when Your People need to excel while everything is shifting

Turn Pressure Into Your 
Greatest Strength

When the stakes are high and your people freeze, fight, or fold, the problem isn’t talent, motivation, or culture. It’s the human nervous system.

PressureProof gives your people science backed tools to perform through pressure in minutes, not months

“Life changing revelations” — TIME Magazine

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You’ve Seen it Happen

The meeting where a key decision maker went silent, not because they had nothing to say, but because the pressure shut them down.

The team that had every resource they needed but couldn’t execute when it mattered.

The negotiation that collapsed because someone couldn’t get past their fear.

The reorg that stalled because people froze instead of adapting.

Whatever the version was for you, you knew: this wasn’t a talent problem. This wasn’t a motivation problem. This was something deeper, something you could improve with the right tools. 

You were right.

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Mary Poffenroth SXSW 2026 Session

Performance under pressure is a nervous system problem.

Not a motivation problem

Not an ability problem

Not a culture problem

A nervous system problem.

And it has a fix.

The three stages of the PressureProof system

Meet. Move. Map.

1

Meet

Meet pressure head on. When the threat response fires, use a real time framework to recognize what’s happening, name it, and choose your next move.

  • The RAIN Method

2

Move

Move through it. Deploy a specific, evidence based intervention matched to your pressure profile. 35 techniques, each designed to work in 60 seconds or less.

  • Rapid Reset Cards

3

Map

Know your pressure. Uncover your unique triggers, default responses, and recovery patterns across five dimensions of how your nervous system handles pressure.

Pressure Tested. Pressure Proved.

Three Ways to Experience the PressureProof System

Three formats. One system. Each one designed to meet your people where they are and move them forward.

Inbound Speaker

The Spark
Keynote

  • 30–90 minutes
  • Up to 5,000
  • Your audience stops seeing pressure as the enemy & starts mastering it
  • Leaves with a framework they use immediately
  • Changes how they think about change
  • Energize your conference, summit, or all hands
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The Practice
Workshop

  • Half / Full Day
  • Up to 20
  • Complete PressureMap diagnostic for each participant
  • Your group practices with their own real current challenges
  • 35 neurohacks they’ll start using that week
  • Team alignment on shared language for high stakes moments
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The Immersion
Elite Leadership Retreat

  • Half / Multi-Day
  • Up to 15
  • Lead differently through a deeper understanding of your own pressure patterns
  • Apply your team’s PressureMap archetypes to your strategy
  • Master all Rapid Reset interventions to help others during tough moments
  • 90 day post retreat integration support

Tools That Make PressureProof Stick

Tangible tools that keep delivering long after the event

Proprietary diagnostic that maps each person’s unique pressure profile with prescriptive actions for their profile

PressureProof Rapid Reset Cards

35 evidence based, 60 second interventions as portable playing cards

Autographed Copy of Brave New You

Signed copy of Mary’s award winning book Brave New You

Pressuremap Reports

What if You Could Measure Exactly How Pressure Affects Performance
& See the Path to Change it?

35 scenario based questions. Five dimensions of how your nervous system responds under pressure + what to do about it.
One report that changes how you thrive.

For individuals

Your personal pressure blueprint. Understand exactly how your nervous system activates, responds, thinks, recovers, and affects others when the pressure is on.

  • Personalized five dimension PressureMap profile
  • Your PressureMap: spectrum bars on each dimension, named pressure coordinates, and written pattern summary
  • How pressure cascades through your system, step by step
  • Science behind each pattern, written so it actually makes sense
  • Dimension specific neurohack prescriptions matched to your scores
  • 90 day action plan with phased priorities
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For teams and departments

Includes full Independent Report

See how your team actually functions under pressure. Each member receives their individual report, then the team comes together for a facilitated workshop with full score visibility.

  • Full individual PressureMap report for every team member
  • Aggregated team pressure profile with pattern distribution
  • Individual scores shared in a facilitated team workshop (with permission)
  • Group pattern mapping: who steadies whom, where gaps exist
  • Team dynamics under crisis: collective onset, default, recovery, and ripple
  • Facilitated debrief session with Dr. Poffenroth

For executives and people leaders

Includes full Team Report

Everything in Team Report + a leadership layer: how to use each team member’s pressure profile to lead them better, especially through change & crisis.

  • Complete Team Report with all individual and aggregate data
  • Per member leadership guidance: how to communicate, delegate, and support based on their profile
  • Crisis leadership bespoke guide: managing your team’s collective nervous system through high pressure events
  • Change management overlay: predicting team response patterns during organizational shifts
  • Cross dimensional pattern alerts for your specific team composition

Powerful Moments. Powerful Results.

Olga Karanikos
Olga Karanikos

Senior Marketing Director, JOVE – EdTech

“Mary delivered insights for our team in a way that was engaging and emotive. She easily weaves stories together in a way that not only strongly delivers her message but also grabs and maintains her audience’s attention”

Carol Ferrara Zarb | Zoom
Carol Ferrara Zarb

Head of GTM Enablement, Zoom

“Such a wonderful session, lots of real work, practical hacks to use in our day to day!”

Ola Kalinowska, Google X Labs
Ola Kalinowska

Google’s X Labs

“Everyone loved Mary’s workshop for X!”

Nicole Darsney

TED Conferences Lead Curator

“So grateful to Mary for making courage, leadership, and nervous-system wisdom feel so human and doable.”

Ready To Get Your People PressureProof? 

Tell us what your people are facing. We’ll tell you which format fits and whether we can help.