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Thus, in a Matrix Coaching session we give only two minutes to the ‘narrative’, to the presenting issue, and immediately look together into what is actually happening inside us beyond the conceptual bubble of our thinking.

Here we encounter physical sensations, and within the physical sensations, we discover that there are often unattended layers of emotion.

In the remaining twenty-five minutes instead of creating further fragmentation by labeling some emotions ‘negative’, or by trying to fix, transform or over-analyse them, we create a warm, safe enough, unconditional space to simply feel, to finally give up all the tension we use to not feel.

In so doing, we usually discover a profound relaxation, a deeply welcome sense of ‘coming home’, of ease, of oneness.

This is _energy_ work, and the results of each session will be experienced in the whole self. Typical results are more energy flow, more ease, more compassion and empathy, more clarity, a sense of inner space, and more groundedness.

These are the foundations of **Leader as Healer**


Winner of the Business Book of the Year 2023 award. 

Welcome to a new vision of leadership. This powerful training is designed to give leaders and leadership teams the frameworks and practices that will take your work to new levels of coherence, service and impact.
The leadership that is needed now.

All sessions bookings are subject to availability. The booking is completed upon receipt of a full payment of the session fee. Sessions are opened for booking until 24 hours in advance of the scheduled start time.
 
Cancellations made 24 hours or more in advance of the scheduled session will be available for rescheduling. Sessions cancelled within 24 hours of the scheduled start are fully chargeable. 

Rescheduling is available until 24 hours before the scheduled session. Full refund will be issued in case of a "no-show" of the coach. 

Each of us is an energetic structure within which at any one time there is free- flowing life energy, and stuck or frozen energy.

Nothing in us needs healing, fixing or transforming. What is needed are qualities of unconditional acceptance and a trust to move towards and embrace whatever is arising.

In the words of Nikola Tesla: “if you want to understand how the universe works, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”

Podcast recorded in Mauritius, October 2024 by Conversations Live featuring Nicholas hosted by Kabir Gobin

What does it mean to be truly present? How can stillness and self-awareness transform the way we lead, work, and connect with others? 

A Mantra Connexions Production brings this beautiful dialogue of the host Kabir Gobin and Nicholas 

The Power of Presence with Nicholas Janni

Author, founder, yogi and futurist Christine Marie Mason interviews Nicholas in her podcast, a weekly deep dive into how we can live with more freedom, impact and joy. 

What if true leadership is more about presence, healing, and deep connection than endless action and strategy? Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Nicholas Janni, a transformational coach and leadership expert whose groundbreaking book "Leader as Healer" challenges the traditional leadership paradigm. 

Nicholas is the Co-founder and Programme Director of The Matrix Development, where he catalyzes the future by working with CEOs and senior teams globally. He also teaches at two of the world's leading business schools, pioneering a new vision and practice of leadership.

Today, Nicholas shares his insights on the importance of vulnerability, emotional intelligence, and true leadership's healing power. Whether you're a seasoned executive or aspiring to make a bigger impact, we invite you to listen in and learn more about the holistic, embodied, and soulful approach to guiding organizations and communities.

The Rose Woman: Becoming a Radiant Leader 

Interview led by Dirk Verburg on the Leadership 2.0 podcast

"'A transformational read that every leader of today needs'. These were the words Head Judge, Jacq Burns used when she announced that 'Leader As Healer', written by Nicholas Janni was selected as the overall winner for the 2023 Business Book Awards.

The book argues that, given the current challenges our society faces, we need a new leadership model. Our current leadership model is one where we see great leaders as warriors 'on the battlefield of relentless competition', who drive action, pursue instrumental goals (shareholder value), and maintain transactional relationships. Instead, Nicholas Janni pleads for leaders who are empathetic, intuitive, present, and skilled in mindfulness, deep listening, and who can inspire colleagues to engage and collaborate."

Leadership 2.0: Nicholas Janni - 'The Leader as Healer'

Nicholas Janni on the Coaches Rising podcast, interviewed by Joel Monk

"In this conversation with Nicholas Janni we explore the emergent edge of coaching, what it means to be awake, helping leaders transform their approach to problem-solving, being with not knowing and coaching from attunement."

Coaches Rising: Nicholas Janni, Coaching From Attunement

Nicholas Janni interviewed by John Vervaeke his YouTube conversation series

"In this episode, John Vervaeke and Nicholas Janni explore this question through a conversation about leadership, spirituality, and human connection."

Voices with Vervaeke: From Monasteries to Boardrooms, Integrating Spirituality and Leadership with Nicholas Janni

Newsletter eleventh edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership

Nicholas Janni: Reflections on Orientation and Navigation

Interview with Nicholas Janni provided by Sutra's co-founder Lorenz Sell as part of the Transformational Learning Summit

Sutra: Transformational Learning Summit recording

Newsletter tenth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

**The current paradigm**

 Things are not going very well.
 As we arrive at the turn of the year, two major wars are creating devastating suffering. Each carry a daily threat of dangerous escalation while also wasting of billions of dollars on weaponry.
 Cop28 came and went, with ever growing cognitive dissonance. The comforting fantasy of ‘moving towards net zero’ seems to protect the majority of people from facing the difficult fact that it is almost certainly already far too late to avoid varying degrees of climate catastrophe, and that we, the human race, have basically not done remotely enough to mitigate this.
On a more local level in the UK, 200,000 people are currently homeless, of whom 140,000 are children. The words ‘moral iniquity’ seem far too small to describe the heart-breaking fact that this could be happening in the world’s fifth largest economy.
Many of the core economic, social and political systems of society are creaking badly. We are acting out what Daniel Schmactenberger calls a number of ‘self-terminating scenarios.’
I find it useful to think of humanity as one individual who is suffering from various addictions. In the case of an individual, we know that frequently, the only way that change/transformation happens is when the person hits rock bottom, a painful and often unavoidable process.
Within that metaphor, we are collectively in the grip of some huge addictions, the biggest of which is the scientific materialist version of reality. Life as inorganic matter, devoid of consciousness. This is a highly functional model, producing incredible technology, medical interventions and so on. But as mystical traditions and now all the new sciences tell us, it is simply the wrong version. It is actually not at all how life really works at its most foundational levels.
It is clearly going to take some time before this huge, game-changing in every sense shift, fully includes yet replaces the former as our core map in the mainstream.
When we also include the addiction to consumerism, we see that everything currently leads us not just to external collapses but also to painfully barren internal landscapes. We meet these once a safe enough relational space makes it possible to temporarily pause the speed of Doing, Doing, Doing, and the medications of work, status, substances.
I have witnessed this again and again recently in leadership development programmes. People being brave enough to turn towards these landscapes, often described initially as ‘dead’, ‘aimless’ or ‘loveless’, and to see how this ‘turning towards’ with warm, unconditional acceptance, can generate tremendous relief and healing, as well as powerful connections between people.
Closely related is what I have elsewhere called the desecration of the Feminine, both as profound principle and more literal enactment. In corporate life, I meet many women in senior roles who have sacrificed, and therefore numbed deep parts of their innate nature and wisdom, in order to fit into the hyper Masculine, hyper rational, hyper left-brain cultures that still dominate the majority of organisations.
A furnace of anger is often stored inside, unfelt because our culture has no place for this anger, this essential life-force. When I suggested recently to one woman that she may be carrying ‘volcanic anger’ inside her, she dissolved into deep grief and uttered the unforgettable words “I would rather volcanic anger than deadness…”
Another, during an intense inner exploration in a 1:1 setting, came to the realisation that “I have been compromising myself my whole life”. These are privileged moments of incredibly precious intimacy, in which we experience unreservedly the maxim: “the truth will set you free”, even if at first it is very uncomfortable.
How little ‘truth’ can be spoken in so much organisational culture. Why I wrote in my book Leader as Healer how urgent it is:
 “to break from the chronically imbalanced ways of thinking and functioning that have become the norm in so many corporate cultures, where doing eclipses being, and hyper-rational, analytical thinking relegates feeling, sensing, intuiting and the transpersonal to the outer fringes of life.
I believe that the failure to correct this imbalance is severely detrimental not only to individual and organizational performance, but to our capacity for creating healthy, thriving futures.”

But in these dark times, perhaps the biggest disconnect, the most painful existential alienation of all, arises from how far we have distanced ourselves from a Sense of the Sacred, the title of the last chapter of Iain McGilchrist’s masterpiece The Matter with Things.
 The great legacy religious traditions are so mired in corruption, abuse of power, misogyny and often worse, while elsewhere they are denigrated to the tragic level of justifying the destruction of anyone who dares to have a different faith path.
 We have largely lost our most simple yet most profound sense of bowing, bowing in the face of the great Mystery, the transcendent dimension of life, the imminent numinosity of the ‘Divine’, of That which has been named by every single culture since records began.
 In the bigger picture of the evolutionary journey of humanity, we are, as many of the great wisdom traditions foresaw, in a dark and dangerous descent, during which we have really never had so much Power, and so little Wisdom.
 During the BBC World Business Report interview I was privileged to be invited to in September, I spoke of how we are ‘between two paradigms’ [https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=Qlal1h5Yxcw](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=Qlal1h5Yxcw)
 
A new paradigm emerging
In many places in the world, in many different areas of life, a fast growing number of people appear to be waking up to an entirely different version of how we should be living, of what is the true inheritance and purpose of being human. We rarely hear about this in the mainstream media, but it is undoubtedly happening.
CSR and the idea of the ‘triple bottom line’ have been around for a while in the corporate world. Although much of it has been exposed as ‘greenwashing’, there is a powerful if still small groundswell now of new thinking, new feeling, new behaving, based on the simple, stark truth that commercial interest can no longer be the first priority if we are to avoid ‘self-terminating scenarios’.
 In November I sat one evening with Eugene Woods in New York. Gene is a former client and now dear friend, writer of the foreword to my book. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Advocate Health, one of the largest non-profit healthcare systems in the US with 155,000 employees serving 6 million patients.
 On this occasion, he wanted to show a small group of us a remarkable film. As it was two hours long, he said he would fast forward though parts of it. But once it started, all of us were glued to every second.
The film ‘Advocate Health Has Talent’ is based on the globally popular TV show. In this case, 120 entrants had been whittled down to 13 finalists. The show is brilliantly hosted and the three judges are well-known celebrity figures.
Many of the actual performances are jaw-droppingly good, yet I was more profoundly touched and inspired by the interviews conducted with each finalist before we saw their performance. Oncologists, nurses, physiotherapists, lab technicians, music therapists, finance officers, delivery drivers…each and every one spoke about their work with qualities of love, devotion, joy and service far beyond anything I have ever seen.
When the film finished, I said: “Gene, this is the new paradigm…this is the basis of how every organisational culture could/should be - why shouldn’t every bank or every law firm for instance be rooted in this paradigm?”
Have a look for yourselves.
[https://youtu.be/iIhVa5SGruo](https://youtu.be/iIhVa5SGruo).
 
In recent months, some of my colleagues at Matrix Development have been collecting many examples of this new paradigm. It may be a small percentage of the total, but it is unquestionably growing in size and strength. It has to if humanity has any kind of viable future. Our whole concept of Purpose has to massively expand.
Its pillars are almost the exact opposite of current mindsets. While so much of the current paradigm is founded on Taking, on inner scarcity, on head dominating heart, on disconnection from self and others, transactional relationships, greed and self-interest, and on lack of meaning and purpose, the new paradigm is founded on Giving, on heart, on connection to self and others, an experience of inner abundance, and contribution as the source of lasting joy, satisfaction, and a meaningful life worth living.
 Within this there is a foundational and completely natural connection to a purpose far beyond self-interest. In fact, Gene told me that many of their meetings begin with one person recounting an experience of their vision and values in action.
 And because an open heart is so central to their experience, there is a natural and simple sense of the interconnectedness of all life – the interconnectedness repeatedly demonstrated by all the new science, and spoken of by mystics throughout the ages.
 In his recently published book - Health, Hope and Healing for All, (the Advocate vision statement) - the levels of contribution escalate remarkably to the regeneration of whole parts of cities within their reach.
 
This is the work of Leader as Healer. This is the work of Heart, of living a life of connectedness.
 Many of the leaders I work with initiate the simple practice of starting meetings with one or two minutes silence. Why? Because the subsequent meeting has a much higher level of Presence and dialogue.
Others start meetings with a short ‘check-in’ – how is each person really feeling. Really, not “I’m fine”. Why? Because they have understood that no emotions are ‘negative’ or ‘positive’, that no emotions need fixing or changing, and that when people are allowed to be authentic, and are simply met and received in their authenticity, great connection and energy ensue, emotions naturally move and change, because that is how life works when we stop trying to over control it, and meetings have an entirely different value.
 
We are living in extraordinary times. Humanity has been through many challenging periods, but we have never had so much destructive possibilities available to us, as well as so much new ancient Wisdom at our fingertips.
In the final words of my book:
 “Yesterday’s leaders were masters of incremental change and gradual shift, and were selected and rewarded for their powers of profit-maximization. Today’s leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting, yet must also be empathic and therefore embodied; grounded and therefore intuitive; present and therefore awake.
 They must be skilled in mindfulness and deep listening; present and receptive to higher levels of insight and innovation; able to inspire authentic engagement and collaboration; and possess a clear and wholehearted sense of service, mission, and purpose. They are called upon to restore coherence where there is fragmentation and unity where there is division.
 They must be both intentional and surrendered, able to embrace the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of our time, so as to become agents through which radical disruption transmutes into radical opportunity, and planetary crisis into global transformation.
If we are to meet the systemic challenges and ecological crises of our time, if we are to enable our organizations to both thrive and contribute to society, our emotional, ethical and spiritual selves must also rise and grow. New and higher leadership capacities are possible and available, and are more urgently needed than ever."
 
So, as this year ends, with the high possibility of even more instability and turmoil in 2024, my prayer is that all of who feel called, stand even more strongly, with deep heart and uncompromising clarity, for what is birthing at this terribly challenging time. That we stand both lovingly and fiercely against the devastating toxicity and disconnection we have collectively fallen into.
That we support each other in our endeavours, for none of us can possibly stand alone any more, as we call in and bow to the return of the Feminine, the Mother and the next turn of human evolution in which right and left brain, head, heart, mind, body and spirit move into higher cohesion and unity, bathed in the sweetest whisper of the eternal Sacred.

December 2023

Nicholas Janni: End of 2023 reflections - two paradigms

Discover Nicholas Janni's Keynote at T3CON23

"T3CON23 opened with a keynote by award-winning business book author and leadership consultant Nicholas Janni under the title Leader as Healer. The talk focused on how leaders can develop their inner lives and activate what he calls whole-self intelligence to create more humane, connected, and purpose-driven organizations.

Attendees described the talk as “an absolute privilege to listen to” and “a great keynote.” It set the tone for a lively program that paired technical topics with business insights and global ideas, in this case showing the importance of spirituality and well-being within the tech world."

T3CON23: Recap Keynote "Leader as Healer"

Article discovering Nicholas Janni's Leader as Healer and the importance of emotional intelligence

Cast your mind back several weeks: when Prince William posted a public notice for an “emotionally intelligent” CEO with a “low ego” to help run Kensington Palace, it reignited discussion about the role of modern-day leaders. Who better to delve deeper for us than author Nicholas Janni whose outstanding work, ‘Leader as Healer’, recently earned him the Business Book of the Year award for 2023. 

https://flickread.com/edition/html/653151d6cc54c#22

FMCG CEO Magazine: Insight into Leader as Healer

Back by popular demand Nicholas Janni the author of Leader as Healer the business book of the year 2023 is back on BBC World Business Report interviewed by Sally Bundock. Epidemic of toxic leadership in top firms. 

Back on BBC World Business Report: Nicholas Janni with Sally Bundock on toxic leadership

Newsletter ninth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: The new Future

Nicholas Janni in 5min interview about 'Leader as Healer Business Book of the Year 2023'.

BBC World News interview with Nicholas Janni

Sally Percy - Leadership and management journalist

Good leaders are always looking to improve. One good way to finesse your leadership skills is to catch up with the latest in leadership thinking. So, what lessons in leadership can we learn from the winners of this year’s U.K. Business Book Awards?

Forbes: Six Lessons In Leadership From Award-Winning Authors

Leader As Healer Wins Business Book of the Year Award 2023

2023 Business Book of the Year Award Goes to Leader As Healer 

On the season 4 premiere of Do The Work, author and educator Nicholas Janni sits down with Denise for an in-depth candid chat about becoming an embodied leader. Nicholas focuses on exploring the development of our consciousness and highest potential, and how simple mindfulness practices can contribute to a bigger holistic modality in which all parts of a person are working together.


Do The Work Podcast: Nicholas Janni. Leader = Healer

Preparing for the Unexpected hosted by Alex Fullick

I'm joined by transformational leadership expert and author or 'Leader to Healer', Nicholas Janni. This is a very inspirational discussion on leadership, and not one many will have considered before. "To face the scope and threats of the 21st century challenges, today's leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied, grounded and intuitive." (From book cover). Nicholas touches on: 1. Defining resilience (I loved this!), 2. Being vs Doing. 3. Leader as an Executor vs a Leader as a Healer, 4. Self-awareness, 5. Defining purpose (personal and as a group), 6. The importance of emotions (You don't want to miss this!), 7. Tips to begin making a transformative change...and more. Nicholas is very inspirational and offers some very interesting insights into how leaders can find answers to some of their challenges - during crises, disasters, and other situations - by looking inwards to make transformative change happen. You don't want to miss this episode. Enjoy!

Part 1: Talking About Leadership - Leader as Healer w/ Nicholas Janni

I continue my talk with transformational leadership expert and author of 'Leader to Healer', Nicholas Janni. This is a very inspirational discussion on leadership, and not one many will have considered before. "To face the scope and threats of the 21st century challenges, today's leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied, grounded and intuitive." (From book cover). Nicholas touches on: 1. The importance of emotions in Leadership and how some leadership issues relate to emotions (You don't want to miss this!), 2. The importance of purpose - in organizations, leaders, and ourselves 3. Tips to begin making a transformative change...and more. Nicholas is very inspirational and offers some very interesting insights into how leaders can find answers to some of their challenges - during crises, disasters, and other situations - by looking inwards to make transformative change happen. You don't want to miss this episode. Enjoy!


Part 2: Talking About Leadership - Leader as Healer w/ Nicholas Janni

Julie Cusmariu is broadcasting from unceded Indigenous lands Tiohtia’ke, known as Montreal, Canada which is the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Kanien’kehá:ka has long served as a gathering place for many First Nations including the Haudenosaunee , st-lawrence iroqouains, mohaawk and Huron-Wendat and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. Nicholas Janni joined the conversation from Puglia, Italy.


Julie Cusmariu in conversation: Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni 

Newsletter sixth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership

Nicholas Janni: FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON PURPOSE

Newsletter sixth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Breaking the trance

Newsletter fifth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership

Nicholas Janni: Living a Life of purpose

Newsletter fourth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

There is so much uncertainty in the world at the moment and it is felt across many sectors. In many of my discussions, this is very prominent. But what does this ask of us and how do we navigate such a challenging time? My latest newsletter, “The world is shaking”, touches upon lessons from my book #LeaderAsHealer and deliberates on the healing we all need. 

Nicholas Janni: The World is Shaking

Social Impact Authors: How & Why Nicholas Janni is helping to change our world

Newsletter third edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Two definitions of Presence

Newsletter second edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: DOING and BEING

Grant Thornton - In person video interview

The world feels brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible, and coaches can support leaders in expanding their bandwidth. This recording is part of our latest coaching event with Nicholas Janni.

The principles and practice of transformational coaching with Nicholas Janni

Newsletter first edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter!

Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William and Mary Podcast

As businesses, organizations, and professionals deal with change like we’ve never seen before, it makes sense the way we lead will also change. Our guest today says a new leadership paradigm is urgently needed. Nicholas Janni is a sought-after coach, teacher, speaker and author. He works with the world’s top businesses and business schools transforming the way executives lead. He’s written a new book “Leader as Healer: A New Paradigm for 21st Century Leadership.” He joins us today to discuss his theoretical and practical path to the highest levels of presence and peak performance leadership. The leadership he says is needed moving forward.

Learn how the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William and Mary can help you and your organization develop your top talent through customized executive education and professional development programs. Visit us at www.wmleadership.com. Thank you for listening.

Nicholas Janni - A New Paradigm for Leadership

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