2Board certifications
HRV and peripheral biofeedback
Clinical health and performance psychologist
You are not underperforming. Your nervous system is not adapting.
I measure the human stress response, then train it. The model is called The Resilient Engine, and it runs every engagement: Fortune 100 executives, professional teams, and the companies building the technology that reads them.
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3Companies built
Thrive, Hanu Health, Ohm Health
Thrive, Hanu Health, Ohm Health
200+Podcast and media
appearances to date
appearances to date
Who this work is for
The people who cannot afford to guess.
OlympicMedalists advised
Super BowlChampion
Cy YoungAward winner
Hart TrophyWinners, multiple
PGA MajorChampion
Has worked with athletes and teams in the
And beyond sport
With executives and teams inside Fortune 100 companies.
The model
Reading the gauge is not training the engine.
Created by Dr. Jay Wiles
The Resilient Engine
The wearable industry took the measurement and left the intervention behind. Everyone has heart rate variability on their wrist now. Almost nobody has been given anything to do about it.
The Resilient Engine is the other half. The intervention model inside it is Nervous System Resiliency Training, built the way exercise physiology builds anything else: a target adaptation, a primary stimulus, a measurement system, and a progression logic.
See the full modelSubstrateSleep
Bottom upThe body is the input
Top downThe mind is the input
AdaptationAutonomic flexibility
Three ways to work together
Measurement first. Then the protocol. Then the people.
Primary engagement
Organizational consulting
Runs on NSRT
Stress physiology programs for teams, front offices, and executive groups. Built around your season, your calendar, and the people who actually have to run it.
- Baseline assessment across the group
- Protocol design and biofeedback training
- Staff education so it outlives the engagement
- Ongoing review against real outcomes
For companies
Scientific advisory
For health technology companies building wearables, biofeedback, and recovery products. What the sensor can honestly claim, what the algorithm should say, and where the literature actually stands.
- Claims review and scientific positioning
- Algorithm and metric validation input
- Study design and research partnership
- Board and investor level scientific voice
For stages
Keynotes and workshops
The stress response explained without the mysticism, for audiences who have already sat through the usual resilience talk and want the physiology underneath it.
- Conference keynotes
- Medical and clinical audiences
- Leadership and executive offsites
- Hands on biofeedback workshops
In practice
Work starts with measurement, because opinion is expensive and data is not.
Every engagement opens the same way: baseline the group, find where capacity is actually going, and only then decide what to change.
About
A clinician who builds the instruments, not just the talk.
- CertificationBoard certified in heart rate variability biofeedback and peripheral biofeedback
- PracticeFounder, Thrive Wellness and Performance, Greenville SC
- IndustryChief Health and Performance Officer, Ohm Health
Selected media
Two hundred conversations and counting.
Speaking
Talks that leave an audience with a method, not a mood.
The stress response, measured
What HRV actually is, what it is not, and why most of what an audience has heard about it is wrong.
Capacity, not pressure
Why high performers break in predictable ways, and what the physiology shows before the performance does.
Recovery that survives a season
Building protocols for people whose schedules will not bend, from playoff runs to product launches.
Wearables and what they can honestly claim
A scientist's read on the consumer sensor market, for audiences buying it or building it.
Start here
Tell me what you are trying to fix.
Every engagement starts with the same question, so you may as well answer it first. The more specific you are about the group and the problem, the more useful my first reply will be.
Greenville, South Carolina. Available for travel and remote engagements.
Free guide
How to Read Your Nervous System.
Eight pages on what your heart rate variability data is actually telling you, and what it is not. Written for people who have been tracking for years without anything changing.
- Why a number going up is not the same as an adaptation
- What a single morning reading can and cannot tell you
- The difference between measuring the system and training it
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The Resilient Engine
The model, written out in public.
Dr. Jay writes the framework piece by piece: what the research actually says, what the protocols are, and what the data does when people run them. No cadence promised and nothing padded.