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Performance Intelligence Building leadership capacity through diagnostics, coaching and behavioural reinforcement.

Performance Intelligence builds leadership capacity for senior executives and high-performing teams. Founded by Andrew May - exercise physiologist, mental skills coach and leadership advisor - we work at the intersection of physical performance, psychological fitness and operational systems to create sustainable high performance. Our clients include ASX-listed organisations, elite sporting teams and the Australian Defence Force. We build embedded capability through diagnostics, leader-led coaching and behavioural reinforcement. Products include the PQ Index, Leadership Capacity Index, Human Performance Assessment and PQ Academy.

When you’re driven by results, looking after yourself can feel like the wrong priority. That’s a pattern Andrew May sees...
15/10/2026

When you’re driven by results, looking after yourself can feel like the wrong priority.

That’s a pattern Andrew May sees often in the leaders he coaches: the more driven they are, the sooner recovery is the first thing to go.

Taking a day to properly detach, or protecting time to train, gets framed as selfish. So it gets pushed back, week after week.

Andrew’s argument is simple. Recovery isn’t time taken away from the job or the people who rely on you. It’s self-management, and it’s what keeps you able to show up over years, not weeks.

In his latest blog, Andrew shares what that shift looked like for a seniors living CEO over the past year.

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Responding faster is not always adapting better. Mental Agility helps leaders notice what has changed, regulate their re...
13/10/2026

Responding faster is not always adapting better.

Mental Agility helps leaders notice what has changed, regulate their response and choose what the situation requires without losing their standards.

As AI accelerates information and decision cycles, that psychological capacity becomes increasingly important.

Read Mental Agility Is Not Coping With More.
https://performanceintelligence.com/mental-agility-age-of-ai/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=leadership_capacity_ai&utm_content=pi_company_blog2_facebook_summary

12/10/2026

Most leaders look for answers inside their own industry. Lisa Alexander built a dynasty by looking everywhere else.

Her principles for sustained dominance, and the rabbit hole she warns every leader about.

Listen to this bite size episode only on Performance Intelligence.

Capability is what a leader knows how to do. Capacity is whether they can still do it when the week is stacked.More trai...
06/10/2026

Capability is what a leader knows how to do. Capacity is whether they can still do it when the week is stacked.

More training won’t fix a capacity problem. Rebuild the week. Score recovery rather than assuming it. Practise mental skills under real pressure. Build coaching into how you lead. And measure it, so you know it’s working.

Before you add another habit, ask what in your week would have to change for it to survive.

Andrew May sets out the full framework in his latest blog.

https://performanceintelligence.com/building-leadership-capacity/

Greater speed is not the same as greater capacity.Without deliberate choices, the time AI saves can quickly be absorbed ...
02/10/2026

Greater speed is not the same as greater capacity.

Without deliberate choices, the time AI saves can quickly be absorbed by more tasks, more meetings and higher expectations.

For leaders, the important questions are:
• Where should the saved time go?
• What work should stop?
• What deserves more attention?
• How will we know greater speed is improving the work rather than simply increasing its volume?

AI can save time. Leadership determines what happens to it.

Explore Leadership Capacity in the Age of AI.

AI can expand what organisations are capable of. But every new tool, process and expectation also places demands on the ...
01/10/2026

AI can expand what organisations are capable of. But every new tool, process and expectation also places demands on the people leading the change.

Before adding more capability, consider the capacity it will require:

• Physical capacity to sustain energy and clear thinking
• Psychological capacity to adapt without becoming reactive
• Operational capacity to protect attention and make deliberate choices
• Relational capacity to maintain trust, challenge and accountability

The question is not only, “Can our leaders do more?”

It is, “Can they do it sustainably?”

Explore Leadership Capacity in the Age of AI.

AI can make individual tasks faster without reducing the total load carried by leaders. When saved time is immediately f...
29/09/2026

AI can make individual tasks faster without reducing the total load carried by leaders.

When saved time is immediately filled with more meetings, outputs and expectations, the productivity gain disappears.

Andrew May's latest article explores the Capacity Trap and why leaders need to decide where AI-created time should go before it is absorbed by more work.

Read The Tools Got Faster. The Humans Didn't.
https://performanceintelligence.com/ai-productivity-leadership-operating-rhythm/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=leadership_capacity_ai&utm_content=pi_company_blog1_facebook_summary

AI is increasing what organisations can do. The harder question is whether leaders have the capacity to use that capabil...
24/09/2026

AI is increasing what organisations can do. The harder question is whether leaders have the capacity to use that capability well.

When faster tools create more work, shorter decision cycles and higher expectations, the productivity gain can disappear into the system.

Performance Intelligence defines Leadership Capacity across four connected dimensions: Physical, Psychological, Operational and Relational.

Our Leadership Capacity in the Age of AI series explores how leaders can sustain energy, judgement, focus and trust as work accelerates.

Explore the series.
https://performanceintelligence.com/leadership-capacity-age-of-ai/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=leadership_capacity_ai&utm_content=pi_company_pillar_facebook_summary

When work gets busy, recovery often disappears first. Strategic Recovery asks us to rethink that pattern. Rather than wa...
22/09/2026

When work gets busy, recovery often disappears first.

Strategic Recovery asks us to rethink that pattern. Rather than waiting until the pressure is over before attempting to recover, it builds opportunities to physically down-regulate and mentally detach into the way we work.

Andrew May's latest article explores pulsing, down regulation and the Recovery Rocket, Performance Intelligence's framework for thinking about recovery across the year, quarter, week, night and day.

The goal isn't to remove pressure from high performance. It's to build an operating rhythm that helps leaders meet periods of demand, recover deliberately and continue performing when it matters.

Read the article → https://performanceintelligence.com/what-is-strategic-recovery/

Most of us understand what exercise does to the body. What we don't tend to think about as much is what it's doing to th...
17/09/2026

Most of us understand what exercise does to the body.

What we don't tend to think about as much is what it's doing to the brain.

More than two decades ago, Andrew May encountered the work of Harvard psychiatrist Dr John Ratey. Andrew was already an athlete and strength and conditioning coach. He didn't need convincing that exercise mattered to performance.

What changed was his understanding of how exercise and the brain were connected.

That's a connection that matters well beyond sport.

Leaders spend their days asking the brain to focus, make decisions, regulate emotion, solve problems and switch rapidly between different people and demands.

So when we think about exercise purely as a way to improve fitness, we're missing part of its relevance to performance.

In his latest article, Andrew explores what exercise is doing to the brain and why that matters for the way we prepare people to perform.

Read the blog → https://performanceintelligence.com/exercise-and-the-brain/

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