keynotes Built for people under pressure.
I use real stories, plain-language performance psychology, and practical tools your audience can use when the pressure is real.
Who this is for
Jacqueline speaks to people carrying real pressure.
Whether the room is filled with leaders, athletes, coaches, or parents, the common thread is responsibility. They care deeply about what they do and need a practical way to steady the mind, strengthen the body, reconnect with purpose, and respond well when the plan falls apart.
Corporate, leadership, and associations
For people carrying sustained responsibility, change, high expectations, or burnout risk.
Athletes, teams, and performance staff
For people who train hard but need repeatable mental skills for competition, injury, setbacks, and high-stakes moments.
Parents, coaches, and educators
For adults who want to help young people handle fear, failure, adversity, and their own stories with greater confidence.
Speaking topics
Each talk is practical, grounded in lived experience, and designed to leave the room with something people can use immediately.
Unfragile
Resilience is not toughness. It is knowing what you are made of.
Before every game, Jacqueline’s sons write one word on their undershirts: unfragile. This keynote explores what resilience really is and how training the mind and body together helps hard moments become proof of capacity rather than permanent damage.
Best for: Conference keynotes, leadership summits, corporate wellbeing and performance events, association meetings, and sports organizations.
Your audience will leave able to:
- Explain the difference between being tough and becoming unfragile
- Understand why the mind and body have to be trained together
- Start one specific resilience practice that week
The Edge Is Already Inside You
The mental skills elite athletes were never taught.
At the elite level, specialists have the body covered. The mind and the breath often remain wide open. Jacqueline gives athletes and teams practical mental reps for self-talk, breath, confidence, pressure, injury, and a bad run of form.
Best for: Professional and collegiate teams, sports academies, coaching staff, athletic departments, and performance conferences.
Your audience will leave able to:
- Use encouragement as a better training tool than self-criticism
- Apply a breath practice during a high-pressure moment
- Add one mental rep to a routine they already use
Mind, Body, Purpose
The three pillars behind people who do not break.
The people who hold up under sustained pressure build all three: a mind that can regulate itself, a body that can absorb stress, and a purpose clear enough to make the hard days mean something. Audiences identify which pillar needs attention now and choose a first action.
Best for: Corporate leadership and wellbeing events, annual conferences, healthcare and first-responder audiences, professional services firms, and executive retreats.
Your audience will leave able to:
- Understand how Mind, Body, and Purpose support one another
- Identify which pillar they need to build first
- Commit to one dated action rather than another vague intention
Hear Jacqueline in conversation.
A podcast gives an event organizer something a written bio cannot: the chance to hear how Jacqueline thinks, tells stories, and makes performance psychology useful.
In this Wired To Run conversation, she talks about quieting negative self-talk, managing race-day anxiety, building confidence through visualization, and becoming unfragile rather than simply pushing through.
“Jacqueline Kelly is a world-class coach skillfully adept in helping people of all backgrounds perform at their best. If you are looking for strategies to quiet your mind, make strides toward your goals, and transform into a more resilient version of yourself, Unfragile is for you.”
Rachel Lampros
Former Director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Program at Massachusetts General
Why choose Jacqueline
Lived performance experience
A former NCAA basketball player and professional triathlete, Jacqueline now serves as Mental Performance Coach for Boston Legacy FC. She understands pressure from inside the work, not only from a textbook.
Mind and body together
A Master’s in Sport Psychology, an Exercise Science background, CMPC certification, and more than a decade in strength and conditioning allow her to translate complex performance science into a whole-person approach.
Prepared for the room
Every engagement begins with the audience and the outcome the organizer wants. Jacqueline brings honest stories, practical exercises, clear communication, and material people can use immediately.
Formats
Choose the depth that fits the room. Each engagement is shaped around the audience, the pressure they are carrying, and the outcome you want.
Available engagements
60 to 90-minute keynote
A focused message with practical takeaways for the full room.
Half-day workshop
More interaction, practice, and application to the audience’s real pressure points.
Full-day program
A deeper working session for teams and organizations.
Custom team session
A focused session built around a specific performance challenge.
Tell me about the room.
The best speaking engagements begin with a clear understanding of who is in the audience, what pressure they are carrying, and what you want them to do differently when they leave.
Send the details and I will follow up personally to discuss fit, format, and next steps.
Prefer email?
jac@kellyperformancewellness.com