Flow Under Pressure. The Flow State Lab
Flow is built, not found.
A full day for leaders who carry a lot, on how to build focus you can count on when it matters. Co-created and co-led by Niels Gott and Fleur de Vries.
The problem, plainly
You know the feeling.
The most important thing on your list, and you can't get to it. Not because you're lazy. Because you're carrying forty other things, and every one of them has a notification.
Flow isn't a mood. It's a set of conditions. Most of them are in your control, and almost nobody was taught how to set them.
What you leave with
Three things, on paper, before you go home.
A map of your own pressure.
Where it comes from, what it does to your attention, and which of it is actually yours.
Four conditions for flow you can set on purpose.
Clear goals, tight feedback, the right challenge, and a protected block of time. Backed by four decades of research; we'll show you which parts hold up.
An operating system for the week.
Written by you, on paper, before you leave the room. The version that survives contact with Monday.
The day
08:30 to 17:00. Phones in the basket.
- 08:30
- Coffee, and a question you'll answer twice.
- 09:00
- Pressure: what it does to your brain and your calendar.
- 10:30
- The four conditions, one at a time, with your real work on the table.
- 12:00
- Lunch. Phones stay in the basket.
- 13:00
- Build your operating system.
- 15:00
- Practice it. Then break it. Then fix it.
- 16:30
- Agreements with yourself, witnessed.
- 17:00
- Done. Some people stay for a drink. We usually do too.
The premium package
The day, plus three months.
The day, plus three 90-minute virtual sessions over the following three months. That's where it becomes a habit instead of a memory. We check what worked, what didn't, and what to change. Groups of eight to thirty-five.
Fleur and Niels
Niels Gott
Nearly twenty-two years in the Army, a master's in what makes people flourish, and a long habit of watching what pressure does to good leaders.
Fleur de Vries
Executive coach and facilitator, Chicago. Founder of Reimagine Leadership Coaching.
Where it has run
- June 2026. EO Minnesota, Edina. The debut.
Proof
The first group's words are with them. Ask us on a call.