Composed Performance™: The New Performance Frontier

18 Nov 2026, 18:00 - 20:30

CFA Society Switzerland

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Event Details

Enhancing Decision Quality & Performance Under Pressure & in Ordinary Moments – By Improving Access to Skill    

 

What is Composed Performance?  

Most performance development focuses on building skill — expertise, intelligence, and capability. But in real-world environments, performance outcome is determined not only by the level of skill someone possesses, but by their ability to reliably access that skill under pressure, and in the ordinary moments that make up most of a working day. And composure is the variable that disrupts access to skill.  

Composed Performance™ is a science-informed framework for defining, measuring, and managing Composure Risk — the likelihood that composure disruption will reduce access to capability. It is designed to enhance individual and team decision quality and performance under pressure and in ordinary moments — by improving composure and access to skill.  

 

Why It Matters  

Modern professional environments are volatile, cognitively demanding, and relentless. Composure disruption doesn't only happen in the boardroom pitch or the high-stakes negotiation — it happens constantly, in routine meetings, difficult conversations, and flat afternoons, often without anyone noticing it's happening at all.  

As pressure and pace continue to intensify, the ability to maintain reliable access to skill — consistently, in every kind of moment — is becoming one of the defining differentiators of sustained high performance. The new competitive edge. Not more intelligence. Not more experience. But better access to the intelligence and experience already there.  

 

What This Session Will Cover  

This is not a theoretical session. Participants will engage directly with the mechanisms of composure through live demonstration and guided practice, built around the five scientifically-established regulatory levers of composure: Breath, Voice, Body, Focus, and Mindset.      

 

The Session will include:

  • How to recognize composure loss — the patterns of disruption that restrict access to skill, whether triggered by pressure or by the ordinary friction of a working day.  
  • Live demonstrations and practice in resetting and regulating composure — real techniques for regaining clarity and control in the moment, when composure has already been lost in a work situation, or when a difficult internal state is affecting performance.  
  • How to condition composure and the nervous system over time — structured practices that build regulatory capacity in advance, so that in-the-moment reset and regulation become faster, more automatic, and more effective.  
  • Techniques participants can apply immediately — practical, portable tools for improving decision-quality and performance, not only under pressure, but in the ordinary moments that make up most of professional life.  

Participants will leave with real techniques they can use the same day — not concepts to remember, but practices to apply.  

Speaker

Kal Ghayur, CFA, FSIP

Kal Ghayur, CFA, FSIP

Founder, Composed Performance™

Registration

Please note that registration is mandatory and places are limited.

Members of CFA Society Switzerland: CHF 15
Non-members of CFA Society Switzerland: CHF 75

 

Terms and Conditions

Full refund — cancellation can be made by the participant online and is possible free of charge up until 5 business days prior to the event.

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