Mythic training for modern leadership
I work with organisations facing challenges that won’t be solved by another training day or motivational talk.
I design Executive Labs and Leadership Intensives that fuse myth, systems thinking, and lived leadership experience—delivered as half- or full-day immersions, or as a targeted sequence of sessions for senior teams.
What I Do
Most training stays at the level of tips and techniques.
My work goes deeper.
I take leaders and teams into the myths they’re already living:
Prometheus stealing fire, Talos guarding the shore, Freyrwalking into battle without his sword, Odysseus trying to get home, Achilles outpacing his own vulnerability.
Then we turn those stories into structure:
How you adopt AI without burning your people or your ethics.
How you protect your team from over-giving and quiet collapse.
How you navigate uncertainty without losing purpose or edge.
How you pursue excellence without building a culture of brittle egos.
Every session is:
Grounded in real leadership (headship / CEO-style experience),
Translated through myth so it sticks and means something,
Designed for execution with tangible tools, not just insight.
Mythic Training Programmes
Who it’s for
This work is built for organisations who:
Are facing AI and automation decisions with real stakes.
Are serious about high standards but refuse to normalise burnout.
Want leaders who can hold complexity, uncertainty, and ego cleanly.
Are ready to move from heroic individuals to coherent systems.
I primarily train:
Executive and senior leadership teams carrying enterprise-level responsibility
Public service organisations operating under high scrutiny and complex accountability
Smaller leadership teams with outsized responsibility and limited margin for error
Founders and mission-led organisations scaling without losing soul
Flagship Mythic Training Programmes
Each programme stands alone or can be combined into a wider leadership series.
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Designing Your AI Era on Purpose
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and paid for it. Today, AI is your fire: powerful, dangerous, and permanently here.
This training helps leadership teams interrogate, shape, and structure how AI enters their organisation, before it simply “happens to them”.
Focus
Executive and board-level AI strategy
Ethics, risk, and opportunity in plain language
Building a long-term vision for AI that serves people and mission
Key questions we tackle
What do we actually want AI to do for us? And what do we refuse to hand over?
Where are we currently relying on luck, individual enthusiasm, or vendor promises instead of a coherent AI strategy?
How do we protect judgment, privacy, and trust as we embed AI in daily work?
Outcomes
A shared AI philosophy: what you will and won’t use it for
A simple AI roadmap (phased, realistic, aligned to your goals)
Clear guardrails for experimentation, data use, and decision-making
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The Bronze Sentinel: Boundaries of Automation
In myth, Talos is a giant bronze automaton, endlessly circling Crete, defending it. Until the single vulnerable point at his heel is pierced.
Agentic AI is our modern Talos: powerful, relentless, and only as safe as the boundaries we design.
Focus
Agent AI, automation, and workflow design
Risk, oversight, and “human in the loop” structures
Leadership responsibilities in an automated ecosystem
Key questions we tackle
Which decisions can safely be automated, and which must remain human?
Where are we quietly building a “bronze sentinel” with a fatal weakness?
How do we design roles, reviews, and escalation when agents are doing work?
Outcomes
A map of where agents / automation belong in your current operations
Clear decision-classes: automate / augment / strictly human
Oversight structures so leaders can sleep at night while systems run
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Ragnarök at Work: Wellbeing With Standards
In Norse myth, Freyr gives away his sword to secure what he desires. When Ragnarök comes, he walks into battle unarmed. That is every over-giving leader you’ve ever met.
This is a wellbeing workout for high performers; not a spa day. It faces the cost of self-erasure and over-functioning without lowering the bar.
Focus
Burnout, over-giving, and martyr leadership
Boundaries as infrastructure, not indulgence
Designing systems that protect your best people
Key questions we tackle
Where are our leaders and key staff effectively “swordless”?
What are we trading away now that we will desperately need later?
How do we sustain excellence without normalising self-sacrifice?
Outcomes
A shared language for healthy high performance vs. martyrdom
Practical boundary scripts and workload redesign options
A plan to protect critical roles from quiet collapse over the next 12–24 months
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Navigating Uncertainty, Returning to Purpose
Odysseus doesn’t just fight battles; he endures storms, temptations, detours, and long stretches of not knowing when, or if, he’ll get home.
This programme is for leadership teams in long-term uncertainty: restructures, growth phases, policy turbulence, or cultural repair.
Focus
Holding direction when the map keeps changing
Decision-making under ambiguity
Purpose as an operational, not sentimental, anchor
Key questions we tackle
What is our true “Ithaca” — the purpose we’re actually steering towards?
Which “sirens” are pulling us off-course? Distractions, vanity projects, fear?
How do we communicate uncertainty without breeding panic or drift?
Outcomes
A clear statement of organisational “north” everyone can name
Decision filters leaders can apply in the moment
A communication spine for navigating the next 6–18 months of change
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Excellence Without Invulnerability
Achilles is unmatched on the battlefield—and undone by the vulnerability he refuses to account for.
This training is for organisations where excellence is high, but the culture risks being brittle: egos, defensiveness, avoidance of bad news, or leaders who cannot be challenged.
Focus
Ego, feedback, and psychological safety with standards
Building excellence that can be questioned, tested, and improved
Creating leaders who are strong, not untouchable
Key questions we tackle
Where in our organisation can the truth not be spoken safely?
Which “star performers” are both essential and structurally dangerous?
How do we design feedback and review so excellence is stress-tested, not merely admired?
Outcomes
Agreements on how feedback flows up, down, and sideways
Clear expectations for senior behaviour under scrutiny
A culture where excellence is robust, not fragile
How I work
Formats
Keynotes and leadership away days
Half-day and full-day mythic training sessions
Multi-module programmes built around your priorities
Follow-up leadership clinics for embedding the work
Approach
Diagnostic first – we name the real pattern, not just the symptom.
Myth as mirror – each story is a precise tool for seeing your system clearly.
Execution-focused – every session ends with decisions, ownership, and next steps.
You don’t leave with vague inspiration.
You leave with language, frameworks, and commitments you can operationalise immediately.
Next Step: Bring Mythic Praxis into Your Organisation
If you recognise your organisation in any of these myths, we should talk.
Send an enquiry with a brief outline of your context and which programme(s) resonate.
We’ll schedule a clarity call to refine the focus and format.
I’ll propose a tailored training plan with clear outcomes, structure, and investment.