The DNA of Performance
Your Blueprint for Leading with Unstoppable Energy and Resilience
Available 1 October 2026
You have built a career on
being the person who delivers.
The question is whether you can keep performing at this level, at this pace, for as long as you intend to.
The premise
It begins with
biology.
Most leadership advice assumes the answer is to work harder, sleep more, exercise better or manage your time more efficiently. But no two leaders are biologically the same. The routine that transforms one executive can slowly exhaust another.
Drawing on nearly two decades of clinical practice, alongside the science of genetics, nutrition and neuroscience, Alessandra Edwards shows why two capable leaders can follow the same routine and get completely different results.
The Framework
Your energy has a
signature.
Three biological systems shape how you perform: when your energy rises and falls, how you meet pressure, and how efficiently you make energy in the first place. The way those three combine is specific to you. That combination is your DNA Energy Signature™.
Energy Rhythm
When your energy naturally rises and falls across a day, and when your best thinking is actually available to you.
Stress Response
How your biology meets pressure, how long it holds, and what recovery genuinely costs you.
Energy Quality
How efficiently your body produces and sustains energy, and how quickly it depletes under load.
What the book does
Stop copying other people’s routines.
This book will help you identify your own signature, understand where your energy comes from, recognise what drains it, and build your own high performance strategy: the routines, nutrition, supplements, behavioural techniques and training that suit your biology rather than someone else’s.
The author
Alessandra Edwards
Alessandra Edwards is an advisor to CEOs and senior executives, specialising in the biology of sustainable high performance. She helps leaders protect the capability that underpins clear thinking, resilience and exceptional leadership, translating complex science into practical strategies for sustained high performance through midlife and beyond.
She also serves on the board of Tide & Time Alliance, a not-for-profit dedicated to dementia education and community support.