Alaya coaching is committed to ensuring professional success, visionary and inspiring leadership skills and personal balance and resilience in corporate America.
My programs are designed to empower the members of your organization to be grounded and resilient leaders. Workshops and individual coaching can be customized and scaled to your needs. The following represent sample workshops and coaching available.
Leadership and Performance
In the workplace, many people only view mental and cognitive skills as the most relevant factors affecting performance and leadership. Yet, we are knowingly and unknowingly reading thousands of cues from others’ bodies every moment. But, most of us in the workplace ignore this wealth of information. In the past decade, neuroscience research has uncovered a plethora of information about the role of the body in supporting cognitive skills, the ability to inspire others, decision-making, or conveying credibility and trust.
Becoming aware of your body can improve your leadership effectiveness, concentration and focus, executive presence, as well as decision-making and intuition. By paying attention to your body and leveraging its wisdom you can maximize your mental acuity, reduce stress, and literally change your attitudes and thoughts in a moment. Learn to leverage your mind and body for peak performance in reaching your personal and professional goals even when faced with conflict, stress and pressure. What if instead of just using your body to haul your mind from place to place, you paid attention to your body – noticing its subtle shifts in tension, your tendency to hold your breath during difficulty, or contract in response to certain things instead of remaining open and flexible?
In leadership and performance coaching, I work with individuals to strengthen their leadership skills using traditional frameworks to improve competencies such as communication, delegation, and management. But I also draw on my own somatic background and neuroscience research to help people embody leadership so that they can be inspiring, and visionary while also feeling resilient and empowered.
Resilience and Sustainability
Top talent is powerful commodity. But all too often, companies lose their best employees due to burn out and job dissatisfaction. Wellness is often tossed to the side. Employees are encouraged to push through, try harder even when they are stressed and on the verge of burnout. In actuality, by ignoring well-being and stress, employees become less efficient, less creative, more irritable and more prone to leave the company due to dissatisfaction and burnout.
More and more companies are recognizing the impact that each individual’s physical and emotional well-being has on overall corporate culture and efficiency. Neuroscience and other research can prove why stress and lack of breaks are detrimental to the work force. The bottom line is that the brain learns better and retains more if you take breaks and give the mind a chance to integrate new information.
In my wellness coaching, for organizations, employees and leaders will learn practices and skills to promote renewal and inspiring leadership. I teach stress reduction techniques and strategies for balanced purposeful living that account for the demands of corporate life.
Together we will explore:
- Stress reduction techniques — meditation, centering, breathing etc.
- Becoming grounded and confident in your body language and stance
- How to remain resilient in the face of stress and conflict
Qigong, Feldenkrais, and Meditation Classes or Private Instruction available
Past Presentations
Why Not Thrive? What’s My Body Got To Do With It?
Presentation for The Urban Land Institute in San Francisco, Orange County and San Diego.
Part of a 6-part series presented by Tim Tosta, real estate attorney at Luce Forward. A thought-provoking series on how we can thrive even despite tough economic times, including the role the body plays in managing stress, and creating sustainable work environments with healthy emotional cultures. (click here to view the slides)
Your Competitive Advantage: "Your Body's Role in Peak Performance"
The San Francisco Chapter of the UC Berkeley Haas Alumni Network Professional Events Series
Take this opportunity to build and strengthen your personal competitive advantage. In this presentation on Somatics, learn how your body supports your competitive edge on the job and in the real world. Did you know your body can improve your leadership effectiveness, concentration and focus, executive presence, and decision making and intuition? Learn how to leverage your mind and body for peak performance in reaching your personal and professional goals even when faced with conflict, stress and pressure.
Leveraging the Body for High Performance: The Crucial Role the Body Plays in Developing Executive Presence and Dealing with Stress
SF Coaches Association
A highly interactive presentation, that explores how you can fully leverage your mind and body, so that you can be highly effective and successful in reaching your personal and professional goals even when faced with conflict, stress and pressure.
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