The Leadership Program
A half day that trains how you think, how you handle the emotion, and what your body does when the pressure is real. Co-facilitated by Jude Malindra Herath and Dr. Mihirini De Zoysa.
Half day, on-site · one month of weekly practice · up to 20 participants · English or Sinhala
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Built for the people making the calls.
Senior leaders and executive teams operating in volatile conditions, making decisions on incomplete information, and carrying the outcome either way. It runs as a standalone session or as a module inside an existing leadership development series.
Three layers, in one program.
Most leadership training works on one. The pressure hits all three.
Cognitive
Most stress starts as an interpretation. We were wired to survive snakes, and now the snake is sitting on a chair in your meeting. Learning to tell the difference changes what your body does next.
Emotional
Self-awareness and emotional agility, led by Dr. Mihirini De Zoysa. Recognising the trigger, naming what is actually happening, and choosing the response rather than discovering it afterwards.
Physiological
The layer almost nobody trains. Breath and somatic tools that shift your state in two to three minutes, so you walk into the room already regulated instead of hoping you hold.
Four areas, chosen with you.
We scope the session against what your leadership team is actually dealing with. These are the areas we draw from.
Leading yourself under load
Recognising your own triggers, and what your body does before you have named what is happening. Everything else sits on this.
Decisions from a reflective state
How emotion shapes a call you believe you are making rationally, and a working framework for deciding when the information runs out.
Leading through uncertainty
What sustained change does to a system, yours and your team's, and how to hold steady when there is no firm ground to stand on.
Sustaining energy and focus
Emotional agility and practices that keep you functioning across a long stretch rather than a single hard week.
Trust and psychological safety, and communicating with clarity under pressure, are available as an extended series. Ask us.
Your facilitators
Dr. Mihirini De Zoysa
Mihirini leads the thinking and the feeling. How you read a situation before your body reacts to it, how to catch a trigger while it is happening rather than afterwards, and how to make decisions from a reflective state instead of a reactive one.
- DProf, Organisational Change, Hult Ashridge and Middlesex University
- EMCC and Ashridge Hult accredited coach
- 25 years working with leaders, teams and organisations
- Non-Executive Director, Logicare, CAL Partners, CAL Securities and Ceylon Tea Brokers
Jude Malindra Herath
Jude leads the body. What actually happens to your system under pressure, how to read it early, and how to shift it in two to three minutes. He brings the play zone from athletic performance training into the room, so the tools hold when the pressure is real and not only when the room is calm.
- Certified breathwork and regulation practitioner
- Polyvagal-informed performance training
- 500+ hours of facilitation
- 20+ retreats and 100+ workshops delivered
What the half day looks like.
Weekly online group practice is included for one month, and can be extended.
One month of weekly practice, together, online.
The half day teaches the skill. This is what makes it stick. For the month after the session, your leadership team meets online with Jude once a week for a live guided practice. Same group, same time, no travel.
Regulation fades without a rhythm to hold it. This is the rhythm.
- Four live sessions, one every week, included
- 30 minutes, scheduled inside the working week
- Led live by Jude, never a recording
- On video, from wherever people are working
- Extendable by the month if the team wants to keep going
Digital practice library with 20+ regulation techniques.
Each practice takes 2 to 5 minutes and can be done anywhere. Everyone in the room also gets access to the Nerv AI companion, which helps them find exactly the practice they need at the moment they need it most.
- 20+ practices, two to five minutes each
- Done anywhere, with no mat and nothing to download
- The companion picks the right practice for the state they're in
- Theirs with no expiry, long after the session ends
Add-ons, built with our partners.
Some clients want more than the core program. These are scoped on request and built into the session.
Neuro-acoustics with YouMind
Patented neuro-acoustic protocols, personalised from a voice-based neurofunctional snapshot and delivered privately to each person's phone. Headphones only, no wearables or sensors. Sits underneath the training as a daily state-regulation layer.
Ayurveda with AyuThantra
Doctor-led Ayurvedic consultation and therapy across two Colombo locations, plus residential healing stays at Harmonie by AyuThantra. Added for recovery, sleep and long-term prevention alongside the training.
Something built for your brief
If what you need isn't here, we scope it. Tell us the outcome you're after and we design around it, drawing on our own practitioners and our partner network.
We don't ask you to take our word. We track it.
“I noticed a real shift in how the office felt and how we interacted with one another immediately. It made a sustained, positive impact on our team.”
Tell us where you are.
Tell us what your leadership team is carrying.
We scope every session against the real situation, so the first step is a short conversation rather than a brochure.