Your performance is only as strong as your presence.
The Present Leader: A Mindfulness Program for Busy Professionals
A Values-based Mindfulness Program for Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and the Anxiously Driven.
Lead with clarity, act from your values, and stay present when it matters most.
The Present Leader is an eight-week practice program for executives, entrepreneurs, and high performers who want to access their clearest thinking, strongest leadership, and most effective action in the moments that demand it most.
A program designed for sustaining a change where it really matters, on the inside, in bite sized daily practices you can do mostly anywhere.
Try a free meditation now!
The Tension Melting Brief Meditation
with Elizabeth Gentzkow
You’re Ready to Feel More Balanced & Connected
You know how to drive results, perhaps lead others, navigate complexity, and deliver under pressure. But, somewhere between the strategy and the execution, between the vision and the daily reality of leading people through hard things, something is feels off.
Perhaps you find yourself reacting out of stress, ruminating after a difficult conversation instead of learning from it, or missing meaningful moments while your mind is three tasks ahead.
Making decisions from urgency instead of values is depleting your energy and drawing from really connecting to what matters.
You know what your optimal functioning looks like, and through values-based mindfulness you can finally make it happen.
Reconnect to Flourish
You are successful, but recognize your drive and pressure pushing you along isn’t sustainable.
You notice you are not as present as you want to be for the work and the people that matter most, and that the gap between the leader you are and the leader you intend to be seems to widen when the pressure is highest.
Signs Your Presence Needs Some Work
In Your Thinking
Replaying conversations or ruminating, second guessing decisions for hours or days, missing details in conversations from thinking of other things.
In Your Body
Chronic tension, difficulty relaxing, uncomfortable slowing down, not feeling rested after a normal night of sleep, frequent illness.
In Your Leadership
Making decisions out of frustration instead of judgment, reacting in ways you regret later, a sense your team manages around you rather than coming to you, you spend more time talking or waiting to talk instead of listening.
In Your Work
Performing well by external measures, but internally dissatisfied, feeling most comfortable when busy and curiously unsettled when not busy.
In Your Relationships
You’re often preoccupied with a device instead of engaging with who is with you, it feels as though there’s no time to enjoy your partner or friends because there’s always something to rush to do.
What The Science Says.
Most mindfulness programs just teach mindfulness. This program integrates two of the most rigorously researched frameworks in behavioral science.
Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT)
Developed by Dr. Steven Hayes at the University of Nevada, ACT is supported by over 300 randomized controlled trials.
Research consistently links ACT-based psychological flexibility to leadership effectiveness, resilience under pressure, and sustained performance in
high-demand roles. ACT can be utilized as a Therapy approach and a Training approach. In this context, ACT is integrated as a training.
Mindfulness-Based Practice
Eight weeks of consistent mindfulness practice produces measurable structural changes in the brain:
– increased gray matter in regions governing attention and emotional regulation
– reduced amygdala reactivity (emotion regulation)
– stronger prefrontal cortex connections that drive responsive rather than reactive behavior.
You are not just feeling better, you’re changing connections in your brain for performance.
WHAT TO EXPECT
What’s Included
Resources and self-paced practices you need to integrate mindfulness, and nothing you don’t need.
Values-Based Mindfulness Benefits You Can Feel
Mindfulness is not about calming down. It’s about sharpening your ability to engage in anything you do fully and to act with purpose as you achieve your goals.
This program approaches mindfulness as a lifestyle training system with skills and habits that are yours as long as you use them. Engaging in this program enables you to cultivate:
Mindfulness for Busy Professionals
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The Present Leader Program – $349
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
About Lizz
Hi, I’m Lizz Gentzkow, the founder of Thrive West Consulting, an executive coaching and organizational development practice based in Lake Oswego, Oregon. With a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, a Board Certified Coach credential, and as a Licensed Professional Counselor, I bring a unique experience unlike other coaches and consultants. I designed this program based on scientific, research backed practices to help you shift daily habits that become a lifestyle.
My approach is grounded in the conviction that leadership effectiveness and psychological wellbeing are not separate concerns. The leaders who develop the inner capacities this program teaches are more adaptive, more trusted, more resilient, and more sustainably motivated.
I’ve produced the meditations specifically for this program, you can access them for life. The curriculum reflects the same framework used in individual coaching clients at Thrive West Consulting.
Ready When You Are.
The present moment is the only place you can actually lead from.
Where do you want to be eight weeks from now?
The demands on your attention, your judgment, and your presence will likely won’t go away.
What can change is how you show up in the face of it all.