CEO of Third Factor & Author of The Power of Pressure
Dane Jensen: Biography at a Glance
- Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, studying the science of performance across diverse disciplines to design learning experiences that help people perform, collaborate and lead in a disruptive world.
- Dane oversees Third Factor’s delivery of leadership development programs to leading firms across North America including SAP, RBC, Uber, Twitter, the USGA, and others.
- The company has helped over 100 athletes reach the podium across 10 Olympic and Paralympic Games working extensively at all levels of elite sport - with athletes, teams, coaches, IST members, NSOs, and multi-sport organizations.
- He is an acclaimed speaker, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, and the author of The Power of Pressure.
- He has worked as an advisor to Senior Executives in 23 countries on 5 continents.
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Biography
Dane Jensen is the CEO of Third Factor, an acclaimed speaker, an instructor at Queen’s University and the University of North Carolina, a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, and the author of The Power of Pressure.
Dane oversees Third Factor’s delivery of leadership development programs to leading firms across North America including SAP, RBC, Uber, Twitter, the USGA, and others. Third Factor studies the science of performance across diverse disciplines to design learning experiences that help people perform, collaborate and lead in a disruptive world.
He teaches in the Full-Time and Executive MBAs at Queen’s Smith School of Business in Canada and is Affiliate Faculty with UNC Executive Development at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill.
In addition to his corporate work, Dane works extensively with athletes, coaches, leaders, and Boards across Canada’s Olympic and Paralympic sport system to enhance National competitiveness. The company has helped over 100 athletes reach the podium across 10 Olympic and Paralympic Games working extensively at all levels of elite sport - with athletes, teams, coaches, IST members, NSOs, and multi-sport organizations.
He has worked as an advisor to Senior Executives in 23 countries on 5 continents.
Topics
THE POWER OF PRESSURE
Drawing insights from his book, The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution, Dane Jensen’s new keynote address introduces three powerful strategies for using pressure as an advantage.
BUILDING RESILIENCE
Based on Dane’s wealth of experience with elite Olympic athletes and senior corporate executives, this presentation introduces a personal resilience toolkit used by elite athletes to develop a relationship with stress and pressure that puts them in the driver’s seat.
THE META-SKILLED ORGANIZATION
Skills allow us to execute. Meta-skills like empathy, resilience, creativity, and self-awareness allow us to evolve. Packed with ideas on both how to foster the development of meta-skills for yourself, and how to build meta-skilled teams and organizations, this keynote lays out a framework for future-proofing yourself and your company in a fast-changing world.
MAINTAINING TEAM MOTIVATION THROUGH THE TROUGHS
Filled with examples and ideas from Olympic athletes and other top performers, Maintaining Team Motivation Through The Troughs is a one-hour tour of the four main drivers of motivation under pressure.
3X4 COACHING
Dane’s company, Third Factor, has worked with the world’s top coaches for over 30 years. Combining first-hand examples from both the sport and corporate worlds with an innovative coaching framework, 3x4 Coaching provides a provocative taste and exploration of the possibilities of coaching as a leadership style.