See the pattern
Recognize the Saboteur thoughts and behaviors that create stress, conflict, avoidance, over-control, or burnout.
A live Renaissance Leadership experience
When reality gets loud, what version of you leads?
Build the mental fitness to lead yourself first—so you can respond with calm, clarity, courage, and confidence when the pressure is real.
Live application • Honest conversation • No forced positivity
Next Open House
Come experience the work—not a sales presentation about it.
- Date
- Fri, Nov 6
11:30 AM ET - Format
- Live & interactive
- Designed for
- Leaders & teams
Start with reality
Pressure doesn’t create your patterns. It reveals them.
Leaders rarely struggle because they lack intelligence or experience. They struggle because automatic reactions quietly take the wheel—especially when the stakes rise.
Under pressure, I tend to…
THE CONTROLLER
“If I don’t take charge, this will go sideways.”
THE RENAISSANCE RESPONSE
Slow the moment down. Get curious. Clarify what good looks like, then create ownership instead of dependency.
At the Open House, you’ll identify one real pattern and practice a different response in a situation that matters now.
This is a working session
You won’t just learn what mental fitness is. You’ll use it.
Interrupt the reaction
Use a simple, repeatable mental-fitness practice to move from an automatic reaction to an intentional response.
Apply it live
Bring a real leadership moment. Practice a better conversation, decision, or response before you leave the room.
Choose who leads
Name the leader you want to be—and commit to one observable action you will take the very next day.
A practical leadership operating system
SPOT. STOP. SWAP. SURF.
Four moves that help you recover faster, choose a more useful story, and lead wisely—without pretending reality is different than it is.
Move one
Notice what is happening before deciding what it means.
Catch the body signal, thought, or behavior that tells you a Saboteur has entered the room. Awareness creates the first inch of choice.
Your practice What leadership moment reliably triggers you?
Why the story matters
- Story
- State
- Strategy
- Behavior
- Result
- Culture
Change the story, and you change what becomes possible downstream.
Our starting point
“Reality is undefeated. Your power lives in how you meet it.”
Renaissance Leadership is not positive thinking painted over a hard truth. It is reality before reframing, practice before performance, and response-ability before blame.
Who belongs in the room
For leaders who are already capable—and know capability alone is no longer enough.
- CEOs & business owners
- Executives & senior leaders
- People leaders & emerging leaders
- HR & learning leaders
- Coaches & trusted advisors
- Leadership teams exploring a rollout
If the experience resonates
Continue into the 7-week Positive Intelligence® public cohort.
A guided experience that combines the Positive Intelligence curriculum with coaching, practical leadership application, and a community committed to turning insight into habit.
Ask about the next cohortYour cohort experience
- Positive Intelligence curriculum & mobile app
- Saboteur and PQ assessments
- Daily mental-fitness practice
- Facilitated cohort sessions
- Application to real leadership challenges
- Community, coaching & accountability
Your guide
Scott Gibbs
Founder, Acres of Diamonds · Vistage Chair & Executive Coach · Certified Positive Intelligence Coach
Scott helps great people lead themselves and others greatly. His work blends mental fitness, emotional intelligence, practical executive coaching, and timeless leadership wisdom—so leaders can become calm in the chaos and the kind of people others trust and want to follow.
Strong enough to hold standards. Wise enough to hold space.
Awaken the leader within
Better leaders. Better companies. Better lives.
Come with one real challenge. Leave with a clearer mind, a practical tool, and a more intentional next move.
Request your invitation
Friday, November 6 · 11:30 AM–1:00 PM ET · Live online