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Melo Calarco
High Performance & Mindset Speaker; Multi-Award-Winning Author of "Beating Burnout Finding Balance"; TEDx Speaker
Melo Calarco is a multi-award-winning author and TEDx speaker with over twenty-five years of experience in mindfulness and high performance. Calarco serves as a keynote speaker and corporate programs facilitator, specializing in high performance, maintaining energy and focus, mental resilience, and achieving balance to prevent burnout. His work is grounded in neuroscience, mindfulness, human behavior, and leadership training, helping individuals and organizations achieve clarity, focus, and peak performance without burning out.
Drawing from personal experiences cycling over thirty thousand kilometers across five continents, Calarco has developed expertise in managing stress, building mental endurance, and overcoming adversity, including near-death experiences. He shares his insights with global Fortune 500 companies, CEOs, managers, directors, Olympic athletes, surgeons, actors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.
Calarco is a sought-after speaker at international summits and conferences such as TEDx, Digital Health Festival, HRD Summits, Workplace Wellness Festivals, and Health and Safety Show. He has presented to notable companies including LinkedIn, SEEK, the Royal Flying Doctors Service, L'Oréal, Deloitte, KPMG, Allianz Insurance, and PwC. His work has been described as truly transformational.
Speech Topics
What Cycling 30,000kms Around the World Taught Me About Resilience
Cycling 30,000kms across five continents taught Melo many of life lessons including resilience, leadership, trust, purpose, perseverance, adaptability and the ability to rise above adversity. Melo was faced to endure many challenging situations, including near death experiences.
These same lessons are all applicable in the high performing teams in the corporate world.
Strap in for the ride of your life and learn some valuable lessons to help you thrive as a high performer regardless of the challenge ahead you.
Key takeaways include:
- Build inner strength and resilience
- Thrive under high-pressure situations
- Lean into discomfort
- Be adaptable to change
- Learn to persevere with passion and purpose
Staying Energized as a High-Performer (without burning out!)
This session explores various tools and techniques to help you and your team stay energised as a high performer. You will learn effective ways to manage stress, build resilience and avoid burnout, while remaining a high- achiever.
Discover the evolution from Stress to Burnout and how to optimise your performance with the right amount of stress. You will also learn positive mindset strategies, mindfulness techniques and ways to reclaim your self-care habits and your work-life so you can maintain your mental wellbeing for the long term.
Key takeaways include:
- How to use stress positively to optimise your performance
- Eustress (good) vs Distress (bad)
- The neuroscience of the stress response
- Signs of burnout and prevention
- Techniques to ‘nip stress in the bud’ in 90 seconds
Staying Focused & Maximizing Your Potential
Trying to wear too many hats and continually switching your attention from task to task can be stressful, exhausting and can eventually lead to burnout.
Learn how to make some positive changes to maximise your workflow and focus on a daily basis. We look at ways to stay focused on important tasks and ways to drive the business forward. Discover the cost of context switching (multitasking) and the shocking truth of lost time and energy.
Explore the different brain states to optimise your performance and how to block out your time in three distinct work-modes to work more efficiently
Key takeaways include:
- The cost of context switching in terms of lost productivity
- Staying focused on what matters
- Different brain states for optimal performance and productivity
- Managing your time and energy more effectively
- How to work proactively, not reactively
Mindfulness for High Performance
In this fast-paced modern world that we live in, mindfulness should no longer be considered a 'nice to have' it's a must have.
This talk explores the evidence-based concept of mindfulness for high performance and how you can incorporate it in your daily life.
Many of the world’s top performers practice mindfulness, like Olympic athletes, top CEO's, corporate executives, actors, surgeons and many high performing professionals.
Discover the neuroscience of mindfulness and how you can use it to optimise your performance everyday (without burning out)
Key takeaways include:
- Neuroscience of Stress
- How top performers use mindfulness
- Using mindfulness to stay calm under high pressure
- Improve decision-making and problem solving processes
- Increase your energy and vitality
Mindful Leadership
The number one skill to be an effective leader is ‘self-awareness’ and one of the best ways to develop this is through mindfulness practice.
The best complement you ever give somebody is your full attention, but it takes work and training to be fully present with your people. This keynote helps you develop this effective skill to cultivate self-awareness and ways to build your abilty to connect and communicate with your team.
The second most important skill as a leader is to stay calm under high pressure situations and this talk will share techniques to self-regulate in the moment. All in all, you will learn to be more self-aware, manage stress, build resilience and be a mindful leader who people love to be with.
Key takeaways include:
- Build self-awareness
- Develop resilience and ability to self-regulate
- Be more present and engaged
- Improve leadership qualities
- Manage challenging situation
- Remain calm under high pressure
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