About Khaliah
I know what high performance asks of people.
Former Fortune 100 VP
Founder of Performance Rehab™
Former D1 Team Captain
Certified Sleep Coach
TEDx Speaker
Forbes Featured Thought Leader
Tech Founder
I didn’t learn leadership in a classroom. I learned it on a
Court
Before the stage, there was
Number 33
Central Florida taught me something that never left: talent matters. But the environment around that talent matters too.
I carried that lesson straight into corporate America.
$1B
Book of business overseen
200+
People led
I’m Khaliah. And before you scroll past this section like you do every other speaker bio on the internet, hear me out for a second. 😅
I’m a former Fortune 100 Vice President, Founder of Performance Rehab™, TEDx Speaker, Certified Sleep Coach, Tech Founder, Global Speaker, and former NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Team Captain at the University of Central Florida. Yes, it’s a lot! And every single piece of it shows up in the room when I speak.
Here is what I want you to know about me that does not show up on a resume.
I did not learn about leadership in a classroom or certification program. I learned it on a basketball court where everybody was talented, everybody was hungry, and individual skill could only take us so far.
The environment we performed in mattered just as much as the talent we brought into it.
I carried that lesson straight into corporate America.
I went from the locker room to the boardroom, eventually overseeing a one billion dollar book of business and leading more than 200 people. I was responsible for the numbers and the people responsible for producing them. It was the kind of environment where a bad quarter is not just a conversation. There are consequences.
And no matter where I sat or who I was leading, I kept seeing the same thing:
High performance breaks quietly before it breaks publicly.
Talented, committed, genuinely good people would slowly lose their edge. They still showed up. They still delivered. They still got the job done. But something underneath the performance was changing.
Nobody was asking whether the environment surrounding that performance was built to sustain it.
I know because I lived it too.
I have been tired in ways I could not explain to anybody. Performing at a high level while silently running on empty and telling myself that was simply what success felt like. That was the price of the dream.
Until I started asking a different question:
Who built this system, and why did we all agree to it?
That question changed everything.
As a Certified Sleep Coach and founder in the tech and wellness space, I started studying recovery the way I once studied game film. I became obsessed with understanding what helps people stay sharp, make better decisions, lead well, and sustain performance when the demands keep coming.
And the deeper I went, the more I came back to the environment around performance.
What I found was not complicated.
We had spent decades asking people to improve their performance without giving nearly enough attention to the environments they were being asked to perform in.
That realization became Performance Rehab™.
Performance Rehab™ is a leadership and performance methodology for redesigning the environment around performance so people can think clearly, lead well, and execute at a high level.
From the TEDx Stage
The Power a Nap
In my TEDx talk, I share the personal story that shaped my relationship with rest and challenge the way we think about naps, recovery, and productivity.
My work lives at the intersection of leadership, performance, and the environments that shape both.
Through Performance Rehab™, I help organizations strengthen the environment around performance so the talented people already inside the building can think clearly, lead well, and do what they were hired to do at a high level, consistently.
The work, recognized.
TEDx Speaker
Exploring the intersection of overperformance and how naps can reset your nervous system.
40 Under 40
Named to the Houston Business Journal’s class of standout young leaders.
Tech Founder
Rest-Tech VR
Proprietor of RestTech VR and Founder of Nap Bar, bringing restorative rest technology into the workplace.
Khaliah O. Guillory Day
October 29
Proclaimed by the City of Houston for her philanthropic work in the community.
Commencement Speaker
MBA Program
Invited to address the University of Houston–Downtown graduating class.
Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award
Recipient
Recognized for outstanding, sustained service to the community.
Proprietary Experience Created by Khaliah
I didn’t just study recovery.
I built technology for it.
Meet Rest Tech™, Khaliah’s proprietary VR experience designed to give people a few intentional minutes to pause, reset their nervous system, and return with greater clarity and focus.
Performance Rehab™ gives you the blueprint.
Rest Tech™ lets you experience it.
Bring Khaliah into the room.
Keynotes, workshops, executive coaching, and immersive experiences designed to change how organizations think about performance.