Self-Leadership for High Performance
A talk to increase self-awareness, shift mindset, and inform on burnout prevention. I connect the dots between well-being and performance with neuroscience, emotional intelligence, business psychology, and mindfulness.
People do what you do, not what you say. And only 5% of your thoughts, feelings, and actions are conscious. The other 95% run on autopilot, driven by your nervous system's stress responses. For managers, this means their leadership patterns, reactions, and decisions are being shaped by systems they don't even know are running, and this is influencing their team's behaviour.
This keynote reveals the neuroscience behind emotional regulation and unlocks new self-awareness to manage emotions in a way which drives higher engagement and higher performance in Managers and their teams.
What your managers will learn:
The Biology of Stress Management
How to unlock your Self-Leadership for high-performance & well-being
How design your own journey to higher mental and emotional resilience
When managers understand themselves better they can:
New Self-Awareness
Have connected dots on challenges you may be facing today
And more insights to better coach your team on well-being for performance
Why Self-Leadership Matters
Most leadership training focuses on what managers do. This keynote reveals how they operate, the 95% running beneath awareness that shapes everyday decisions and actions.
Your managers leave with science-backed self-awareness that immediately changes their perspective on themselves and their relationship with their teams.
The result? One step close to having more empathetic, self-aware leaders who make intentional decisions, build stronger, more loyal teams, and drive better results.
Duration: 30-60 minutes (customisable). Interactive with guided breathing practice
Format Options: Can include breakout sessions for peer reflection and team application
Perfect For: Leadership & Manager training programs, leadership development events, quarterly team offsites
Lauren Cartigny BIO
Lauren Cartigny is a Business Psychologist, Executive Coach (ICF PCC), and Conscious Leadership Trainer based in London, bilingual in French and English. She works primarily with scale-ups and corporate European business units seeking to restructure high-performing teams, resolve low engagement, and harmonise conflict - challenges that are common amongst fast-growing hybrid and virtual organisations.
Lauren specialises in psychological health for sustainable high performance, guiding and training leaders to develop self-regulation, emotional resilience, and better interpersonal skills. Her individual practice focuses on executive wellness, and she has created digital services to extend her offering to managers and employees.
Lauren built her career in international enterprise tech sales at hypergrowth companies including LinkedIn, Equinix, and Rackspace, where she developed deep commercial acumen alongside customer-led excellence standards and change management expertise. She knows firsthand what it is like to navigate professional success alongside personal crisis and health breakdown. Through deep self-inquiry, and psychology studies, Lauren made her own recovery journey. This experience became the foundation of her work teaching high-performance from a place of well-being.
Lauren holds extensive certifications in Gestalt Psychology, HeartMath (the psychophysiology science of stress management and heart-brain coherence), Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Maté's trauma-informed therapeutic approach), Process Communication Model (PCM Leadership Trainer), and the Emotional Intelligence assessment tools EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360. She is a mindfulness and yoga practitioner, currently completing her meditation teacher training.
In this new economy, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills like Self-Awareness, Stress Management, Emotional Resilience and Agility are no longer “nice-to-have”.
Hi, I’m Lauren
I guide Leaders to develop Self-Leadership skills because people do what you do, not what you say! You can learn all the frameworks you want in the world, ultimately how you feel and the way you show up will define how others shows up for you.
After 11 years in international Tech Sales at companies like LinkedIn, Equinix, and Rackspace, I learned the hard way what happens when you ignore your feelings and your body's stress signals. Burnout, divorce, health crisis, and a complete collapse of my life as I knew it. This led me to start a journey of self-discovery to understand how I could recover and prevent this from happening again.
Now, as an ICF Executive Coach (PCC), HeartMath Coach, and corporate Leadership trainer, I bridge emotional intelligence with business acumen. I teach founder and Leaders across Europe the self-regulation skills that prevent burnout, improve engagement and team dynamics to drive sustainable high performance.
I founded The Self-Science Lab because I wish someone had taught me this science before I crashed. Now I teach it to others, so they don't have to learn it the way I did.
Best in Class Behavioural Science
I work with HeartMath to expain the biology of stress and the science of self-regulation. I also work with EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360 to measure the development of Emotional Intelligence. The Process Communication Model as a personality profiling science which unlocks self-awareness and a deep psychology to inform behavioural change for stress management, adaptive communication and influence building.
HeartMath
HeartMath Coaching and Training to use a Science-based approach focusing on heart-brain coherence, HRV biofeedback, emotional regulation, and building personal resilience through measurable physiological techniques.
The Process Communication Model®
Used by NASA, BMW, Pixar, l’Oréal and 1.4M+ people worldwide. Personality profiling for stress management and adaptive communication.
EQ-i 2.0 & EQ 360
The world's most popular emotional intelligence assessment. Measures and develops 15 EI competencies with 360-degree feedback.
ICF Standards & Ethics
Coaching certified by the International Coaching Federation, ensuring ethical, professional, high-quality coaching. The Gold Standard in the Industry.
Lauren Cartigny’s Qualifications
Business Psychology
7 years International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC Certification 500hrs+
EQ-i 2.0 & EQ360 Trained - Emotional Intelligence Assessments & Training
Process Communication Model Leadership Trainer & Coach - Personality Profiling, Stress & Adaptive Communication
Gestalt Psychology informed - École Parisienne de Gestalt, époké FR , AEoC UK
NLP Practitioner
Stress Management for Health
HeartMath Coach - Heart Coherence Science for Stress Management
200 hrs Yoga Teacher Training – Pranayama & Meditation, Vikasa Thailand
Trauma for Deep Emotion Processing
Trauma informed training from Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry 12 Months Professional Course - A therapeutic approach working with somatic release and applied to a therapeutic coaching posture.
Past Career Experience
11 years Successful International Tech Sales
Ex LinkedIn, Ex Equinix, Ex Rackspace
BSc (Hons) Sports and Exercise Science from Loughborough University
Bi-National and Bi-Lingual in French and English
My life experiences and my own recovery!
“Transformation comes from becoming Comfortable with the Uncomfortable.”
— Lauren Cartigny