Jamil Qureshi
Psychologist & Performance Expert
Psychologist & Performance Expert Jamil Qureshi is one of today’s foremost practitioners of performance enhancing psychology and is an expert in high performing teams. Jamil has enjoyed working with a rich diversity of the most talented business and sports people and teams in the world, helping six individuals get to World Number 1.
In 2006, he was appointed as the first-ever official psychologist to work with the European Ryder Cup team by captain Ian Woosnam. They made history in winning by a record-equalling margin. He has since worked with 5 Ryder Cup captains.
Jamil has worked with 22 golfers inside the top 50 in the world, including two world number one’s. Ranked among the most influential figures in British sport in 2009 by GQ Magazine, Jamil was voted in the top 100 coaches in the world by The Daily Mirror in 2023 He has worked successfully with three English Premiership football clubs, and currently works with a number of players in the Premiership from teams such as Liverpool FC, Manchester Utd and Manchester City.
Psychologist & Performance expert Jamil has worked with two Formula 1 racing drivers and the 2009 England Ashes winning cricketers. Jamil is also a world recognised speaker on all aspects of the psychology of performance, psychology of leadership, leadership attitudes, improving people, cultural change techniques, and team performance.
He is one of only a few external psychologists ever to be allowed to study astronauts on the 2008 NASA Space Programme. Jamil has talked to an audience that included two former US presidents at the K Club in Ireland! Jamil’s versatility is illustrated by the fact he has talked at NASDAQ in New York where he shared a stage with General Peter Pace, Joint Chief of Staff, the highest ranking military officer in the whole of the US armed forces, and next day did stand up in front of a celebrity audience at the Groucho Club! He once spoke in six countries in two days!
Topics
Turning Ambition into Achievement
To do differently, we have to think differently. We all want to be better, but how do we turn our thoughts into powerful drivers of relevant and meaningful actions?
Blame Looks Backwards, Responsibility Looks Forwards
How to create genuine ownership within our teams – the real difference between commitment and compliance.
Engagement – Rhetoric or Reality
Understanding the true motivators in the work place, and how we need to change our view of what we believe an organisation is.
ResponseAbility
Why the key ingredient of success is choice. How to enable people to ‘choose’ their way to more and greater success.
Complexity and Uncertainty, so what?
How to achieve focus and purpose to cut through circumstance. There are no obstructions – just distractions.
The Disruptive Leader!
The only way for leaders to optimise people’s talents is by breaking thinking habits)
Sustainable Relationships
Companies no longer compete against companies; networks compete against networks – we are only as strong as our ability to form meaningful relationships)
The Rogue Monkey...Creativity is something we unlearn! How can we can learn it back and see innovation as an asset!)
Clients
In business and industry Jamil has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 different countries last year alone, helping teams to fulfil their potential by developing and delivering change and performa
He has designed and delivered leadership programmes at board level for Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines, Cisco, GSK, and worked across Lloyds Banking Group on their award winning ‘Journey to World Class’ programme.
During Covid, Jamil worked extensively with global leadership teams at a number of companies, such as SAS, LLoyds Banking Group, GSK, Janssen, NHS England, and Protiviti to help them make the conversion to leading remote and hybrid teams in a changing environment.