Master the Inner Game

A Transformational Leadership Program

The demands of leadership are relentless. The pressure isn’t easing up. The playbook that once brought you success no longer guarantees results. You’re making an impact, but you know there’s a next level to reach. Because the game is changing. And so must you.

Master the Inner Game is a 9-month, immersive, cohort-based training program designed to rewire the thinking that drives your leadership at the deepest level.

Grounded in the latest neuroscience and proven with senior corporate leaders across a range of industries over the past two decades, our stepwise MINDSHIFT process equips you to decode, challenge, and rewire the thought patterns and hidden biases that limit your leadership. In this program, you’ll reshape the core of how you lead. 

Great leadership is not about knowing more. It’s about becoming more. Which is why this is not another executive education program or quick fix solution. This is recalibration—a rigorous, high-trust process to rewire how you show up under pressure, lead through uncertainty, and grow beyond the old patterns that limit you.

What makes this program different?

The MINDSHIFT Method

At the heart of this program is our proven, 5-phase roadmap to transformation: MINDSHIFT. Leveraging the pioneering work of Harvard researchers Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, we built the MINDSHIFT model by integrating key findings from neuroscience and rigorously optimizing the emerging process on hundreds of corporate leaders across a variety of industries. Clear, practical, and thoroughly field-tested, MINDSHIFT gives you the tools you need to rewire the inner game of your leadership and achieve peak performance. 

The Cohort Experience

Master the Inner Game convenes a select group of high-caliber leaders committed to taking their game to the next level. Cohort sessions offer a confidential space for you to share emerging insights, learn out loud with peers who are also pushing their own limits, and challenge one another to continue pursuing your respective leadership goals. Through deep trust, radical self-honesty, and mutual support, you forge lasting connections and catalyze transformation.

An Executive Coach

You are thoughtfully paired with a MINDSHIFT-certified executive coach who meets with you 1:1 at key points in the process. During these sessions, the coach acts as both a thought partner and pattern disruptor, helping you assess your performance across critical dimensions of leadership, reflect on your behavior in recent real-life scenarios, uncover the beliefs and assumptions driving your behavior, and pressure-test new behaviors more in step with your leadership goal.

Your journey begins with the Leadership Circle Profile, one of the most comprehensive leadership assessments available. The Profile gathers performance feedback from relevant stakeholders at all levels of your organization and across a range of critical leadership dimensions. Equipped with these insights, you then set a stretch goal that represents a real game-changer. 

Radical self-honesty and clarity at this depth demands courage. It’s also what unlocks the potential to lead in ways you haven’t yet imagined.

Transformational Results

As you progress through the 5 phases of the program, 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

Executive Presence

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Adaptive Intelligence

Mindfulness

Resilience & Grit

What it unlocks

Adjust style and approach in 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; calm reactivity

Bounce back from setbacks; sustain energy and optimism under pressure

Where it shows up

Leading change; responding to setbacks

High-stakes meetings; crises; leadership moments

Giving/receiving feedback; managing conflict; influence moments

Navigating the unknown; new roles; innovation efforts

Decision-making; managing conflict

Responding to setbacks; transitions; sustained challenge

The Transformation Timeline

Schedule for our 2026 program.

The Training System

Transformation occurs at the intersection of six unique elements.

Your journey begins with the Leadership Circle Profile, one of the most comprehensive leadership assessments available. 

The Profile gathers performance feedback from relevant stakeholders at all levels of your organization and across a range of critical leadership dimensions. Equipped with these insights, you then set a stretch goal that represents a real game-changer. 

Radical self-honesty and clarity at this depth demands courage. It’s also what unlocks the potential to lead in ways you’ve not yet imagined.

Before each cohort session, you engage with our curated selection of online resources: Masterclass-style videos, leadership case studies, and foundational articles that distill the science behind behavior change. 

Grounded in MINDSHIFT (our proprietary, 5-phase roadmap to transformation), these resources prepare you to enter each session primed for deep work, fluent in the language of transformation, and ready to connect insights to lived experience.

This is where you put theory into practice. 

Drawing on the instructional resources, guided by your MINDSHIFT coach, and motivated by the example and support of your peers, you take focused time throughout the program to complete the 12 core MINDSHIFT exercises. Through guided reflection, you fire the new neural pathways needed to reach your next level.

You are thoughtfully paired with an executive coach who meets with you 1:1 at key points in the process. 

During these sessions, the coach acts as both a thought partner and pattern disruptor, helping you assess your performance across critical dimensions of leadership, reflect on your behavior in recent real-life scenarios, uncover the beliefs and assumptions driving your behavior, and pressure-test new behaviors more in step with your leadership goal.

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  • "This program has been a truly transformative experience. Reflecting on my career, I can confidently say it was a pivotal inflection point. It reshaped my thinking, expanded my perspective, and propelled me to new heights of success.”

    RD, VP Planning & Transformation

  • "The biggest shift? Letting go of control. I’ve taken the reins off my team—and they’re finding new ways to deliver great results. It’s changed everything: how I lead, how I parent, how I show up in life. My stress is down 80%, and my productivity is up 60%.”

    WM

  • “Even two years later, I’m still seeing the impact. My leadership has improved tenfold and so has my mindset. The worry that used to weigh me down is gone. It was an absolute breakthrough in my life.”

    RA

  • "During a meeting, a dynamic played out that would have totally hijacked me. But because of this program, I found my habitual response just didn’t come up. I was strangely able to remain curious and listen. And the impact? We were able to move forward with the initiative. Bottom-line was the equivalent of $3 million per year."

    EK, VP Human Resources

  • "MINDSHIFT revolutionized my leadership. There are too many impacts to speak of… I’m now able to confidently share innovative ideas and strategic vision, even with highly knowledgeable individuals or in high-stakes situations, without fearing judgment or being seen as incompetent. I can effectively delegate and empower my clients and their teams, trusting in their capabilities rather than micromanaging."

    SP, Managing Director

  • "The rigor of MINDSHIFT is mind blowing. The process gave me the awareness to catch myself in reactive patterns before they derail me. It’s like seeing a ‘slippery road ahead’ sign in real time — so I can adjust and lead in the direction I truly want to go. Invaluable."

    GS

  • "I’d built my career on charging hard and fixing problems. But in the C-suite, that started to backfire. MINDSHIFT helped me uncover and rewire the patterns behind my reactions and apply new ways of leading in high-stakes moments. I now lead with calm, clarity, and trust. The shift has been both career-defining and life-changing.”

    JT

  • "MINDSHIFT did exactly what it says: it shifted my mind, and with it, the way I lead. It uncovered blind spots and limiting beliefs I didn’t know I had. The real magic was learning how to challenge these set beliefs and flip them. I’m now a more confident, decisive leader.

    MB

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