What if high-performance and exemplary leadership are less about "fixing" people by having them develop new skills and neural pathways, and more about "sparking" them by guiding them on tapping underutilized skills and neural pathways that they already possess?

At Shilputsi’s session on The Inner Game of Breakthrough Performance, Hitendra Wadhwa offered powerful insights to CHROs on accelerating their path to high performance, by approaching this not as a trait to be acquired but as a state to be activated, and by shifting their focus from learning on the sidelines to leading in the flow of work. CHROs were introduced to the leadership development model Hitendra has developed over the last 16 years — a model that introduces 25+ simple actions to activate one’s five core energies and drive performance breakthroughs.