October 31 · 6:00PM CET / 12:00PM EST / 0900AM PST
Presence Under Pressure
A half-day live masterclass for leaders where you explore your own pause practice, rehearse it on a real leadership situation, and leave with an actionable plan to support you in your leadership.
Live on Zoom · 3.5 hours plus a 60-minute integration call · Limited to 10 participants
The Pause Practice and Why it Counts
Listen in for a quick overview of the Pause Practice Webinar and the Presence Under Pressure Mastermind.
By the end of the Masterclass, you will be able to:
Spot your earliest pressure signals
Learn to identify signals in your body and thinking, before they shape your words.
Name what is happening precisely
Including the primary emotion beneath the one you usually show.
Regulate your system in under 90 seconds
Using techniques discreet enough for a boardroom.
Track your patterns over time
So you can prepare for the situations that reliably pull you off course.
Turn insight into visible behavior change
Specific changes that the people you lead will actually notice.
Use Presence to intentionally influence
Intentionally influence the emotional tone of the room.
Learn more about how to participate.
Join our exclusive program and take your career to the next level. Our comprehensive curriculum and experienced mentors will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to succeed.
1. Submit your Interest
2. Join one of the Free Webinars
3. Purchase your Seat in the Masterclass
4. Start the program
Webinar Dates
The Pause: Emotional Agility for Leaders
This free 60-minute webinar covers The Pause Practice: what it is, why emotional agility depends on it, and what changes in your leadership when you can interrupt autopilot and consciously choose your next step. To participate in the Masterclass, you'll need to attend one of the webinars.
October 15th
Free live webinar · 5:00pm UK time · · 1200pm EST · 0900am PST · 60 minutes on Zoom
October 22nd
Free live webinar · 5:00pm UK time · · 1200pm EST · 0900am PST · 60 minutes on Zoom
October 29th
Free live webinar · 5:00pm UK time · · 1200pm EST · 0900am PST · 60 minutes on Zoom
What you'll learn
What the pause actually is. The difference between a performative pause (looking calm) and an integrative pause (actually returning to choice), and why only one of them improves your decisions.
Why emotional agility is a leadership capacity. Emotional agility isn't about controlling emotion. It's about working with it to guide decisions, build trust and respond with clarity.
The Pause Practice Framework. An introduction to the five steps: Notice, Label, Regulate, Track, Capitalize.
Why your state becomes the room's state. How teams read and mirror a leader's internal state, and what that does to trust, candor and decision quality.
Where the cycle breaks. The step most leaders skip, and what it costs them.
What you'll take away
A precise language for what happens to you under pressure.
A clear way to tell a pause that looks steady from one that actually is.
The five-step Pause Practice Framework in outline.
A short reflection to identify the trigger that shows up most consistently in your leadership right now.
The Pause Practice Quick Reference Card, a two-minute daily check-in you can use the same day.
Pricing
Free Webinar
$0
The Pause: Emotional Agility for Leaders is a Free Webinar where we dive into what the pause is and why its essential to your leadership. There is no cost and obligation to join the Masterclass from there.
Masterclass
$500
From there, you'll be invited to participate in the Presence Under Pressure Masterclass where we explore how to actually integrate the practice into your leadership using your specific challenges.
In the Masterclass
Presence Under Pressure
In the webinar, you'll look at what the pause is and why emotional agility shapes everything downstream of you, but understanding it is the easy part. The hard part is reaching for the pause at 4 p.m. on a Friday, in the middle of a tense exchange, with your body already ahead of your judgment. Presence Under Pressure is where we work on how to actually practice it everyday when the pressure is on. This is a practice session, not a lecture. You'll work on your own patterns, with your own situations, and you'll rehearse the practice before you need it.
What you'll learn
Spot your earliest pressure signals in your body and thinking, before they shape your words.
Name what is happening precisely, including the primary emotion beneath the one you usually show.
Regulate in under 90 seconds using techniques discreet enough for a boardroom.
Track your patterns so you can prepare for the situations that reliably pull you off course instead of only recovering after them.
Turn one insight into one visible behavior change that the people you lead will actually notice.
Bring presence into the room, setting the emotional tone of a meeting deliberately rather than by accident.
What's Included
The live half-day masterclass, about 3.5 hours on Zoom.
The Presence Under Pressure Workbook, with every exercise from the session to reuse afterward.
Your Personal Pressure Map: your triggers, signals and default reactions, on one page.
Your Regulation Repertoire Card: the three to five techniques that work for you, in order of use.
A 14-day Pause Practice Log to use between the masterclass and the integration call.
A 60-minute live integration call two weeks later, where we review what held, what broke down and what to adjust as needed.
Presence Under Pressure is for leaders who:
Attended the webinar or already have a working sense of the pause and want to make it reliable;
Want practical support on how to actually apply each of the Pause Practice steps in their real life leadership moments;
Have a specific situation, relationship or decision where their reactivity is costing them.
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Your Facilitator
Aang Lakey
Founder, Increasing Consciousness
Aang is a strategic advisor and author of the Leadership Consciousness Essential book series.
Their mission is to increase global consciousness by supporting individuals to elevate their leadership, their teams, and the impact of their organizations.
What our students say
“Aang Lakey's teaching isn't just theoretical — the framework feels deeply practical. I now catch myself noticing internal patterns, emotional cues, and misalignments between what I intend and how I act. The guided reflections and real-world applications helped me build a more conscious, grounded leadership presence. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to lead with authenticity and presence.”
Kathy G.E.
So grateful I took this course. It helped me unlearn old leadership habits that were reactive and instead learn to pause, reflect, and realign. The framework Aang teaches is super powerful — I use it in stressful meetings, in team conversations, and even in day-to-day decision making. What I love most is how this isn't just about being better, but being more true to my values. Incredible course.”
Erin C.
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