Mindful Warrior

Elevate Your Performance. Design for Flow.

What We Do

We Are Your Coaching and Culture Design Team

The performance advantages of connecting culture and strategy are many. To help you achieve those advantages, we guide you through a proprietary four-part culture by design process—either online or in person—so you can establish new bottom and top line behavioral standards. Then we teach you the inner skills of leadership and coach you to connect them to behaviors and values so you can lead from the inside out, design high trust cultures, and build high performance teams. In short, we help you design for flow and coach you through the messy middle so you can elevate your performance to achieve your goals and dreams.

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How We Do It

Together We Design Your Culture Playbook and Coach You to Its Standards

Designing a culture—which involves proactively connecting culture and strategy—is the antidote to culture by default. The performance advantages include the ability to master critical skills, leverage one another’s talents, belong uniquely, and achieve key strategic goals. We work with you to design your new high trust, high performance cultural norms and then coach you to its standards.

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“A next level coaching and culture design firm.”

—Ron Johnson, Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County

“Mindful Warrior teaches a framework for you to discover answers to life’s toughest questions.”

—Brandon Etheridge, General Counsel of the Baltimore Ravens

“I cannot overemphasize the tremendous value that Mindful Warrior can drive to enhance your business operations and partnership dynamics.”

—Alan Zafran, Co-CEO and Founder of IEQ Capital and Board Member of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation

“Cornelia was the vital reason we won three World Championship gold medals and achieved our first-ever world no. 1 ranking. Mindful Warrior helped us reach our individual and team potential.”

—Angela Ruggiero, CEO of Sports Innovation Lab and Olympic Gold Medalist

Listen to Mindful Warrior Radio

Welcome to Mindful Warrior Radio, a podcast where we share brave stories, authentic insight, and real knowledge.

We interview CEOs, Olympians, elite athletes, coaches, authors, creatives, and other professionals on the topics of leadership, mindfulness, coaching, communications, interpersonal skills, conflict management, team building, flow, health, well-being, and optimal performance.

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Going against the grain is going against the flow. This means getting outside your comfort zone to speak up for yourself or interrupting a routine with a new challenge. Start small to build the muscle to face bigger challenges! #mindfulwarrior

If you stay in your comfort zone, you won’t grow. Here are seven ways to use healthy pressure to get better. How will you grow today? #mindfulwarrior

Ding! Another email. Knock! Another interruption waiting at the door. Click! Another social media update. The workday is full of disruptions to flow. Take some time to disengage from multiple inputs to protect the clarity of a quiet moment. That way,

Reactions are based on impulses while responses come from skillful decision-making and self-reflection. Did you know that when you react you are only using the part of the brain that is connected to survival? Try using your whole brain to make health

On Episode Sixteen of Mindful Warrior Radio, I was joined by @a_gray, a professional surfer turned coach, motivational speaker, and wellness and mental health enthusiast. Alex travels the world pursuing his passion for surfing. He’s one of the

A storming phase may seem like something to avoid, but it provides a critical opportunity to move courageously forward as a team. So, embrace the turbulence, hold fast, and dig into your values! #mindfulwarrior

The inner skills of leadership are foundational to building outer leadership skills like public speaking, organizational management, and strategic decision making. What inner leadership skills do you want to develop? #mindfulwarrior

Have you been tempted to cut a corner to get somewhere faster? Are you trying to build something powerful by stacking weakness on top of weakness? Do you end up linking mistakes? If so, take a beat to step back and reorganize. It’s time to buil

To have a better work-life balance consider where and when you need to spend time in a sanctuary (rest) or container (digest and make meaning). Arenas are everywhere, so it’s important to protect the time and space to rest and digest. These can

Imposter Syndrome effects up to 70% of people. Since doubt and shame interrupt focus and flow, it’s important to do the gritty work of identifying what sabotages your flow. #mindfunwarrior

As a practice, leadership requires wise and skillful action. And because the practice of leadership is as complex as you are, it takes continuous personal and professional growth and development. #mindfulwarrior

Did you know that stress can be healthy? We often hear of only toxic or unhealthy stress. It’s important to recognize that healthy stress can serve a purpose. #mindfulwarrior

Oh no! I’m in a creative rut! Getting stuck when you’re trying to ignite inspiration and imagination can feel impossible to break through. But luckily, there are some tricks to help shed some of that stickiness and find the spark again. #

It’s easy to believe what you think. Like, “I’m not good enough” or “I could never do that.” You build your sense of self off your thought patterns. Instead of holding so tightly to your thoughts, try stepping back

It’s one thing to prioritize tasks but it’s another to protect the time to stay on task. Once you’ve decided what matters most and deserves your focus, protect the time and set up the conditions to sustain your attention to get your

As a system, families are networks of interconnected parts. They are living, breathing systems, meaning family relationships ebb and flow with change. Every member of a family plays a critical role. How are you growing and moving in your family syste

On Episode Fifteen of Mindful Warrior Radio, I was joined by Brandon Bostick, a retired NFL tight end, mental health advocate, and founder and partner of Sage Elite Wellness Clinic. Brandon spent a lifetime in elite athletics. A year after experienci

It takes grit to get back up after being knocked down. It takes grit to get 1% better every day. And lifting others while you climb builds your integrity. #mindfulwarrior

Every member of the team has an essential role and responsibility that impacts the team’s performance and success. Get clear about your mission, vision, and true north. Clarify roles and responsibilities. Learn to share, distribute, and complet

Meet our Coaches

We Champion You to Success

We believe high trust cultures and high performance teams are worth the commitment because they increase success. We built a world class coaching team composed of skilled and compassionate problem solvers who are hand-selected for the depth and diversity of their experience. We embrace complexity and navigate challenges alongside you so you can achieve optimal, purpose-driven outcomes. We believe in approaching both work and play with passion, curiosity, fidelity, and fun.

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Our approach is as rigorous as it is rewarding. Most of our clients work with us for a period of one to three years (though several clients have retained us for longer projects, or for recurring engagements).

Generally, our clients are executives and entrepreneurs, or leaders in the not-for-profit sector. We also work with highly motivated individuals, elite athletes, and athletic team coaches, as well as creatives in commercial media and the arts.

We meet with clients by phone, Zoom, or in person. These sessions are often one on one, but we also work with co-founders, boards, teams, and couples.