Conscious Leadership Development Programs—Customized & Experiential

Build Leaders That Take 100% Ownership

Develop leaders who have the capacity to self-initiate and step up as creative change-makers, who see problems as possibilities in disguise, and who can reliably become open and not closed, responsive and not defensive, and empowering and not egotistical under pressure and in uncertainty and chaotic environments.

Build Leaders That Can Break Dysfunctional Habits & Build Empowering Ones

Develop leaders who understand and can utilize a proven neuroscience-driven pathway for breaking through and transforming persistent and pernicious patterns that sabotage their ambitions and diminish their colleagues and customers—and can strengthen new ways of feeling, thinking, and acting into more empowering habits that can unlock a better future for the organization and all its stakeholders.

Build Leaders Who Embrace Authenticity, Vulnerability & Aliveness

Develop leaders who can nudge themselves towards authenticity, humility, and vulnerability—and away from pretense, power plays, and warping behaviors—without appearing weak, weird, or woo. Build leaders with a sensitivity to the dynamics playing out in themselves and in groups and know how to lead toward more wholeness and aliveness in every moment and meeting.

Build Leaders That Manage All Boundaries Sensitively & Strongly

Develop leaders that can safely and sensitively boundary their time, energy, technologies, and relationships to ensure they have the space and capacity for strategic reflection, recovery after exhaustion, creativity/innovation not just Get Stuff Done, and focused efforts on solving problems that matter.

Build Leaders That Elevate & Empower Others For Success

Develop leaders who can harness conscious and wise leadership tools and somatic practices that elevate and ennoble themselves and others—and can create and sustain an accountability system that is both caring and firm and that allows a relentless pursuit of excellence through enthusiasm and coaching.

Build Leaders That Lead From Truth & With Trust

Develop leaders who have the capabilities and character to build high-trust environments through showing care and reliability, who have the courage to be honest and open about information (and share it appropriately in service of the organization), and have the skills to encourage stability, calm, truth, and transparency even in highly charged situations.

Build Leaders That Lead With Actionable Values & Strong Moral Compass

Develop leaders who can cultivate and reflect on their moral compass, make conscious choices and compromises that uphold ethical values, sustain courage and hope even in dark and difficult moments, and find inner stability and stillness to make decisions without anxiety or egotism getting in the way.

Build Leaders That Can Wield & Distribute Power Effectively

Develop leaders that can embrace both hard (hierarchical) and soft (influential) power and wield both wisely to make change happen in service of the purpose and without recourse to power plays, manipulation, or deceit. Develop leaders that have the skills and willingness to distribute power across an enterprise to unleash self-organization and self-management without chaos—and can be highly participatory but also decisive.

Build Leaders That Can Unlock Alignment, Resonance & Coherence

Develop leaders that have the skills and wisdom to hold safe and brave spaces for teams and town halls where all can challenge opinions and the status quo without fear, surface misalignments and soften hardened positions, honor and speak to emotional issues and ethical concerns, and harness the wisdom of the crowd for collective and coherent intelligence, sense-making, and decision-making.

Nick Jankel is a world-renowned authority on transformational leadership and the conscious leadership senses, emotions, mindsets, and behaviors that lie at its core.

Nick has trained, coached, and developed senior leaders in conscious leadership from organizations like HSBC, Walgreens, Unilever, Diageo, Google, Nike, and Merck. He has run conscious mindset and conscious entrepreneurship programs for social entrepreneurs and social innovators on four continents.

Nick has designed and headlined large-scale personal growth and transformation experiences and multi-day workshops from San Francisco to Shanghai, all based on his own transformation methodology. He has been a meditation teacher and has pioneered the contemporary use of movement, music, and mindfulness in human transformation for twenty years.

Nick was selected to be a transformation coach on two network TV shows, helping celebrities transform (MTV Studios) and addicts transform (BBC). He also wrote and would have been the star of an initially green-lit US TV show on transforming small enterprises. He has written five books on wisdom, transformation, and leadership, including two bestsellers, and has been a guest on CBS, Coast to Coast, Aspen Ideas Festival, Huffington Post, Hay House Radio, and many more.

Nick has founded ten purpose-driven ventures, three aimed specifically at reinventing and spreading wise and conscious mindsets. He has lectured at Yale, Oxford, SciencesPo, UCL, and London Business School, has a Triple First from Cambridge University in Medical Sciences & History & Philosophy of Science, and has trained in various meditation and somatic techniques, including breathwork and trauma-informed therapy.

Customize Around Your Choice Of These Conscious Leadership Capabilities

Our conscious leadership programs can be customized to build some or all of these specifics capabilities from across our cohesive and coherent Self-to-System™ leadership curriculum:

Improve Self-Awareness & Emotional Intelligence

• Understand the role and dynamics of emotions and somatic sensations in leadership effectiveness
• Explore anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations rather than repress, suppress, numb, or act out
• Track how anxious and destabilizing emotions and bodily sensations change and translate them into words for sharing
• Regulate emotions and bodily sensations, particularly when feeling upset, overwhelmed, or shut down
• Transform anxious and destabilizing emotions and somatic sensations into energizing and stabilizing emotions and somatic sensation

Change Behavior & Build New Habits

• Understand the role of ineffective/sabotaging vs. effective/serving behaviors and habits in leadership effectiveness
• Identify when reacting to challenges with stress response behaviors—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (people pleasing)—and move to change
• Take responsibility for ineffective/sabotaging behaviors and habits rather than blaming, shaming, or complaining
• Identify and release the somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors that constitute ineffective/sabotaging habits
• Accelerate the building of effective/serving habits through cultivating specific somatic sensations, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors

Master Resilience & Sustained High Performance

• Understand the role and dynamics of physical, psychological, and existential stress and resilience in leadership effectiveness
• Build robustness to bounce back quickly from challenges, crises, disappointments, and frustrations
• Spot early physical and psychological signals of overwhelm and course correct through self-care
• Identify what most impacts personal resilience and utilize recovery practices to reduce overwhelm, exhaustion, and stress
• Proactively build physical, psychological, and existential resilience to unlock sustained high performance

Manage Time, Attention, Energy & Boundaries Effectively

• Understand the roles of attention, time, energy, and boundary management in leadership effectiveness
• Manage attention effectively by reducing noise, minimizing multi-tasking, and avoiding overwhelm
• Manage time effectively to prioritize specific outcomes, goals, and value
• Manage energy effectively to maintain strength to engage in crises, challenges, and change
• Manage boundaries effectively to ensure the necessary time, attention, and energy for reflection, connection, and creativity

Harness Presence, Attunement & Empathy

• Understand the role and dynamics of presence, attunement, and empathy in leadership effectiveness
• Be fully present and available with others without judgment, criticism, cynicism, biases, or projections
• Attune to the states and needs of others in an open-hearted and open-minded ‘neutral’ state
• Have empathy for the feelings, needs, perspectives, and behaviors of others
• Be vulnerable, authentic, and genuine with all, avoiding pretense, power plays, and status games and course correcting when not

Foster Psychological Safety, Trust & Belonging

• Understand the dynamics of belonging and psychological safety in leadership effectiveness
• Foster a positive team climate that allows learning even in challenging times, not taking mistakes or poor performance personally
• Cultivate psychological safety so others can contribute their ideas and insights free of aggression, dishonesty, and manipulation
• Share successes with others while protecting them from pressure from above
• Nurture a sense of team belonging without people feeling obligated to act in a certain way