Justin Roethlingshoefer
Senior leaders are running operating systems that were never tuned for the load they now carry. Most wellbeing programmes touch the symptoms and leave the underlying biology, sleep, recovery and decision capacity untouched. The cost surfaces later, as burnout, attrition at the executive bench, and a slow erosion of judgement when it matters most.
Justin Roethlingshoefer is a former NHL and NCAA performance director who helps executives, founders and corporate teams treat their own health as an operating discipline, using cellular testing, wearable data and structured recovery to protect performance under sustained pressure.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Justin Roethlingshoefer
- He brings the performance science used to keep professional hockey players on the ice into the language of P&L, calendar pressure and executive fatigue, with frameworks tested over a fifteen-year career across NCAA and NHL environments.
- His method starts from individual biological data, including bloodwork, HRV and DNA inputs, so the room leaves with personalised next actions rather than a generic wellness playbook.
- He has built and runs OWN IT Coaching, which means the content is informed by what is currently working with paying executive clients, not theory drawn from a former career.
- His book The Power of Ownership gives audiences a structured reference point after the keynote, extending the conversation beyond the event.
Biography highlights
- Founder of OWN IT Coaching, a health and performance company serving founders, executives and corporate teams.
- Fifteen years in elite sport across NCAA and professional hockey, with strength and performance responsibilities tied to the San Diego Gulls and the Anaheim Ducks organisation.
- Author of four books, including The Power of Ownership, listed as a USA Today bestseller.
- Master’s in Human Development with a Sport Performance concentration; postgraduate work in HRV, sleep and recovery science.
- Host of The OWN IT Show podcast and a regular contributor on SimpliFaster and Muscle & Strength.
- Featured in Fox News, Esquire, USA Today, LiveScience and Well+Good.
Biography
The cost of high-performance leadership tends to show up in the body before it shows up in the numbers. Sleep degrades, recovery collapses, decisions get slower and shorter, and the wellbeing programme on the company intranet does not touch any of it. That is the gap Justin Roethlingshoefer’s work addresses.
He spent fifteen years inside elite hockey, first in the NCAA and then in the professional system, with strength and performance responsibilities tied to the San Diego Gulls in the AHL and the Anaheim Ducks organisation. His job was to keep human beings playing at their physical ceiling across a punishing season, using data on load, fatigue, sleep and recovery. He brought that operating model out of the locker room and into the office.
OWN IT Coaching, the company he founded, applies the same approach to executives, founders and corporate teams. The starting point is individual biology, bloodwork, HRV, wearables and DNA testing, with structured coaching on the back of it. His four books, including the USA Today bestseller The Power of Ownership, set out the underlying argument: health is an ownership decision, and senior leaders who treat it that way protect the asset their organisations depend on most.
His sports-science training sits behind everything he says, which is what separates him from the wider wellness category. The case he makes to a senior audience is concrete: the same monitoring that keeps a Stanley Cup contender on the ice can keep a CEO sharp through a year that was not built for human pacing.
Key speaking topics
- Executive health and performance
- Burnout prevention in senior leadership
- Sleep, recovery and HRV in high-pressure roles
- Wearables, biometric data and personalised health
- Ownership as a personal operating principle
- Health risk in founder-led and high-growth organisations
- Team performance and resilience
Ideal for
- CEOs, founders and executive committees carrying sustained operational load
- CHROs and heads of people designing senior leader wellbeing and retention
- Leadership offsites and partner retreats in professional services
- Sales and high-performance teams working under structured pressure
Audience outcomes
- A clear separation between generic wellness advice and the variables that actually move executive performance
- A working understanding of how sleep, HRV, recovery and load data translate into leadership capacity
- Personal next actions framed as ownership decisions rather than corporate programme tweaks
- Language to discuss executive health as an organisational asset with boards and HR
- A reference framework drawn from The Power of Ownership to extend the conversation after the event
Talks
Reframes personal health, energy and performance as an ownership decision that senior leaders must make for themselves before they can make it for their teams.
Key takeaways:
- A working definition of ownership across heart, mind, body and relationships
- The case for proactive over reactive personal health management
- Practical first moves for senior leaders carrying sustained load
Applies the operating logic leaders already use in their businesses, data, metrics, capital allocation, to their personal health and energy.
Key takeaways:
- The KPIs that matter most for executive performance and longevity
- Where wearables, bloodwork and HRV fit into a leader’s decision cycle
- How to allocate time and attention to recovery without losing operational tempo
A team-level talk on building personal and collective resilience inside high-pressure organisations, with a focus on preventing executive and senior team burnout.
Key takeaways:
- Early warning signals that precede burnout in senior teams
- Recovery as a managed practice, not a default-off setting
- A team operating rhythm that protects energy across long cycles