Transformative Leadership Academy (TLA) Information Session
2025-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
At this joyful and reflective gathering, you will hear from Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa about the Transformative Leadership Academy launch and mission, meet our founding participants, and connect in small groups with fellow interested applicants and leaders. You will also learn more about the program structure and experience, along with details on how to apply.
Register here.
Background on the Transformative Leadership Academy
The Transformative Leadership Academy (TLA) is now accepting applications for our 2026 program, following a successful pilot in 2025. TLA is a scholarship-based* summer residential program taking place in late May 2026, which trains an exceptionally talented and committed group of college students to live and lead from their spiritual core and become exemplary changemakers in their careers and communities. The curriculum will kick off in March with a virtual orientation and individually-paced pre-work. To learn more, visit our website.

THE SOUL BENEATH THE SKILL: A New Frontier in Coaching
2026-04-22 12:00 - 12:45
A Live Conversation with Hitendra Wadhwa & John Schuster | 30 min + Q&A

You’ve mastered the frameworks. You’ve helped clients set goals, shift mindsets, and raise their performance. And yet — something is missing.
There are moments when you sense a deeper current beneath the surface: a client’s unnamed longing for meaning, a leader’s quiet crisis of purpose, your own intuition that the next frontier of transformation isn’t about better strategies — it’s about touching something far more fundamental.
What if the most powerful thing you could do as a coach isn’t to help someone achieve more — but to help them awaken to who they truly are?
Join Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa (Mentora Institute founder, Columbia Business School professor, author of Inner Mastery, Outer Impact) and John P. Schuster (veteran ICF executive coach, author of Answering Your Call) for an intimate conversation on the radical shift from goal-directed to soul-directed coaching — and why this turbulent moment in history is demanding it.
They will explore:

Why body-and-mind coaching hits a ceiling — and what opens up when you access the mystic core in yourself and those you coach
What soul-directed coaching actually looks like in practice
The power behind Dr. Wadhwa’s Charter for the Soul, the guidepost for this work
The vision behind Coaching from the Mystic Core — Mentora’s inaugural certification program launching Summer 2026 — and why we are assembling a founding cohort of pioneers to seed this new model

This is for you if you’re an experienced coach, leader, or change professional who carries a reverence for the transcendent and senses you’re meant for a deeper level of work — with your clients and within yourself.
Come prepared to be moved. Come prepared to glimpse what coaching becomes when it is rooted in the soul.

Coaching from the Mystic Core applications close May 14, 2026. Space is limited and reviewed on a rolling basis — early applications are strongly encouraged.
Questions: blair@mentora.institute
