SUSTAINABLE HIGH TEAM PERFORMANCE KEYNOTES

KEYNOTE TYPE: Opening, Closing or Gala Dinner

THEMES: High Performance, Team Cohesion, Leadership, Positivity

Are your people working harder than ever… yet running out of capacity?

Are your teams capable, committed, and still feeling strangely exhausted? Even with better tools and smarter systems?

Are results reliable, but momentum feels harder to sustain, decisions slower, and real innovation rarer?

You’re not dealing with a motivation problem.
You’re dealing with an energy problem.

Let Evelina show your people how to manage relational energy as a performance advantage. The research is clear:

Good organisations manage performance.

Exceptional ones manage relational energy.

People are running on empty, even as new tools promise productivity

Do your people keep saying they’re exhausted, despite better tools, smarter systems, and higher output expectations?

AI is accelerating performance faster than organisations are rebuilding human energy. As low-effort work disappears, recovery disappears with it. Pressure rises, but capacity does not. In that gap, performance is no longer constrained by effort or capability. It is constrained by relational energy. When everyday interactions drain more energy than they give back, burnout becomes structural, not individual.

“Energy, not effort, is now the performance constraint.”

Performance drops when pressure is highest

Do capable people become inconsistent just when the stakes rise?

Under sustained pressure, thinking narrows and reactivity increases - not because people lack skill, but because relational energy collapses. Positive presence isn’t personality or charisma; it’s a learnable way of interacting that preserves clarity, confidence, and thinking quality.

Teams that protect interaction quality perform more reliably when it matters most.

“Your energy is contagious. Spread something worth catching”

Key Takeaways & Benefits

Results are reliable but breakthroughs are rare

Do your teams consistently deliver what’s expected, yet genuinely surprising or standout outcomes feel few and far between?

Most organisations are built for predictable performance, not positive deviance. Breakthroughs come from amplifying positive outliers, not fixing deficits. When energising interactions are multiplied, thinking broadens and exceptional performance becomes possible.

“Breakthroughs don’t come from managing averages. They come from amplifying energy.”

Work feels busy, but momentum is harder to find

Do people stay busy, yet progress still feels slower and heavier than it should?

In pressured environments, attention defaults to problems, risks, and what’s broken. What gets attention gets multiplied and over time, friction scales faster than momentum. High-performing organisations learn to deliberately amplify what’s already working, because that’s how progress speeds up without pushing harder.

“Place attention where you want momentum.”

The AMP'D-UP Performance Formula

OWN YOUR ENERGY

Get your people to stop waiting for culture to magically appear. Have them take ownership of the energy they bring, creating momentum that spreads through the entire organisation.

BRING THE BUZZ, NOT THE BLUES

Create a positivity flywheel within your company. Shift your people's mood from dragging the room down to showing up with contagious energy that lifts everyone around them.

CHOOSE CONNECTION OVER COMFORT

Encourage your people to overcome the comfort of remote work and individual schedules, shifting teams to prioritise “me” to “we”.

FILL HEARTS, NOT JUST INBOXES

Empower your people to swap judgement for curiosity and turn connection into a productivity multiplier, creating teams where kindness drives collaboration and collaboration drives results

Evelina uses psychology and neuroscience to help your people achieve (and sustain) high performance through relational energy.

SEE ROLES AS GUIDELINES, NOT GUARDRAILS

Help your people find and use their true strengths and go beyond the limits of their job description instead of waiting for permission to improvise boldly.

CUT THE GOSSIP & CUE COURAGE

Replace backchannel chatter with conversations that build trust, and keep teams in harmony.

BECOME FEEDBACK FANATICS

Create performance powerhouses in your teams by shifting the mindset on feedback from a tick-box obligation to welcoming it like an encore.

MAKE MOVES, NOT MEETINGS

Help your people break analysis paralysis by making decisions with good-enough information, course-correcting as they learn.

Key Takeaways

How to stretching beyond job descriptions is a career advantage. "No-one ever grew by saying - That's not in my job description."
How to move from isolation and gossip to trust and harmony. "Gossip is like the dog turd that gets swept up in your robovac. Deal with it fast or you'll be dealing with it forever."
Why kindness and connection outperform productivity hacks. "We need to be spending more time filling hearts. Not inboxes."
Why feedback is the encore that drives mastery, and how to attract it. "There's only ever one answer you'll get to the question - do you have any feedback for me?"
How to make positivity a daily habit that fuels resilience and clarity. "Do things not just because they are productive. Do things also for the way they make you feel."
Why energy is contagious, and how to show up in a way that lifts the room. "Our mood is contagious. Make yours worth catching".
How curiosity beats assumptions to unlock smarter decisions and stronger cultures. "The safest assumption you can make, is that you're wrong."

Through science, live experiments and music, Evelina reveals how our brain’s default wiring can quietly sabotage our performance and productivity - and how to rewire it. Your people will learn...

Looking for something different to your standard keynote?

As a nationally registered psychologist and seasoned stage performer, Evelina fuses psychological science with live music, creating keynote experiences that are as unforgettable as they are actionable.

Meet Evelina.

It lights up multiple brain regions at once, boosting focus, attention, and memory. Pair it with learning and rhythm becomes a memory anchor so ideas stick long after the keynote ends. And live music? That’s the accelerator. It sparks dopamine, heightens emotion, and turns passive listening into an active, multi-sensory experience. The music in Evelina's keynotes doesn’t just set the mood. It hardwires the message.

Why a Musical keynote?

With 20 years of experience spanning aviation, energy, mining, property, government, education, health, professional services, and technology, Evelina has navigated more workplace cultures than most people have had hot dinners. She’s spent the last decade delivering high-impact behaviour change, wellbeing, and leadership programs for the likes of Virgin Australia, Deloitte, Origin Energy, BHP, and the Royal Flying Doctor Service.