Keynotes & Workshops
Highly entertaining and science-based programs on mental toughness, resilience, stress management, and performing under pressure — for leaders, teams, and anyone who wants to be at their best when it matters most.
The Programs:
Taking on the Founder-Employee Resilience Gap
A keynote, half-day workshop, or extended leadership experience
The stress that builds leaders often breaks their teams. In this program, Rafi draws on years of reporting alongside elite athletes, Special Forces operators, and top performers to offer founders and senior leaders a science-based framework for understanding — and closing — the resilience gap.
The 5 Principles of Mental Toughness
A keynote or workshop
The same science-based strategies that serve as a psychological foundation for elite athletes and military units, translated into actionable tools for managing stress, building resilience, and performing at your best, at work and beyond.
The Three Stages of Grit
A keynote or workshop
An original framework for understanding grit not as a personality trait, but as a trainable system that builds, tests, and grows your capabilities through moments of adversity and challenge. Not just for singular moments of heroism, but for the long term.
More Than Just Noise
An experiential workshop
What can trash talk teach us about stress, performance, and leadership? The perfect activity to engage executive leadership groups in an unexpected way. Features competitive team games, a science-based debrief, and immediately actionable takeaways.
What People Are Saying
“Rafi created a powerful impression on our members. Everyone could benefit from his presentation on what it takes to build perseverance and the kind of grit that carries leaders through challenge and change.”
—David Aferiat, Past President, EO Atlanta
“My team found Rafi’s framing of how to process adversity as entertaining as it was illuminating.”
—Tony Muller, Vice President, Madison Square Garden Sports Corporation
“[Rafi has] a gift for explaining ideas clearly and entertainingly.”
—Adam Grant, organizational psychologist and Wharton professor
“Rafi wrote the book on engagement (pun intended). He draws you in and connects you to the content in a way that genuinely folds you into the conversation. You’re not just an observer, you’re instantly an invested participant.”
—Hadley Haut, Executive Director, Talent & Culture, The Atlantic
Book Rafi
To inquire about speaking engagements, contact Kate Burns at Leading Authorities (kate@lauthorities.com) or reach out to Rafi directly (rlkohan@gmail.com).
