Morgan Aitken-Young, participant
“I feel like I have a better understanding and plan to unlock incredible performance.”
Workshop - Soft Skills for Entrepreneurs: Emotional Intelligence, Stress Management & Creativity
YOU...
88% of startup founders acknowledge that excessive stress leads to poor decisions. Yet, less than 2% of leaders actively train to manage their mental clarity or emotional agility.
Entrepreneurship amplifies tensions: structural uncertainty, performance pressure, team management, investor relations. These challenges aren't technical—they're emotional. And they can be learned. “47% of our waking hours, our mind is elsewhere—even in important moments.” —Killingsworth & Gilbert, Harvard, 2010
You run a startup or SME and stress is impacting your decisions and your team
Do you want to develop your emotional intelligence to communicate better with investors, clients, and colleagues?
You're looking for a concrete soft skills program — not a motivational seminar
You organize a program for entrepreneurs (incubator, accelerator, business school)
Why choose this path?
A pragmatic approach that radically transforms your relationship with everyday life.
Understanding and mastering your stress response — body and mind
Boost your creativity and innovation through mindfulness
Develop your emotional intelligence: self-awareness, empathy, communication
Build your brand storytelling based on your values and vision
Leave with a personal mental performance protocol, testable the very next day.
Step 1 — Calm the body through breathing
Breathing is the only function of the autonomic nervous system that we can consciously control. By modulating its rate and depth, we directly affect the vagus nerve—the body's parasympathetic brake—and reduce cortisol and adrenaline levels. "Breathing creates mood changes, not the other way around." — Prof. Kraswnow PhD, Stanford, 2017.
Step 2 — Calming the mind through mindfulness
Once the body is stabilized, focused attention practices reduce the activity of the default mode neural network (rumination, mental noise) and strengthen the prefrontal cortex—the seat of decision-making and empathy. These practices are cumulative: a few minutes a day are enough to observe measurable effects within a few weeks.
2 Half-days — Stress Management for Entrepreneurs
* What is EI and why is it the most underrated entrepreneurial skill?
* Stress as the enemy of creativity and decision-making: biological and neural mechanisms
* Practices: breathing exercises, concentration meditation, laser focus
* The 3 phases of stress (Hans Selye) applied to the founder context
* Advanced breathing techniques: physiological sighing, heart coherence, box breathing
* Mindfulness meditation to reduce reactivity and improve decision-making
* Practices for difficult conversations: investors, co-founders, clients
Formats:
Two half-day workshops — as needed for the program | In-person — in French or English | Target audience: entrepreneurs in incubators, accelerators, business schools, or support programs
Terms :
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