Breath-led Executive Self-Leadership for Visionary Leaders and Emerging Leaders who want grounded clarity under pressure, aligned, clean, embodied decisions that stick, and presence that follows you home.
Externally Successful. Internally Unsettled.
Feel a measurable shift in 7–14 days — clear the noise, realign mind and body, rediscover the leader within.
Leadership isn't a place to get to – it's a place to come from
You've built something real. Led teams. Made hard calls. Delivered results.
But here's what most leaders miss:70–90% of your impact is nonverbal. Tone. Presence. Energy.
Only 7% is what you actually say.
Yet most leadership development focuses on scripts and frameworks — what to say instead of who to be while you're saying it.
Your team doesn't follow your words. They follow (feel) your embodiment.
When your words don't match who you're being, leadership doesn't land. Trust fractures. Things bounce back.
Not because you lack skill. Because you haven't installed the internal operating system that makes leadership feel natural instead of performed.
The gap you can feel but can't name
From the outside, everything works. Yet, on the inside, a void has started to open.
You're reactive instead of responsive
You second-guess decisions you know internally are right
Your rational mind won't shut down; it questions everything
You 'perform' confidence instead of feeling it
You go home depleted, and your family gets what's left over
The same issues are circling back, draining your energy
Here's the quiet truth: Leadership doesn't start with your team. It starts with you.
Who you're being while you do what you do — that's what people receive.
What Leaders Say…
"Max has an uncanny knack of knowing the exact questions to ask to get to the heart of every matter. He approaches every conversation with the attention and care it deserves with the perfect balance of challenge and support."
— Amy Wallin
CEO LinkedVA
“Max has the gift of cutting through the BS and getting you to do what you say you will do. In my case, that’s working on being the best leader, father, and husband I can possibly be.”
— Jai Aguilar
Director Flow Autobody
I wanted a flourishing business and life. But who I was was a “sales dog”. I was constantly chasing and not closing. And when I was not closing, I was only operating from a place of what I don’t have instead of what I have. Max helped me realise this, and ever since that day it has become my creed, my way of being and a big part of who I am.
— Nikil Kumar,
CEO, Bulletproof Teams
Why Smart Leaders Stay Stuck
It's not a lack of insight. You've had the breakthroughs.
The issue?
You're trying to integrate depth work in the same environment that buried it.
You're building from inner rightness when the world rewards borrowed blueprints.
You're trusting your intuition in a culture that demands metrics.
You're trying to be present in an age of endless notifications and chronic busyness.
Without the right conditions—space, embodiment, guidance, practice—insights stay buried.
This is why most transformation is just the first year, twenty times over.
You can't think your way to your golden thread.
You have to excavate it. Then integrate it.
And that requires a different approach.
There's Another Way to Lead…
I’m Max. I’ve worked with over 1,000 leaders — from police detectives to Doctors, founders and CEOs — to install the internal game so external success stops feeling empty.
I was you. High performer. Externally successful. Internally unsettled… so, what changed?
I stopped borrowing blueprints and integrated who I am, beyond the external noise, into how I operate — daily. It was never about doing, first – it all starts with Being.
Breathe
Regulate on demand. Use simple breathwork to steady your system, widen your window of tolerance, and return to baseline faster when pressure hits.
“In my role, the pressure and unpredictability can be overwhelming… I’m more present, more composed, and better able to respond rather than react.”
— Emma Hodges, Police Detective
Align
Replace borrowed models with your unique, intrinsic principles and decision criteria. Make clearer, cleaner choices that stick — connected to your inner rightness, not external pressure.
“It blows my mind that I’ve spent a lifetime looking for something that was right there inside me the entire time.”
— Tess Milton, Women Leadership Coach, Author
Evolve
Integrate who you are into how you lead — at work and at home. The shift? Deeper awareness in all areas of your life. Calmer days and more present evenings.
“I have so much confidence and certainty that I'm on the right path for once in my life. 52 years later.”
— Katy Green, Director, Centred Excellence
How We Work Together
Three pathways.
Same foundation.
Created specifically to meet you and your team where you are right now.
Grounded Leader
Reset
A one-off, 1–3 hour deep-dive into a single pressure point. We drop into what's actually happening, excavate the noise from the signal, and install a clear decision criteria or protocol you can deploy immediately. You walk away with absolute clarity on your next move — and the internal steadiness to execute it.
Grounded Leader Incubator
6-12 month deep, honest work for leaders ready to remember who they are beneath the noise. Uniquely tailored, grounded, internally guided and integrated—no 360s, no spreadsheets, no frameworks. This is soul-level work that will show up in every area of your life.
Emodied Expereince over theoretical understanding.
Grounded Leader Recalibration (Teams)
One day. Remove the noise. Rest the mind. Reconnect your team to their true innate nature.
Bespoke, guided and purpose-built exploration of what it means to embody the leader within - and integrate beyond the boardroom.
The Outcomes: What actually changes
Within days
Faster return to baseline –pressure hits, you reset in 90 seconds instead of carrying it for hours.
Clearer evenings – mental space instead of replaying the day on loop.
Fewer reactive moments – pause before responding becomes automatic.
Better sleep – your system settles instead of staying wired.
Within weeks
Clean decisions that stick fewer things bounce back to you.
More presence at home – shorter fuse becomes a longer one. You lean in with gratitude.
Team owns more – they stop looking to you for everything.
Grounded energy – calm clarity under pressure becomes your baseline.
Over time
Absolute confidence in yourself – not borrowed, not performed. Yours.
Self-directed clarity – total clarity on your next steps, life and business.
Leadership that lands – your team feels the shift and follows your embodiment.
Sustainable rhythm – attuned and refined awareness. Force becomes flow.
Whole-life impact – work and home, integrated into your very being.
“I’ll forever be grateful for what you’ve helped me find Max. When I started this process with you I was terrified, but the experience has been beautiful to say the least. I’d thought I needed to find something new, but it was actually an act of letting go old stuff that opened me up to a love like I’ve never known before. I have never been more excited about what now lies ahead.”
— Tess Milton – Founder of Unearth Her, Mum of 5 boys.
Why this work is different
Most leadership coaching focuses on what you do — tactics, frameworks, the external game.
This work focuses on who you're being while you do it.
Your team doesn't receive your words. They receive your embodiment. They feel you before they hear you.
When your presence matches your message, leadership becomes effortless. Not because the work gets easier — because you're no longer fighting yourself to do it.
When you subtract instead of add, leadership (and more importantly, life) become lighter.
More peaceful.
Morr fulfilling.
More impactful.
You let go of the person you think others want you to be, and embrace and honour the inner intelligence calling for your attention.
This isn't:
Another framework to add to your collection
A 90-day quick fix
Scripts borrowed from someone else's journey
Surface-level, top-of-the-head, shallow box ticking to fulfil an external “expectation”.
This is:
Deep excavation of who you actually are
Integration of the leader within
An iterative self-exploration through lived practice that changes how you show up everywhere
"Every single coaching conversation has been transformative… massive change without the heaviness."
— Nikil Kumar – CEO, Bulletproof Teams
Here's what I say when leaders ask me what they'll get
First: absolute confidence in yourself. Not borrowed. Not performed. Emodied – Yours.
Second: total clarity on the direction of your next steps — life, business, both. Clean decisions that stick.
Then the third result…
Well… I stay quiet here.
(You see… my clients' breakthroughs only ever happen in their world - never mine.)
Because the third one is always unique to you.
It's the thing you didn't know you needed until the noise cleared and your system steadied.
It's what shows up when you stop reacting and start operating from inner rightness.
It’s the power that becomes available when you let go of attachment (fear and control) and lead with commitment (surrender to infinite possibility) on a soul level.
"You taught me to release judgment and lean into who I am. I always feel like you've got that giant hug around me. You've absolutely got my back. I don't think I could have anybody who supports me or has that level of belief in me that you have."
— Katy Green – Director, Centred Excellence
This isn't for everyone
If you're looking for scripts, frameworks, or a 90-day transformation — this isn't it.
If you want someone to tell you what to do or hand you a blueprint — I'm not your person.
But if:
You're tired of performing leadership instead of embodying it
You know the gap isn't in your strategy — it's in you
You're ready to excavate who you actually are and integrate the leader within
You can't ignore the restlessness anymore
You’re ready to align your heart with your head
You’re ready to see vulnerability as strength - a gateway to embodied leadership and peace of mind.
Then maybe we should talk.
Here's Where You Are Right Now:
Externally successful. Internally unsettled.
Reactive under pressure. Decisions that lack conviction. A leadership team that pulls you into the weeds.
Noisy mind. Tired-but-wired. Strained at home.
Lost. Incomplete. You’ve done everything you thought was supposed to do to be happy… to be free.
Asking… “what have I missed?”
Here's Where You Could Be:
Calm clarity under pressure — in minutes.
Clean decisions that stick. Fewer things coming back to you.
More energy. Less stress. Presence that follows you home.
A sustainable rhythm that fits your life.
A clear internally driven vision for the future and clarity on who you need to become, and what needs to be set free.
The gap between those two places?
One conversation.
I've had people walk away from these calls feeling clear and complete without the need to engage further.
Your opportunity here is to lean in with courage to explore what's possible.
No forms. No proposals. Just a private conversation about where you are and what you're ready to face.