Senior Leader Advisory
A private two-month engagement for executives and founders who lead at the highest level.
Most leadership development addresses what leaders know. This programme addresses how they operate. At the level where decisions are actually made, influence is won or lost, and performance is either sustained or quietly eroded.
The Senior Leader Advisory is built on three decades of applied research into human performance, neuroscience, and the biology of stress. It delivers what few programmes reach: a fundamental shift in how a leader perceives, responds, and leads in real time, under real conditions.
The Programme
Phase 1: Foundation
A full-day intensive with Dr. Nikolas Epp. Participants develop a precise scientific understanding of how stress biology shapes leadership behaviour, including the unconscious patterns that limit judgment, communication, and decision-making under pressure. The day concludes with a personalised application framework built around the participant's own leadership context.
Phase 2: Integration
Six weekly private sessions over eight weeks. Each session builds on real situations from the participant's working life, developing the capacity for real-time self-observation and precise pattern recognition. The focus shifts progressively from awareness to application to mastery.
Programme Details
Format: Exclusively 1:1 with Dr. Nikolas Epp
Duration: Two months Kick-off: Full-day intensive session
Follow-up: Six weekly private sessions
Language: English or German
Location: In person or remote
Faculty
Dr. Nikolas Epp holds a PhD in cell biology from the German Cancer Research Center and conducted research at ETH Zurich. After fifteen years in global corporate leadership, seven in senior executive functions, he has spent two decades developing and applying the Unconscious Stress Model and the Biology of Certainty. He has worked with executives across private banking, manufacturing, media, and technology, and lectures in healthy leadership at the iKF Business School Lucerne.
Participant Profile
This engagement is designed for senior executives, C-level leaders, and founding entrepreneurs who operate at organisational or market level and are ready to invest in the internal dimension of their leadership.
Engagements are offered to a limited number of participants each year.
