INSPIRATION
Transformation
Leadership
I help leaders and organizations unhook from invisible patterns, gain control, improve their culture, and accelerate performance growth.
Backed by a doctorate in psychology, behavioral-neuroscience, and real-world coaching experience across private equity, venture capital, healthcare, entertainment, professional-sports, and other high-stakes environments.
Adi’s strength as a speaker comes from his ability to use his varied life experience and research to delve into some of the most difficult topic with ease. His commitment to learning, improvement and transparency creates an immediate connection with his audiences, leaving them inspired, transformed and motivated to take action. Using his knowledge in neuroscience, relationships, data analysis and the world of clinical transformation, Adi puts a roomful of strangers at ease and then gets them to explore their struggles and rethink their limitations like never before.
unhooked LeadershiP™
How Anyone Can Break Invisible Patterns And Achieve Unstoppable Results
We all struggle with behaviors that get in our ways - at work, in relationships, when it comes to our health. In this keynote, Dr. Jaffe reveals why intelligence, experience, and good intentions aren’t enough to control our behavior consistently. Drawing from neuroscience and real-world experience in boardrooms, management meetings, and executive work, he teaches you how hidden internal loops, formed early and reinforced daily, drive avoidance, overcontrol, burnout, and decision paralysis.
Leaders leave with a practical framework for recognizing and disrupting these patterns in themselves and their teams, so they can operate with clarity, intention, and full control.
Key Takeaways…
Replace avoidance and overcontrol with clarity and ownership
Learn a repeatable framework to interrupt reactive decision-making
Leaders identify the hidden behavioral loop that most limits their effectiveness right now.
The leadership tax
The Hidden Cost of Avoidance, Politeness, and Delayed Decisions
Every leader pays a tax. Some pay it early with candor and discomfort. Others pay it later, with interest, through attrition, underperformance, and crisis management. This program exposes how small acts of avoidance quietly compound into major organizational costs—and how leaders can “pay early” in ways that build trust, respect, and execution.
Your audience will learn…
Increase decisiveness without becoming abrasive
Learn when friction is necessary—and how to use it productively
Commit to one high-impact conversation that will change momentum immediately
reframing Struggle to success
Turning Difficulties to Winning Differentiators
Based on his popular TEDx talk, Adi's session allows everyone to rethink what is possible in their future and how to get more out of life… right now. When we learn to turn our struggles into opportunities for learning and growth, we shift our thinking and transform our lives. Using both personal experience and decades of research, Dr. Jaffe helps his audiences get excited about the changes they’re facing, transforming their most difficult struggles into their most lasting victories!
Your audience will learn…
Neuroscientific insights into the power of struggle labels & stories we all carry.
A clear understanding of a path for breaking through label-based limits and towards a winning mental attitude.
A clear set of tools to maximize future growth and avoid settling, EVEN through crises and times of instability and change!
THE MYTH OF THE UNSHAKABLE Leader
How Leaders Improve Retention, and Create Lasting Performance, by Building Unbreakable Habits
Drawing from behavioral science and real-world leadership work, this workshop reveals why the pursuit of “unshakability” often leads to burnout, emotional shutdown, and poor decision-making. Learn how doubt, discomfort, and disruption, when used skillfully, become the very mechanisms that build sustainable confidence and resilience.
Leaders leave with a new definition of confidence, practical tools for navigating pressure, and a framework for leading effectively without pretending they’re unaffected.
Key Takeaways…
Reduce burnout without lowering standards or expectations
Lead through disruption without losing clarity, credibility, or connection
Leaders leave with specific tools for creating a culture of high-level performance without breaking
Unhooking Shame
How Releasing What You Hide Is the Path to Your Ultimate Success
Most high performers don’t fail because they lack talent, discipline, or motivation. They stall because they’re quietly carrying shame, and working overtime to outrun, or escape, it.
In this powerful and deeply human keynote, Dr. Adi Jaffe shows how shame quietly fuels burnout, avoidance, disconnection, and self-sabotaging behaviors at work and at home. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and his own unlikely journey, Dr. Jaffe helps audiences understand why escaping discomfort only strengthens it, and how unhooking from shame unlocks clarity, energy, and sustainable excellence.
This is not a confessional talk. It’s a liberating one.
Key Takeaways
Identify how shame hides beneath perfectionism, overwork, numbing, and avoidance
Reduce escapist behaviors without shame, force, or willpower
Commit to a simple, research-backed practice to release internal pressure and reclaim momentum
TALKS TARGETED FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION
Adi enjoys working with event coordinators to customize his talks within the scope of his research and work.
If you’re looking for a speaker that will leave your audiences to make their lives, and your organization, the best that it can be, Adi’s blend of inspiration, science and practicality will be sure to fit the bill.
Let us know how we can craft a talk that will bring your audience to their feet and ignite their minds and hearts to action!