduct an Efficiency Audit exercise to help identify where you needlessly burn energy
• Imagery: The images that constantly run in our mind’s eye have a dramatic impact on our ability to withstand pressure, recover from setbacks, and stay engaged
• Create an Action Plan: Craft your individual 90-day strategy to put Resilience skills into practice

Follow-Up Resources for Application (Self-Paced)

Participants leave the program with their personal Action Plan and exclusive access to over 2-hours of audio content through 16 short episodes of a private audio program: short, 'podcast-style' refreshers of key content and a set of exercises for practical application of core concepts.

Session Leaders

Session leaders include senior professors from Smith School of Business and knowledgeable experts from industry. These outstanding teachers are constantly in touch with today's business world through real-world business experience, Board memberships and their own consulting practices.

Dane Jensen
CEO, Third Factor

Dane Jensen is an expert on strategy and leadership, and a furious cross-pollinator between the podium and boardroom. As Third Factor’s CEO, he advises other CEOs and Senior Leaders in both sport and business.

Prior to joining Third Factor, Dane worked as a management consultant at Monitor Group — a renowned strategy consulting firm that is now part of Deloitte. At Monitor, he moved from Consultant to Associate Partner in the shortest timeframe in firm history.

Dane’s extensive global experience includes work across North America, Asia, and Europe. He has worked in industries from financial services to industrial manufacturing, with small businesses and Fortune 100 companies, and with CEOs and front-line managers. Across all of his experience, he has focused on helping his clients meet one crucial challenge: equipping leaders with the clarity and skills necessary to execute winning strategies.

In addition to his corporate work, Dane works extensively with the Board and Executive Team at the Canadian Paralympic Committee, the Executive Team at Canadian Sport Institute Ontario, and Right To Play – supporting the leadership development of their managers and volunteer coaches.

Kara Stelfox
R&D Lead, Third Factor

Following her career as an athlete, Kara focused on providing mental training and biofeedback to athletes up to the World Cup and Olympic levels, using her expertise to help them improve their self-awareness and sharpen skills such as focus, activation control (e.g., managing performance anxiety), and resilience through setbacks.

As R&D Lead for Third Factor’s Resilience practice, Kara ensures that our resilience offerings stay on the cutting edge. She is leading the integration of biofeedback into our programs, and works at the intersection of physical and mental resilience to help us give performers in all domains the same advantages as the elite athletes she works with.

Sports in which Kara has consulted include women’s hockey for the National Women’s Team camps, Olympic freestyle wrestling, sprint kayaking, curling, ringette, squash, soccer, equestrian, synchronized swimming, dance, and Olympic lifting.

Kara holds an Honour’s Bachelor of Kinesiology degree in Mind Sciences from the University of Calgary, earning the Faculty Gold Medal at convocation in 2010, and a Master’s degree in Human Kinetics, with a focus on biofeedback in high-performance sport, from the University of Ottawa.

For 12 years prior to becoming an athlete, Kara also studied and performed the classical violin and viola, which is another key source of Kara’s passion for performance psychology. She now combines her academic knowledge with her experience in sports and music to teach people concepts and strategies that are directly relevant to enhancing self-regulation, performance, and resilience.

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