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Leading from Your Inner Core

An immersive 3-day workshop that equips executives with a simple, intuitive and practical method to lead in today's fast-changing times with agility and authenticity

Executives have never been as challenged as they are today in advancing their organization’s goals in a complex and fast-changing world. They need to significantly expand their personal and their people’s capacity to operate with resolution and focus, and yet openness and agility. This requires a whole new form of leadership, one that arises from one’s Inner Core.

The Inner Core is the space within us from where our best self arises. When we are at our Core, we are beyond ego, attachment and insecurities, and we transcend our habits and impulses. At our Core, we are committed, calm, curious, connected and centered.

Welcome to our workshop on Leading from Your Inner Core.

What is Different?

We’ve redesigned conventional leadership development in three important ways.

	Conventional Approach	The Mentora Method
WHY	Leadership that drives performance.	Leadership that advances purpose, people and performance.
WHAT	Long list of behaviors and checklists.	Quick and easy actions that activate 5 Core Energies in yourself and others in all situations
HOW	Short-term training and inspirational sessions whose content is soon forgotten.	Activating the Inner Core in yourself and others in the flow of work for immediate impact and continual growth.

How It Works

Leadership development is typically approached as an outward-focused discipline. But what if you turn that lens inward?

Mentora’s approach to developing leaders helps you gain mastery over your intentions, thoughts, emotions, and mindsets to operate at your best in all moments, nurture trust and collaboration for strong relationships, and experience greater fulfillment at work. We also guide you on how to bring out the best in others, helping you build high-performing teams and organizations.

Inner Core

Within each of us is a space of the highest potential — our Inner Core. Here, we feel most authentic — beyond ego, attachment, and insecurities.

Five Energies

At our Core, we have access to five Energies: Purpose, Wisdom, Growth, Love, and Self-Realization.Leadership, at its essence, is about activating these Energies in ourselves and others.

Action Paths

We can activate the 5 Energies by using a set of 25+ simple actions. By mixing and matching these actions, we can create countless behaviors (action paths) that help us respond in the best way to the relentless demands of our work environment.

Flow of Work

By investing 10 minutes of time before critical events, we can set the right intention, activate the right energies and then execute the right actions to significantly boost our performance at the event to achieve our goals.

97% booked

What you get

The book Inner Mastery, Outer Impact
Your self-assessment + personalized report on 5 Core Energies
3 days of inspirational and transformational learning on Leading with your Inner Core, 5 Core Energies, and 25 Actions
3-month digital access to Mentora’s LiFT platform
Opportunity to build your network with like-minded executives across industries and organizations
Participants will receive an Executive Program Certificate from Mentora Institute, which can be shared on LinkedIn

Format: In-person
Dates: Oct. 18th to Oct. 20th
Location: New York City

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Why You Should Sign Up

PROVEN METHODS AND MEASURABLE RESULTS

Our approach is informed by 15 years of scientific findings and research at Columbia Business School and Mentora Labs, including studies of more than 1,000 examples of exemplary leadership moments in history.

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TAILORED TO YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Our teaching methods, such as behaviors you personally design using a set of mix-and-match Actions Paths, enable a modular learning approach that can address your unique leadership challenges and personal growth requirements.

CONTINUOUS LEARNING, SUSTAINED GROWTH, AND RESULTS THAT TRULY STICK

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP SKILLS BUILT UPON PERSONAL GROWTH

Tackle multiple high-impact challenges with one holistic leadership approach that blends personal growth with professional success.

What You Will Learn

You will walk away from this program with insights and tools on how to:

Connect your career pursuits with your purpose and values
Master your emotions and redirect others’ emotions
Activate a high-performance state in your people
Make high-impact decisions to support innovation and organizational change by blending the science of strategy with the psychology of decision-making.
Lead with agility in a dynamic business ecosystem
Become a beacon of light in the midst of uncertainty
Resolve conflicts smoothly and gain genuine commitments
Build warmth, trust, and connection within your team
Foster a climate of constructive candor and psychological safety
Spark joy and inspiration in those with whom you work
Deal with outer turbulence from a place of inner harmony
Infuse strength and resilience in the organizational culture you return to

Who is this for?

As an executive, do you find yourself asking “How can I…?”

Accelerate growth in my personal capabilities and the capacities of my team
Simplify my approach to leadership and make it more authentic to me
Be flexible and responsive in my leadership approach as conditions change
Approach the way I live and the way I lead from the same place, my Inner Core
Harmonize what I feel and think on the inside with what I say and do on the outside
Inspire my team and organization to go on a hero’s journey
Make wise decisions by tapping your team’s collective wisdom
Create a comfortable space to address uncomfortable issues
Lead people by inspiring them to join me in going on a hero’s journey

If you resonate with some of these aspirations, then Mentora’s Inner Mastery, Outer Impact program will give you a distinctive opportunity for growth, self-discovery, and peer dialogue.

Our work has helped grow 10,000 executives at leading corporations

PARTICIPANT VOICES

“Inner Mastery, Outer Impact is very inspiring. Simple but powerful concepts to help us become the best version of ourselves as leaders.”

Engineering Manager | SAP

Meet your Faculty

Hitendra Wadhwa Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Founder of Mentora Institute

Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa

Founder and President, Mentora Institute
Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School

Hitendra’s mission is to discover, codify, and teach the laws of success in life and leadership which form the foundation of our work at Mentora. With an MBA and Ph.D. from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a lifelong study of the world’s mystic traditions, Wadhwa brings a mathematician’s rigor and a truth-seeker’s spirit to some of today’s most vexing questions about authenticity, success, leadership, and human potential. He has codified many of these principles in his book, “Inner Mastery, Outer Impact: How Your Five Core Energies Hold the Key to Success”, published by Hachette Book Group in 2022.

“Professor Wadhwa is not only a phenomenal educator and storyteller, but he is also a great human being. His delivery was absolutely great. From his responsiveness to our questions and follow-ups to the content in his book and putting together an outstanding group of speakers, everything contributed to my personal growth and introspection, making me want to become the best self I can be.”

“This program has been transformational and transcendental. I went in with an understanding of the concept, but Professor Wadhwa created space to practice and dive deeper into the soul, mind, and body to explore our being and us as people and leaders. Remarkable.”

“Professor Wadhwa is an absolute light in this world. His wisdom and perspective can open your eyes, heart, and mind and shift your perspective. Within the span of a few days, I experienced a transformation unlike anything I have ever experienced before — and I know that this never would have happened had the class not been led by the wonderful Hitendra.”

Paul Ingram

Senior Faculty, Mentora Institute
Kravis Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. His PhD is from Cornell University, and he was on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University before coming to Columbia. He has held visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Toronto. The courses he teaches on management and strategy benefit from his research on organizations in the United States, Canada, Israel, Scotland, China, Korea and Australia. His research has been published in more than seventy articles, book chapters and books. His publications have received numerous distinctions, including the Gould Prize from the American Journal of Sociology, and best paper awards in the areas of Organization and Management Theory, and Collective Behavior and Social Movements.

“He guided us to choose our values, and we now have cards that we can carry in our wallets forever. We heard from former students, now running companies, about how they still carry their cards and refer to them. Professor Ingram puts science and data behind the importance of empathy, being an inclusive leader, and listening like a friend at all times. I will keep everything he taught me both in my brain and in my heart.”

Rita McGrath

Guest Faulty, Mentora Institute
Professor of Strategy, Columbia Business School

Rita Gunter McGrath is a best-selling author, sought-after speaker, and longtime professor at Columbia Business School. She is widely recognized as a premier expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s Top 10 management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. As a consultant to CEOs, her work has had a lasting impact on the strategy and growth programs of Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

“Rita’s insights generated great engagement and comments from leaders sharing eye-opening observations and building on her examples throughout. She delivered the inspiration and illustration desired and it was exactly the right focus and challenge for this team.”

“The feedback I received [from Rita] is fantastic and mind-blowing. She’s such a smart fast-thinking strategic person.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Application Process

How do I apply? Is there a selection process?

You can apply for the program here.

This program will focus on leadership at the executive level — i.e., most participants will have significant responsibilities in their organization, and will have a team (or a group, or division) that reports to them, making them sufficiently experienced in the nuances and challenges of influencing, managing, and driving outcomes to advance their organization’s goals.