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Mindfulness and Wellbeing

Lead and Thrive Under Pressure

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Mindfulness and Wellbeing

Lead and Thrive Under Pressure

Managing energy, focus and resilience for sustainable high performance in an AI-driven world

AI promises leaders more time to think strategically. For most, the opposite happens: more inputs, more decisions, and less capacity to process any of it. But if we’re honest, this pattern isn’t new. Long before AI, we were already responding to pressure the same way: optimize the calendar, prioritize harder, squeeze more in. The tools keep changing. The pattern doesn’t. We keep trying to better manage our time when the real bottleneck is our human energy.

Build the capacity to lead at your best in demanding environments. This course equips leaders with practical strategies to manage energy, sustain focus, and enhance resilience – in themselves and in the teams they lead – supporting high performance without sacrificing wellbeing. As the pace of work keeps accelerating, this might be the most important leadership skill you’ll ever learn.

This course is ideal for:
  • Leaders and managers who want to lead high-performing teams without sacrificing wellbeing
  • Professional specialists (project managers, HR, L&D, engineers, consultants, etc.) working in high-pressure environments 
  • Executives and business owners seeking to shift from "always-on" cultures to sustainable high performance 
  • Remote and hybrid employees navigating the blurred lines between work and home life
  • Administrative professionals managing high levels of interruptions and distractions
  • Shift your mindset from traditional time management to a more comprehensive, human-centered approach that integrates energy and time
  • Identify your unique personal energy patterns, strengths and stress signals
  • Make wiser choices in how you spend your  “energy budget”
  • Work rhythmically, balancing focused effort with intentional recovery
  • Reduce the hidden drains on your energy from multitasking, context switching and distractions
  • Design sustainable practices that support resilience, wellbeing and consistent high performance
  • Reclaim energy for life outside of work so your professional success does not come at the expense of your health, relationships and personal fulfillment
Impact on your organization, team or business:
  • Proactively reduce burnout risk, absenteeism and “quiet quitting” before they become costly organizational issues
  • Improve decision-making, focus and quality of work under pressure
  • Reduce hidden productivity losses caused by distraction, constant reactivity and “busy-ness” 
  • Equip leaders with a shared language and framework for managing time and energy
  • Support healthier, more effective work rhythms across in-person, remote and hybrid teams
  • Build organizational resilience by shifting from an “always on” culture to sustainable high performance
From Time to Energy Management 
  • The limitations of traditional time management in a digital world 
  • Exploring the mindset shift from time-based productivity to energy-based performance and wellbeing
  • Hidden workplace dynamics and assumptions that contribute to burnout 
Assessing your Energy
  • Conducting an energy audit across the four domains of energy
  • Identifying personal energy patterns and factors impacting daily energy highs and lows
  • Recognizing early warning signs of overload and burnout 
Using Energy (and Time) Effectively 
  • How humans perform at their best through focus, flow and rhythmic work
  • Aligning your responsibilities, tasks and schedule using time and energy 
  • Ways that leaders and teams can foster an energy-aware culture 
Restoring and Protecting your Energy
  • Applying the science of stress and recovery to nervous system regulation 
  • Practicing research-backed methods that restore energy and support active recovery
  • Addressing common workplace patterns that deplete energy and mental bandwidth
Growing your Energy Capacity
  • How stress and challenge can be a risk and driver of professional growth
  • Translating insights into a practical, personalized energy management plan 
  • Designing high-leverage habits that support your current season of work and life 

     

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Cole Nakatani

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Cole is an educator, facilitator and certified coach specializing in energy management, burnout prevention and sustainable high performance. He has over a decade of experience helping thousands of individuals, teams and organizations around the world to rethink their productivity through a more human-centered lens. Drawing on research from performance psychology, neuroscience and organizational behaviour, as well as his own experience with burnout, he delivers practical, engaging learning experiences that translate insight into action.

What other professionals think

Cole is a seasoned professional who delivers top-notch workshops to support mental health. Grounded in compelling research, Cole offers simple and achievable insights and tactics that help folks understand and protect their precious energy to maximize their personal resilience and reduce the chance of burnout. Highly valuable and highly recommended.

Many learning opportunities over the years but I have to say that the most practical and relevant things I learned are from your course. There was time to learn and reflect. Each week there were key takeaways that we tried to put into practice. We came back every week and reflected on our progress. Thanks to you, I remember to manage my energy to avoid burnout.

Cole is an exceptional instructor! Uses clear and simple language while providing visual examples to explain his materials, and the lessons can relate to all humans in both their work and in their daily lives. Thank you for another fantastic course.