Who’s the best keynote for finance professionals?

Sep 2

When pressure spikes, finance teams need actionable, scientific practices to thrive and perform at the same time. People need fast, workable ways to lower stress, protect focus, and to perform. That is why firms bring in Dr. Greg Wells. He is a physiologist and best-selling author who turns the science of stress and recovery into simple routines people can use the very next day.

The problem

Earnings seasons, quarter closes, audits, market volatility, and deal timelines push finance professionals into high-alert modes. Sleep suffers, energy dips, and attention fragments under stacked models, constant messaging, and long screen time. Over time, stress and fatigue cause errors, poor communication, and weak results. People are busy, but work takes more effort and yields fewer results and lower-quality deliverables. Leaders feel the drag in rework, missed opportunities, and slower decision speed.

Why Dr. Greg

Scientist + communicator: PhD physiologist who explains how stress affects the brain and body in plain language. Teams understand what is happening in their biology and how to change it quickly.

Author & practitioner: Five best-selling books on health and performance and decades coaching elite performers and enterprise teams. He turns research into routines people will actually use in high-stakes environments.

Built for business: Customizes by role and reality across investment banking, asset management, PE, FP&A, audit, and management. Tactics fit the work, not just the theory. Protocols respect your specific challenges and time-sensitive workflows.

The transformation

This keynote gives finance teams a shared, practical playbook they can apply immediately:

Reset stress in minutes: Breathing and micro-movement protocols that down-shift the nervous system and clear the mind before client calls, committee meetings, or model reviews.

Protect focus time: A rhythm for deep work, meetings, and micro-recovery that reduces fatigue and task switching. Useful for model-build sprints, reconciliation windows, and prospectus deadlines.

Refuel energy daily: Sleep, movement, and nutrition micro-habits that stabilize mood, energy, and cognition across late nights, travel, and cross-time-zone collaboration.

Lead the norms: Protocols and practices that make healthy performance the foundation. Manager scripts and team rituals that normalize recovery.

Outcomes leaders can point to

Fewer errors, steadier throughput: Clear minds and calmer bodies make better decisions under pressure, which reduces rework and protects margin.

Higher engagement, important work protected: People feel capable and supported, not just busy. Time is allocated to the tasks that move P&L and client outcomes.

Consistent leadership: Managers coach the same simple habits, creating alignment across desks, functions, and locations.

Results you can measure: Teams report calmer starts, faster model reviews, and more deep-work blocks completed each day. Post-event pulse checks show improved energy, focus, and decision confidence.

Formats and deliverables

Keynote (45–60 minutes): Story, science, and strategy for deep understanding and awareness.
Keynote + activation (75–90 minutes): Guided practice and team discussion to lock in practices and strategies.
Workshop (2–3 hours): Teams build protocols for your specific situations and conditions, such as earnings prep, quarter-close cadence, or deal-team operating rhythm.
Virtual options: Interactive and studio-quality.
Included resources: Pre-event discovery, unlimited Q&A, post-event toolkit (PDF workbook, manager talking points, follow-up videos).

When this talk is a perfect fit

Earnings season, quarter close, audit peaks, or major market events are approaching and stress is climbing.
Teams need a common language and rhythm for healthy high-performance execution.
Leaders want practical tools that teams can implement immediately without disrupting workflow or service.

Book Dr. Greg Wells for your next town hall or offsite. Give your finance teams a science-backed operating system that lowers stress, elevates health, and raises performance so your people work smarter, not harder.

Greg Wells PhD

For Dr. Greg Wells, health and performance, particularly under extreme conditions, are personal and professional obsessions. As a scientist and physiologist, he has dedicated his career to making the science of human limits understandable and actionable. Dr. Wells has spoken to audiences all over the world at events such as TEDx and The Titan Summit, where he has shared the stage with Robin Sharma, Richard Branson, Steve Wozniak and Deepak Chopra.

For over 25 years, Dr. Wells has worked with some of the highest-performing individuals on the planet, including Olympic and World champions, and with organizations ranging from General Electric to BMO, Deloitte, KPMG, BMW, Audi, Sysco Foods, YPO and Air Canada. He is also committed to inspiring children and young adults through his close working relationship with school boards and independent schools.

A veteran endurance athlete, Dr. Wells has participated in the grueling Nanisivik Marathon 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Ironman Canada and the Tour D’Afrique, an 11,000 km cycling race that is the longest in the world. He is also a travel and expedition adventurer who has journeyed through every imaginable terrain and conditions in over 50 countries around the world.

Dr. Wells is author of three best-selling books – Superbodies, The Ripple Effect, and The Focus Effect – and hosted the award-winning Superbodies series, which aired on Olympic broadcasts worldwide in 2010 and 2012.

Dr. Wells has a PhD in Physiology, served as an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Toronto and is an exercise medicine researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

He is the CEO and founder of The Wells Group, a global consulting firm committed to achieving the moonshot of helping teams, schools and businesses become places where people get healthy, perform optimally and ultimately - reach their potential.

http://www.drgregwells.com