Thriving on Pressure

Mental Toughness for Real Leaders

By Graham Jones
(Easton Studio Press, Paperback, 9781935212072, 224pp.)

Publication Date: October 2009

Categories: Leadership

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Professor Graham Jones’ experience of consulting with high-level
performers spans more than twenty years. It includes working closely with Olympic and world champions from a variety of sports, military personnel, and senior leaders and their teams in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies.

Formerly Professor of Elite Performance Psychology at the University
of Wales, Bangor, Graham has more than 150 publications in the area of high-level performance. Among these are three books, numerous ground-breaking studies in scientific journals, and articles that demystify and unravel complex concepts and theories in human performance psychology, making them easy to apply in the workplace. His article “How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better,” published in Harvard Business Review, received wide acclaim for capturing the essence of sustained high performance that all business leaders aspire to.

Graham is a founding director of Lane4 Management Group Ltd, a leading performance development consultancy with offices in the United States, England, and Australasia. Lane4 specializes in helping organizations create high-performance environments in which individuals and teams can thrive. Graham leads Lane4’s U.S. business in Princeton, New Jersey.

Since co-founding Lane4 in 1995, Graham has been very active as a coach of high-profile leaders and their teams. He works on large-scale initiatives around organizational change, mergers and acquisitions, and global roll-outs of people-development programs.