The High-Performance Operator: Sustained Performance Under Pressure (WCBS 2026)

This 45 minute keynote introduces the High-Performance Operator, a structured approach to understanding how health underpins leadership capacity, decision quality and sustained performance under pressure. Delivered jointly by Ollie Osborne and Don Armand, the session draws on experience from elite military and international sport environments, translated into a commercially relevant framework for modern organisations.
The discussion focuses on how performance degradation rarely occurs as a single event. Instead, it develops gradually through unmanaged pressure, compromised recovery and declining cognitive capacity. Most organisations lack visibility of this process, which means performance variability and risk exposure often go unmeasured until outcomes are affected.
Through an interactive format, the session explores how leadership health directly influences operational effectiveness, consistency of output and the quality of decision making at senior level. Attendees will be guided through the relationship between health, capacity and performance, and how this links to organisational risk.
The session also introduces a structured pathway for identifying and measuring leadership performance exposure, before outlining how organisations can intervene proportionately. This is not a discussion around wellbeing or engagement. It is a commercially grounded perspective on protecting capability, maintaining performance and reducing avoidable risk within leadership teams operating under sustained pressure.

Speakers

Don Armand, Warrior Wellness Movement
Don Armand is a leadership specialist and former international rugby player, now working with executives and teams to strengthen decision making and leadership under load. Together, they bring a combined perspective from elite military and elite sport environments, where performance, recovery and decision quality carry direct consequence. Their work focuses on how health underpins leadership capacity and how unmanaged pressure creates hidden performance risk within organisations. Through the High-Performance Operator, they deliver structured, commercially grounded insight into how leaders and teams can protect operational capability and sustain performance over time.
Find them at Stand 3.

Ollie Osborne, Warrior Wellness Movement
Ollie Osborne is a former Royal Marines Commando and founder of Warrior Wellness Movement, a health and performance consultancy working with senior leaders and organisations operating under sustained pressure.
Find them at Stand 3.

In the Keynote Theatre (top right of the floor plan).