AI can make us faster. It can't make us better leaders.
I work with executive teams at technology companies that are capable of far more than they're delivering. We fix that together, in the room, without a single slide about leadership.
What your team is up against
Your leadership team is smart. That was never the problem.
The problem is what happens between them. Meetings full of dashboards and empty of depth. Decisions that get made and then quietly unmade. Two people who should be your strongest pair and haven't had a real conversation in a year.
Speed hides all of it. You can ship faster than you ever have and still be a year behind on the conversation that actually matters. Faster is not the same as closer. The teams that win the next decade will be the ones that can still look each other in the eye and say the hard thing.
Terrible leadership doesn't stay at work. It comes home with us.
What we do together
Three ways in. One fire.
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Lead your team
Executive team engagements, run with Fleur. Two days in the room, ninety days of follow-through. Plus workshops for the whole team, like Flow Under Pressure.
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Lead yourself
Executive coaching and the Shift Positive 360, the feedback process that turns the people around you into allies in your growth instead of an audience for it.
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Flourish together
The 51 Threshold and Human Flourishing. One goal: 51 percent of the world flourishing by 2051. Pull up a chair.
Around the fire
Proof
What it looks like from the inside.
A room in Stillwater. A leadership team that came in polite and left honest. Fourteen sticky notes on a brick wall that turned into one decision. I can't show you their faces, but I can tell you how it felt: like the first real conversation in months.
About Niels
I'm Niels.
Twenty-two years in the Army, about ten of them on active duty, and a day job in corporate training departments the whole time I wasn't in uniform. Then I went to Penn to study what actually makes people flourish, and spent a decade inside big companies watching good leaders get ground down by bad systems.
I do this work because everyone deserves the chance to get to do their best work. Including the people at the top.
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Thirty minutes. No deck. Just a conversation about your team.
If you're the one who has been thinking "we're better than this," you're probably right. Let's talk about it.
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