When pressure rises, people don’t rise — they fall back on patterns.
MEET CHALLENGE WITH PRESENCE
An unforgettable live experience that helps leaders and teams stay calm, clear and effective under pressure.
Introducing Joska’s FOCUS Method™
Built through years of performing under extreme pressure, the FOCUS Method is a practical framework that helps people stay calm, clear and effective when challenges arise.
It turns principles from world-record performance into tools that can be applied immediately in leadership, teamwork and everyday work pressure.
F — Focus Under Pressure
Direct attention toward priorities when noise rises.
O — Optimise Performance
Deliver quality output and avoid burnout.
C — Clarity of Mind
Make quality decisions under pressure.
U — Upgrade Energy
Manage recovery and personal capacity.
S — Sustainable Success
Build repeatable habits for long-term results.
Do You Recognise This Inside Your Business?
A key deadline approaches.
Pressure rises.
Smart people become tense.
Big goals suddenly feel heavy.
Conversations get shorter.
Ownership drops.
Leaders carry more.
Performance becomes expensive on all levels.
Most organisations do not need more effort.
They need better responses to pressure.
And responses to pressure can be trained. That is what exactly this experience develops.
WHAT IMPROVES WHEN PRESSURE IS TRAINED
Most teams are expected to perform under pressure.
Very few are trained for it.
This live experience helps people recognise their default patterns when challenge rises — then practise better ones in real time.
They learn how to:
✔ stay steady when tension rises
✔ focus on the next step instead of the whole problem
✔ pause before reacting
✔ communicate better with others under stress
✔ support each other through challenge
If nothing changes, pressure usually repeats the same patterns.
This experience disrupts the old patterns and creates new ones.
What Do Freediving, Extreme Endurance and Cold Exposure Have In Common With Your Business?
More than you'd think.
When pressure and expectations rise, the same human patterns appear everywhere — in sport, leadership, business and life:
✔ feeling overwhelmed when the challenge seems too big
✔ emotional reactivity instead of clarity
✔ quitting mentally before real capacity is reached
✔ tension replacing trust
✔ focus scattering under stress
The environment may differ. The nervous system does not.
Why Us. Why Now.
A rare collaboration between 5 x world record holders:
A freediver.
An extreme endurance athlete.
Two elite performers from contrasting sports teaching the same business truth:
How humans perform under pressure.
This is not a keynote.
It is a live experience, so unique your team will never forget.
Available only during Joska Šálek’s short visit from the Czech Republic.
May 14 – June 9 only
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Meet...Michaela (Miska) Werner
Working with breath, awareness and the nervous system
Michaela Werner is a freediving athlete, coach and Guinness World Record holder based in Newcastle, NSW.
Her work helps people reconnect with calm, clarity and trust in themselves — especially under pressure.
Freediving teaches one powerful lesson:
You cannot fight water.
If you do, you lose.
Instead, you learn to relax, regulate your breath and move with awareness.
Michaela also holds two Guinness World Records:
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Longest Distance Underwater in 1 Hour (Female)
2,525m — Dynamic No Fins (25m × 101) -
Longest Distance Underwater in 24 Hours (Team, Breath-Held - under review) 98km — Dynamic No Fins (25m × 3,920)
Michaela specialises in calm performance, breath regulation and decision quality under pressure.
Joska Salek
The Czech Man Who Redefines What's Possible under Pressure, Author
Most people associate high performance with talent. Joska represents something different: What becomes possible through choice, discipline and self-awareness
At 48, he chose to change direction and step away from patterns that no longer served him.
Seven years later, he holds three Guinness World Records:
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Longest abdominal plank (male): 9h 38min 47sec
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Barefoot half marathon in snow & ice: 1h 50min 42sec (surpassing the previous record held by Wim Hof, widely known as “The Iceman”)
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Weighted plank (18 kg): 1h 25min 02sec
The records are remarkable.
But what matters more is how they were achieved.
Joska’s work is not about pushing limits for the sake of it. It is about understanding how the mind responds when pressure rises — and how to stay calm, clear and present in those moments.
Having also overcome significant life adversity, including wrongful imprisonment, his message is grounded in one principle:
Circumstances are not always our choice.
Our response is.
Today, he brings these lessons into organisations — helping leaders and teams perform better under pressure.
"When people imagine someone who can hold a plank for almost 10 hours, or their breath for over 6 minutes, they picture the strong body it must require.
Very few imagine the strong mind."
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