At all levels of organizations, increasingly greater demand is placed upon us to manage ever greater complexity. Demands on attention, focus, processing, energy, health, relational & cognitive capacities and more. All too often the old methods prove to be no longer ‘fit for purpose’ in such an evolved, rapid-fire environment. The negative downstream effects on creativity, communication, innovation, productivity, well-being and ultimately bottom-line are inevitably apparent throughout the organizational ecosystem.

Clearly, an evolution is also required of us in order to optimally meet this upgraded environment—as leaders, as teams and as individuals. This leaves us facing two fundamental issues: 1. Finding this upgraded skillset 2. Developing mastery with it as a new way of operating.

Most of us attempt change as a top down process. Sometimes we mandate change from above (ie. executive decision), or try to gain a few more skills, or maybe we try to act externally (physically or behaviorally) like we want to, hoping that this will magically become that. While these strategies may give some temporary impression of shift, real transformation — be it personal, team or organizational — will never truly be effected at program level in the system. This is akin to simply telling oneself to be a different way (Just be more efficient!) and optimistically expecting that alone to have a lasting impact. The well-worn grooves of habit, the ingrained ruts of our conditioned neuro-biology, will still be deeply committed to the old way of being, and inevitably that programming wins out over the new resolution no matter how ardent. Developmental psychologist Robert Kegan from the Harvard Graduate School of Education describes this built in effect as an 'immunity to change'. System program ultimately overrides top-down decision. Clearly we need a strategy which works on a systemic level. But what?

My approach integrates research-driven change methodologies drawn from cutting-edge work in organizational and human potential development and some of the latest directions in cognitive science. An awesome, ground-breaking company requires awesome, upgraded leaders and this means drawing upon and integrating the most current developments out there. My process has unsurprisingly emerged via my role as creator and head of the leading-edge, internationally-regarded, professional coach training programs in Europe and the USA as it has through my own role as leader.

Alongside of that, I employ a number simple yet empirically-verified and highly-effective skills which address the key issues arising from todays high-pressure organizational and life environments and create resilient whole leaders who can function and respond optimally in the face of these uncertain conditions.

We all know how stress, dysregulated focus and attention, poor communication, lack of energy regulation and so on all play havoc both at work and home. For leaders to function at the top of their game these areas simply must be addressed.