Quick facts about Claire Hayek
Claire Hayek, Eng., MBA, is a NeuroLeadership Expert, TEDx speaker, and founder of Mind. Soul. Purpose. Teambuilding. She created Pressure-Proof Leadership, a neuroscience-based system for leading under pressure. She hosts The NeuroLeadership Edge Podcast, ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally. Her second book, "The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You: Calm Under Fire in the Age of Disruption," publishes September 9, 2026. Media contact: [email protected]. Press kit, headshots, book cover, and bio are available for download on this page.
Claire Hayek, Eng., MBA
NeuroLeadership Expert | TEDx Speaker | Founder, Mind. Soul. Purpose. Teambuilding | Host, The NeuroLeadership Edge
The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You
Pressure did not break you. It built you. But what if it has also been running you?
Drawn from more than 60 research conversations with senior leaders across six continents, and from Claire Hayek's own experience forged as a war child, shaped across two decades in high-stakes engineering, and sharpened as a NeuroLeadership Expert, this book shows what calm authority actually looks like from the inside out. You will recognize yourself in these pages. And you will find what comes next.
About Claire Hayek
Claire Hayek, Eng., MBA, is a NeuroLeadership Expert and Strategist, TEDx speaker, and creator of Pressure-Proof Leadership™, a neuroscience-based system that protects decision quality, execution stability, and culture performance under sustained pressure. She is a licensed metallurgical engineer, a LEGO® Serious Play® certified facilitator, and founder of Mind. Soul. Purpose. Teambuilding, operating under Sona Group Inc.
Lebanese-Canadian, Claire grew up in Beirut during a period of conflict. That understanding of pressure sharpened across two decades in high-stakes engineering and mining organizations, at both operational and senior leadership levels. Her work addresses one of the most expensive problems in business: leaders who lose strategic judgment precisely when it matters most.
Her thought leadership has been featured in International Business Times. She is the host of The NeuroLeadership Edge Podcast, ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally, and is releasing her second book, The Leadership Skill Nobody Taught You: Calm Under Fire in the Age of Disruption, in September 2026.
Her work bridges human resilience and organizational performance, centered on one question: how do we master pressure without becoming driven by it?
I work with executive and leadership teams on something most organizations don't address until it's already costing them: how leaders make decisions, hold alignment, and execute when pressure compounds. Think of it like a structural engineer for leadership. Everything looks fine until the load increases. I find the fault lines before they become crises, and I install the system that holds. That's Pressure-Proof Leadership.
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