Mike Lee
High-Performance Leadership Lessons From NBA’s Elite
In a world dominated by distractions and disruption, Mike Lee helps organizations unlock the potential of people, performance, and psychology through the power of presence. His HeartMind methodology blends a background working with NBA MVPs Steph Curry and Joel Embiid with practical Eastern philosophy, creating a modern approach to leadership.
Full Profile
Mike Lee: Keynote Speaker, Leadership Coach, #1 Best-Selling Author
Mike Lee is a globally recognized keynote speaker, performance coach, and #1 best-selling author who equips organizations to thrive in today’s environment of constant disruption and distraction. As the founder of MindShift Labs, Mike brings decades of experience developed on the court alongside NBA luminaries like Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, blending these elite athletic mindsets with practical Eastern philosophy to drive transformative leadership, peak performance, and cultures of belonging.
Mike’s signature HeartMind methodology bridges the intense focus, discipline, and resilience of elite athletes with the empathy, connection, and intentional presence of a mindful leader. His engaging, research-backed keynotes and workshops, delivered to organizations including Morgan Stanley, AmFam, Cisco, SHRM, and IBM, empower leaders and teams to unlock hidden potential, boost engagement, and foster lasting well-being.
Addressing Today’s Critical Business Challenges
Mike understands first-hand the overwhelming demands, burnout, and anxiety leaders and professionals contend with, especially having built his business while battling his own adversities. His programs address:
- Navigating distraction, burnout, and change by cultivating laser-sharp focus and authentic presence.
- Developing resilient, future-focused leaders equipped to steer through uncertainty, rapid innovation, and digital transformation.
- Building cultures of inclusion and belonging that boost talent retention, engagement, and performance.
- Implementing mindfulness strategies that enhance emotional intelligence, adaptability, and well-being for individuals and organizations.
Mike Lee’s programs are ideal for:
- Senior leaders and executives seeking to drive growth and inspire teams through presence-centered leadership.
- High-performing teams and sales professionals looking to maintain elite performance amid ongoing disruption.
- Organizations ready to move beyond “do more with less” and instead create cultures where people feel valued, engaged, and energized.
His acclaimed book, The New Rules For The Future of Leadership, distills these lessons for broad audiences and has received endorsements from thought leaders and Fortune 500 executives alike.
Talks
Unlocking Peak Performance and Transformational Leadership in the Modern Era
THIS PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
Leaders & Executives seeking to drive growth, inspire teams, and foster authentic connections through mindful leadership and presence.
High-Performing Teams & Professionals who want to optimize performance, reduce anxiety, and build resilience in a fast-paced, distraction-filled world.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In a world dominated by distractions, A.I. disruption, and relentless uncertainty our ability to be present and drive business growth is tested every single day. With two decades of experience alongside NBA MVPs like Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, Mike understands the vital role of presence in peak performance and leadership. This insight was profoundly deepened during the horrific withdrawal symptoms of an anti-depressant medication, which disrupted his ability to focus and work effectively. So he went on a mission to reclaim the present moment with counter-cultural approaches, rigorous research, and massive personal growth.
Through this experience, he built a simple methodology that merges the mindsets of basketball’s elite with Eastern philosophy to navigate today’s complex era. At first glance, these might seem like worlds apart, but they both prioritize presence to optimize performance, elevate psychology, and impact people.
This keynote offers a practical toolkit to help leaders navigate modern challenges, emphasizing that personal and professional success is not about the hours worked but the quality of presence brought to each moment. Through a research-backed, inspiring storytelling approach, attendees will learn how to thrive amidst today’s demands by embracing the mindset of an elite athlete and the heart of a mindful leader.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Develop Your People: Cultivate authentic connections that inspire and engage teams, creating a culture of belonging where individuals feel seen, valued, and motivated.
- Unlock Your Performance: Use presence to boost performance, helping individuals consistently deliver their best work by staying engaged in the moment.
- Optimize Your Psychology: Use presence to reduce stress, anxiety, and burnout and enhance mental resilience for better leadership and well-being.
- Activate Your Purpose: Unleash individual and organizational purpose to elevate focus, improve decision-making, and drive engagement.
Five mindsets of basketball’s elite for peak performance
THIS PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
Business Leaders & Executives striving to maintain focus, creativity, and high performance amidst overwhelming demands.
High-Performing Sales Teams & Sales Professionals looking to adopt elite mindsets from basketball’s elite to elevate their performance, presence, and purpose.
Organizations Focused on Innovation & Growth that want to equip their workforce with strategies and mindsets to enhance focus, resilience, and poise.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
We are living in a world that is dominated by constant uncertainty, overwhelming demands, and nonstop disruption. In our do more with less, hustle-and-grind culture, attention spans are
at an all-time low when focus has never been more paramount. This creates the biggest barrier to sustaining peak performance — the constant battleground of our mind for the present moment.
In this high-impact program, Mike shares personal stories, proven strategies, and powerful mindsets he’s learned from times on the court with basketball’s elite like MVPs Steph Curry and Joel Embiid, as well as, Rookie of The Year Malcolm Brogdon. These counter-cultural peak performance principles crossover from the court to business and life.
When audience members leave this session they’ll be equipped with mindsets, strategies, and
exercises to transcend the noise and find presence in an age of distraction, poise in an age of
disruption, and performance in an age of overwhelming demands.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Unlock Your Performance: A mindset from social entrepreneur and NBA MVP, Steph Curry, to access creativity and performance in an ultra-dynamic environment.
- Activate Your Purpose: What Mike learned from an NBA Rookie of the Year about the power of purpose.
- Elevate Your Mindset: A mindset from NBA MVP Joel Embiid we can apply to business performance.
- Cultivate Your Presence: What separated Kobe Bryant beyond his basketball skills that apply to workplace performance.
A new approach to navigate constant disruption, adversity, and change through the power of presence
THIS PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
Senior Leaders & Executives managing high-stakes decision-making during periods of constant disruption, and A.I. adoption.
Team Leaders & Managers looking to foster resilience and well-being within their teams, while maintaining energy and productivity.
Organizations Prioritizing Culture seeking actionable strategies to design a culture of belonging, resilience, and psychological safety.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The rise of AI, the threat of a recession, and rapid changes have created an unprecedented leadership crisis. Traditional resilience practices are no longer sustainable. In our modern world, they often lead to burnout and exhaustion. But, for individuals, teams, and companies that create an internal shift in their mindsets, there is a new path forward.
Through Mike’s experience building an international basketball brand from his college apartment, and growing it while battling anxiety and depression, he understands the challenges leaders are facing in these very moments. Drawing on the latest research from sports psychology, neuroscience, and mindfulness, Mike shares timely, relevant, and actionable strategies he’s personally embraced to lead through adversity.
When combined with his inspiring storytelling approach, these competencies create a resilience toolkit that has helped people across the world uncover, unlock, and unleash the purpose-driven, future-focused, and heart-centered leader within themselves during these unprecedented times.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Enhance Your Well-Being: Practical well-being for even the most reluctant through the lens of sports performance psychology.
- Sustain Your Energy: How to stay connected to your energy as a leader (and recover it when you lose it).
- Build Your Resilience: A simple 3-step process to cultivate resilience in a world of overwhelming uncertainty.
- Design Your Culture: Create a culture of resilience through belonging to counterbalance adversity.
How the bold and driven can elevate engagement, win the war for talent, and create a culture of belonging
THIS PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
Senior Leaders & HR Executives aiming to improve employee engagement, attract top talent, and build a purpose-driven, human-centric culture.
Emerging Leaders & People Managers who are navigating the new demands of leadership like purpose, belonging, and well-being.
Organizations Focused on Culture & Retention that want to implement research-backed strategies to create a culture of belonging, psychological safety, and peak performance.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The future of leadership is more human than ever. In 2020 challenges lingering in the background like mental health, purpose, and belonging immediately rose to the surface. The Great Resignation of 2021 highlighted that traditional solutions like perks and salary increases fell short of addressing deep-seated organizational challenges. Today, the adoption of AI, remote work environments, and the looming recession are front and center for leaders. The impact of Covid changed how we work, our relationship to work, and the expectations of leaders across all industries. And senior leaders, emerging leaders, and leaders without a title need to be equipped with internal skills to navigate this new world of work.
This program is designed to equip leaders with the purpose-driven, future-focused, mindfully aware, and heart-centered leadership skills to meet the moment and prepare for what’s next. These research-backed competencies are proven to elevate engagement, attract top talent, improve well-being, and create a culture of belonging. Ultimately helping organizations sustain peak performance, drive growth, and create their future in the new economy.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Ignite Your Purpose: Activate personal and organizational purpose to drive employee engagement and build a legacy.
- Apply Mindfulness: Utilize practical mindfulness skills to elevate high-performance and well-being.
- Optimize Your Talent: Attract, engage, and retain top talent to give yourself an edge in an ultra-competitive world.
- Build Your Culture: Create a culture of belonging and psychological safety through human-centric, heart-centered leadership.
How to beat burnout, elevate performance, and cultivate well-being in a volatile, uncertain, and complex world
THIS PROGRAM IS IDEAL FOR:
Leaders & Professionals in High-Stress Industries who are seeking tools to combat burnout, improve focus, and enhance well-being.
Organizations Focused on Mental Health & Employee Well-Being that want to equip their teams with mindfulness practices to reduce stress, increase engagement, and boost emotional resilience.
Teams Experiencing High Levels of Distraction looking to implement mindfulness strategies to improve presence, emotional intelligence, and peak performance.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
In an age of rapid technological advances, global crises, and relentless change, our workforce is more stressed and burned out than ever before. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, employees are experiencing record levels of stress, leading to a significant rise in mental health challenges. The American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion per year. Meanwhile, research from Harvard Business Review shows we are only fully present about 50% of the day, meaning half of our workweek is lost to distractions, stress, and disengagement.
In this program, mindfulness keynote speaker Mike Lee shows how the present moment is the gateway to peak performance, engagement, and emotional well-being. With the acceleration of remote work, AI integration, and economic uncertainty, it’s easy to get stuck in past regrets or future worries. But the best thing you can do for your future self, your organization, and the people you lead is to master the ability to be fully present.
As the external world continues to evolve at a rapid speed, the key to sustainable growth is an internal shift. Mike Lee draws from his personal journey through adversity and his experience with sports performance to deliver a relatable and impactful keynote. By embracing mindfulness, we can develop emotional intelligence, build self-awareness, and cultivate the resilience needed to not just survive but thrive in today’s high-pressure environment.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Debunk Mindfulness Myths: The common myths and barriers to starting a mindfulness practice.
- Create Mental Space: Access the power of the Decision Gap to lead with intention and your values.
- Enhance Peak Performance: Practical application to elevate high-performance, decrease stress, and improve emotional resilience.
- Real Time Experience: A mindfulness meditation session that you can incorporate into your daily routine to develop the skill.