Jolie Wills | SpeakerHub

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Jolie is a cognitive scientist (M.Sc. Cognitive Psychology) and a global thought-leader in resiliency and performance under pressure. Her career has seen her lead teams in the most challenging of environments after disaster and disruption, including following the Christchurch Earthquakes. A challenge she and her co-founder faced again and again in these high-stress, high-stakes environments was how to sustain and support teams working under pressure, without burning them out. This led Jolie on a decade's long journey.

Over the last decade, Jolie has conducted global research on key ingredients needed to support teams to thrive in difficult times. Jolie shares her inspirational story of surviving and leading a team with a critical role to play in rebuilding a city after the Christchurch earthquakes. Along with impactful storytelling, Jolie brings the science, the research but most importantly the practical solutions because, like your leaders and teams, she’s been deep in the trenches with a great deal at stake.

Jolie is the co-founder and CEO Americas for Hummingly – an organization that upskills leaders and teams to perform under pressure. Jolie has been awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and an Edmund Hillary Fellowship. She is co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion Through the Chaos and is an advisor to the global Counter Terrorism Preparedness Network.

Current position (1)

Co-Founder & CEO

Hummingly

Degrees (1)

Masters of Science in Cognitive Psychology

University of Canterbury

1993 to 1999

Presentations

Presentations (2)

Leading through Pressure

Achieving anything big and meaningful involves pressure.
Prolonged pressure is hazardous and creates risk for your people and organization. However, done well, pressure provides the best conditions for learning and growth for your people, leaders and organization – a powerful competitive advantage in today’s pressured times.

In this session, Jolie shares insights from cognitive science, global research and decades of experience leading teams up 'grit mountain' in high-pressure, high-stake environments.

By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

- Explain the risks and opportunities involved in working in conditions of prolonged pressure

- Apply the 'triple responsibility' model to performance and resilience under pressure in their organization

- Apply practical strategies to minimize the risks of pressure and maximize growth and performance opportunities, in their own careers and within their organizations

The Psychology of Disaster

For Jolie, a cognitive scientist and global specialist in psychosocial recovery, quite naturally the psychology of disaster is of interest to her. But if in your role you have an interest in improving outcomes for disaster-affected people, the psychology of disaster should be of interest to you too.
In this presentation, Jolie shares:
- her lived experience of disaster as a survivor of the Christchurch Earthquakes and the challenges of leading teams with a vital role to play in rebuilding an entire city
- 3 design challenges they faced in improving outcomes for disaster-affected people
- 3 practical tools that draw on the learning from disasters to improve outcomes for disaster-affected people and those working hard to support them.