Jill Payne
Burnout is no longer a wellbeing issue. It is a capacity issue, and it is showing up in the quality of decisions senior teams make under sustained pressure. Most organisations still treat it with perks and policy, when the gap is in how leaders and teams manage their own energy day to day.
Jill Payne is a performance coach and author who helps organisations treat energy as a managed capacity, so leaders and teams hold pressure without burning out.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Jill Payne
- A working method, not a mood-lift. Her Energy Management framework gives leaders and teams a shared language for how they move, what they focus on, and how they talk to themselves under load.
- Credibility with high-performance environments. She has coached the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme on mental conditioning and culture, and applies the same playbook inside companies.
- A book the field has rated. Be a Dime won Gold at the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Self-Help category, published by Figure 1 Publishing.
- Range across sectors that demand precision. Named corporate clients include Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, and Western Union.
- Tools audiences keep using. Her sessions hand over named practices, the Body, Focus, Dialogue (BFD) sequence among them, that leaders can take back into their week.
Biography highlights
- Author of Be a Dime: Unleash Your Inherent Energy and Live Life More Joyfully (Figure 1 Publishing).
- Gold Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Self-Help, 2024.
- Master’s in Workplace Wellness / Employee Engagement & Workplace Performance; undergraduate degrees in Human Kinetics and Education.
- Mental Conditioning and Culture Coach to the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme.
- Former Team Canada athlete in Sprint Canoe and Rugby.
- Corporate clients include Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, Western Union, NBC.
Biography
Most wellbeing programmes treat burnout as something to soften after the fact. Payne treats it earlier, as a question of capacity. How a leader moves through the day, what they choose to attend to, and the running dialogue they hold with themselves all sit upstream of how much pressure they can absorb before judgement slips.
That logic became the Energy Management framework, now used inside organisations across North America. The method is built on three working levers, body, focus, and dialogue, which Payne treats as a single system rather than three wellness habits. Her book Be a Dime sets out the approach in long form and won Gold at the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Self-Help, published by Figure 1 Publishing.
Her credibility comes from working inside environments where the cost of poor energy is immediate. As Mental Conditioning and Culture Coach with the Canadian Women’s Olympic Rugby 7’s programme, she applied the same method she now brings to senior teams at Google, NASA, McDonald’s, Sony, PepsiCo, Boeing, and Western Union. The academic spine is a Master’s in Workplace Wellness and Employee Engagement, layered on undergraduate work in Human Kinetics and Education.
For an organisation absorbing change fatigue or watching engagement scores drift, Payne gives leaders a concrete operating practice, not another wellness initiative. The work is closer to mental performance coaching than to mindfulness, and it equips senior teams to keep showing up clearly when conditions tighten.
Key speaking topics
- Energy management and personal capacity
- Burnout prevention and recovery
- Resilience under sustained pressure
- High-performance team culture
- Mental conditioning for leaders
- Joy and engagement at work
- Workplace wellbeing strategy
Ideal for
- CHROs, CPOs, and heads of talent rebuilding engagement after sustained change
- Senior leadership teams managing performance under prolonged pressure
- Wellbeing and learning leads moving past surface-level wellness programming
- High-performance functions, sales, trading floors, clinical leadership, where capacity is the constraint
Audience outcomes
- A working vocabulary for energy as an organisational capacity, not a private wellness concern
- The Body, Focus, Dialogue (BFD) sequence as a practice that leaders can apply that week
- A clearer read on the early indicators of burnout inside their own teams
- Specific practices for joy and recovery that are grounded in evidence, not slogans
- A reframe of resilience as a daily operating habit, taught and reinforced
Talks
A working session on moving teams from exhaustion to sustained capacity using the Energy Management method.
Key takeaways:
- A diagnostic for the early signals of burnout inside a team
- The Body, Focus, Dialogue sequence as a practical daily reset
- A leader’s playbook for protecting capacity through prolonged pressure
A keynote on cultivating joy as a deliberate practice, grounded in research rather than sentiment.
Key takeaways:
- Why joy functions as a performance variable, not a soft outcome
- Named practices that build joy from within, repeatable inside the workday
- How leaders model joy without performing it
A talk on the culture conditions that allow teams to operate at consistent capacity.
Key takeaways:
- The link between team energy and team output, examined directly
- Cultural patterns that quietly drain capacity at senior levels
- A short set of operating habits that compound across a team