Leadership Undistorted Keynote

Designed for leaders operating under pressure to help them identify and resolve the internal beliefs that get activated in high-stakes moments so leadership skills can show up clearly, consistently, and with less effort.

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Why Leadership Skills Don’t Hold Under Pressure

Most leaders know the frameworks. They understand what good leadership looks like. And yet, under pressure, those skills look very different, or disappear entirely.

Not because leaders forgot what to do. But because internal beliefs quietly distort how those skills show up when stakes are high.

Leadership doesn’t fail because of missing skills. It fails when pressure activates internal distortions that override clarity.

What Leadership Undistorted Reveals

This keynote introduces leaders to a perspective most leadership development never addresses:

That moments like conflict, feedback, and decision-making don’t break down because leaders lack competence, they break down because internal beliefs distort behavior under pressure.

Leaders learn to recognize:

  • How pressure alters perception and reaction

  • Why certain situations feel riskier than they should

  • How internal beliefs quietly shape leadership behavior in real time

This isn’t about teaching leaders what to do. It’s about helping them see why clarity disappears, and how it returns.

Who This Keynote Is For

This keynote resonates most with:

  • Leaders in high-pressure, high-visibility roles

  • Senior leaders and people managers navigating complexity and scale

  • Organizations where leadership training exists, but behavior still breaks down

  • Teams operating under constant change, growth, or accountability demands

What Leaders Leave With

Leaders leave this keynote with:

  • A clearer understanding of why leadership feels harder under pressure

  • Language for identifying internal distortions as they arise

  • Greater self-awareness in moments of conflict, feedback, and decisions

  • Reduced internal friction: Less overthinking, hesitation, and emotional drain

  • A more grounded, steady way of showing up in their role

No tools to memorize. No behavior prescriptions. Just clarity that changes how leaders relate to pressure.

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About the Speaker

Reem Jaghlit is a former VP of Engineering with over 15 years of experience leading teams in high-pressure environments and recipient of the Prominent Woman in Tech Award and other industry recognitions for leadership in technology.

After years of applying leadership frameworks while navigating constant pressure, she recognized that leadership challenges weren’t just about skill gaps, but about internal beliefs distorting clarity under stress.

Leadership Undistorted was developed from that insight, shaped by years of leadership experience and mentoring leaders facing the same invisible friction.

Bring Leadership Undistorted to Your Organization

If this reflects what your leaders are navigating, the next step is a conversation. Keynotes are tailored to the audience, context, and pressure leaders are operating under.

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