Connected Leadership

Psychedelics, Leadership, Creativity, and Decision-making: New Fall Cohort Open for Applications

Discover how this mushroom retreat, world-class executive coaching, and integration program could accelerate your leadership capacity and creativity

Watch Our Latest Webinar to Learn More about this Groundbreaking Program & Study:

Transform Yourself to Transform Your Team and Your Impact

Our above webinar with the Connected Leadership coaches and researchers addresses:

  • Why psychedelics for creativity and leadership, and why psilocybin?

  • What science exists regarding psychedelics for creativity, leadership, and decision-making?

  • What is special about the combination of psychedelics, coaching, and integration that can lead to lasting change?

  • How can this methodology support a leader to break free from limiting patterns and beliefs?

  • How might psychedelic experiences be linked to making a positive societal impact?

  • What are some other benefits of being a more “Connected Leader”?

The Connected Leadership Program is a world-class executive coaching and integration program blending neuroscience, coaching, and consciousness-expanding tools to build new neural pathways and cultivate extraordinary leaders. Program participants have the opportunity to participate in a cutting-edge research study on the effects of consciousness-expanding experiences on decision-making by organizational leaders.

“As part of this groundbreaking examination of the impact of psilocybin on executive leaders and decision-making, we as coaches have already seen surprising results.

By the fourth coaching session, participants’ progress in their own development reflects what often takes months, sometimes years, to achieve.”

 - Kerry Radcliffe, Connected Leadership Program Lead and Executive Coach

Attune Your System for Systems Change: Coaching Approach

The Connected Leadership Program offers human-centered, transformational coaching that supports navigating the complexities of life while fostering a deeper connection to one’s core self. By working with a person’s internal experience and external structures (such as relationships, professional life, and current challenges), this relational coaching approach helps clients prepare for and integrate deeply expanded states of awareness. It is also practical, supporting a personal process that facilitates greater clarity, wisdom, and creativity—resources of particular importance for those facing complex decision landscapes.

The Connected Leadership Coaches blend expertise in transformational coaching with business acumen, a rare combination that caters to the distinctive needs of program participants. Drawing on their significant experience helping executives and entrepreneurs navigate complex organizations, they assist participants in developing and refining essential skills and competencies. Moving beyond this tactical developmental process, they also encourage participants to question established beliefs and constructs, and experiment with new ways of thinking and being in participants’ spheres of influence.

The Connected Leadership Team Includes:

  • Rachelle Sampson, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator: Rachelle is a social scientist, educator, and consultant with training in the neuroscience of change, business economics, law and transformational coaching. She is Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton…

  • Bennet A. Zelner, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator: Bennet researches, teaches, and advises on regenerative economics, psychedelics, and leadership. Current projects include ongoing work on the Pollination Approach–a regenerative economic approach to delivering mental health treatment–and the Connected Leadership Study.

  • Kerry Radcliffe, Program Lead & Executive Coach: Kerry is an Executive Coach with 30 years of experience in business strategy, organizational behavior, and leadership development. She combines an understanding of complexity theory and organizational systems with emergent findings in human development and leadership growth.

  • Luther Kitahata, Executive Coach: Luther is an accomplished executive leadership coach, team facilitator, and former C-level executive who led global organizations. He is celebrated as the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of Silicon Valley" in The New York Times best seller Wisdom at Work by Chip Conley.

Connected Leadership Program Key Dates

An integrated approach: depth coaching and the neuroscience of psilocybin to integrate expanded states of awareness.

  • Four live virtual group sessions, with an optional check-in (90 minutes each):

    • Oct. 17, 30 (2024); Dec. 18 (2024); Jan. 29 (2025)

      • @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm UTC / 6pm CET

      • (Optional) group check-in with Kiyumi: week of Dec. 4 (2024)

  • 6-day in-person retreat in the Netherlands in a beautiful setting

  • Nov. 19-24 (2024)

  • Includes 2 psilocybin journeys

  • Supportive ratio of facilitator/coach to participants

  • Beautiful European facilities with delicious, nutritious meals

  • Ongoing individual and group coaching (on your schedule):

    • 4 months of world-class executive coaching, preparation & integration informed by psychedelic experience

    • Executive coaching is arranged at a mutually convenient time, roughly every two weeks, starting as early as the week of Oct. 10 (2024) and concluding by Jan. 29 (2025)

  • Guidance to integrate key insights from your psychedelic experience

  • Connect with like-minded, like-hearted leaders

Schedule a Consult

If you have reviewed this information and wish to schedule a consult, please email info@leaders.study with some good slots for you in the coming days, and they will fast-track your request. 

Please note, there is a cost to participate.

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