The conditions you’re leading in have changed — tariffs, AI, burnout, markets that shift overnight. Most executives weren’t trained for this. So under pressure, they either freeze or thrash. There’s a third way.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Spot the two traps smart leaders fall into under pressure — freezing on decisions while they wait for certainty, or thrashing their team with constant change
- Find the edge of chaos — the zone where you and your team perform at your peak: sharp, fast, and creative, without tipping into burnout or disorder
- Read the room you’re actually in — which zone you, your team, and your business sit in right now
- See why high performers stall just short of their best — and what pulls them back into flow
- Lead into that zone on purpose — calibrate your own state first, then bring your team there too
Who Should Attend
CEOs, Executives, and Business Owners navigating:
- Leadership challenges during periods of growth, change, or uncertainty
- Team performance, accountability, and organizational resilience
- Complex decision-making in fast-moving and unpredictable environments
Featuring
Purdeep Sangha
Founder & CEO, The Executive Lab
Purdeep Sangha is a CEO Architect working in Performance Engineering — the science of how companies, and the CEOs and executives who run them, perform at their best under pressure. He’s fused performance psychology, neuroscience, and business excellence — drawing on partnerships with more than twenty universities and research institutions — into the frameworks he now uses with CEOs and executive teams across Canada. His view: most teams aren’t underperforming — they’re under-engineered.
Peter Aceto
President, Ontario & Atlantic, MacKay CEO Forums
Three-time CEO and strategic advisor
Peter Aceto is a three-time CEO and currently is President, Ontario & Atlantic Canada, and Forum Chair at MacKay CEO Forums. He works closely with CEOs navigating complexity, growth, and leadership inflection points. In parallel, he provides select CEO- and board-level advisory and consulting services through Aceto Leadership Performance, supporting organizations during periods of transformation, scale, and strategic reset.