Speaking / Talk 01
The 3pm Slump.
Why your team disappears every afternoon, and how to bring them back.
The brief
Most teams lose 60 to 90 minutes of focused output to the afternoon energy crash. It looks like inboxes, Slack scrolls, vending-machine runs, second coffees. The standard fix ("discipline yourself, eat better, sleep more") assumes the crash is a personal failing.
It isn't. It's a predictable consequence of how knowledge work loads attention through the morning, paired with how most people eat and hydrate before lunch.
This talk shows the mechanism, names the four levers, and gives the room something they can change tomorrow.
Audience takeaways
What the room walks out with.
- 01
Why "willpower in the afternoon" is the wrong lens, and what's actually predicting the crash by 11am.
- 02
The four levers that move 3pm energy: morning protein, attention budget, hydration discipline, and the shape of lunch.
- 03
How to redesign the work day around the energy curve instead of fighting it, including the meeting block and break pattern that most predicts an alert afternoon.
- 04
One specific thing the room can change tomorrow. No app, no shopping list, no "tracking".
Format
Three shapes. Pick the one that fits.
Lunch-and-learn
45 minutes plus Q&A. Held over lunch with food provided. Best for engineering, product and design teams.
All-hands keynote
30 minutes, tight. Lands in a wider company meeting; pairs well with a Q&A panel.
Manager briefing
60 minutes. Same content, reframed for People managers, with the early-signal patterns to watch for in their teams.