Jess Sargus is a keynote speaker, undefeated MMA fighter, Ivy League-trained trial lawyer, and certified Mental Performance Mastery coach who delivers high-performance keynotes that light up your audience—and leave them transformed.
With a signature blend of neuroscience, sports psychology, and real-world grit, Jess helps lawyers, leaders, and high-achievers master their mental game, lead with purpose, and show up every day like they’ve trained for the moment.
Whether you’re looking to inspire bold leadership, build resilient teams, or equip your audience to rise from burnout or doubt into unstoppable energy and direction—Jess delivers high-impact keynotes your people will never forget.
How to Practice at Your Peak as a High-Performance Professional
You don’t need anyone's permission but your own to act with clarity, lead with purpose, and make the win inevitable. All you need is to learn how to shift into action-orientation every day.
In this science-backed, energy-infused keynote, Jess teaches professionals how to stop overthinking and start executing—with boldness, alignment, and agency. Drawing on elite fighter training, performance psychology, and her own 22+ year legal and business background, Jess shares the systems and rituals that turn high-potential into high-performance—without burning out in the process.
Ideal for: High-performance companies, law firms, legal conferences, leadership trainings, high-achiever retreats
Audience takeaways:
✅ How to activate your Green Light mentality to overcome analysis paralysis and shift into action
✅ The Legal Athlete Peak Performance Model (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual)
✅ Practical tools for energy management, resilience, and sustainable daily success
✅ A personalized MVP Framework (Mission, Vision, Principles) to create lasting alignment
Creating an Employee-Led Winning Culture
Top-down leadership is outdated, and science shows it doesn't result in the highest performance. Instead, today’s best organizations empower everyone to lead, take ownership, and win together.
This keynote is for firms and companies ready to move from performance potential to performance power. Jess shares how to build a high-trust, high-impact culture fueled by purpose, grit, and alignment. From the courtroom to the cage, she’s seen that when teams lead from within, they don’t just survive the pressure—they thrive.
Ideal for: Executive retreats, corporate teams, women’s initiatives, leadership summits
Audience takeaways:
✅ How to build a culture of ownership, grit, psychological safety to strive, and trust
✅ The 5-step MVP process to align teams around shared mission and vision
✅ Why intrinsic motivation and autonomy (not micromanagement) fuels elite performance
✅ How to shift behavior, model resilience, and unlock exponential collective strength
Burning Down Your Limits, Rising Into Your Boldest Life
Perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and burnout aren’t badges of honor—they’re chains keeping you anchored to what doesn't serve you. This keynote gives your audience the keys to break free.
In The Phoenix Method, Jess shares her own story of reinvention—from a traditional law firm path to the octagon—and the brain-based tools that helped her rewrite and burn down every limiting belief. This is not about making a pivot. It’s about radical transformation of the story you tell yourself about your life and what's possible: reprogramming the subconscious, reclaiming your agency, and rising with power into your next bold chapter.
Ideal for: Executive leadership retreats, career and team plateau-breaking, women’s leadership events, career reinvention audiences, wellness and growth summits
Audience takeaways:
✅ How to identify and rewire subconscious beliefs holding you back
✅ Tools from elite athlete training to shift from stress to strength
✅ Daily mindset rituals that build self-trust and real momentum
✅ A powerful framework for personal and professional reinvention
Thank you for a wonderful presentation! The group had wonderful feedback and your signal light method was a big talking point after you signed off, along with the importance of stressing community. It spurred some great conversation.
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Jess's energy is contagious, her analogies and insights were funny but they hit home, and the tools she gave us are simple enough to start using right now.
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The biggest thing I learned was that the only thing standing between me and going after my goals...was me! But I also learned how to control what I can control, and that's also me!
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