Emotional Intelligence
As certified Emotional Intelligence coach with the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, I help teams cultivate healthier, more resilient, and more connected workplaces. Together with my business partner Nacor Ibañez, a former professional tennis player, we bring psychological safety and wellbeing to organisations. We strongly believe this work is especially valuable for artists and dancers, who often face unique psychological and emotional challenges.
Search Inside Yourself began at Google in 2007. A group of engineers, alongside experts in mindfulness, neuroscience, and leadership, created an in-house course to help employees strengthen their emotional intelligence and resilience at work.
Due to its positive impact within Google, the Search Inside Yourself program quickly attracted interest from organizations seeking similar approaches to support their teams’ well-being and professional development.
In 2012, founders launched the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI)— an independent nonprofit dedicated to bringing these neuroscience-backed practices to workplaces and communities worldwide.
Fun fact: SIYLI is pronounced “silly”—a gentle reminder that even in pursuit of meaningful change, we believe in bringing lightness, humility, and joy to the journey.
The curriculum is designed to foster both individual and collective emotional development, emphasizing self-awareness, empathy, compassion, and overall emotional intelligence as essential drivers of personal and organizational growth.
SIY builds emotional intelligence using an evidence-based approach combining cutting-edge neuroscience, proven techniques of mindfulness, and practical tools that can be immediately applied to how we handle situations at work and in life.
WORKSHOPS
We design tailored well-being and emotional intelligence programmes for companies, schools, and cultural organisations. Our workshops can be delivered in person, online, or as a blended format, ranging from one-off sessions to longer-term programmes. We have facilitated well-being and emotional intelligence programmes for over 20 institutions. Recent clients include GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, TanzMainz, Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin, and Heidelberg Staatstheater with choreographer Iván Pérez
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