Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

© 2026 Brian Coones. Concept prototype.

Pressure is inevitable. Your response is trainable.

When the moment matters

Give your people

more than a moment

of inspiration.

Bring Brian to your conference, leadership offsite, retreat, or development

program—and build practical capacity your audience can carry forward.

Start here

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planning.

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Meet Brian

Practical tools.

Human delivery.

Lasting capacity.

Brian Coones is a TEDx speaker, facilitator, and creator of Emotional Fitness

—a practical approach to helping leaders and teams navigate pressure

with greater awareness, resilience, and purpose.


Drawing from neuroscience, mindfulness, breathwork, leadership

development, and lived experience, Brian creates transformational

experiences for organizations around the world.

See the TEDx story

To anyone looking to improve their

mental, emotional, and spiritual

game—I highly recommend talking

to Brian.

Client testimonial · BrianCoones.com

01 / 03

Experience Emotional Fitness

Three ways to train

the response.

Every engagement blends insight, embodied

practice, and tools people can use immediately.

Inspire

45–90 min

The Emotional Fitness

Keynote

A high-impact introduction to performing

under pressure—blending powerful

storytelling, practical science, audience

participation, guided breathwork, and

immediately usable tools.

What it creates

A shared language for pressure and

performance

Greater awareness of personal response

patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience

breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and

presence.

Explore keynote

Details

Transform

4 weeks

The Emotional Fitness

Leadership

A deeper, multi-session development

experience designed to embed Emotional

Fitness—including repeatable breathwork

practices—into how leaders

communicate, decide, and perform.

What it creates

Development across the four-part framework

Practical application to current leadership

challenges

Breathwork included

Structured practices are reinforced across

sessions to build a sustainable regulation habit.

Explore program

Details

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

Equip

90 min–½ day

The Emotional Fitness

Workshop

A participatory experience that helps

leaders recognize pressure patterns,

practise regulation through breathwork,

and apply Emotional Fitness to real

workplace challenges.

What it creates

A clearer understanding of individual

pressure patterns

Guided practice in regulation and resilience

Breathwork included

Guided exercises connect physiology, nervous-

system regulation, and practical workplace

application.

Explore workshop

Details

The framework

Four capacities.

One stronger

response.

A practical system for moving from reaction to

intentional action—under pressure and in everyday

leadership.

04 / LEAD

Performance

Bring your clearest thinking and

strongest presence to the

moments that matter.

03 / BUILD

Resilience

Increase your capacity to recover,

adapt, and grow through challenge.

02 / RESET

Regulation

Regain clarity and choice before

pressure decides your response.

01 / NOTICE

Awareness

Recognize what is happening—in your

mind, body, and environment.

Emotional Fitness

The skill we were

never taught.

Every day, we are expected to lead through

uncertainty, make difficult decisions, and perform at a high level. We develop technical expertise—but rarely learn how to regulate ourselves when the pressure is on.


Emotional Fitness is the practical ability to meet pressure with awareness, regulation, resilience, and purpose.

“Sustainable performance is not only about what you know. It is about how well you respond.”

Pressure is inevitable.
Your response is

trainable.

Brian Coones helps leaders, teams, and organizations build the inner

skills to navigate pressure, strengthen resilience, and perform at their

best.

Explore experiences

Bring Brian to your team

TEDx

Emotional Fitness

The Skill We Were Never Taught

Watch TEDx preview

Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

Book Brian

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Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

© 2026 Brian Coones. Concept prototype.

Pressure is inevitable. Your response is trainable.

When the moment matters

Give your people

more than a moment

of inspiration.

Bring Brian to your conference, leadership offsite, retreat, or development

program—and build practical capacity your audience can carry forward.

Start here

Tell us what you’re

planning.

Share your audience, goals, and timing. We’ll help

identify the right experience.

Start a conversation

View experiences

See the TEDx story

Meet Brian

Practical tools.

Human delivery.

Lasting capacity.

Brian Coones is a TEDx speaker, facilitator, and creator of Emotional Fitness

—a practical approach to helping leaders and teams navigate pressure

with greater awareness, resilience, and purpose.


Drawing from neuroscience, mindfulness, breathwork, leadership

development, and lived experience, Brian creates transformational

experiences for organizations around the world.

See the TEDx story

See the TEDx story

Meet Brian

Practical tools.

Human delivery.

Lasting capacity.

Brian Coones is a TEDx speaker, facilitator, and creator of Emotional Fitness

—a practical approach to helping leaders and teams navigate pressure

with greater awareness, resilience, and purpose.


Drawing from neuroscience, mindfulness, breathwork, leadership

development, and lived experience, Brian creates transformational

experiences for organizations around the world.

See the TEDx story

To anyone looking to improve their

mental, emotional, and spiritual

game—I highly recommend talking

to Brian.

Client testimonial · BrianCoones.com

01 / 03

Experience Emotional Fitness

Three ways to train

the response.

Every engagement blends insight, embodied

practice, and tools people can use immediately.

Inspire

45–90 min

The Emotional Fitness

Keynote

A high-impact introduction to performing

under pressure—blending powerful

storytelling, practical science, audience

participation, guided breathwork, and

immediately usable tools.

What it creates

A shared language for pressure and

performance

Greater awareness of personal response

patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience

breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and

presence.

Explore keynote

Details

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

A high-impact introduction to performing under pressure—blending powerful storytelling, practical science, audience participation, guided breathwork, and immediately usable tools.

What it creates

• A shared language for pressure and performance
• Greater awareness of personal response patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and presence.

Details

Experience Emotional Fitness

Three ways to train

the response.

Every engagement blends insight, embodied practice, and tools people can use immediately.

Inspire

45–90 min

The Emotional Fitness

Keynote

A high-impact introduction to performing

under pressure—blending powerful

storytelling, practical science, audience

participation, guided breathwork, and

immediately usable tools.

What it creates

A shared language for pressure and

performance

Greater awareness of personal response

patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience

breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and

presence.

Explore keynote

Details

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

A high-impact introduction to performing under pressure—blending powerful storytelling, practical science, audience participation, guided breathwork, and immediately usable tools.

What it creates

• A shared language for pressure and performance
• Greater awareness of personal response patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and presence.

Details

04 / LEAD

Performance

Bring your clearest thinking and strongest presence to the

moments that matter.

03 / BUILD

Resilience

Increase your capacity to recover,

adapt, and grow through challenge.

02 / RESET

Regulation

Regain clarity and choice before

pressure decides your response.

01 / NOTICE

Awareness

Recognize what is happening - in your mind, body, and environment.

A practical system for moving from reaction to intentional action—under pressure and in everyday leadership.

The framework

Four capacities.

One stronger

response.

04 / LEAD

Performance

Bring your clearest thinking and strongest presence to the

moments that matter.

03 / BUILD

Resilience

Increase your capacity to recover,

adapt, and grow through challenge.

02 / RESET

Regulation

Regain clarity and choice before

pressure decides your response.

01 / NOTICE

Awareness

Recognize what is happening - in your mind, body, and environment.

A practical system for moving from reaction to intentional action—under pressure and in everyday leadership.

The framework

Four capacities.

One stronger

response.

The skill we were

never taught.

Every day, we are expected to lead through

uncertainty, make difficult decisions, and perform at a high level. We develop technical expertise—but rarely learn how to regulate ourselves when the pressure is on.


Emotional Fitness is the practical ability to meet pressure with awareness, regulation, resilience, and purpose.

Every day, we are expected to lead through

uncertainty, make difficult decisions, and perform at a high level. We develop technical expertise—but rarely learn how to regulate ourselves when the pressure is on.


Emotional Fitness is the practical ability to meet pressure with awareness, regulation, resilience, and purpose.

“Sustainable performance is not only about what you know. It is about how well you respond.”

Explore experiences

Emotional Fitness

TEDx

Emotional Fitness

The Skill We Were Never Taught

Watch TEDx preview

Brian Coones helps leaders, teams, and organizations build the inner skills to navigate pressure, strengthen resilience, and perform at their best.

Explore experiences

Bring Brian to your team

Pressure is inevitable.
Your response is

trainable.

Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

Book Brian

TEDx

Emotional Fitness

The Skill We Were Never Taught

Watch TEDx preview

Brian Coones helps leaders, teams, and organizations build the inner skills to navigate pressure, strengthen resilience, and perform at their best.

Explore experiences

Bring Brian to your team

Pressure is inevitable.
Your response is

trainable.

Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

Book Brian

TEDx

Emotional Fitness

The Skill We Were Never Taught

Watch TEDx preview

Brian Coones helps leaders, teams, and organizations build the inner skills to navigate pressure, strengthen resilience, and perform at their best.

Explore experiences

Bring Brian to your team

Pressure is inevitable.
Your response is

trainable.

Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

Book Brian

Brian Coones

The Method

Experiences

About Brian

Book Brian

Three ways to train

the response.

Every engagement blends insight, embodied

practice, and tools people can use immediately.

Inspire

45–90 min

The Emotional Fitness

Keynote

A high-impact introduction to performing

under pressure—blending powerful

storytelling, practical science, audience

participation, guided breathwork, and

immediately usable tools.

What it creates

A shared language for pressure and

performance

Greater awareness of personal response

patterns

Breathwork included

A brief guided reset lets the room experience

breathing as an immediate tool for clarity and

presence.

Explore keynote

Details

Transform

4 weeks

The Emotional Fitness

Leadership

A deeper, multi-session development

experience designed to embed Emotional

Fitness—including repeatable breathwork

practices—into how leaders

communicate, decide, and perform.

What it creates

Development across the four-part framework

Practical application to current leadership

challenges

Breathwork included

Structured practices are reinforced across

sessions to build a sustainable regulation habit.

Explore program

Details

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

Planning a Retreat or Offsite?

Brian has spent over a decade leading men into the back country — paddling, portaging, building, plunging. His approach combines cold-water conditioning, breath-work drills, and old-school wilderness craft.

Visit Grounded Warriors

Equip

90 min–½ day

The Emotional Fitness

Workshop

A participatory experience that helps

leaders recognize pressure patterns,

practise regulation through breathwork,

and apply Emotional Fitness to real

workplace challenges.

What it creates

A clearer understanding of individual

pressure patterns

Guided practice in regulation and resilience

Breathwork included

Guided exercises connect physiology, nervous-

system regulation, and practical workplace

application.

Explore workshop

Details

Experience Emotional Fitness

To anyone looking to improve their

mental, emotional, and spiritual

game—I highly recommend talking

to Brian.

Client testimonial · BrianCoones.com

01 / 03

When the moment matters

Give your people

more than a moment

of inspiration.

Bring Brian to your conference, leadership offsite, retreat, or development

program—and build practical capacity your audience can carry forward.

Start here

Tell us what you’re

planning.

Share your audience, goals, and timing. We’ll help

identify the right experience.

Start a conversation

View experiences

When the moment matters

Give your people

more than a moment

of inspiration.

Bring Brian to your conference, leadership offsite, retreat, or development program, and build practical capacity your audience can carry forward.

Start here

Tell us what you’re

planning.

Share your audience, goals, and timing. We’ll help

identify the right experience.

Start a conversation

View experiences