Organiser Resources and Press Kit
Below you will find essential details and assets if you're considering booking Dr John Briffa for your event:
2. Sample Session Descriptions
3. Short, medium and full-length bios
5. FAQs covering booking and logistics, content and customisation, and technical and AV requirements
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“Dr Briffa spoke at our conference in Berlin and, against all odds, kept a mixed and demanding audience of around 120 people totally engaged. His energetic and humorous delivery style demands attention. Even more impressively, our delegates walked away buzzing with new ideas about how to improve their wellbeing and performance and still refer to the session over a year later – a highly memorable morning.”
David Adams | Global Head of Finance & Capital Markets
Clifford Chance
“Dr John Briffa is a total one-off. He goes on stage at our conferences and then knocks them dead with his unique blend of science, common sense and humour. He scores right at the top on speaker feedback, and senior businessmen act on and benefit from his advice long after hearing him.”
Matthew Gwyther | Editor
Management Today
“Dr Briffa delivered an outstanding session to a senior team of over 150 IBM management consultants. He more than lived up to his reputation for delivering insightful, thought-provoking advice to senior corporate staff. His rapid, lucid delivery, combined with his deeply-researched insights, made his session the most popular session of the day, with many participants talking long after the event about the impact it had made on them.”
Andi Britt | Partner
IBM Global Business Services
See Dr Briffa in Action
Evidence-Based Impact with a Human Touch.
Here is what makes Dr Briffa's sessions uniquely impactful:
Science-Backed, Evidence-Based Insights
Dr Briffa’s sessions are grounded in rigorous physiology and psychology, translating complex scientific data into clear, evidence-based truths that audiences trust.
Practical, Day-One Actionability
Dr Briffa equips attendees with a concrete toolkit of actionable strategies they can implement the very same day.
Rigorous Science with a Human Touch
Dr Briffa balances his academic and clinical authority with a warm, engaging, and humorous delivery style.
Sustainable High Performance
Dr Briffa focuses on how to achieve peak performance without burnout. His strategies help professionals optimise their energy, performance and resilience at work and in life.
What Audiences Take Away:
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Immediate, practical tools to optimise energy, performance, and resilience.
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A positive paradigm shift in how they approach physical and mental wellbeing.
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A renewed sense of ownership over their personal and professional performance.
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Resources to help embed learning and behavioural change
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At select events, a copy of Dr Briffa's book The Performance Prescription, offering a deeper dive into the high-impact methodologies explored in the session.
Sample Session Outlines.
1. The Science of Sustainable Success
Strategies for High Performance and Productivity
This keynote sets out the science and practical strategies required for sustainable high performance.
Built around Dr Briffa’s ‘Four Fundamentals’ framework – Emotional Regulation, Energy, Environmental Design, and Execution – this session demystifies what actually drives sustainable human performance, and provides delegates with actionable advice for success.
Key Takeaways:
✓ Deep insights into the drivers of daily energy and effectiveness
✓ Practical guidance and actionable advice across a range of factors, including nutrition, physical activity, sleep, psychology, and productivity
✓ Strategies for embedding healthy habits and behaviours for the long term
✓ A practical toolkit to achieve professional success without compromising personal wellbeing
Suitable For:
Audiences at any level of business, including those affected by fatigue or overwhelm and looking to enhance their wellbeing and achieve better work-life balance and sustainable high performance.
2. Leader’s Edge
The Keys to Sustainable High Performance
Senior leaders are just as prone to fatigue, stress, and overwhelm as junior colleagues – often more so, given the weight of visible responsibility. Over time, this can quietly erode personal performance and the ability to inspire and lead others effectively.
This session provides leaders with both psychological and physiological tools to manage stress, think clearly, and make better decisions. It explores high performance and sustainability as core leadership capabilities, and how to achieve them even in challenging environments.
Key Takeaways:
✓ Low-friction, high-ROI strategies for energy and wellbeing that feed performance and leadership capability
✓ How to manage stress more effectively and boost resilience with physiological and psychological strategies that can be deployed immediately
✓ Practical tools for leading with energy and effectiveness, even under pressure
✓ Insights and actionable advice that can be used well beyond the room and into the future
Suitable For:
Senior leaders and executives who are looking for a fresh perspective on performance, as well as practical guidance on meeting the demands of leadership without compromising their wellbeing.
3. The Science of High-Performing People
Strategies for a Healthy and Productive Workplace Culture
Culture is not just a concept – it is visible in people’s behaviour when they have the right conditions to perform healthily and sustainably. This keynote provides insights into the major causes of presenteeism and burnout in the workplace, as well as practical strategies for dealing with them.
The session provides delegates with actionable advice that they can use personally, as well as strategies for application in teams and the organisation as a whole.
Key Takeaways:
✓ The evidence on major people problems such as staff turnover, absenteeism, and presenteeism, and how these affect engagement and productivity
✓ Evidence-based approaches to enhanced workforce engagement
✓ Why overwhelm happens, and actionable advice for combating it and boosting meaningful productivity
✓ Practical, daily strategies for ensuring healthier, happier, and more productive people
Suitable For:
Those with a particular interest in and responsibility for workforce wellbeing and performance, including HR Directors, Chief People Officers, and Learning and Development Leaders.
“Dr John Briffa delivered an outstanding keynote at our summer event, it was one of the most talked-about sessions of the day. Many delegates highlighted how engaging, practical and thought-provoking his talk was. He connected brilliantly with the audience and sparked meaningful conversations that continued well after the session finished. A fantastic speaker who we’d highly recommend.”
Hayley Saich | Director of Marketing and Proposition
Project One
"John's inspiring session on improving performance in the workplace both entertained and informed our Glass Lift members and NHS guests. It was extremely thought-provoking and resulted in a fantastic interactive discussion afterwards. Not only did our members find it enjoyable on the evening, but many have since made real differences to their lifestyle and behaviour to improve the way they feel and perform at work. Highly recommended for both organisations and individuals!"
Kaye Welfare I MD
The Glass Lift
“Dr Briffa delivered a keynote at our Spring Offsite. We received amazing feedback for his session from a wide range of people – everyone from partners to junior consultants and new juniors to old timers. The one resounding thing that stands out is how much people took away from the day. Dr Briffa sparked people’s attention and provided tangible ideas they can embed in their day-to-day lives. We’ve already seen a direct impact on our people’s behaviours.”
Liz Williams
Moorhouse
Dr John Briffa Bios.
Short (101 words):
Dr John Briffa is a medical doctor, keynote speaker, author, and high-performance coach with more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor to organisations globally. Dr Briffa provides evidence-based, actionable advice for lasting improvements in wellbeing, performance, and resilience. His methodologies give individuals, teams, and organisations the tools for overcoming fatigue and burnout to achieve sustainable high performance.
Author of ten books – including The Performance Prescription: The Science of Sustainable Success – Dr Briffa combines scientific rigour with a human touch, and is renowned for the lasting, positive impact he has on audiences at all levels of business.
Medium (176 words):
Dr John Briffa is a medical doctor, keynote speaker, author, and high-performance coach with more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor to organisations globally. Dr Briffa provides evidence-based, actionable advice for lasting improvements in wellbeing, performance, and resilience. His methodologies – based around his 'Four Fundamentals' framework – give individuals, teams, and organisations the tools for overcoming fatigue and burnout to achieve sustainable high performance.
An honours graduate of University College London School of Medicine, Dr Briffa has treated more than 25,000 individuals using lifestyle-oriented and naturally-oriented approaches, and has advised more than 8,000 business executives. Dr Briffa is a former columnist for several publications, including Men's Health and The Observer, and has contributed more than 800 articles to the mainstream press. He is the author of ten books, including The Performance Prescription: The Science of Sustainable Success (2026).
Known for combining scientific rigour with a warm, humorous touch, Dr Briffa's sessions inspire audiences to think, feel, and behave differently, making them an impactful and memorable addition to away days, offsites and conferences.
Full (316 words):
Dr John Briffa is a medical doctor, keynote speaker, author, and high-performance coach with more than 30 years of experience as a trusted advisor to organisations globally. He has deep expertise in reversing and preventing the costliest people challenges – including fatigue, presenteeism, and burnout – providing evidence-based, real-world solutions across a wide range of factors including lifestyle, psychology, and productivity. Backed by science, built on decades of experience, and packed with actionable advice, Dr Briffa's work facilitates healthy high performance and sustainable success.
To address these performance issues holistically, Dr Briffa developed his proprietary 'Four Fundamentals' framework, which equips individuals, teams, and organisations with the skills required for optimal wellbeing, performance, resilience, and sustainability. This framework comprises Emotional Regulation to perform under pressure, Energy to sustain wellbeing and endurance, Environmental Design to engineer workspaces for focus and effectiveness, and Execution to combat overwhelm and boost productivity. Applied together, these fundamentals counter disengagement and ensure an energised workforce with the capacity to work and live successfully and sustainably.
Delivered with scientific rigour but with a human and humorous touch, Dr Briffa's sessions inspire audiences to think, feel, and behave differently. He has delivered keynotes, masterclasses, workshops, and coaching across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. His sessions are consistently rated by delegates as among the most memorable, impactful, and practically useful they have ever experienced, making them a valuable addition to global conferences, away days, and leadership offsites.
An honours graduate of University College London School of Medicine, Dr Briffa has treated more than 25,000 individuals using lifestyle-oriented and naturally-oriented approaches, and has advised more than 8,000 business professionals and executives. Dr Briffa is a former columnist for several publications, including Men's Health and The Observer, and has contributed more than 800 articles to the mainstream press. He is the author of ten books, including The Performance Prescription: The Science of Sustainable Success (2026).
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