Collective Brilliance

Transforming CxOs into one high-performing C-suite.

Imagine

An executive team that moves as one—decisive when it matters, instinctive when it counts.

A C-suite that carries momentum like a current, not a push.

Alignment steady enough to hold under pressure, where decisions flow without drag.

Imagine reaching that place organically, through an exclusive midlife-informed process built on depth and maturity —

unlike programs designed for earlier career stages.

What makes us different?

Leadership development has a blind spot. We work in It.

While nearly all programs focus on early careers and “high potentials,” we focus on the stage that shapes the C-suite itself: midlife.

The coaching profession’s tools, models, and literature are concentrated on the first half of life, with nearly 60% of clients under 45 and only 10% over 55 (2023 ICF Global Coaching Study).

The field has long treated early-career coaching as the default template for adulthood, built around identity-building, ambition, and forward projection.

Yet many C-suites are almost entirely midlife.

When coaching is reframed for this stage, the work deepens — and alignment becomes possible.

Reframing global standards for midlife.

We created the Midlife Reframing Series — codifying how global professional standards evolve when applied through a midlife lens:

ICF Coaching Competencies, reframed for one-to-one coaching with seasoned executives.

ICF Team Coaching Competencies, reframed for intact senior teams.

IAF Facilitator Competencies, reframed for groups navigating rivalry, renewal, and legacy.

Together, these works mark the missing chapter in leadership development — positioning midlife as a season of renewal, coherence, and enduring impact.

From story to framework.

Midlife leadership, captured in two Amazon bestsellers, one through parable, the other through a manifesto:

The Eagle That Drank Hummingbird Nectar: a CEO’s midlife renewal told through parable and metaphor. “A compelling and practical book on modern mindful leadership.” — Kirkus Reviews.

Soaring Beyond Midlife: a manifesto of six leadership superpowers, distilling midlife into a practical guide for senior executives. “An illuminating text where the infamous ‘midlife crisis’ becomes a ‘midlife crucible’… resulting in midlife rejuvenation.” — Clarion Reviews

When coaching and facilitation are reframed for midlife, breakthroughs happen — faster, deeper, with greater ease.

At a fast-growing Asian bank, alignment reignited stalled initiatives — driving 80% higher market cap growth vs peers.

Challenge
The bank was growing fast, but decision-making at the top was stalling. Cross-functional initiatives, especially digital adoption, stalled without true enterprise ownership.
Intervention
Over 12 months: four offsites, ongoing CEO and team coaching, and targeted diagnostics to track impact.
A Pivotal Moment
The team adopted a disciplined roundtable: each leader spoke in turn, with the CEO last. It revealed that every executive had a view on every issue, breaking the old wagon-wheel dynamic and setting a new norm of peer-to-peer debate in all meetings.
Outcome
Digital initiatives that had stalled in silos finally moved forward, enterprise priorities gained traction, and execution accelerated. Over two years, the bank’s market cap rose 80% compared with ~15% for peers.
Evidence of Change
Diagnostics confirmed what the board already sensed: the team had matured. Peer challenge and advocacy rose sharply, pointing to a leadership group now confident enough to debate, decide, and deliver as one.

At a regional investment firm, clarity around “must-win battles” carried the C-suite seamlessly through CEO succession.

Challenge
The C-suite’s collegiality made it easy to get along—but hard to align. Key decisions drifted, shared ownership was uneven, and enterprise priorities lacked clarity and commitment, especially when leaders balanced global ambitions with local market demands.
Intervention
Over 12 months: two offsites, ongoing CEO coaching, and targeted diagnostics to track impact.
A Pivotal Moment
A long list of priorities was cut down to four Must-Win Battles, the few leverage points on which everything else depended. Around the table, polite nods turned into conviction, signaling genuine alignment at last.
Outcome
The team became bolder, more decisive, and faster at delivering on what mattered most. Eighteen months later, that momentum still drives ambitious growth, and made a sudden and unexpected CEO succession a smooth, high-trust handover.
Evidence of Change
Diagnostics confirmed the shift: commitment rose from 3.37 to 4.16 (on a 1 to 5 scale), and alignment around common objectives surged from 3.40 to 4.63. Sharper priorities, stronger follow-through, and mutual accountability turned the strategic compass into a scoreboard the team could own.

"Thoughtful, intuitive, and very clear interventions. The workshop design and real-time engagement were among the best I have seen."

Vipul Chawla, CEO, Fairprice Group
"The learnings from these workshops have guided our team in adopting a new set of vocabulary, team norms and practices, and leadership governance—an incredibly impactful process on both professional and personal dimensions."

Chris Alexander, President, Asia MCM, Liberty Mutual
“The 2-day event really went a long way in helping the group to connect with each other at a deeper, less transactional manner—identifying underlying values and life experiences and aligning on ‘Must Win Battles’ for the year ahead.”

Akhil Chandra, CEO, Greenfields Dairy Group
"Even though it was a tough few days, the results were transformational and set us on a path which has been successful and which is still working very well for us 18 months later."

Bill Maldonado, CEO, Eastspring Investments
“Cultivates in individuals and teams a lasting sense of empowerment, resilience, and confidence; inspires collective insights. Profoundly impacted my way of working, thinking, and being.”

Aarti Ramaswami, Dean, ESSEC Business School
"The relentless focus on product, revenue, growth... had blinded us to the fact that our amazing people had built the best asset of all, a great team. Quite literally re-created our company!"

Terence Lyons, CEO, The Stakeholder Company
"It is transformative. Not an epiphany. A subtle discernment."

Mathilde Swierczynska, MD, Compliance, UBP - Union Bancaire Privée
"Wisdom naturally emerges from people in the room and helps them connect, create, and inspire one another. An art to be 'Here and Now.’”

Audrey Ricard, Group Head Executive Development, Prudential