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Boardroom & Breathwork™ · leadership coaching

The leaders who most need support are the ones who would never ask for it.

Your organisation has wellbeing benefits. Your senior people are not using them. They are the ones who push through, who would rather leave than say it is too much.

The traditional model waits for somebody to raise a hand. Senior people do not. That is the gap this was built to close.

Book a 30-minute call One to one or a cohort · online, or in the room in Melbourne
Aradhana Arya, who runs the coaching
Are you seeing this too

Four people, and you can probably name three of them.

The ops director

Who has not slept properly in six weeks.

The regional manager

Whose teams thrive, and whose nine o’clock emails tell another story.

The head coach

Who holds space thirty times a week and rarely receives it.

And you

Who signed off the wellbeing platform, watched the senior people not use it, and has been looking for something they would actually turn up to.

Why both

They are not bad at change. They were shown half of it.

Almost everything your people have been offered works on the thinking. Thinking is genuinely half of it: it gets them to the decision and it gives them the language for it.

Then the decision has to survive a real week. That part is not a thinking problem. A choice made in a braced body gets quietly unmade by Thursday, and everybody calls it discipline.

So we do both. Regulate first, so the body is not voting against the decision. Then choose. Which is why this is never only a conversation. There is always something they do, not just something they hear.

The part nobody explains

What you are noticing, and where it lives.

Every one of these sits on a gland your team already depends on to get through a week. Read the seven headings and nothing else. If two or three of them are people you can name, that is where to start.

Adrenals

Nobody has stood down since the restructure.

Cortisol. Runs hot in a hard quarter, and stays hot long after it ends.

Ovaries and testes

Nobody suggests anything any more.

Where creativity and appetite live. First thing to go under pressure, and the last thing anybody thinks to check.

Pancreas

Decisions keep coming back to you.

Blood sugar, and self trust. The three o’clock flatness, and the deferring that comes with it.

Thymus

Someone apologises for a sick day.

Immunity, and self compassion. It is why sick days climb in the quarters you can least afford them.

Thyroid

The quiet one used to not be quiet.

Metabolism, and voice. A tight throat almost always arrives before the silence does.

Pituitary

One more data point, then one more.

The master gland. Judgement degrades quietly under load, and asks for evidence instead of backing the call it already made.

Pineal

Still replying at eleven at night.

Melatonin, so sleep. They are not lacking discipline. They cannot come down.

Some leaders ask me to teach exactly this to their team. Depending on the room it lands better than anything else I do.

The offer

Two shapes, and the second one changes a whole team.

One to one

Private, ongoing, and shaped around what they are actually carrying. The competing priorities, the decision they keep deferring, the version of themselves they become in week nine of a hard quarter.

Most of my one to one leadership clients are men, and almost none of them would have booked something called wellbeing.

Book a call about one person

A leadership group

The same work, done together, so a leadership group builds the language at the same time. It stops being something one person is doing quietly and becomes how the team operates.

This is The Long View, delivered to a cohort. Nine sessions, one thread.

Book a call about a cohort

What changes

Four things, and every one of them is countable.

Competing priorities, handled

Holding three urgent things at once and choosing between them cleanly, rather than doing all three badly and apologising on Friday.

Unhealthy stress made ordinary

Pressure is part of the work. Being wrecked by it is not. They learn the difference, and how to come down from one without losing the other.

The hard conversation, earlier

A regulated team raises it in week one rather than week six. Over a year that gap is worth more than most process improvements.

People who want to stay

Being led well is what people name when they are asked why they stayed. It is also what they name when they did not.

None of these are the reason people book. They are the reason people renew.

In their words

What people say afterwards.

Zara · Saint

The sessions helped me rebuild belief in myself and encouraged me not to settle for the first, second or third answer I get given, and instead look outside the box.

What happened next

Zara ran an event for her own company a few weeks later, and led it heart first instead of business first. That is the thing worth buying. Not what people say on the day.

Kylee · Lions Gate Portal at GURNER™

Aradhana created a space that encouraged us to look forward and think more deeply about what is calling us, where we want to be and what we want to create for ourselves. There was enough structure to give the session direction and purpose, without it ever feeling rigid or overly prescribed.
Before you book

The questions people actually ask.

Is this wellbeing training?

Not in the way that phrase usually means. Most workplace wellbeing sells collaboration and culture, and in my experience collaboration was rarely what held a team back. The individual nervous system was. So this works on that, and the culture follows.

Who are you, and why should we book you?

A twenty year corporate career across manufacturing, automotive, retail, recruitment and entertainment, including eleven years leading teams for one of Australia’s biggest retailers. Also a qualified IIN coach, a reiki master and a yoga teacher. So I am not remembering your pressure from a decade ago. I am in it this week, same as you.

Will the sceptics hate it?

Some of them arrive expecting to. Two things change their mind. It is short, and there is always something their body does rather than only something they hear. Sitting through a talk about resilience is what made them sceptical in the first place.

Can you measure it?

A baseline, an intervention, a measure. If it cannot be measured for what you are asking, I will say so before you buy it rather than after.

Is it confidential?

Yes. You will hear themes if you want them, never contents. A leader who suspects their sponsor is being briefed will use the hour to manage you rather than to change anything.

Where do you run it?

Online for most coaching, which is deliberate. If something surfaces, they are in their own place with water and a bed, rather than an hour from home. In the room in Melbourne when it is useful, and interstate or overseas when it is planned in.

Start here

Tell me who you are worried about.

Thirty minutes, no charge. You tell me what is actually happening with your people and I ask the questions a former manager would ask.

Then I come back with something shaped for your context, your timing and your budget. One page, not twenty.

Book a 30-minute call Or download the one page overview

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