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Own Your Zone

Unlock Excellence & Optimize Performance Using The Pro Fundamentals Of Elite Athletes

Stanford All-American and former Top 100 World Ranked Tennis Player, Jeff Salzenstein, shares his Own Your Zone™ framework to help leaders and teams build resilience and thrive under pressure—even in today's never-ending demands.

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Own Your Zone

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Former Top 100 World Ranked Tennis Player Jeff Salzenstein uses his Own Your Zone™ methodology, to help leaders and teams thrive under pressure—even in today's never-ending demands.

Unlock Excellence, Optimize Performance, and Build Unshakeable Resilience Using Pro Athlete Strategies

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Today’s high achievers require a

In today’s always-on world, stress silently crushes performance—especially for high achievers. 55% report high or extreme stress, and 62% of it is work-related—hurting creativity, energy, focus, culture, and results.

The cost? Lower productivity. Higher turnover. Missed breakthroughs. Stress becomes a glass ceiling, capping performance and potential.

Jeff bridges the gap between elite athletic performance and high-stakes business.

As a former Top 100 world-ranked tennis player, he knows what it takes to perform under extreme pressure. Now, through his Own Your Zone™ methodology, he equips leaders with practical tools to regulate stress, build resilience, and unlock sustainable peak performance.

The result?

paradigm shift.

Pressure becomes your competitive advantage.

Real growth and transformation starts with having stress reduction and resilience building fundamentals in place to unlock excellence so we can win big in life and in business without losing ourselves.

Applying proven pro fundamentals learned as an elite world class tennis player and refined as a performance coach, Jeff guides executives and teams to:

  • Regulate Emotions - Master your internal state even in high-stress situations

  • Decrease Stress - Transform pressure from performance enemy to performance ally

  • Increase Energy - Build sustainable capacity instead of burning valuable resources and create lasting longevity.

  • Optimize Performance - Access your peak state when it matters most

  • Deepen Connection - Foster genuine relationships that fuel both wellbeing and results

Jeff’s heart-centered, holistic approach helps leaders perform at a high level without sacrificing their well-being. The result is sustainable excellence—not burnout

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“Jeff exemplifies grit, has a process, has a really positive outlook on what it takes to push through hard times.”

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JEFF’S SIGNATURE KEYNOTE

OWN YOUR ZONE™:

WINNING LEADERS

TRANSFORM leaders facing burnout, high stress, and uncertainty into Elite Performers who thrive under pressure, build resilience, and sustain peak performance.

Attendees learn the insights, tools, and techniques to optimize recovery, lock in a champion’s mindset, and regulate emotions to win each day when the stakes are highest.

Ideal for leaders and teams who want to unlock sustainable peak performance—especially when the pressure’s on.

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BREAKTHROUGH TOOLS FOR PEAK PERFORMANCE

Optimize top performers without burnout

Protect Your Peak Performers: Your top talent pushes hard—but without the right tools, that drive leads to burnout, not breakthroughs. Jeff’s Own Your Zone™ framework helps them stay sharp, consistent, and energized—so they can perform at their best and stay committed for the long haul.

Increase energy while reducing sick days

Build Antifragile Leadership: Jeff doesn’t just help leaders reduce stress—he helps them become antifragile. That means getting stronger under pressure, not just surviving it. The result? More energy, fewer stress-related setbacks, and leaders who show up with vitality that inspires everyone around them.

Develop championship mindset

Handle Pressure Like Elite Athletes: Elite athletes thrive when the everything’s on the line. Jeff brings those high-performance mental skills into the business world, helping leaders access flow, stay composed when the heat is on, and turn high-stakes challenges into competitive advantages.

Create sustainable decade-long performance

Think Beyond Quarterly Results: Many leaders get stuck playing the short game. Elite athletes play the longevity game—15 to 20 years at peak performance. Jeff helps leaders expand capacity and build habits that compound over time, not deplete it. It’s not about next quarter—it’s about long-term excellence.

Develop leaders who inspire excellence

Model Resilience from the Top Down: When leaders take a high performance approach, it creates a ripple effect. Teams rise to meet the example. Energy, focus, and resilience become the norm. It’s not about surviving the role. It’s about showing what thriving under pressure really looks like.

Key Takeaways from Jeff’s Powerful keynote

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What Others Are Saying…

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My name is Jeff Salzenstein — leadership speaker, performance coach, world class athlete, and seasoned entrepreneur.

As a top 100 tennis player, I’m no stranger to the impacts of pressure and stress — and I’ve done deep inner work on myself to better understand how high achievers sabotage their performance and health.

Now, I share that inner work as a leadership speaker and performance coach to help high achievers and their workplaces manage the never-ending pressure of today’s world.

Using a heart-centered, holistic approach, I inspire and coach people to find fulfillment, reach peak performance, regulate their emotions, and, in turn, own their zone.

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Own Your Zone
Action Plan Guide

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