Building a performance system for the team behind a $250m+ business.
The Challenge
Tahaluf is the company behind LEAP, the world's largest tech conference, as well as leading international events in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, fintech, and real estate.
In four years they have built a $250m+ business and a portfolio of world-leading B2B events.
But they faced 2 major challenges:
- 1.How do you sustain high performance while scaling?
- 2.How do you codify what makes you great before growth outpaces capability?
Our Approach
We always start with a deep discovery phase - understanding your specific challenges and desired outcomes before designing a bespoke program or experience.
Jason Leavy
Founder & Chief Performance Architect
Samira Cutts
Head of Brain Health and Performance
Kevin O'Connor
Former UK Special Forces Team Leader
For Tahaluf, we built a two-part solution:
Part 1 — THE SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABLE EXCELLENCE
PPL Founder Jason Leavy and Head of Brain Health and Performance Samira Cutts delivered neuroscience insights on cognitive performance, stress management, and burnout prevention - combined with real-world, evidence-based techniques the Tahaluf leadership team could apply immediately in their high-pressure environment.
Part 2 — SPECIAL FORCES MINDSET WORKSHOP
PPL Founder Jason Leavy and Former Special Reconnaissance Regiment Team Leader Kevin O'Connor led 20 senior leaders through an immersive SF simulation based on Kevin's real-life operations. The boardroom-based experience tested cognitive performance under pressure, focusing on developing mental capabilities like adaptive mindsets, situational awareness and making critical decisions with incomplete data.
The Outcome
"The programme gave our leadership team a genuine ignition point for building sustainable high performance, not just individually, but collectively as a leadership unit."
Mike Champion
CEO, Tahaluf
The Lasting Impact
We also created the Tahaluf Performance Playbook — a bespoke manual of practical tools and techniques tailored specifically to their fast-paced, high stakes environment.
Unlike event-based training that spikes and disappears, this playbook is a permanent asset — designed to deliver ongoing ROI as leaders apply the techniques in real business situations.
Full testimonial
As a leadership team that has built a $250m+ business in just four years, we approached most leadership development programmes with a healthy degree of scepticism. Too often they are theoretical, disconnected from the realities of building and scaling a high-performance organisation.
Prime Performance Labs was different.
Their approach combines cutting-edge neuroscience with the practical mindset and operational discipline of Special Forces leaders, delivered by individuals who have themselves operated under extreme pressure and at the highest levels of performance.
What stood out immediately was the credibility of the people in the room. This wasn't academic theory. It was insight and coaching from individuals whose experience, achievements, and results command attention. That credibility changes the dynamic completely: you listen, you engage, and the learning lands.
The programme gave our leadership team a genuine ignition point for building sustainable high performance, not just individually, but collectively as a leadership unit.
For any organisation operating in a high-pressure, high-stakes environment, the work Prime Performance Labs does is genuinely valuable. I would strongly recommend them to leadership teams looking to sharpen their performance, resilience, and decision-making at the highest level.
Mike Champion
CEO, Tahaluf