Team Coaching, Executive and Leadership Coaching
Positive Intelligence / Mental Fitness
Introducing the Positive Intelligence Program
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Mental Fitness is the X-Factor
If you’re not physically fit, you’d feel physical stress as you climb a steep hill.
If you’re not mentally fit, you’d feel mental stress, such as anxiety, frustration, or unhappiness, as you handle work and relationship challenges.
80% of people score below the minimum level of mental fitness required for peak performance and happiness.
The great news? With recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology, you can now improve your mental fitness significantly within 6 weeks of practice.
The results? Dramatically improved performance and productivity and a calm, clear and happier mind.
Mental fitness is a measure of the strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative (Saboteur).
Saboteurs react to challenges in ways that generate negative emotions such as stress, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, anger, shame, guilt, or worry.
Your Sage handles challenges through positive emotions like empathy, gratitude, curiosity, creativity, self-confidence, and calm, clear-headed, laser-focused action.
The relative strength of your positive Sage versus negative Saboteurs is called PQ (Positive Intelligence Quotient).
PQ is the measure of your Mental Fitness. It’s the best predictor of how happy you are and how well you perform relative to your potential.
You can boost your PQ significantly with practice.
Measuring Mental Fitness (PQ)
Breakthrough Research
PQ is a synthesis of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.
Research included:
- hundreds of CEOs
- sales, operations, and technology teams
- Stanford students
- elite athletes
- 500,000 participants from 50 countries
This research was summarized in Shirzad Chamine’s book Positive Intelligence, a New York Times bestseller, translated into 20 languages.
The research reveals that:
- Saboteurs and Sage live in entirely different regions of the brain.
- You can cause a dramatic shift in brain activation to weaken Saboteurs and boost Sage.
- 3 core muscles constitute mental fitness.
These 3 Core Muscles Make Up Your Mental Fitness
Saboteurs Interceptor Muscle
Your saboteurs generate all your negative emotions, including stress, anxiety, self-doubt, anger, avoidance, procrastination, insensitivity or discontent. Mental fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the Saboteurs.
Sage Muscle
Your Sage is the one in you that handles challenges with a clear and calm mind, and positive emotions. It also has access to your 5 primary powers.
All you need to paint any canvas is 3 primary colors. Similarly, through factor analysis research we’ve discovered that there are only 5 primary powers: Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate.
For peak performance, you learn to boost all 5 powers and know when to use which power.
Self-Command Muscle
You’re not in full command of your mind. If you were, you would choose to entirely silence the Saboteurs in your head. You would choose to not stress out over what you can’t control, push away self-doubts, recover from disappointments immediately, and spend little time in anger, regret, or blame.
PQ Reps are innovative 10-second exercises that build up this crucial Self-Command muscle in the brain. You learn to run your brain, rather than allow your Saboteur-hijacked brain to run you.
This Program Includes...
Weekly 1-Hour Video Sessions
In these highly engaging sessions, Shirzad guides you through experiential exercises that deepen and personalize your understanding of the mental fitness tools. You leave inspired and energized for the week's daily practices.
Exclusive App Guiding Your Daily Practice
Each day a different focus for daily practice is assigned through a personalized companion app available exclusively to program participants.
This builds one small muscle at a time, laying down new neural pathways to form lasting positive habits of your mind. The cumulative impact by the program's end is substantial.
Interactive PQ Gym
Innovative 10-second PQ Reps build up your Self-Command muscle. You learn to be clear-headed and calm even in the midst of great challenges, able to command your mind to shift from Saboteur to Sage response.
Daily Progress Tracking
The app tracks your daily progress against minimum targets associated with new neural pathway (muscle) formation. Personalized daily coaching tips from Shirzad continue to both encourage and challenge you to keep going.
Professional Guidance and Expert Advice from Nan
To ensure you start-off the program with clarity and ease, and know how to get the greatest benefit out of the program, Nan provides you with her guidance and advice during a prep week on-demand Welcome call, as well as at key points in the program.
You also have the option to add private coaching calls with Nan at three critical points during the course.
Online Community Support with Nan
Nan remains an active member of your cohort’s community, answering your questions and providing online support.
Participants report the online cohort community to be key to sustaining their enthusiasm for daily practice.
Breakthrough Results
Dramatic increases in performance and productivity. A calm, clear, and happy mind.
Within 6-8 weeks of mental fitness training you’d be able to see the results in MRI imaging:
- Increased grey matter in the PQ Brain region, where your Sage lives
- Decreased grey matter in the Survivor Brain region, where your Saboteurs live
Improvements in these competencies lead to substantial results:
- At MetLife, trained salespeople outsold the control group by 37%
- Motorolla recorded improved productivity in 93% of trained employees
- In a UK restaurant group, higher competency resulted in 34% greater profit growth
- At Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceutical, the average salesperson with improved competency sold $55,200 more per month
- At L’Oreal, strength in these competencies resulted in $91,370 increase per salesperson
- At CIBC, strength in these competencies account for 32% of booked sales and 71% of pipeline sales
Program Schedule
You’ll join a “pod” of 3-5 participants, and your pod will meet for 30-60 minutes with Nan to support one another with your PQ practice.
Each weekend you access a one-hour video lesson. And each weekday (Tuesday through Friday) you will access the PQ app for 15 minutes to get you out of theory and build your PQ mental muscles through exercises and practice. Optionally, you can add live private coaching sessions with Nan, your PQ Coach, during the program to lock-in the learning, go much deeper than you can go in pod discussions, and receive much more customized support throughout the program.
You will also be added to a community app for the program, where you can share your progress, insights, and a-ha moments and support each other’s growth and learning.
Pods form every two months or sooner when a group of 5 people with common interests (or an intact work team) is ready to go.
Limited Time Pricing
For a limited time only – Nan is offering the entire PQ Program at a 50% discount.
Why such a low rate? Nan's investment as a PQ Certified Coach allows her to bring this program to her coaching clients and her community at a fraction of the cost. Nan is offering the full 7-week PQ Program PLUS group coaching sessions PLUS optional individual coaching at a 50% discount.
(You will have an opportunity to select times that fit your schedule)
Money Back Guarantee
Nan is so confident in the impact of this program that – as long as you watch the weekly videos, use the app, and attend the weekly calls – she will give you a full refund within 48 hours if you do not see a difference. No questions asked.
What's Included?
1-year access to the Positive Intelligence App and all program content:
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| Audio and digital versions of the Positive Intelligence book |
| Placement in an accountability pod of 3-5 participants |
| Weekly group calls guided by Coach Nan |
| One week of PQ prep content and expert guidance from Nan to support you in beginning the program with ease & clarity to receive the greatest possible benefits from the program |
| Supplementary resources provided by Nan to support you throughout the program |
| Support from your Nan and your peers in your pod’s private communication channel |
| Unlimited, private support from Nan via your client portal |
| Optional 1:1 Coaching Session |
*For organizations who wish to offer this training to multiple teams or departments, contact Nan directly to discuss customized formats and pricing.
What Attendees Are Saying
"The most impactful training I have ever experienced."
“This has been the most impactful training I have ever experienced. You develop powerful mental muscles to deal with challenges with much less stress and greater clarity, creativity, and resilience. Every sales professional would benefit greatly from this.”
Adam McGraw, Sales VP & GM, American Express
"Greatest happiness in years."
"I am much calmer and have a greater sense of happiness than I have felt in years. I feel physically lighter, and my energy is higher. Sage is now present all of the time. I sleep better, eat better, exercise better."
Sandi Sandiland, Head of Global Sales P&D, Amazon
"I’m now enjoying every day, not just the final accomplishments."
"All my life I thought my high achievements were impossible without feeling constant stress. I’ve now learned to achieve even more with a calm and clear mind. I’m now enjoying every day, not just the final accomplishments. At the end of the quarter, I don’t feel the need for a long vacation anymore."
Sharon Pinedo, Head of Sales (Workplace), Facebook
"Changed my life."
"This workshop changed my life. I’m working half as hard and generating twice the results. It’s amazing what’s possible when you use these powerful tools."
Brad Fisher, Executive Director, Featherstone Holdings
“This has been a profound growth experience.”
“This has been a profound growth experience. I now consistently feel joy and calm in the middle of handling the many challenges of running my company. Almost a feeling of ‘Throw it at me… I can handle it' - like I want more challenges now, as if nothing is too much."
Becky Sharpe, CEO, Collegiate Sports Data
"Life-changing."
"What is new and life-changing is the ‘mind control,’ the ability to ‘let go’ when any negative feelings take over. This program has given me the ability to be in the driver seat of my life."
Nathalie Brys, General Counsel, Philips
"This is the best training I've done."
"This is the best ‘training’ I’ve done in my 37 years here… I personally have experienced a new sense of energy, engagement and possibility both at work and at home — and I am actually getting full nights of sleep!"
Gale Beckett, Former VP, Quality Assurance, P&G
"A brilliant breakthrough."
"The Positive Intelligence (PQ) model is a brilliant breakthrough as it defines, measures, and improves your awareness of your own performance and happiness. It also helps solve the mystery of why so many smart people still fail to be successful."
Jim Lanzone, Chief Digital Officer, CBS
"One of the very top experiences I've had."
"I have found this to be one of the very top experiences I’ve had in the past 34 years with my company. The impact on me personally has been profound, and the business impact is evident."
Bonnie Curtis, Former VP, Product Supply, P&G
“The concepts are phenomenal.”
"This has been an extraordinary gift for my team. The concepts are phenomenal -- a true revelation in the way to think and handle work and life’s challenges. Besides the lasting impact on myself, I’ve loved hearing how many people this has touched in my company."
Jessica Herrin, CEO, Stella & Dot
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The Sage region of the brain enables 5 primary powers. Analogous to the 3 primary colors, these 5 powers recombine to form all of the emotional intelligence competencies considered crucial to professional success. 
How is PQ different from traditional training?
Traditional training and development tend to have short-lived impact for 3 reasons:
- Focus on insight rather than muscle. For example, the insight that being frustrated isn't helpful doesn’t automatically lead to you not feeling frustrated. That would require mental muscles to shift brain activation.
- Treating symptoms rather than cause. For example, teaching you techniques of active listening to improve empathy will have a temporary impact if your deeply-seated Judge Saboteur is not exposed and intercepted.
- No common operating system. Since each training you attend uses a different framework—the 7 steps of managing conflict, the 5 secrets of managing time, etc.--the frameworks compete for mindshare and all fade away.
Through extensive factor analysis research, PQ has identified the 10 root-level negative factors (Saboteurs) and the 5 primary powers (Sage). This enables a common operating system.
All personal and professional development become applications of the PQ operating system. Whether learning to manage conflicts, manage time, or perform better under pressure, you’d apply the same exact operating system:
- Intercept Saboteurs
- Issue Self-Command (through 10-second PQ Reps)
- Mobilize Sage (Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, Activate)
You’d be using one simple framework for a variety of applications, boosting root-level mental fitness.
This dramatically simplifies personal and professional development.
Impact on Emotional Intelligence
Due to the power of factor analysis, the PQ Program boosts the root-level building blocks that automatically boost all 18 Emotional Intelligence competencies
Enroll in the PQ Program Today
For 50% Off
(You will have an opportunity to select times that fit your schedule)
Money Back Guarantee
Nan is so confident in the impact of this program that – as long as you watch the weekly videos, use the app, and attend the weekly calls – she will give you a full refund within 48 hours if you do not see a difference. No questions asked.
