Khaliah O. Guillory TEDx
The Power of a Nap
A deeply personal story about rejection, rest, healing, and what can happen when we stop treating rest like something we have to earn.
The Talk
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Behind the Talk
This one is personal.
I spent years learning how to perform under pressure. On the basketball court. In corporate America. As an entrepreneur.
But some of the most important lessons I’ve learned about performance came from understanding what happens when we finally give ourselves permission to stop.
This talk starts with rejection. It moves through grief, rest, healing, and a nap that became much bigger than a nap.
And ultimately, it’s an invitation to reconsider the relationship many of us have with rest.
The Big Idea
What if rest didn’t have to be earned?
So many of us have learned to treat rest like a reward for finishing everything, pushing hard enough, or finally reaching the point where our bodies give us no other choice.
Khaliah’s work asks us to think differently about the role recovery plays in how we live, lead, and perform.
The Speaker
Meet Khaliah O. Guillory
- Former Fortune 100 Vice President
- Founder of Performance Rehab™
- Former NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Team Captain
- Certified Sleep Coach
- TEDx Speaker
- Forbes Featured Thought Leader
Khaliah O. Guillory brings more than two decades of experience across leadership, performance, entrepreneurship, and recovery to stages around the world. Her work is shaped by what she’s learned leading on the basketball court, in Fortune 100 boardrooms, and while building companies and experiences designed to change how people think about performance.
From the Talk to the Work
The work continues.
The talk is one part of a much bigger conversation. My work explores how the environments around us shape the way we think, lead, recover, and perform.
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Leadership + Performance
Performance Rehab™
A methodology for redesigning the environment around performance so people can think clearly, lead well, and execute at a high level.
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Wellness + Recovery + Sustainable Performance
The Recovery Edge
A keynote exploring the science behind sustainable high performance.
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Immersive Recovery Technology
Rest Tech™
An immersive VR recovery experience that gives people intentional space to pause, reset, and return.
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The Room Has Spoken
She lit up the topic and the room and I would not hesitate to attend anything she facilitates in the future because I’m confident that I would walk away with the same experience and with broader knowledge on the subject!
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Khaliah brings conversations about leadership, performance, recovery, and change to organizations ready to think differently about how their people perform.