Skillful Means Leadership Lab
The pathway to Creative leadership
Our leading-edge method
Practical, easy-to-learn and apply. Based on latest research in neuroscience, cardiac coherence and mindfulness. No special equipment required.
Sustainable, positive change
Get inspired and experience what is possible in our 2 day F2F workshop. Further develop and maintain leadership competencies on-the-job with daily practice - we provide you the framework and the support to achieve your goals. Designed for busy people, our program easily integrates into your workflow and life.
Tailored for you, to help you achieve your own personal goals
Everyone has different objectives and learns differently. Through 1:1 coaching, we customize the program to address your current needs and ongoing development.
Connect and learn
We create the space where connections with all participants are encouraged. You work together to develop as leaders during the program, and continues after completion.
Our program leaders
SkillfulMeans Leadership Lab is led by accomplished business and technology leaders who also have a minimum of 5+ years applying and teaching mindfulness and cardiac coherence in a work environment.
Those 2-5 day leadership seminars can be inspiring! But what happens when it’s over?
“I’ve been to many leadership programs that were inspiring, but always had difficultly applying what I learned. This program is different. I use what I learned here, every day! Everyone on my team can benefit from the SkillfulMeans Leadership Lab.”
Fabio Scheurel
IT Architect, Maiborn Wolff
Effective, practical and sustainable
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Next Program begins September 13, 2023
We all have a kingdom... run yours!
SkillfulMeans Leadership Lab
Early Bird Registration Open Now!
Experience a new sense of mastery, vitality, and connectedness. Lead with purpose, impact and flexibility, and promote well-being for yourself and those around you. Elevate team performance in an Agile world.
What’s in it for you?
Achieve more, without losing your sense of well-being at work and home.
Connect, influence, build networks and work well with anyone - even those difficult people we all know - regardless of level, function, generation, culture or reporting relationship.
Thrive in complex environments and master how to be at ease with change and uncertainty and elevate your team's performance in an Agile world.
Turn setbacks into opportunities for yourself and your team.
Find more clarity, purpose and fulfillment and help others discover it too.
Daniel Volkovich, Director of Product Management, PGA of America
“This program changed my attitude, helped me get promoted and gave me the tools to get my team connected and functioning better than I thought possible.”
100% of attendees would (and do!) highly recommend this program to their colleagues
Benedikt Lücke, Team Leader Supply Chain, RUAG Swiss AG
“Over the last few weeks, I have come to know what I really want, and have a clear path to reach my goals.”
We all have kingdoms and lead in our domains.
Are your running your kingdom or is your kingdom running you?
Mark Galea, Financial Controller, Azure / Mellieha
“I gained clarity on how to carve out my new role, as our business is going through a major change. I was able to challenge my assumptions and to find much more joy in my work and life.”
Leading Edge, Science Based
We integrate neuroscience, cardiac coherence and mindfulness within a supportive structure with practical on-the-job application to help you develop sustainable leadership competencies:
real-time self-awareness & self-mastery
natural leadership presence and confidence
growth and agile mindset
productive relationships
Ask us anything
If you have any question or need more info on what the program can offer you, or you want to talk with someone, we are here to help
Neuroscience gives us clues into what drives our behavior - and what motivates us to change and develop growth and agile mindsets and lasting leadership traits and competencies.
Cardiac coherence is a measurable state of physiological balance, where the mind and heart align. The entire human biological system becomes more regular and stable, that makes us feel good and perform at higher levels.
Mindfulness is the science of being focused and present - a process of regulating attention and sharpening the mind, so that you can bring presence and high-resolution awareness to your daily work and switch from reactive to creative behavior.
The 3 steps of SkillfulMeans Leadership Lab
1. Get Going
pre-workshop
Set your goals - identify and clarify your personal goals
Meet your peers online - we use Slack to communicate
2. Learn & Practice
2 day F2F workshop
Meet your peers and plug in into your group’s collective wisdom
Experience, master, connect - learn and practice tools that engage the mind and ignite the heart.
80% Experiential: individual and group skill building activities, reflection and dialogue
20% Presentation: brief and engaging
3. Own It!
6 week support
Learn by doing as you apply your new skills at work. Do what you already do - better!
Two 60 min and one 90 min Interactive video conferences, connect, review,
clarify, deepen and practiceThree 30 min 1:1 coaching sessions for individual support and
continued development6 weeks Peer Ecosystem for personal feedback, connecting with your peers,
insight and support. Plus, media rich content to augment what you are learning.Unlimited Q&A, over Slack
Paul Sunderland, HR Director, Western Europe, Amcor
“Sometimes the workload gets in the way and you forget about the reasons you entered this stream of work. Taking on board everything I experienced in this course renewed my attitude towards my professional life, and how I interact with my colleagues.”
Emil Ansarov facilitates the program globally and leads the SMLL Teacher Training Program. Over his 25 years experience as Managing Partner at ObjectKnowledge, Emil has led teams on complex global IT driven transformation projects. As an executive coach, Emil delivers solutions to leaders globally to help them and their teams grow and meet challenges and uncertainty with clarity, impact, resilience and integrity.
Over the last 20 years he has worked with groups and individuals to share with them the transformative power of cardiac coherence and mindfulness. Emil’s greatest joy is helping people discover their hidden qualities that leads them to be more than they ever thought possible.
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If you have any question or need more info on what the program can offer you, or you want to talk with someone, we are here to help