FLIP YOUR SWITCH™ · THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ENERGY SYSTEM
Energy is the input.
Higher performance is the output.
01 · WHY ENERGY
You have goals. You have capability. What moves you from the results you have to the results you want? The energy behind how you think, feel, and act.
You can work hard, learn new tools, and make real progress—then find yourself pulled back into familiar patterns. Flip Your Switch™ connects the whole person around the force running through all of it: energy.
BE is how you operate today: the thoughts you repeat, the emotions you bring, the actions you take, and the results they produce. BECOME is who you, your team, and your business are working toward.
The gap is where the work happens. A clearer target. A different response under pressure. An action you stop putting off. Repeated until a new way of thinking, feeling, and acting becomes how you operate.
In Flip Your Switch™, energy is the fuel for your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Its direction matters as much as its intensity. More effort alone doesn't tell you whether that energy is working for you.
RUNNING NEGATIVE
Negative energy can run flat: doubt, hesitation, avoidance, going through the motions. It can also run hot: frustration, defensive reactions, frantic busyness, and grinding toward burnout.
That grind can produce results. The question is what those results cost—and how long you can keep paying for them.
RUNNING POSITIVE
Belief, determination, curiosity, and commitment. You see the next move, stay connected to what matters, and put your effort where it advances the work.
Positive doesn't mean nonstop intensity. Recovery refuels your ability to perform. The goal is energy you can direct and sustain.
Your team experiences it through what you show, say, and do: whether you look up when someone speaks, the tone you bring to a difficult conversation, and how you respond when a target is missed.
Those moments shape whether people speak up, hold back, take ownership, or get defensive. That makes energy a leadership and culture issue—not just a personal one.
You won't always choose what happens—or your first reaction. You can build more choice over your next response.
Catch It → Name It → Flip It. Notice the spiral, the drift, or the grind. Name where it is showing up: your thoughts, emotions, or actions. Start with the driver where you have the most traction: redirect a thought, reconnect to your target, take a breath, or make the next intentional move.
A real moment. A different response. Practice it in the meeting, the hard conversation, and the work you keep avoiding.
The Engine model uses a thermostat as a metaphor: a burst of effort can raise the temperature while the old setting pulls you back. Lasting progress takes practice across how you think, feel, and act—not just a surge of motivation.
Mindset defines who you're becoming. Heartset builds belief in it. Bodyset turns it into action. Train them together until your new patterns carry more of the work. That's the move from relying on willpower toward higher performance on command.
Understand the idea. Apply it to your own life and work. Rehearse it in real situations. Energy Labs turn the model into practice: find a moment that ran negative, trace how it affected your thoughts, emotions, and actions, then practice a different response.
Keep track of what drains you and what fuels you. Bring that awareness into your next conversation, decision, and challenge. Repetition is how the flip becomes a skill you can use.
One energy. Two directions. A different next move.
Flip Your Switch™. Change What Happens Next.
02 · THE BUSINESS CASE
Your strategy needs people who can focus, commit, and follow through. The research makes a strong case for investing in the leaders and working conditions that support them.
Across experiments, participants made happier produced approximately 12% more on a paid productivity task. The researchers found evidence consistent with a causal link between well-being and performance.
Oswald, Proto & Sgroi · University of Warwick · Journal of Labor Economics · 2015Shawn Achor reports a 31% productivity advantage for a positive brain compared with a negative, neutral, or stressed brain—a finding he describes as the “Happiness Advantage.”
Shawn Achor · The Happiness AdvantageIn a study of 94 experienced life insurance agents, those in the top half for optimistic explanatory style sold 37% more insurance in their first two years than those in the bottom half.
Seligman & Schulman · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1986In a simulated patient case, physicians in a positive-affect group considered the correct diagnosis 19 percentage points earlier in the case protocol—20% of the way through, compared with 39% for controls. They also showed less anchoring on an initial diagnosis. The positive state was induced with a small package of candy.
Estrada, Isen & Young · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes · 1997Energy comes first. Results follow.
Gallup attributes 70% of the variance in team engagement to the manager.
Gallup · State of the American Manager ↗Only 22% of managers worldwide were engaged in 2025, compared with 19% of individual contributors.
Gallup · 2026 global data ↗Gallup estimates low engagement cost the global economy about $10 trillion in lost productivity in 2025—approximately 9% of GDP.
Gallup · 2026 report ↗Dr. Theresa Welbourne’s work at eePulse examines employee energy, leadership confidence, and alignment with organizational strategy as indicators of business performance. It brings attention to how people’s capacity to do work changes over time.
Explore eePulse’s energy research ↗
These findings cover positivity, optimism, engagement, and workplace energy in different settings. They provide context for the business need; they are not evaluations of Flip Your Switch™ or guarantees of training results.
PERSONAL · HIGHER PERFORMANCE
Practice Catch It → Name It → Flip It. Develop clarity, conviction, and command in the moments that shape your work.
TEAM · ENGAGEMENT
Define who the team is becoming and where it's going. Set shared goals every member owns. Catch the team running negative and flip it together.
BUSINESS · RESULTS
Build a common language for energy, a shared understanding of where the team is running, and a repeatable way to redirect it toward business priorities.
Keynotes · Executive sessions · Team training with workbooks, switch cards, and guided practice · Internal facilitator certification
ENERGY IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Twelve perspectives on bringing energy, directing it, and renewing it—from sport, business, and performance.
“You always have to bring your energy and your enthusiasm.”
“The second attribute, which goes with bringing clarity, is people who can create energy.”
“I feel that energy and those prayers. … It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.”
“I think better, I have more energy, my mood is better, all these things.”
“whoever wants to see that energy and that fire, we feed off of that.”
“we’re more productive and more creative when we’re recharged.”
“Trying to devote most of your time, energy, thought to make yourself the best person and the best player possible.”
“Exercise does not deplete my energy. Instead, it gives me energy and makes me feel like a young kid again.”
“having enough energy with the kids, and doing everything I need to do personally, I have to recover.”
“preserve your energy for the things that really matter to you.”
“We need that energy from them because we feed off that.”
“Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal”
Short excerpts from the linked sources, presented in their original context. These individuals are not endorsing STUTZ or Flip Your Switch™.