Losing Stress and Finding Mojo: How to Perform at Your Best During Covid19

Baseline levels of stress have been kicked up a notch by the daily challenges of the global pandemic – and that Groundhog Day feeling is kryptonite for our mojo.

We all know what to do to reduce the spread of the virus but how can we boost our psychological batteries? How can we make sure we perform at our best during difficult times?

This session provides a quick starter guide on stress and a practical focus on mindset and motivation. With insights from behavioural science and neuroscience, this interactive session will explain some simple steps you can put into practice today to get stress under control and boost performance.

With lessons from Navy SEALs, NBA All Stars and Star Trek.

The session will be presented by Dr Ula Cartwright-Finch, Managing Director of Cortex Capital, a consultancy that applies behavioural and brain science to business and law.

Dr. Ula Cartwright-Finch

Managing Director – Cortex Capital

ucf@cortexcapital.org

Dr. Ula Cartwright-Finch is Managing Director of Cortex Capital, a consultancy that applies behavioural and brain science to business and law. Content is founded on knowledge from leading scientists with input from industry, and is carefully designed to be memorable, engaging and effective.

Ula’s areas of expertise include mental health and wellbeing, diversity & inclusion, memory and witness evidence/interviewing, cognitive biases in decision-making and psychology in negotiation (including emotional intelligence). She has delivered training courses for clients across the finance, technology, professional services, telecoms and energy sectors, and has been invited to speak in more than 15 cities across 5 continents.

Ula’s knowledge stems from 12 years as an international lawyer in magic and silver circle law firms working in and out of London, Hong Kong and Madrid. The majority of this time she spent as a dispute resolution lawyer, specialising in international arbitration (commercial and investment treaty). Ula also has first-hand experience in regulatory, risk and compliance from time spent on secondment at investment bank and telecoms firms. Ula is dual qualified in England & Wales and Hong Kong, and speaks Spanish fluently.

Ula’s professional experience is framed by a deep understanding of psychology. Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience featured heavily in her PhD (University College London) and MA (University of St Andrews). She brings all of her knowledge and experience to current scientific collaborations with leading researchers at UCL and Warwick. She is a Visiting Researcher at UCL and a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Humboldt University of Berlin.

Ula is ranked in industry publications (including Who’s Who Arbitration Future Leaders 2017-2020 and Legal 500) and is described as “a genuinely impressive individual” whose work in psychology and law is “genuinely innovative and ground-breaking”.