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Jazz Cool
Jazz Cool helps organisations build high-performance cultures and get the best from existing teams. The performance coach, trainer and In Cool Company co-founder brings 25 years' experience and the Five Pillars of High-Performance, developed with the University of Leeds.
Jazz Cool is a performance coach, trainer and co-founder of In Cool Company who helps organisations build high-performance cultures and get more from the people they already have.
Jazz started out as a trader in the City of London, working in financial sales and team management, before moving into coaching. Over more than 25 years she has worked with C-level executives and high-potential leaders across finance, legal, technology, media, engineering, property and retail. In Cool Company developed the Five Pillars of High-Performance with the University of Leeds and has tested them with organisations and C-suites. Her qualifications include psychotherapy, counselling and nutrition coaching.
Alongside keynotes, Jazz runs training programmes for organisations on everything from project management and influence and persuasion to executive leadership. Weightmans LLP has worked with her for more than five years. She's known for asking questions that challenge how teams think about performance, and her sessions run on relatable examples and lively discussion.
Audiences come away with a clearer way to measure performance, the behaviours that drive high-performing teams, the manager's role as coach, and practical tools for resilience, change and a sustainable pace of work.
Book Jazz when you need to get the best from your existing teams and keep them performing.
Topics, sessions and talks
When the game means more, teams play better. Jazz Cool shows how culture drives performance, and why chasing KPIs can leave teams busy without delivering. Drawing on the Five Pillars of High-Performance, developed by In Cool Company with the University of Leeds and tested with organisations and C-suites, she covers how to measure performance, prioritise demonstrable behaviours, move forward with purpose and build a framework for incremental improvement, with examples leaders can apply to their own culture straight away.
Skills shortages, leaner teams, hybrid working and geographical distance all put pressure on performance. Jazz Cool looks at how organisations can get the very best from the people they already have. This high-energy session covers the characteristics of a modern high-performing team, the shadow leaders cast, the manager's role as coach, and why trust underpins high-performance relationships. The result is a clearer route to keeping talent, lifting performance and getting new hires up to speed faster.
Shifting priorities and rising ambiguity test how well teams hold up, and the pace of change across industries shows no sign of slowing. In this interactive one-hour seminar, Jazz Cool equips team members with practical tools to strengthen personal and professional resilience and adaptability. Participants learn to identify change enablers and derailers, support positive transitions and apply structured change management techniques that help new initiatives land smoothly, leaving teams ready to stay effective whatever comes next.
Never-ending to-do lists, commitments taken on with a sinking feeling and a sense that everything is urgent can make prioritising feel impossible. In this highly visual keynote, Jazz Cool rethinks what it means to be busy and shares techniques for working at a sustainable, value-driven pace. She covers defining good enough, smart working, the productivity mindset, directing versus reacting and finding the right pace, giving every busy professional a practical route from busy to brilliant.
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Jazz Cool runs interactive sessions built on thought-provoking questions, memorable stories and analogies, and highly visual keynotes that make serious performance content approachable.
Jazz Cool specialises in the Five Pillars of High-Performance, optimising team performance, resilience and adaptability through change, and moving teams from busy to brilliant with a sustainable pace of work. She has more than 25 years of experience coaching C-level executives and co-founded In Cool Company, which developed the Five Pillars with the University of Leeds.
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