Your people work under sustained cognitive and emotional load — in law, in finance, and in the organizations around them. Most engagements begin the same way: ten weeks with your senior management group.
The largest share never reaches HR’s dashboards: work happening at reduced capacity. See the full economics.
annual cost of burnout per employee1
Rising to €17,000 for executives
of employees at risk of burnout2
35% report extreme levels
A ten-week leadership and personal development training course. Participants leave able to recognize their own load early and act on it, and leadership leaves with the organizational conditions driving it named and measured. It is the flagship — the engagement everything else is built around, and the right first step for most organizations.
Need a lighter first step? A keynote, a workshop, or the numbers for an internal case — start with What we do →
What sustained load does to attention, health, and decision-making—and what reverses it. Five outcomes across two levels, business impact and human gains, each card opening a brief with the evidence behind it.
Burnout stems from exhaustion due to too much demand, and cynicism from too little support.
Individual practices build capacity for the first; organizational change supplies the second.
Both have to be addressed.
Practices developed over centuries as disciplines for training attention and regulating physiology, now validated by peer-reviewed research and applied to knowledge work. Woven into a working week until the capacity is there before the pressure arrives. The seven disciplines, and the evidence behind each.
The Self Expansion was founded by Julien Beladina after a decade in corporate finance — and a burnout of his own. The full story, and the credentials behind it.
“By the third week I felt I was regaining control over my life.”
“Julien adapted my practice as my situation changed at work and at home, which is what kept me on track. The breathing exercises are now part of my daily routine: focus during the day, rest in the evening.”
“My sleep quality improved measurably over the ten weeks. The strategies gave me a way to handle difficult team dynamics; either to resolve them or to accept them.”
“The yoga was nothing like the feel-good classes around town. It was demanding, and it built real awareness and resilience. I learned to handle discomfort and uncertainty. Those are skills I use in any situation now.”
We assess fit, walk through the portfolio in operational terms, and identify the right entry point for your organization — a workshop, a cohort, or a conversation with your leadership team.