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Why leadership demands clarity under pressure
What does clarity look like when the pressure is on?
Craig Latimer is a Calgary entrepreneur who has launched companies including Portage Energy Group, ZayZoon, and Aeon Future Health. He has made payroll on his line of credit and felt the strain of leading when the margin for error disappears.
Ahead of the Leadership at the Speed of Science Summit in Calgary, we sat down with Latimer to talk about how leaders behave under stress and what needs to change in how we think about boards, culture, and decision-making.
The summit, created by Tammy Arseneau, founder of Cortical Consulting & Coaching, brings scientists, executives, athletes, and an astronaut into the same room to examine how stress shapes performance and decision-making.
Latimer says leadership shows up in the moments when the data is incomplete and the pressure is highest. The question is whether leaders create clarity or let the fog win.
🔴 Read the full story on Digital Journal by Jennifer Friesen Published September 2, 2025
From the rink to the boardroom, Crystal Phillips takes on resilience at Calgary summit
Learning to use the pause button
When Crystal Phillips was 19, she went from Olympic hopeful to being told she might never skate again.
That experience didn’t end her story. It rewired how she thinks about resilience, leadership, and pressure. She went on to build a national neuroscience foundation, move into venture capital, and today is senior director of the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund (OCIF), an initiative led by Calgary Economic Development.
At the Leadership at the Speed of Science Summit this fall, created and produced by Tammy Arseneau, MBA, CPC, founder of Cortical Consulting & Coaching, Phillips will share what she’s learned. That includes why an endurance mindset beats a sprinting one (even for sprinters), why structure should follow strengths, and how pressure tells you everything about how leaders lead.
“Whatever happens outside of work will affect work, and vice versa,” she says.
🔴 Read the full story on Digital Journal by Jennifer Friesen Published August 22, 2025
Leadership at the Speed of Science Summit, October 1st 2025
Most leadership events start with frameworks and models. This one starts with a question.
What if the missing link in leadership is not a new model, but a better understanding of how we think, decide, and perform under pressure?
On October 1, leaders from business, science, and high-performance sport will meet in Calgary for a summit called Leadership at the Speed of Science.
Hosted by Tammy Arseneau, and Cortical Consulting & Coaching, the summit brings together voices that rarely share the same stage, including astronaut Chris Hadfield, neuroscientist Dr. Matt Hill from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, energy executive Kenneth Irving, science broadcaster Jay Ingram, Duff Gibson, Leah Mayo, Craig Latimer, Sarah Hewitt, Jason Rakochy, Crystal Phillips and more.
They will explore what stress and complexity mean for leadership today.
The summit is a space for curiosity and real dialogue, applying insights from neuroscience and elite performance to the realities of business leadership. It invites leaders to examine how stress and complexity shape decisions, relationships, and outcomes.
📍Calgary, BMO Centre
🗓️ October 1, 2025
🔴 Read the full story on Digital Journal by Chris Hogg Published August 8 2025
