Name: Cyber Resilience & Leadership Summit
Start: 2026-10-05T17:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-10-05T21:00:00.000-04:00
Location: The National Club

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Jessica Donskova

Human Performance in Cybersecurity: Resilience, Leadership & Communication

Cybersecurity professionals operate in environments that demand sustained vigilance, rapid decision making, and constant adaptation.

The Cyber Resilience & Leadership Summit brings together cybersecurity leaders, practitioners, and emerging talent to explore the human side of cybersecurity through the lens of neuroscience, behavioral science, and performance psychology.

Attendees will gain practical tools and evidence based strategies to improve decision making, strengthen communication, build resilient teams, and sustain high performance under pressure.

Learn how to sustain high performance in high pressure environments.

Explore the factors that influence decision making, communication, leadership, and team performance when the stakes are high.

Gain practical tools grounded in stress neurobiology, behavioral science, and performance psychology.

Improve decision making, communication, and leadership under pressure.

Walk away with strategies you can use immediately with yourself and your team.

• Human performance in high pressure cyber environments

• The neuroscience of resilience, recovery, and sustained vigilance

• Leadership behaviors that strengthen team performance

• Executive communication and difficult conversations

• Psychological safety without lowering standards

• Practical tools for reducing strain and improving readiness

• Cybersecurity managers and team leads

• HR and people leaders supporting security teams

• Students and early career professionals

 80 to 100 cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and emerging talent

Cybersecurity is not only a technology problem. It is a human performance challenge.

Join us to explore how science backed approaches can help leaders and practitioners sustain performance, improve communication, and build more resilient teams.