Build a Foundation of Emotional Intelligence

Begin Leadership Development Upstream

For decades, companies have focused leadership development on driving behavior change. But that’s no longer enough as leaders face a constant barrage of change and new levels of complexity.

We help companies target leadership development “upstream.” Using unique models of the Perception Box^TM and Emotional Dynamics, we help leaders expand their perceptions and accurately manage emotions to drive the behavior that achieves defined outcomes.

Drawing from the proven Search Inside Yourself program initially created at Google and the innovative science of Perception Box, our foundational programs use a unique blend of neuroscience, attention training, and practical application to create durable leadership skills that hold up to the intensity and constant change of modern leadership.

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the benefits of building a foundation of emotional intelligence

Through this training, your organization will:

connect emotions to outcomes

Identify emotions accurately and understand their impact on work and performance.

focus attention for productivity

Build skill to shift attention from autopilot to intention to focus on what matters most.

build connection through perception

Understand how perceptions shape emotions and actions, and how others perceive things differently.

harness emotions as fuel for performance

Enable leaders and teams to shift their emotions to power better performance.

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Increase emotional intelligence across your organizational culture

A foundation of emotional intelligence is critical to ensure leadership development turns into in-the-moment behavioral change.

We offer two foundation emotional intelligence programs, each designed to meet the unique needs of leadership and team roles. While using both programs will maximize impact on your culture, you can also use either program as a stand-alone to address challenges quickly.

Leading with Emotional DynamicsTM

Leadership Program

Equip leaders with practical tools to recognize, regulate, and respond to the emotions that drive performance in a fast-paced, high-pressure work environment.

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Excelling with Emotional DynamicsTM

Individual Contributor Program

Build foundational emotional intelligence to enable teams to make better decisions, form strong relationships, and adjust to changes, improving individual and team results.

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Leadership Program

Leading with Emotional Dynamics^TM

Leading with Emotional Dynamics is a focused, experiential program for leaders working under pressure. It's built on the premise that most leaders already know what good leadership looks like. What gets in the way isn't a gap in knowledge, it's the gap between what they know and what they can actually do when the stakes are high, there’s limited time, and/or they have very difficult decisions to make.

Drawing on emotional dynamics, neuroscience, and attention training, the program develops the awareness and emotional capacity that lets leaders access their best thinking and behavior when they most need it. The program emphasizes application throughout: participants work with their own challenges and practice skills they can use immediately.

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leadership program logistics

We recommend a 6-week blended learning journey for this program to maximize learner engagement and skill application. For organizations that want to integrate Leading with Emotional Dynamics™ content within an existing leadership program in their organization, we recommend using the microcourses and live learning session content only.

audience

frontline and midlevel leaders

participants

up to 24 per cohort

format

blended self-paced and live (in person or virtual) learning

duration

6-week learning journey, with 4 hours of live learning

Self-Insight Tool

A short survey to help leaders understand their EQ baseline, the perceptions they bring to leadership, and envision who they want to be as future leaders. Results are used to personalize program content and live learning sessions.

Self-paced Learning

Prior to live sessions, participants engage in three short microcourses to cover key concepts in the course. Microcourses include:

The Perception Box: How Your Brain Builds Emotions (10 min.)

The Three Shifts (10 min.)

Responsive Leadership (10 min.)

Live Session 1: Emotional Awareness and the Perception Box

2 hours: The first live session helps leaders see the connection between their perceptions, emotions, and leadership outcomes.

Key modules include:

Setting the Foundation

Explore how emotions drive decision-making, relationships, and leadership performance.

Emotional Awareness and the Perception Box:

Learn how your brain interprets situations, makes predictions, and creates specific emotions designed to support you in what happens next.

Managing Emotions

Practice simple techniques to recognize emotional activation and reframe the narrative with intention.

Live Session 2: Constructive Empathy and Communication

2 hours: The second live session turns leaders' attention outward, building their skill in detecting the emotions of others and communicating with empathy.

Key modules include:

Building Constructive Empathy

Understand how to balance connection and emotional boundaries as a leader to strengthen team relationships and build trust.

Communicating with Empathy

Learn how to deliver difficult information with care and clarity.

Applying Emotional Intelligence to Leadership Challenges

Develop a personalized action plan to integrate emotional intelligence into leadership.

Personalized Application Challenges

Each leader chooses from a personalized list of leadership application challenges which enables them to apply the new skills to their day-to-day work (e.g. Making decisions under pressure). Participants apply these challenges over four weeks, with each taking about 30 minutes to complete.

Personal Growth Insights

Engage in a short post-program inventory to measure EQ growth at the individual and group level, and receive personalized recommendations to apply emotional intelligence practices.

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Individual Contributor Program

Excelling with Emotional Dynamics^TM

Success at work depends on more than technical skills. Rather, the most critical factor in performance is how you collaborate with others, especially in terms of how you navigate challenges, manage emotions, and stay focused under pressure.

Built on the proven content of the Search Inside Yourself program—originally developed at Google—this course develops foundational emotional intelligence through a unique blend of neuroscience, mindfulness, and practical application tools.

With these tools, they are able to better maintain composure under stress, respond thoughtfully in challenging moments, and collaborate more effectively.

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individual contributor program logistics

We recommend a 6-week blended learning journey for this program to maximize learner engagement and skill application. For organizations that want to integrate Excelling with Emotional Dynamics^TM content within a larger program in their organization, we recommend using the microcourses and live learning session content only.