A Roadmap to Deep Change
MINDSHIFT is our proprietary, 5-phase roadmap to breakthrough leadership. Clear, practical, and field-tested, it equips you with the tools you need to decode, challenge, and rewire the thought patterns and hidden biases that limit you. Ultimately, you’ll lead with greater clarity, resilience, and impact.
We built the MINDSHIFT model by integrating the pioneering work of Harvard researchers
Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey with key findings from neuroscience and rigorously optimizing the emerging process on hundreds of corporate leaders across a variety of industries.
Phase 01. Define Stretch
Phase 03. Grow Awareness
You start by naming the next level of performance you’re aiming for. Like your own personal business strategist, we grasp the context in which you operate, gather 360-degree feedback from stakeholders, and take stock of the impact you aspire to have. Whether you arrive with clarity or not, we help you target a bold stretch goal: the kind that’s not just a step forward, but a genuine game-changer.
Phase 02. Map Mindset
To go higher, we must go deeper. During this phase, you drill down beneath the behaviors that are limiting your leadership effectiveness to uncover the hidden drivers motivating those behaviors. You’ll surface your inner playbook: the ingrained beliefs, assumptions, and mental models that you’ve adopted over a lifetime of success. Some still serve you. We target only those that are holding you back.
Now you begin rewiring your neural pathways. Through targeted mental exercises and by focusing on the people and issues that matter most, you practice disrupting outdated beliefs, loosening the grip of your old playbook, and growing your leadership presence. You sharpen real-time awareness of how limiting patterns show up—and start seeding the mindset required for bold, next-level leadership.
Phase 05. Create New Habits
Transformation gets real. Through a cycle of action, reflection, and focused coaching, you run bold leadership experiments to prototype new ways of leading in high-stakes moments. You grow the ability to stop the behaviors that undercut performance, challenge the old mindset, and choose to lead in alignment with the leader you’re becoming. This is not hypothetical. This is recalibration in action.
You’ve upgraded your inner playbook. You’ve rewired the core of your leadership. Now, and through several key research-backed practices, you anchor your new habits of mind and action to continue excelling beyond the life of the program. This isn’t a spike in performance - it’s a whole new operating system. When the pressure hits, you lead from instinct, clarity, and the strength of who you’ve become.
Phase 04. Launch Experiments
Transformational Results
As your coach leads you through the 5 phases of MINDSHIFT, you will develop 6 core capabilities. The capabilities are both distinct and interconnected: each one is grounded in respected leadership research, and together they form the inner mental infrastructure required to take your leadership to the next level.
Capability
Situational Adaptability
1.
Executive Presence
2.
Emotional Intelligence
3.
Adaptive Intelligence
4.
Mindfulness
5.
Resilience & Grit
6.
What It Unlocks
Adjust approach real-time to context, people, and demands
Project confidence and calm; build trust; inspire followership
Manage emotions and thoughts; relate effectively to others
Recalibrate mental models based on new data
Detect internal states and mood; calm reactivity
Bounce back from setbacks; sustain optimism under pressure
Where It Shows Up
Leading change; responding to setbacks
High-stakes meetings; crises; leadership moments
Giving and receiving feedback; managing conflict; influence moments
Navigating the unknown; new roles; innovation efforts
Decision-making; managing conflict
Responding to setbacks; transitions; sustained challenge
The Science of Transformation
Your brain is capable of profound change. But the secret to unleashing this change is not adding more tools. Instead, you must systematically upgrade the system that uses those tools. Leveraging key insights from neuroscience and vertical development theory, our model consistently helps leaders achieve the performance breakthroughs they’ve dreamed of.
“MINDSHIFT is extraordinary. I cannot believe how detailed, rigorous and complete the program is. Just astonishing. For me, the step-by-step approach to the journey of vertical development is priceless. The dedicated research & splicing together of genius stuff is a tour de force.”
L.P., ICF MCC, North Carolina USA
“MINDSHIFT is brilliantly experiential and iterative. Instead of simply intellectualizing concepts like Limiting Beliefs, we were asked to actively test them in real-world situations and gather ‘counter-data’ that challenged the power of our mental schemas. And this was where the real transformation happened: I viscerally experienced old beliefs erode and new neural pathways form.”
S.P., ICF PCC, Bengaluru India
Synthesizes academic theory into
a tangible, repeatable process
Ready to Unlock Your Next Level?
Shoot us an email or book a 30-minute consultation with a MINDSHIFT coach to explore which path is right for you.