Leading with

Self-Mastery

Build Clarity, Courage, and Presence in Your Leadership

 

You're stuck between what's expected and what you know is right

 

The pressure mounts. The stakes rise. And in that moment the one that matters most-you default.

You snap at your team. You second-guess the decision you already made. You avoid the conversation you know you need to have. Later, you see it clearly. But in the moment? You were on autopilot.

This isn't about needing more information or better systems. It's about losing access to your own judgment when it matters most.

You know you're capable of more. The question is: can you lead from that capacity consistently, especially under pressure?

What This Course Develops:

Leading with Self-Mastery is for the leader caught in the middle, navigating up and down, building credibility while managing doubt, leading without all the answers.

By the end of this 8-session program, you will:

  • Regulate under pressure: Pause and respond intentionally instead of reacting from stress, fear, or overwhelm
  • Strengthen decision-making:  Recognize and interrupt cognitive bias before it undermines your judgment
  • Rebuild team trust:  Lead with consistency and presence, not volatility and second-guessing
  • Align actions with values: Close the gap between the leader you want to be and the one who shows up daily and in crisis
  • Sustain focus in chaos: Maintain attention on what matters, even in high-demand, multi-tasking environments
  • Reduce ethical drift: Make choices grounded in your values, not just urgency or convenience

This isn't theory. It's applied practice supported by decades of research on attention regulation, emotional intelligence, and executive functioning.

COURSE  STRUCTURE & DESIGN

  8 Live Sessions | 90–100 Minutes Each

Each session focuses on one core dimension of self-regulation in leadership: 

The curriculum progresses through eight interconnected domains:

  1. Presence and the Now 
  2. Automaticity and Habitual Leadership Patterns 
  3. Judgment and Cognitive Bias
  4. Acceptance and Reality-Based Leadership 
  5. Goals and Intentional Action 
  6. Compassion in Leadership Practice 
  7. Ego, Identity, and Authority  
  8. Integration and Application 

Between Sessions:

  • Micro-practices: Brief, practical exercises embedded in your daily workflow (15–30 minutes)
  • Participant workbook: Guided reflection and application exercises
  • Peer dialogue: Small cohort size (max 23 participants) for meaningful exchange 
Delivery Options
  • Live Virtual Cohort — Weekly sessions via Zoom
  • Hybrid Delivery — Combination of virtual and in-person components
  • In-Person Intensive — Full curriculum delivered over 2–3 consecutive days

All formats maintain the same rigor, facilitation quality, and learning outcomes.

Who This Is For

This program is for:

  • Emerging leaders and managers navigating their first leadership roles
  • Mid-level directors and supervisors building credibility and influence
  • High-performing individual contributors stepping into formal authority
  • Anyone leading from the middle who's tired of second-guessing themselves

FACULTY LEADERSHIP...

This course is facilitated by Think For Good’s leadership team, bringing deep experience in leadership development, cognitive behavioral coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, and applied adult learning. Our facilitation emphasizes rigor, reflection, and real-world leadership application.

At the helm is Tray T.S. Deadwyler-the founder of Think For Good, Inc., a certified cognitive behavioral coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner with over two decades of leadership experience.


He is also the author of The Contemplative Morning, a guide to reflection and resilience built on 40 daily insights rooted in ancient wisdom and contemplative practice. The book's core themes: intentionality, courage, service, resilience, and love, align closely with the principles embedded in this curriculum. Both emerge from the same commitment: helping leaders build sustainable practices grounded in clarity, values, and presence.


Tray's approach combines evidence-based frameworks with the kind of rigor that comes from years of walking alongside leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, organizational change, and the tension between what leadership demands and what leaders can sustain. This isn't borrowed content. It's a framework refined through research, practice, and lived experience.

This pushed me to reflect on my on approach to certain situations and to "slow down" my thought process and my understanding of what is means to be present.

I've been applying what I've learned from these sessions to balance the workload that has increased over the last year. It helps me stay balanced and not to burn out. In addition to minimize stress.

The framework for noticing how I move through the world is really eye opening, and also very forgiving, since it recognizes that this is a practice that we need to keep doing in steps every day.

 Investment & Next Steps

OPEN ENROLLMENT COHORT

$997

ONE-TIME PAYMENT | Payment plans available

  • 8 live virtual sessions (90–100 minutes each)
  • Participant workbook
  • Enneagram personality assessment (valued at $150 included)
  • Certificate in Leading with Self-Mastery upon completion
  • Access to post-cohort Learning Circle (details below)

Limited to 23 seats to ensure quality facilitation and meaningful peer exchange.

Cohort start dates are published quarterly.

ENROLL NOW: SUMMER 2026 COHORT

Bringing a team?

Private cohorts are available for organizations, agencies, and leadership teams who want to run this program exclusively for their people, on their schedule, in their context, virtually or in-person.

Cohorts of up to 23 participants. Flat-fee pricing. Custom proposals available.

REQUEST A PRIVATE COHORT

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.

The Choice

You can continue leading the way you've been leading hoping the next crisis finds you more prepared, less reactive, more grounded.

Or you can build the capacity now.

This course doesn't promise ease. It promises agency.

The version of you that can pause before reacting, that can hold complexity without collapsing into old patterns, that can lead from clarity instead of urgency. That leader is already in you.

Leading with Self-Mastery gives you the tools to access that leadership consistently.

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