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Self-Leadership to for High Performance

A talk to increase self-awareness, shift mindset, and inform on burnout prevention. I connect the dots between well-being and performance with neuroscience, emotional intelligence, business psychology, and mindfulness.

People do what you do, not what you say. And only 5% of your thoughts, feelings, and actions are conscious. The other 95% run on autopilot, driven by your nervous system's stress responses. For managers, this means their leadership patterns, reactions, and decisions are being shaped by systems they don't even know are running, and this is influencing their team's behaviour.

This keynote reveals the neuroscience behind emotional regulation and unlocks new self-awareness to manage emotions in a way which drives higher engagement and higher performance in Managers and their teams.

Your managers will:

  • Learn The Biology of Stress Management

  • Unlock your Self-Leadership for high-performance & well-being

  • Understand how to develop mental and emotional resilience

Your managers will:

  • Develop new Self-Awareness

  • Have connected dots on challenges they may be facing today

  • Get more insights to better coach their teams on well-being for performance

Why Self-Leadership Matters:

Most leadership training focuses on what managers do. This keynote reveals how they operate, focusing on the 95% running beneath awareness that shapes everyday decisions and actions.

Your managers will leave with science-backed self-awareness that immediately changes their perspective on themselves and their relationship with their teams.

The result? One step close to having more empathetic, self-aware leaders who make intentional decisions, build stronger, more loyal teams, and drive better results.

Duration: 30-60 minutes (customisable). Interactive with guided breathing practice
Format Options: Can include breakout sessions for peer reflection and team application

Perfect For: Leadership & Manager training programs, leadership development events, quarterly team offsites.

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Lauren Cartigny is an Executive Coach (ICF PCC) and Leadership Trainer specialising in Self-Leadership for sustainable high-performance to reduce risks of burnout, increase engagement and deliver results. 

She guides Founders, CEO and Executives to better understand themselves and master their mind-body connection, so they can lead from a place of well-being rather than survival, to preserve their health, their relationships and create a sustainable high-performance culture.

Drawing on 11 years in international tech sales at LinkedIn, Equinix, and Rackspace, Lauren brings commercial business acumen to her work. She bridges neuroscience, business psychology, and mindfulness with corporate methodologies to deliver results by solving people led issues in companies. 

Lauren works with Executives across Europe from her base in London, and is fluent in French and English.

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“Transformation comes from becoming Comfortable with the Uncomfortable.”

— Lauren Cartigny