Your room, his whole attention.

Every audience is afraid of something. The quarter. The reorg. The new system nobody asked for. The conversation they have been avoiding since spring. Most talks about fear tell people to be brave. This one shows them what fear is actually for, and how to aim it.

Brian spent thirty years watching people meet fear at an open door, and learned that the ones who did it well were not fearless. They had a method. Name it, breathe, decide what matters in the next ten seconds, then move. He teaches that method, on stage, with the stories that earned it.

Everyone has worked for a person who became fast and frenetic under pressure. Some, however, got calmer and clearer as things got more intense. This talk offers a plan for building this ability in yourself, and in everyone on your team.

The core idea: people follow the steadiest nervous system in the room. Steadiness is a set of habits that can be trained. Grace is contagious, and it is the most under-taught skill in leadership. Brian shows how to build this ability in yourself, and how to make it the culture in your community.

As a creator of change in the skydiving world, Brian Germain has always been a bit of a rebel. His unique perspective is born from the assumption that we are not done creating the world. His improvements to the state of the art in parachute design and teaching methods have made the world a better place, on purpose. You can take this same approach of transcendence to your office, your organization, and the mental constructs that have defined these systems in the past.