LEADERSHIP PRESENCE
Peak performance individuals and teams
The promise
The VUCA world that we are all navigating is bringing new complexities and challenges. To meet these
successfully requires us to update our inner and outer operating systems.
This transformational work enables individuals and teams to build high levels of resilience,
connectedness and multi-level intelligence.
It reveals and embeds the practical gateways to peak performance, individual and group.
These gateways:
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Re-frame the mindsets needed to navigate the challenges of the VUCA environment
Embody the integration of right and left brain capacities, Being and Doing and pro-active and
receptive modalities
Create leaders and teams that are founded on higher levels of connectedness, flow, energy and
innovation
The context
Most leaders and most teams are operating at a radically reduced level of capacity, and have forgotten that
this is so, simply because from an early age we are so conditioned into a narrow bandwidth of perception
and thinking. This bandwidth is dominated by our linear, rational mind, and is largely detached from our
bodies as well as from feeling, sensing and intuiting, and from deeper levels of listening and connecting.
This means that most organisations are basically navigating the ever more complex VUCA world as if with
one hand tied behind their back. This brings great stress, and compromises the potential of high
performance and higher insight/innovation.
The work
We work theoretically and experientially, thus ensuring the embedding of breakthroughs.
This happens though recognising and re-writing some of our core conceptual frameworks and through
multi-level experiential exercises, including:
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Somatic work: a series of easy breathing and grounding exercises that bring the nervous system into
a more balanced state, and bring us back to the experience of being connected to our body, melting
the mind/body split that underpins our narrow bandwidths. These exercises bring new experiences
and also give participants simple and effective Presence practices to use on a daily basis.
Emotional work: re-writing the ingrained beliefs that some emotions are ‘negative’ or ‘weak’.
Making it safe to find an appropriate welcoming of our emotional life and harvesting the energy and
connectedness that we lose by not doing so. Discovering how much this deepens team performance
and opens the ground for innovative thinking.
Mindfulness: Understanding why this has become so widespread, why paying attention much more
consciously is such a transformative resource. Introducing simple and powerful exercises that can be
used throughout the day.
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Listening: greatly expanding our experience of what it means to really listen….what it means to
receive a person, a group or a situation with our whole self, rather than through cognitive function
alone. Deepening our relational capacity.
Innovation: understanding and cultivating the ground for ‘the idea came to me’. Bringing higher
levels of thinking, innovating and group intelligence.
Finding a new balance of ‘Being’ and ‘Doing’ – the essential key to Peak Performance.
Nicholas Janni
Over the last 20 years Nicholas has gained an international reputation for his
transformational coaching and leadership development seminars. The clients he has
served include FedEx, Rolls Royce, Swiss Re, Centrica, Teva Pharmaceuticals, J&J,
Amdocs, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola and Lafarge, as well the as UK Permanent
Secretaries, several UK cabinet ministers and heads of UK Police.
He bridges the world of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a
uniquely powerful, relevant and accessible way.
In his first career Nicholas was a theatre director. He taught acting at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in
London, and directed his own theatre company. He has spent 30 years researching the theory and the practice
of ‘the zone’ of peak performance, and studying and practicingmultiple mind/body disciplines.
In 1998 he became a Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, and in 2001 he left the theatre
to co-found the arts-based leadership development consultancy Olivier Mythodrama. In 2013 he founded his
own consultancy, CORE PRESENCE. He was an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford Said Business
School 2010–15, and currently teaches regularly at the IMD Business School in Lausanne. He is based partly
in Israel, where he works with numerous corporate clients, Israeli and Palestinian NGO’s and at Tel Aviv
University Recanati Business School.
CORE PRESENCE
www.corepresence.org
www.nicholasjanni.com
Watch a short extract from a conference address
to 1500 Chief Executives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52M7gpJIdw
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“I've asked Nicholas to teach in every major leadership development program I run at the IMD Business School
and elsewhere. Why? Because I've never seen anyone have a more sustainable, transformational impact on
leaders than he does. He's simply the best.”
Michael Watkins, Author of The First 90 Days, and Professor of Leadership at IMD Business School
“Nicholas's work epitomises the word transformation. He takes leaders and their organisations to a place
where they find a deeper level of performance and contribution. Work with him and expect major positive
change in your life and organisation."
Dr. Andrew White, Associate Dean for Executive Education, University of Oxford Said Business School