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Performance Intelligence Building leadership capacity through diagnostics, coaching and behavioural reinforcement.

Performance Intelligence builds leadership capacity for senior executives and high-performing teams. Founded by Andrew May - exercise physiologist, mental skills coach and leadership advisor - we work at the intersection of physical performance, psychological fitness and operational systems to create sustainable high performance. Our clients include ASX-listed organisations, elite sporting teams and the Australian Defence Force. We build embedded capability through diagnostics, leader-led coaching and behavioural reinforcement. Products include the PQ Index, Leadership Capacity Index, Human Performance Assessment and PQ Academy.

AI can make information and plausible recommendations abundant. It cannot remove the need for context, values and accoun...
27/10/2026

AI can make information and plausible recommendations abundant. It cannot remove the need for context, values and accountability.

The leadership challenge is shifting from finding the answer to deciding what to trust, challenge and do next.

Read Andrew May's latest article, As Answers Become Abundant, Judgement Becomes the Advantage.

Values statements describe the culture an organisation wants. Calendars show the one it has.When meetings routinely over...
26/10/2026

Values statements describe the culture an organisation wants. Calendars show the one it has.

When meetings routinely overrun, deep work gets pushed to the evening and late-night emails become normal, people read those signals faster than any poster on the wall. Culture is shaped less by what leaders say and more by what they let slide.

Read the blog or join our Performance Pulse newsletter for more insights like these.

26/10/2026

The people who hold everyone else up often carry the most quietly.

They’re the ones we assume are fine. The ones who check in on others, make it safe to talk, and rarely ask for anything back.

Keegan Hipgrave’s honesty in this Bite Size episode is a reminder for every leader: an open door matters, but so does going first. When people see you share what you’re carrying, they’re far more likely to share what they’re carrying too.

Thank you, Keegan, for going first.

New Bite Size on the Performance Intelligence Podcast. This is a short moment from a longer interview.

This episode discusses su***de. If it brings anything up for you, support is available through Lifeline on 13 11 14.

What does your team’s calendar say about what really matters? A full day of meetings leaves focused work for the evening...
22/10/2026

What does your team’s calendar say about what really matters?

A full day of meetings leaves focused work for the evening. Meetings that regularly overrun teach people their next commitment doesn’t count. Most of these habits were never chosen. They were inherited from whoever ran the team before.

The answer is to decide what working week your team actually needs, then build it on purpose: when you come together, when people get time for the work that needs their best thinking, and what leaders model.

Read the blog, The Culture You Never Chose:

When there’s a big result to chase, recovery is usually the first thing to go.This week, try looking at it differently. ...
20/10/2026

When there’s a big result to chase, recovery is usually the first thing to go.

This week, try looking at it differently.

Pick one piece of recovery that matters to you, a training session, a morning routine, a day where you properly detach, and put it in the diary as part of the job.

Then notice how you show up in the hours around it. More calm? More grounded? More present?

Read the blog or join our Performance Pulse newsletter for more insights like these.

Most leaders manage their time carefully. They manage their energy poorly. Energy is not a by-product of good work. It i...
20/10/2026

Most leaders manage their time carefully. They manage their energy poorly.

Energy is not a by-product of good work. It is the prerequisite. Without it, cognitive sharpness degrades, decision quality drops, and the capacity to be present for the people around you erodes.

The Energy Blueprint is a five-pillar framework for building and sustaining energy as a senior leader: circadian rhythm optimisation, physical activity, strategic recovery, nutrition and gut health, and cellular engine and longevity.

Read the full resource

A lot of leaders prize achievement above almost everything. Including their own health.For a while it works. Then it sta...
19/10/2026

A lot of leaders prize achievement above almost everything. Including their own health.

For a while it works. Then it starts working against them: a shorter fuse with the team, less patience at home, decisions made on an empty tank.

Part of the problem is that putting recovery first feels selfish, so it gets pushed back until there’s nothing left in the tank.

A better word is self-management. A few hours a week invested in your own capacity changes how you show up in all the others: calmer, more present, better decisions.

Read the blog or join our Performance Pulse newsletter for more insights like these.

19/10/2026

Some of the boldest people in your organisation might not just be driven. They might be regulating.

Lindy Hadges has spent 16 years working with hundreds of clients with ADHD. Her view is that low dopamine makes risk feel good, which is why you see so many ADHD people showing up as CEOs, high performance athletes and creative artists. She calls it self-medication.

That changes how a leader reads the behaviour. The person who takes the big swing, volunteers for the impossible project or only comes alive under pressure may be solving a problem you can’t see. It also helps explain why the same pattern can cost them so much, in relationships, in jobs and in business.

Before you reward the risk or manage it, it helps to understand what is underneath it.

Hear Lindy talk more about this in our latest bite size out now. Link in bio.

When you’re driven by results, looking after yourself can feel like the wrong priority. That’s a pattern Andrew May sees...
15/10/2026

When you’re driven by results, looking after yourself can feel like the wrong priority.

That’s a pattern Andrew May sees often in the leaders he coaches: the more driven they are, the sooner recovery is the first thing to go.

Taking a day to properly detach, or protecting time to train, gets framed as selfish. So it gets pushed back, week after week.

Andrew’s argument is simple. Recovery isn’t time taken away from the job or the people who rely on you. It’s self-management, and it’s what keeps you able to show up over years, not weeks.

In his latest blog, Andrew shares what that shift looked like for a seniors living CEO over the past year.

Read the blog:

Responding faster is not always adapting better. Mental Agility helps leaders notice what has changed, regulate their re...
13/10/2026

Responding faster is not always adapting better.

Mental Agility helps leaders notice what has changed, regulate their response and choose what the situation requires without losing their standards.

As AI accelerates information and decision cycles, that psychological capacity becomes increasingly important.

Read Mental Agility Is Not Coping With More.
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