What Will You Do When the Pressure Shows Up?
Keynotes and workshops for businesses, healthcare organizations, leaders, and athletic programs
Pressure is part of high performance. The goal isn't to get rid of it.
It's learning how to think clearly, stay connected to what matters, and choose what to do next when the stakes are high.
Through engaging keynotes and workshops, Achieve brings sport and performance psychology out of the textbook and into the real moments people face every day—from the boardroom and hospital to the sidelines and playing field.
We work with businesses, healthcare organizations, leaders, coaches, teams, and athletes to make the psychology of high performance practical, memorable, and useful long after the presentation ends.
Meet Your Speakers
Achieve brings the science of psychology and the lessons of high performance to the stage. Our keynotes and workshops combine research, real-world experience, and practical strategies audiences can use long after the presentation ends.
Allie Wagener, Ph.D., LP, CMPC
Founder and Performance PsychologistDr. Allie Wagener is a licensed psychologist, sport and performance psychologist, executive coach, and founder of Achieve Performance Psychology. With nearly two decades of experience working across elite sport, business, healthcare, and other high-performance environments, she brings a unique perspective on pressure, resilience, leadership, and sustainable performance.
Licensed Psychologist Katie Peterson, Ph.D., LP
Dr. Katie Peterson is a licensed psychologist specializing in sport and performance psychology, psychological assessment, and the psychological side of injury, rehabilitation, and return to performance. Her work brings a valuable perspective on performance, wellbeing, and helping individuals and teams navigate challenge and change.
Featured Talks
Every audience is different. Achieve offers customized keynotes, workshops, and team experiences built around the needs of each organization. Below are several of our most popular presentations, each of which can be adapted to fit your audience, goals, and event.
Carry It Well
Performance Psychology for Leading and Performing Under Pressure
High performers are often very good at carrying more—more responsibility, more expectations, and more pressure. But performing well isn't simply about how much we can carry. It's about knowing what to do with what we're carrying.
Using a memorable, interactive framework grounded in performance psychology, Carry It Well helps audiences understand how they respond under pressure and develop practical strategies to push, pivot, pause, or pass when the demands are high.
Best for: Leaders • Healthcare Professionals • High-Performing Teams • Organizations
Preventing Burnout: The Titanic Effect
Recognizing the Warning Signs Before You're Running on Empty
Burnout rarely happens because of one moment. Like the series of events that contributed to the sinking of the Titanic, it often develops through missed warning signs, mounting pressure, compromised decision-making, and trying to carry too much without enough support.
Using the Titanic as an unexpected and memorable framework, this talk helps audiences recognize the early signs of burnout, understand how chronic stress can affect performance and decision-making, and develop practical strategies to protect both wellbeing and performance before reaching a breaking point.
Best for: Healthcare Professionals • Leaders • High-Performing Teams • Organizations
Lessons From the Greats
What Elite Performers and Iconic Stories Can Teach Us About Pressure, Adaptability, and Leadership
What separates great performers isn't that everything always goes according to plan. It's how they respond when it doesn't.
Blending lessons from elite performance with familiar stories audiences know and love, Lessons From the Greats explores what high performers do when pressure shows up, when the first strategy stops working, or the scoreboard gets loud. Audiences leave with a practical performance playbook for choosing their next move, adapting when needed, and staying connected to what matters most.
Best for: Leaders • Businesses • Healthcare Professionals • Teams & Organizations
Looking for Something Different?
Every audience and organization has different needs. In addition to our featured talks, Achieve develops customized keynotes, workshops, and team experiences for businesses, healthcare organizations, athletic programs, coaches, leaders, and other high-performing groups.
Topics can include performance under pressure, leadership, team culture and communication, resilience and psychological flexibility, burnout and sustainable performance, confidence and mental skills, coaching and athlete development, and injury, rehabilitation, and return to performance.
More Than A Motivational Talk
Our keynotes and workshops are grounded in sport and performance psychology, psychological science, and nearly two decades of experience working with people in high-pressure environments.
We don't just want audiences to leave feeling inspired. We want them to leave with practical performance psychology skills they can use when the pressure is real—during difficult decisions, challenging conversations, competition, leadership, and change.
Every keynote and workshop is:
Interactive and engaging
Grounded in evidence-based psychology
Tailored to the audience, environment, and goals
Designed for practical application beyond the presentation
Bring Achieve to Your Organization
Let’s build a session that fits your audience, goals, and environment.
Whether you’re looking for a keynote, interactive workshop, team experience, or ongoing performance psychology support, we’ll work with you to create an experience that is practical, engaging, and tailored to your needs.