Proven in Elite Sports, Used in Business

"Stress in inevitable: our response is trainable."

" When pressure goes unmanaged, mindsets become fixed"

Frayed rope symbolising pressure and resilience – Spotlight Peak Performance coaching banner.
From Surviving to Thriving – adaptive mindset and team performance banner.

When teams operate in Survival Mode

Diagram showing unmanaged pressure, low psychological safety, and fixed patterns leading to survival mode in teams.

When teams Thriving

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At Spotlight Peak Performance we bridge the gap from awareness to ongoing action and improved results.

Trusted by Teams Who Perform Under Pressure

Rigorously tested and validated using modern analytics, Spotlight combines sport and science to deliver reliable insights.

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“At Manchester City FC, the Spotlight suite of profiling tools are used across the club… high quality insights into how to get the very best out of each of us.”

Omar Berrada
Omar Berrada
Former Chief Operating Officer, Manchester City Football Club

Spotlight in Action

Spotlight in Action – How teams perform, adapt, and thrive under pressure | Spotlight Peak Performance
Performing at your best

Performing at your best

Confidence to adjust under pressure

Confidence to adjust under pressure

Shifting teams from good to great

Shifting teams from good to great

Get to know how your team thinks and works

Get to know how your team thinks and works

Move beyond surface-level teamwork

Move beyond surface-level teamwork

Understand what your team might be missing — and why

Understand what your team might be missing- and why

When Teams Operate in Survival Mode — unmanaged pressure and fixed patterns — Spotlight Peak Performance

In a high stress, highly changing environment pressure goes unmanaged, teams are in “survival” much of the time.

-              Fixed patterns of thinking

-              Constant firefighting instead of planning

-              Energy drained by constant strain

-              End up doing the bare minimum

-              Operating in silos

-              Pointing fingers

When Teams Thrive Under Pressure — adaptive performance — Spotlight Peak Performance

“With the right leadership and coaching,  mindsets adapt, performance improves, and teams thrive.”

A thriving team

-              Becomes adaptable

-              Has clear priorities

-              Confident decision-making with diverse input

-              Resilient and energised under pressure

-              Teams aligned and moving in rhythm

-              High trust and challenge with care

-              Go above and beyond

Spotlight is not another "tick a box" personality test

Spotlight helps teams adapt, connect, and perform under pressure through:

  • 🔹 Enhance adaptability and improved performance
  • 🔹 From task-based teamwork to intentional collaboration
  • 🔹 Uncover blind spots and biases
  • 🔹 Enable trust and challenge with care
  • 🔹 Increased engagement and discretionary effort
  • 🔹 Proactive planning and diverse decision-making

“With the right leadership and coachingmindsets adapt, performance improves, and teams thrive.”

Team rowing together – leadership and teamwork alignment under pressure.
“Spotlight in Action – behavioural and mindset performance coaching for teams.”

( ⇧ Awareness (Self & Team)) X Coaching = Sustainable Performance

Maximise strengths without overusing them.”

Maximise

Identify strengths and prevent turning them to weaknesses.

Adapt mindset and behaviours for different pressures.

Adapt

Develop flexibility across mindset and behaviours.

Perform with confidence, energy, and resilience.

Perform

Build energy, resilience and confidence.

You see, how we behave or how useful a behaviour is to us in any given moment, ultimately depends on the context we find ourselves in and our mindset. Under pressure, our mindset can become quite fixed and thus behaviours often predictable.

Having the ability to adapt how we think, especially under pressure, and thus adapt how we behave, is key to unlocking performance and potential in individuals and teams.

Maximise Strengths, Adapt Mindsets, and Perform Under Pressure

Pressure is inevitable: Spotlight shows how to respond adaptively and perform at your best.

“To truly thrive in an ever-changing world we need to be skilled at adopting the mindset and behaviour that is most appropriate for the situation we are in”

“To truly thrive in an ever-changing world, adopt the mindset and behaviour suited to the situation.” — Spotlight Peak Performance

Spotlight is the only tool that combines mindset and behavioural

“Spotlight is the only tool that combines mindset and behavioural.

“Get to know how your team thinks and works. Especially under pressure when it really counts”

Sports team huddle – teamwork, collaboration, and communication under pressure

“People change when there's something to be won and lost.”

Sprinter on starting line – motivation and mindset in competitive performance.
“The Science – COPE and FLEX behavioural models from Spotlight Peak Performance.”

Put simply, some people are trying to win, whilst others are trying not to lose, both proving to be successful strategies when applied skillfully.

 

As a result, Spotlight explores the major dimensions of character, based on the properties of the brain-behavioural systems.

This includes the basic processes of motivation, learning and emotion.

Taking these lessons, Spotlight provides an understanding of both ‘Behavioural Style’ and ‘Mindset’, combining them into what can be termed ‘’Performance Preferences”.

“How we think, how we view the world impacts how we behave and what we do. So profiling tools that focus just on behaviours are missing the most important part of the equation”

Focused Eyes – How we think, how we view the world impacts how we behave and what we do

Spotlight contains two frameworks that explore mindset and behavioural style preferences.

Mindset

Mindset

The COPE model is based on one of the only biologically-based models of personality, called Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory.

The COPE model explores four different mindsets, based on sensitivity to threat and reward, that we each need to tap into in different moments or situations.

Behavioural

The FLEX model explores four different behavioural styles based on a combination of factors from the ‘Big 5’ theory, one of the most scientifically supported models of personality. Both the COPE and FLEX models that have developed from these theories have been rigorously validated using cutting-edge Bayesian analytics.

Behaviour

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Spotlight starts with a profile, develops into a framework and then becomes a way of thinking

Pathway image symbolising the Spotlight journey – from profile to framework to way of thinking.

How Spotlight Drives Real Results

A Personalised 18-page

Report Individuals spend 20 mins filling out the online tool which will produce a 18 page personal profile which will outline their COPE and FLEX profile.

HA Personalised 18 page personal profile.

High Performance
1:1 Coaching

Each person can receive up to 5 coaching sessions which follow a step by step process to help them understand themselves and apply it into their day to day lives.

High Performance 1:1 Coaching sessions – step-by-step application of self-awareness.

Team Coaching

Team Coaching Workshops can take place to help groups come together as a high performing team and enhance their culture of collaboration.

Team Coaching Workshop – collaboration and culture enhancement under pressure.

We help individuals and teams perform under pressure by understanding how they think, feel, and act when it matters most.

Individual Development — Spotlight Peak Performance coaching

At Spotlight Peak Performance, we can use Spotlight as a coaching tool to help develop you both personally and professionally.

It allows you to understand and maximise your strengths, and develop a more adaptable mindset and flexible approach to interacting with others, and will show you how you can help others get the best from you.

Team Development — collaboration and adaptability coaching — Spotlight Peak Performance

Our team development days unite your team with a shared purpose and enhance levels of collaboration and adaptability. These sessions are designed to bring together individual Spotlight profiles and put them in the context of your team’s challenge.

Spotlight helps teams build stronger relationships and gives team members a greater appreciation of each other’s strengths and how to support each other in playing to these strengths.

It provides a way of supporting teams to develop greater psychological safety, and encourages diverse thinking and collective adaptability within a group.

“With the right leadership and coaching,  mindsets adapt, performance improves, and teams thrive.”

“With the right leadership and coaching, mindsets adapt, performance improves, and teams thrive.” — Spotlight Peak Performance
James Pearson – performance coach specialising in mindset, adaptability, and leadership under pressure.
About James Pearson — Spotlight Peak Performance

In 25 years, in high pressure, high change corporate environments, I did all the various “personality” tests and the recycled one and two day workshops.

Only for “leaders” who didn’t know how to use them to label me and put me and my colleagues in a box, or worse, stick it in the bottom drawer. As a result, I became cynical of these tests.

In leading teams and studying psychology for over 10 years, I noticed that the reality was what really mattered is how we think and behave under pressure, when the going gets tough. Then I discovered Spotlight and finally I had a proven leadership system that could equip me with what I needed to thrive in those circumstances.

Now I want to help other leaders do they same.

- James Pearson

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