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Jamil Qureshi
Jamil Qureshi is a performance psychologist who helps elite sports teams and global businesses build leadership and winning mindsets. He was the Ryder Cup team's first official psychologist and ranks among the world's top 100 coaches.
Jamil Qureshi is a performance psychologist who's helped six people reach World Number 1 and works with elite sports teams and global businesses on the psychology of performance. He speaks on high-performing teams, accountability, leadership, and turning ambition into achievement.
In 2006, Ian Woosnam appointed Jamil as the European Ryder Cup team's first official psychologist, and the team won by a record-equalling margin. He's since worked with five Ryder Cup captains, two Formula 1 drivers, and the 2009 Ashes-winning England cricket team, and has designed board-level leadership programmes for Coca-Cola, Cisco, Emirates, and GSK.
Jamil helps people and teams change the thinking that holds their performance back. He's worked with 22 golfers inside the world's top 50, three Premier League football clubs, and business leaders in more than 24 countries. During Covid, he helped leadership teams at Lloyds, GSK, and NHS England adapt to leading hybrid teams, and he joined Chelmsford City FC's advisory board in 2025.
Audiences come away understanding why responsibility drives performance where blame stalls it, why traditional incentives often fail to engage people, and how to spot their own rogue monkey reactions under pressure and choose a better response. Jamil grounds each point in examples from elite sport and business, so teams can apply the ideas straight away.
For leadership conferences and team events, Jamil brings the methods behind six World Number 1s and makes them practical for people working under pressure.
Topics, sessions and talks
Success is built on ownership, yet too many teams fall into the trap of blame. Jamil Qureshi breaks down the fundamental difference between compliance and genuine commitment, showing how responsibility is the key to unlocking high performance. Drawing from his experience with elite sports teams and global businesses, he highlights the power of mindset in fostering accountability, enabling teams to take charge of their outcomes and move forward with purpose.
Jamil Qureshi explores the mindset shifts required to bridge the gap between aspiration and success. Progress comes from thinking differently as much as from working harder. By challenging ingrained beliefs and understanding the psychology of action, individuals can transform good intentions into tangible results. Jamil shows how high performers in business and sport use their thinking to drive meaningful change, leaving audiences with a fresh perspective on achieving their own ambitions.
Employee engagement is often discussed but rarely understood. Jamil Qureshi challenges conventional wisdom on workplace motivation, demonstrating why traditional incentives fail and what truly drives people. With insight from top-performing organisations, he redefines what it means to be engaged, helping leaders foster environments where people thrive. Audiences will gain a new understanding of organisational culture and leave with strategies to turn engagement from a buzzword into a business advantage.
The best leaders challenge as well as manage. Jamil Qureshi reveals why leadership lies in breaking conventional thinking habits to unlock potential. In a world of rapid change, doing more of the same is no longer enough. By disrupting old ways of working and fostering innovation, leaders can create teams that are agile, motivated, and primed for success. Drawing on experience with world-class performers, he delivers practical insights into the psychology of leading change.
Jamil Qureshi explores the idea of the rogue monkey: the instinctive, emotional reaction that surfaces before we've had a chance to think it through. Drawing on his work with elite sportspeople and business leaders, he shows how attitude shapes the way people respond to setbacks and unexpected events. Attendees will learn how to recognise their own rogue monkey in action and choose a more deliberate response under pressure, turning difficult moments into opportunities for better performance.
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Jamil Qureshi uses humour and case studies from elite sport and global business to illustrate ideas such as the rogue monkey, the instinctive reaction that fires before we think, then turns each one into practical steps for teams.
Jamil Qureshi speaks on accountability and the difference between blame and responsibility, turning ambition into achievement, employee engagement, disruptive leadership, and managing instinctive reactions under pressure. He was the European Ryder Cup team's first official psychologist in 2006, has helped six people reach World Number 1, and has designed board-level leadership programmes for Coca-Cola, Emirates, and GSK.
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