There Is Another Level to Your Leadership.
A three-day, in-person immersion for leaders who are technically excellent, and ready to master the inside game. Co-facilitated by two master practitioners, in one of the world's most restorative settings.
The leadership you were trained for isn't the leadership your people need now.
For most of a career, leaders are rewarded for technical mastery, for having the answers, holding the line, and never letting the pressure show. That competence gets you to the room. It rarely gets you to the next level.
"Technical skills will keep you in the game. Emotional intelligence will win the championship."
This program exists for the moment you sense there is more available to you: more influence, more presence, more impact. But the path forward isn't another framework or a longer to-do list. It's a different way of leading. More honest. More self-aware. More human. Measurable, teachable, and, for the leaders willing to do the work, the most reliable predictor of sustained performance in the decade ahead.
Three days. A small cohort of serious leaders. Two facilitators who have spent their careers helping people find the level they didn't know they had.
For leaders ready for the next level.
This is not an introduction to management. It's for people already carrying real responsibility who sense there's more available to them.
- Senior leaders ready to rewire decades of leadership habits
- High-potential managers accelerating into bigger roles
- Founders and executives leading through complexity and change
- Coaches, HR and L&D leaders deepening their own practice
- Anyone committed to authentic, emotionally intelligent leadership
Prerequisite: the willingness to show up fully, engage honestly, and apply what you learn.
An arc designed for transformation, not information.
An indicative flow. The cohort's live needs shape the detail, but the journey is deliberate.
Self
- Discflow & E.I. Leadership debrief: turning your assessments into a personal leadership map
- The Unarmoured Leader: why competence stalls and what comes next
- Ontological foundations: how language, body and emotion shape the leader you are
- Naming the thirty-year habits worth rewiring
Others
- Empathy, inquiry and strategic vulnerability as everyday practice
- DISC + EI: reading behavioural style and adapting how you connect
- The conversations leaders avoid: engagement, motivation, performance
- Live coaching and peer feedback in a safe, high-trust cohort
Impact
- From insight to action: your personal leadership practice
- Strategic vulnerability and presence at the next level of responsibility
- Building your post-program accountability and peer-coaching structure
- Commitments, integration plan, and cohort close
Indicative agenda, finalised in detail with the confirmed cohort. Sessions are interwoven with reflection time in the Bali setting.
Most programs are an event. This is a practice.
The three days are built around how the brain actually learns, forgets, and rebuilds habit, drawn from IGNITE Performance's Prepare → Learn → Perform architecture and CFT Asia's ontological coaching approach.
Know yourself first.
Before Bali, you complete your Discflow and E.I. Leadership assessments, blending DISC behavioural insight with emotional intelligence, giving you a precise map of your strengths, patterns, and the dimensions where you'll grow.
Practice in the room.
Immersive, facilitated cohort work with people who'll tell you the truth. Empathy, inquiry, strategic vulnerability and ontological awareness (language, body and emotion) turned into how you lead on Monday morning.
Embed the habit.
Three days can open the door, but spaced, contextual practice is what rewires a thirty-year habit. So the work continues long after Bali.
Our AI-enabled habit and behaviour app keeps the learning alive in the flow of work: daily micro-prompts, peer-to-peer practice, and real-time application exercises. Combined with 1:1 executive coaching sessions that meet each leader where their week actually is, the result is what the research calls compounding behavioural change.
versus a one-time workshop
A mobile-first experience that activates leaders and drives daily behaviour change.
- Micro-lessons & micro-actions
- AI execution coach
- Social learning & streaks
Two master practitioners. One transformation.
You won't learn leadership from a slide deck. You'll learn it from two people who have spent their careers in the room with leaders doing the real work.
Paul S. McLean
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Paul has spent fifteen-plus years inside boardrooms and leadership teams across the globe, and the same pattern emerges every time: technically brilliant leaders stall, not for lack of intelligence or ambition, but because no one ever taught them the inside game. He built IGNITE Performance to teach it at scale.
He is the architect of IGNITE's three leadership academies and the Unarmoured Edge methodology, a 12-month, behaviour-change ecosystem grounded in Discflow, EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence, CliftonStrengths & Insight Discovery human inventory assessments. He facilitates for senior leaders at organisations including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, The Trade Desk, & Vale. Paul is also the author of The Unarmoured Leader, your guide to applying Emotional Intelligence.
Certifications & accreditations
"Vulnerability is the highest form of professional courage."
Oliver Love
CFT Asia · "There's another level"
Oliver Love is an executive coach and facilitator whose entire practice is built on a single idea: there is another level available to every leader, and it begins from within. Through CFT Asia, he helps leaders discover that lasting change starts not with new tactics but with a shift in how they relate to language, body and emotion: the foundations of ontological coaching.
He delivers a globally renowned three-day Foundation Workshop recognised by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as 24 Continuing Coach Education units in core coaching competencies, and is a certified Discflow trainer, blending DISC behavioural insight with emotional intelligence. His focus is the everyday work of leadership: creating the time and safe space for the conversations about engagement, motivation and performance that most leaders never have.
Expertise & accreditations
"Theory only scratches the surface. Exploring real challenges with colleagues creates the impactful learning moments."
Outcomes you can use on Monday morning.
A data-rich map of yourself
Your personal Discflow and E.I. Leadership profile: strengths, blind spots, and the precise leadership dimensions where growth will pay off most.
The inside game, made practical
Empathy, inquiry and strategic vulnerability turned from concepts into repeatable behaviours you can lead with under pressure.
A new relationship to pressure
Ontological tools that change how you show up in the moments that matter: the difference between knowing and doing.
Conversations that move people
The ability to create space for the engagement, motivation and performance conversations most leaders avoid.
A cohort that has your back
A small group of serious peers who become accountability partners and sounding boards long after Bali.
A practice, not a memory
A personal plan and post-program structure so the shift outlives the workshop and compounds over the months that follow.
Everything for the work. Nothing you don't need.
Your program includes
- Three full days of facilitation with Paul and Oliver
- Pre-program Discflow & E.I. Leadership assessments and personalised debrief
- Ontological coaching and DISC + EI behavioural work
- Small-group coaching and structured peer feedback
- Program workbook and take-home resource materials
- Post-program cohort access for continued peer learning and accountability
- A copy of The Unarmoured Leader
Not included
- Flights and travel to Bali
- Accommodation
- Meals outside scheduled program sessions
Preferred group rates and venue recommendations are provided to every confirmed participant.
Hotel Indigo Bali, Seminyak Beach
Three days of deep work deserve a setting that restores you. Our home for the program is a design-led beachfront retreat where the rhythm of Bali does half the work of settling the mind.
Bali has drawn leaders, artists and seekers for generations, and for good reason. The island's unhurried pace, warm hospitality and the sound of the Indian Ocean create the conditions for reflection that a city hotel never can. When the nervous system settles, the deeper work of leadership becomes possible.
You'll learn in a private, light-filled space just steps from the sand, break beside the pool, and return each evening to a calm ocean-view room, so the insights of each day have the room to settle and take root.
Your stay & the essentials
- Program dates10–12 November 2026 · three full days
- ArrivalPlease arrive by 9 November 2026 for a prompt morning start on the 10th.
- AccommodationSpecial participant rate USD $157 / night (based on current exchange rates), including daily breakfast and return airport transfers.
- Minimum stay4 nights, booked at the time of program registration. Accommodation is borne by the participant.
A serious investment in the leader you're becoming.
Limited to a small cohort to protect the quality of facilitation and the depth of the work.
Per participant.
- 3-day facilitation with both coaches
- Discflow & E.I. Leadership assessments + personal debrief
- Workbook, resources & The Unarmoured Leader
- Post-program cohort & accountability
Your seat lifts both ends of the lever.
A portion of every place supports Dreams For Life, the non-profit founded by Paul that builds community-led schools across Indonesia, the same country that hosts your program.
Leadership development that doesn't lift others isn't leadership at all.
The difference isn't subtle.
Before the Academy, our team exhibited inconsistent executive engagement. Empathy was a concept, not a skill. Post-Academy, our team is more confident, curious, and consultative. IGNITE didn't just train our team. They rewired how we engage.
Before, our team was good, but we lacked data-driven insight into our strengths and how to leverage them. Post-Academy, we've ten-folded our outcomes. It broke down barriers and helped us understand each other, naturalising our teamwork.
Ready to find the level you didn't know you had?
Seats are limited and the cohort is selected. Apply to register your interest, or book a no-pitch conversation to see whether this is your next step.