Your Nervous System Lab

Understanding Stress for Peak Performance

In our high-pressure industry, understanding your stress response is key to protecting your wellbeing and performing at your best.

The Alliance will be joined by NABS, the advertising and media industry’s wellbeing charity, for this expert-led Lab exploring how stress affects the mind and body, why we react the way we do under pressure, and practical ways to regain balance.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Your personal stress response and triggers and that of your team/colleagues
• The Stress Curve and how pressure impacts performance and wellbeing
• What happens in the nervous system during stress
• Practical techniques to calm your system and build resilience
• Everyday habits that support long-term wellbeing

You’ll leave with a better understanding of your stress response and a practical toolkit to help you feel calmer, more in control and better equipped to navigate pressure at work and beyond.

Our speaker: Emma Pratt is an accredited executive and wellness coach for NABS alongside running her own executive coaching company, Performance Path coaching. Emma has more than 20 years of experience in people development, business, and communications thanks to her background in coaching and advertising. She specialises in helping people to become great leaders, to enhance performance in new and existing roles, and to find clarity and confidence in their careers. Emma is a member of the Association for Coaching (MAC), a registered assessor for The Institute of Leadership Management, a deliverer and assessor for The Chartered Management Institute, and a member of the Neuroscience Coaching Group.

NABS is the charity helping everyone in the advertising, marketing and media industry move forward. From hot tips when you’re ready to fly, to a helping hand when you’ve fallen down, we’ve got you. Industry events or networking? Check out their calendar. Group workshops or in-house training? Sign up to our sessions. Sounding board on promotions, redundancies, parental leave – life in general? They’ll help in ways no one else can. nabs.org.uk

Sign in/attendance to this session contributes 1 hour (1 point) towards CPD points for Alliance of Independent Agencies Members.