The world needs enlightened, grounded, embodied leadership more than ever, and IZL ensures that these skills, training, and community are available to everyone. Your generosity helps make this possible.
connect with what is yours to do
and the wisdom to do it well
We live in an extraordinary decade.
The way we live, the decisions we make, are shaping life on the planet now and for centuries to come.
A new kind of leadership is called for
that is inherent in every person, expressing their gifts,
not from one-sidedness of intellect, but from wisdom of connectedness,
from unification of mind and body,
being one with nature, one with life.
Our purpose is to help you be that leader.
where EMBODIED ZEN TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS converge to TRANSFORM YOU INTO AN EXCEPTIONAL LEADER
What you’ll get from our accredited programs and certification pathways:
- Embodied Leadership Training: Beyond cognitive tips, learn to integrate head, heart and hara in how you resonate with people and situations, learning to “flip” problems, manage energy and skillfuly use 4 energy patterns, influence others, and realize desired goals.
- Wise decision making: Dynamically balance paradoxes and move beyond intellect to the intuitive wisdom that arises from being one-with.
- Authentic connection to your Whole Self: Come home to a felt sense of who you were/are before you felt separate and experience how your leadership expands fearlessly.
- Sustainable Resilience: Create a virtuous cycle of greater thrving on the inside to bring greater thriving into the world.
- Zen Meditation: More than mindfulness, experience a deep integration of mind-body as one and connection to a vibrant community of practice.
Here’s some of what leaders have learned in our programs and the difference they’ve made:
A physician accepts a promotion to lead a department at a major university, saying she felt readied by IZL training, and in her first year is awarded faculty director of the year.
An artist ups her game to create fearlessly and
teach others how to do the same.
A medical director improves and inspires her department by putting meditation cushions in her office, where employees now gather for meditation and deeper conversations.
A corporate leader re-evaluates her career and finds a new purposefulness that she is determined to grow into.
A tired but talented technology leader describes “coming home to himself” as he learns to connect with hara and expand his senses.
A physician suffering from burnout says at the close of a ZL program this is the first time she has “felt whole”.
A somatic coach learns to work with the 4 energy patterns and radically expands her business.
A physician remembers to embody the first flip – center, enter, add value – as she engages each patient.
get started here:
FEBI-4U: Feb 2025
February 25, 2025
Explore your personality through 4 mind-body energy patterns and learn to access whichever serves best.
Zen Leader 1: May 2025
May 15, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Embody the basic flips of Zen Leadership from transforming problems to realizing a desired future.
HEAL1: May 2025
May 15, 2025 – May 18, 2025
Apply the basic flips of ZL to healthcare with results and resilience in this accredited program.
earn a certification:
pathway overview
Explore our 5 certification pathways and select the right one for you
Zen Leader practitioner
The Way to embody and express boundless, fearless leadership
HEAL practitioner
The Way to embody and apply Zen Leadership in healthcare
FEBI Coach
The Way to coach / faciliate with the unique personality tool linking mind-body & leadership
Zen Leadership coach
The Way to transform coaching using the powerful reframing “flips” of ZL
zen leadership instructor
The Way for those who want to teach ZL on their own or with us
See Offerings for all of our programs
Not sure where to start? No problem.
Let us know your interest and we’ll be happy to connect you
with the right person or program.
RECENT Events
Introducing the Living and Leading with Deep Resilience Summit!
The live event has ended but it’s not too late to tap into the summit experience! The video replays, session synopses, speaker information, bonus content and additional resources have been compiled into a timeless package that we call a Deep Resilience Navigation Guide. Get ongoing access now at the same special low price that was offered to summit registrants.
Insights
from our community
Flipping Ordinary Experience Creates Extraordinary Leadership
Flow states can be interpreted as peak experiences “I” have, but something much more powerful is possible when they radically flip our sense of self.
Jasleen Kaur, IZL Instructor and long time FEBI Enthusiast shares her feeling about FEBI and the IZL community. She explores the ecosystem of giving and receiving that the community has created.
FEBI, the mind-body assessment from IZL, reminds us in the words of Kate Watters, that “none of us have to be everything” and each and all of us have access to an array of energies than we can use judiciously on our teams.