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The Science and Art of High-Stakes Decision-Making

Leadership, Decision-Making & Performance Under Pressure

Decision-Making Under Pressure

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Before You Scroll

When pressure is on, what actually happens to your thinking?

  • Do important decisions feel heavier than they should?

  • Do you notice your thinking narrowing under time pressure?

  • Do you replay decisions afterward, wondering what you missed?

  • Under scrutiny, do you over-analyze - or act too fast?

  • Do small mistakes feel amplified when the stakes are high?

  • Do you feel mentally exhausted after decision-heavy days?


If even one of these resonates: You’re not lacking intelligence, experience, or discipline. You’re dealing with the predictable cognitive effects of pressure.

This course gives you a science-backed operating system for decision-making when it matters most - so pressure stops hijacking your performance and starts sharpening it.


Because performance under pressure isn’t about talent. It’s about preparation.

TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read)

The Science and Art of High-Stakes Decision-Making is an immersive, science-driven professional development course designed to help leaders and professionals make high-quality decisions under uncertainty, time pressure, and scrutiny. Delivered over two weeks, the program blends neurocognitive science, recognition-based decision models, and applied frameworks such as WRAP, premortems, and executive intent. Through simulations, case studies, and tactical decision games, participants learn how to manage pressure, reduce decision fatigue, and perform closer to their full capability when it matters most.

Course Overview

Every career is shaped not by routine decisions - but by the ones made under pressure.


This course dismantles the myth of “clutch performance” and replaces it with a practical playbook for thinking clearly when the stakes are real. Grounded in neurocognitive science, Naturalistic Decision-Making, and real-world performance research, participants learn how pressure distorts judgment - and how elite performers counteract it.

You’ll develop the ability to recognize patterns, simulate outcomes mentally, correct course quickly, and lead decisively amid uncertainty - without burning cognitive fuel or relying on luck.


💡 Think clearly. Decide decisively. Perform when it counts.

Why This Course?

🔥 Neutralize the Effects of Pressure – Learn how pressure degrades cognition - and how elite performers counteract it.


🧠 Make Better Decisions Faster – Use recognition-based models instead of exhausting comparisons.


♟ Master the Art of Correction – Adjust intelligently when plans inevitably collide with reality.


⚡ Reduce Decision Fatigue – Preserve mental energy and avoid costly shortcuts.


🏆 Strengthen Leadership Credibility – Calm, clarity, and decisiveness define trusted leaders.


This course doesn’t teach decision theory. It teaches decision performance.

What You'll Learn in this Course

✔️ The difference between stress and pressure - and why it matters


✔️ How experts use intuition without guessing


✔️ How to widen options when decisions feel binary


✔️ How to anticipate failure before it happens


✔️ How to communicate intent so teams can adapt without chaos

Course Details

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Learning Objectives

🎯 Identify personal pressure triggers and apply real-time pressure solutions


🎯 Execute high-quality decisions under time constraints using the RPD model


🎯 Maintain baseline performance using professional decision checklists


🎯 Practice truth-seeking judgment over self-justification


🎯 Design cognitive “tripwires” to course-correct early

Course Structure (Modules/Lessons)

🟢 Week 1 – Understanding Pressure Before Trying to Perform


Session 1: The Pressure Mindshift

  • Stress vs. pressure: why your brain reacts differently

  • Soldier mindset vs. Scout mindset

  • Reframing pressure as information, not threat

  • Why “trying harder” often makes things worse


Session 2: Intuition, Expertise & Recognition-Primed Decisions

  • How experts “see” patterns others miss

  • Mental simulation as fast, disciplined evaluation

  • Building a Decision Requirements Table for your role

  • Distinguishing intuition from impulse


🟢 Week 2 – Strategic Action & Preparing to Be Wrong


Session 3: Expanding Options & Strategic Distance

  • The WRAP framework in action• Escaping narrow “whether / or” thinking

  • Using 10/10/10 to regulate emotion and time distortion

  • Communicating Executive Intent and Main Effort


Session 4: Future-Proofing Decisions Under Uncertainty

  • Premortems: finding failure before it finds you

  • Designing checklists that protect performance

  • Red teaming and contrarian thinking

  • Backbriefs for alignment and accountability


💬 Each session includes tactical decision games, simulations, facilitated discussion, and real-world case analysis.

Measurable Learning Outcomes

✅ Increase working memory capacity under pressure


✅ Reduce unwanted variability in judgment


✅ Communicate intent with clarity and alignment


✅ Detect and interrupt escalation of commitment


✅ Make decisions that hold up after the pressure passes

Topics Covered

🔹 The Performance Pressure Paradox


🔹 Recognition-Primed Decision-Making (RPD)


🔹 Mental Simulation & Directed Opportunism


🔹 Premortems & Backcasting


🔹 Noise, Bias & Decision Hygiene

Target Audience

💼 Executives & Senior Leaders – Make sound decisions under scrutiny


📈 Managers & Team Leads – Lead teams through uncertainty and change


⚖️ Legal & Compliance Professionals – Maintain judgment under pressure


🏥 Healthcare & Safety Leaders – Perform reliably when consequences are real


🚀 Project & Transformation Leaders – Navigate complexity without burnout

This Course is For You If…

✅ You operate in high-stakes, decision-heavy environments


✅ You want clarity instead of cognitive overload


✅ You value disciplined thinking over instinct alone


✅ You lead others through uncertainty and change


✅ You want to improve consistency - not rely on luck

Who Should NOT Take This Course

This course is not for individuals who prefer rigid, linear planning that ignores real-world friction - or for those unwilling to have assumptions tested. It is also not designed for people seeking shortcuts, hacks, or guarantees.

Additional Resources

🎁 Decision Requirements Toolkit


🎥 Tactical Decision Game simulations


🧠 Pressure-management checklists


🌐 Access to a peer truth-seeking group

Meet Your Instructor

Thierry Leroy

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A Decision Leader Who Has Lived the Heat

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Pressure doesn’t create skill - it reveals whether you have a system. And Leroy has spent more than two decades building, leading, and teaching decision systems in environments where clarity wasn’t optional and mistakes were costly.


Known for his authenticity, humor, contagious energy, kindness, and deep empathy, Leroy is the kind of instructor who can challenge you without making you shut down - and support you without lowering the bar. His mission is simple and rare: to care for those who care, professionally and personally. He believes everyone has talent - and that with the right cognitive intelligence and heart intelligence, people can rise far beyond what pressure tries to steal from them. He’s the person who consistently goes the extra mile - not for applause, but because he’s obsessed with real value, real impact, and real outcomes for his clients and students.


In The Science and Art of High-Stakes Decision-Making, that teaching spirit meets elite, field-tested experience — giving you a rare combination: high standards, real-world relevance, and human-centered delivery.


Global Leadership Experience — Decisions Where It Actually Matters


Leroy’s credibility isn’t theoretical - it’s lived.

He climbed the corporate ladder in Singapore and Asia from Analyst to Vice President by age 30, leading complex initiatives across three continents and 14+ countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. He has worked with and led multicultural teams spanning American, Canadian, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Hong Kong, Indian, and Japanese contexts - sharpening not only his leadership skills, but his ability to make sound decisions under ambiguity, speed, and scrutiny.


He has served global Fortune 500 organizations, and more recently supported Government and Crown Corporations in Canada, bringing calm structure to high-stakes environments.


Most notably, Leroy was Vice President at a Swiss Private Bank, managing multi-million-dollar programs and advising senior executives across Asia Pacific. In one of his most intense domains of work, he led initiatives in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, where decisions required precision, judgment, and disciplined thinking - even when information was incomplete and consequences were real.


And his personal story matches the course theme:He made bold, high-impact decisions - leaving France young with one suitcase to build a career in Singapore, later leaving a successful VP role to immigrate to Canada and start from zero, then launching entrepreneurship just before COVID - and still growing a thriving professional development business through trust, delivery quality, and word-of-mouth impact across 35+ countries in the Americas and 40+ in Europe.


He doesn’t just teach “pressure.” He’s lived what it means to choose under uncertainty - and build stability anyway.

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Elite Education, Certifications & Decision Mastery

Leroy brings rare academic depth and professional credibility - the kind that makes complex topics clear, practical, and immediately usable.


Elite Executive Education (Harvard):

✅ Harvard Business School - Executive Program: Driving Organizational Agility (with learning influences such as Amy Edmondson and other world-class faculty)

✅ Harvard University - Executive Program: Leadership Excellence in Strategy & Innovation, including:

  • AI for Business Leaders

  • Disruptive Model Innovation

  • Advanced Business Strategy

  • Advanced Negotiation Skills

  • Behavioural Economics & Decision Making

  • Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

✅ Harvard Law School (Program on Negotiation) — Negotiation & Mediation (two-semester specialization)

✅ Associate Member — Harvard Extension Alumni Association (HEAA)

✅ Fellowship status — Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School affiliate)


Leadership, Change & Performance Credentials:

✅ Professional Certified Coach (PCC)

✅ Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner (ADKAR)

✅ Certified Facilitator™ (CAF) — experienced from executive boardrooms to 800+ people amphitheaters

✅ Workplace Mental Health Leadership — Queen’s University

✅ Certified Psychological Health & Safety Advisor — CMHA

✅ Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Business Practitioner


Agile, Delivery & Execution Credentials (Decision-Making in Motion):

✅ PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®)

✅ CSP-SM, CSM, A-CSM (Scrum Master path)

✅ CSP-PO, CSPO, A-CSPO (Product Owner path)

✅ Lean Practitioner (Recognized among the top holders in Canada for combined Coaching/Change/Agile/Scrum/Mental Health leadership credentials.)


This blend matters because high-stakes decision-making isn’t just psychology - it’s execution, alignment, trade-offs, and communication under load. Leroy has spent his career at that intersection.


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Teaching Style - Human, Grounded, and Deeply Practical

What makes Leroy different isn’t just what he knows - it’s how he creates learning environments where people can actually change under pressure.

His sessions are known for being:

  • Clear without being rigid

  • Direct without being harsh

  • High-standard without being intimidating

  • Warm without being fluffy


As a Certified Facilitator™ (CAF), he “reads the room” with precision - whether it’s a small executive committee or a large audience - and helps learners turn insight into action through reflection, real scenarios, and practice.

He teaches decision-making the way it must be used in real life: not as a theory - but as a repeatable system. You won’t just learn concepts like behavioral economics or negotiation principles. You’ll learn how to apply them when your brain is narrowed, your time is short, and the outcome matters.


🎯 Why Leroy Is the Right Guide for The Science and Art  of High-Stakes Decision-Making


This course is about one thing: performing closer to your full capability when pressure tries to shrink it.

Leroy is uniquely equipped to teach this because he combines:

✅ Leadership experience in complex, high-stakes environments

✅ Deep expertise in negotiation, strategy, emotional intelligence, and decision-making

✅ Real-world facilitation mastery and coaching precision

✅ A human-centered approach that builds confidence without ego

✅ A lived story of uncertainty, reinvention, and high-impact choices

He doesn’t teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think when it matters most - and how to lead others through that same clarity.


🚀 Your Invitation — Learn From a Trusted Guide Under Pressure


If you’re ready to stop letting pressure narrow your options…If you want to build decision discipline without becoming rigid…If you want a calm, science-backed system you can trust when the stakes rise…

Then you’re in the right place.


Enroll in The Science and Art  of High-Stakes Decision-Making and learn with a guide who has lived high-stakes decisions - and is committed to helping you master yours with clarity, courage, and humanity.

Your Course Package

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Your All-In-One Success Package
 

From personalized onboarding to interactive learning, community support, and certification, you’ll gain more than knowledge - you’ll gain lasting impact.

 

Here’s what’s included in your package:

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Your Welcome Gift: Decision Clarity & Performance Tools

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✅ Pre-Course Decision Reflection

A focused reflection that surfaces your real decision challenges, pressure triggers, and high-stakes contexts - ensuring the course is grounded in your reality from day one.


✅ Decision Requirements Toolkit

A practical set of templates to clarify goals, constraints, signals, and priorities before decisions are made - reducing ambiguity and cognitive load.

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The Connection Bonus: Thinking Better Together Under Pressure

✅ Interactive Decision Simulations

Engage in tactical decision games and scenario-based exercises that build judgment through experience, not theory.


✅ Collaborative Visual Thinking Tools

Use shared digital tools to map assumptions, options, and intent - making thinking visible and decisions clearer.


✅ Private Learning Community Access

Join a curated peer group to:

  • Deconstruct decisions without blame

  • Share insights across industries

  • Strengthen judgment through dialogue

  • Continue learning beyond the sessions

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Your Grand Reward: Recognition & Real-World Decision Impact

✅ Certificate & Digital Badge: High-Pressure Decision Architect

A professional credential recognizing your ability to make disciplined decisions under pressure - grounded in science and application.


✅ Immediately Applicable Decision Tools

Leave with frameworks, checklists, and mental models you can apply immediately - before, during, and after high-stakes moments.

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Experience + personalization + follow-through is what creates real change.

Lower price often means learning alone. Higher value means learning supported.

The real cost is training that doesn’t change anything.

Our approach is built for professionals who want more than information...
they want clarity, confidence, and results that last!

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