Jess Sargus

Jess Sargus Speaking Topics

• Fierce Agency

  Your System for Personal Power, Purpose Alignment, and High-Performance

  Too many professionals today are running at full speed—without a clear strategy for recovery, alignment, or sustainable execution. Chronic stress, overthinking, and under-recovery are costing these high-performers not just wellbeing and progress, but clarity, confidence, and capacity to innovate and do their best work.

  Enter Fierce Agency™—the simple 5-Pillar system that immediately helps you choose power over perfection, presence over paralysis, and aligned action over hesitation. This keynote teaches professionals how to lead themselves with intention, build capacity for high-stakes performance, and execute with purpose and precision—starting right now.

  Participants learn to activate the same mental skillsets elite athletes use for personal power, peak performance, execution under pressure, and staying energized for the long game.

  This isn’t another dry time management or organizational structure talk. This is Fierce Agency™: activating the power of aligned, intentional, active self-leadership. You didn’t become a professional to be a cog in the wheel. You did it to make a difference, and that starts with you, today.

  Key Takeaways:

  • The Fierce Agency™ System: 5 science-backed pillars of self-leadership that help shift from passivity and overthinking to empowered and aligned action, using elite athlete mindset tools that tap into intrinsic motivation, purpose, and self-efficacy for a high-performance life that feels as fulfilling as the results you achieve.

  • Optimal Performance Model: Understand the four-part pyramid—Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Capacity—and how it supports your peak professional performance.

  • Trainable Grit & Resilience: Explore how neuroplasticity, stress inoculation, and mid-cingulate cortex activation can help you build determination, confidence, and endurance for long-term goals under stress.

  • Energy > Time: Discover how working with, not against, your ultradian energy rhythms helps regulate the prefrontal cortex, reduce fatigue, and increase clarity and productivity.

  • MVP Alignment: Identify and align with your Mission, Vision, and Principles (MVP) to cultivate intrinsic motivation, build neural self-trust, and reconnect your work with meaning.

  • Daily Success Toolkit: Walk away with practical tools to implement the 5 Pillars of Fierce Agency™, complete your own energy audit, and create simple daily high-performance habits.

• Game Changers

  How to Create an Employee-Led Winning Culture that Outperforms the Plan and Multiplies Talent

  In today’s workplace, disengagement, burnout, and turnover are at all-time highs. Employees want more than just a paycheck—they crave purpose, autonomy, and the opportunity to master their craft. But traditional top-down leadership models fail to ignite the intrinsic motivation needed to build a high-performance culture.

  The best organizations don’t just have great leadership; they cultivate an employee-led winning culture that multiplies talent. One where team members take ownership, operate with grit, and drive success and growth from within. At the foundation of every great team is mutual trust—the bedrock of high-performance cultures. Without trust, even the most talented individuals fail to function as a cohesive unit. Using a powerful fusion of neuroscience, mental performance training, and elite leadership principles, this keynote will give you a proven framework to close the gap between performance and potential, creating a high-performance team, a culture of mutual trust, and a company that becomes far more than the sum of its parts.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Create a Culture of Ownership & Accountability – Learn how to develop an environment where employees are empowered to lead, take initiative, and operate at the highest level, where talent is multiplied rather than diminished.

  • Fuel Intrinsic Motivation (The 4 Keys to High Performance) – Implement the four keys to motivation—Autonomy, Mastery, Grit, and Purpose—to drive engagement and productivity.

  • Foster Mutual Trust for Sustainable Success – Establish a culture of psychological safety, where trust is not just encouraged but embedded in daily operations, enabling deeper collaboration and long-term performance.

  • Build a Clear, Aligned Vision – Use the 5-Step MVP Process with your team to define your Mission, Vision, and Core Principles, ensuring clarity at every level.

  • Shift Behaviors Above the Line – Identify what behaviors align with your organization’s principles and how to reinforce them for long-term success.

  • Turn Challenges into Competitive Advantages – Develop a high-performance mindset that allows your team to embrace adversity, push past obstacles, and continuously evolve.

• The Focus Formula

  Working With Your Brain, Not Against It

  You don’t need more time—you need more focus so you can spend your time on what matters most.

  High-achieving professionals are expected to be sharp, decisive, and always on their A-game, yet the reality is constant distractions, overwhelming workloads, & decision fatigue make it harder than ever to stay mentally locked in. Your to-do list grows, your motivation fades, & by the end of the day, your brain is drained.

  The good news? By using simple neuroscience-based techniques to optimize focus, filter distractions, and sustain motivation, you don’t just keep up—you thrive. The key isn’t working harder & longer—it’s learning how to work with your brain, not against it.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Lock In Your Focus (Get Clear on Your Why) – Without a strong Why, even the most talented professionals struggle with motivation & sustained commitment. Learn how to align your daily work with your deeper mission so your drive & commitment remain strong--even when distractions tray to pull you off track.

  • The Non-Negotiable Morning Formula for Optimal Focus & Performance – The way you start your day determines the quality of your focus, decision-making & resilience. Learn how to adopt a 4-step morning process designed for mental clarity, peak energy, & long-term success.

  • Work in Sprints, Not Marathons – Your brain isn’t wired for nonstop work--it’s built for short bursts of deep focus. Discover how to align your work schedule with your Ultradian Rhythms (your brain’s natural 90-minute focus cycles) to reduce mental fatigue, improve decision-making, & sustain high-level concentration throughout the day.

  • Brain Breaks for Mental Stamina – Unlock mental reset techniques that take just 1-5 minutes to clear mental fog, reignite motivation & sharpen problem-solving. Learn why strategic recovery boosts performance.

  • Know Your Signal Lights – Develop awareness to recognize when you’re in peak focus, your attention is slipping, or you’ve lost focus. Learn how to reset quickly before loss of focus derails your productivity.

• The Phoenix Method

  How to Burn Down Your Limits and Rise Into Your Boldest Life

  High-achievers are brilliant, ambitious, & driven to succeed—yet too often, they find themselves boxed in by invisible limits: imposter syndrome, perfectionism, & outdated narratives about who they "should" be. These limiting beliefs aren’t facts—they’re conditioned responses, shaped by external pressures & internalized over time. The truth? We have the power to rewrite them. We have the power to tell ourselves who we really are.

  Just like elite athletes train their minds for peak performance, you can rewire your brain to break free from outdated unhelpful scripts, take control of your career and life, and rise into your boldest, most powerful self. The Phoenix Method gives you the roadmap to set fire to your limits and start creating your boldest life today.

  Skeptical? Jess Sargus is proof that transformation is possible—at any stage, in any arena. An Ivy League-trained lawyer turned undefeated MMA fighter in her late 30s, she has reinvented her career multiple times across law, business, entertainment, & combat sports. Using neuroscience-backed methods & sports psychology, she developed the Phoenix Method—a powerful system designed to help high-achievers set fire to their limiting beliefs and rise to become who they most want to be, each and every day.

  Key Takeaways:

  • Uncover & Eliminate Your Limiting Beliefs – Identify the subconscious mental barriers holding you back & replace them with empowering, authenitic, & success-driven narratives.

  • Rewire Your Brain for Confidence & Clarity – Use neuroscience-based techniques to retrain your thoughts & create mental habits that fuel achievement, not anxiety.

  • Own Your Reinvention—On Your Terms – Gain strategies for career evolution, personal resilience, fearless decision-making, & stepping into new roles with authority.

  • Turn Stress into Strength & Self-Doubt into Self-Trust– Learn mental resilience techniques used by elite athletes to thrive under pressure, transform setbacks into opportunities, & develop unshakable self-trust and recognition of the joyful moments already in your daily life.

  • Rise — Stronger, Bolder, Unstoppable – Practice & master mindset tools that allow you to take bold action decisively, iterate with agility, & lead, advocate, & create outsized impact in any room.