A founders’ performance workshop in New York

The brief

The accelerator was bringing its cohort to New York to meet investors, and the programme manager, based in Australia, wanted the founders at their best for the week: sharp in the pitch room, steady between meetings, and able to keep the pace once they flew home. They needed an expert in New York and one partner to arrange it from the other side of the world.

The format and the experts

Our curators matched the brief to a New York expert in performance and wellbeing who works with founders and executives. The workshop covered:

• Stress and recovery: the science behind both, and why high performers burn out.
• Energy across time zones: sleep, focus and pace through an investor week.
• A personal protocol: written by each founder for the months ahead.
• The room’s questions: answered on the founders’ own situations.

The setting

A meeting room inside the accelerator’s New York showcase venue, between investor sessions. The workshop ran as a block in the client’s own programme, with no separate event to organise.

The outcome

Thirty founders left with a written performance protocol for the raise ahead and practical tools for the rest of the week. The programme team arranged a New York session entirely from Australia, with one point of contact throughout.

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