For CEOs and leadership teams under pressure
Your leadership team is
too busy to lead.
Meetings, fragmented days and decisions that keep getting pushed. We work with each leader, the team and the way it’s organised, to give you back the time and headspace for the decisions that matter, in 90 days, measured.
When to bring us in
New leadership team or CEO
Reorg or
merger
Generational
handover
Big AI or systems rollout
Engagement survey shows overload
Your next leadership offsite
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What we keep seeing
The same three patterns show up in the calendar long before they show up in the numbers.
Every week starts in meetings
The cost: Leaders spend the week reacting, and the thinking the strategy depends on happens in the evening, or not at all.
Why it happens: Every switch between topics leaves part of your attention behind on the last one. Back-to-back meetings make for full days and half-finished thinking.
Decisions wait for the next meeting
The cost: A decision that needs ten minutes of real attention waits weeks for a slot, and the team works on assumptions in the meantime.
Why it happens: Under sustained load, the brain defers hard calls. It looks like indecision, but it’s fatigue.
AI added work before it removed any
The cost: New tools land on people who are already at capacity, so adoption stalls and the promised productivity stays on the slide.
Why it happens: Learning a new system, rethinking a workflow and checking the outputs all draw on the same limited attention leaders need for everything else.
If one of these sounds like your leadership team, that’s where we start.
How it works
Consultants redesign the system. Coaches work on the person. Change holds when both move together.
Over 90 days we work with each leader, the leadership team and the organisation around them, and measure four things before and after: load, decisions, trust and AI readiness.
01
Diagnostic
Weeks 1-3, remote
We measure where your team’s time, decisions and trust are going. Each leader gets a private profile and a 1:1 debrief.
02
Offsite
Weeks 4-6, in-person
One or two days, built on your team’s results, on the constraints that matter most.
03
Embed
Until day 90
1:1s with each leader and team check-ins hold the new rhythm. Then we measure again.
What changes: leaders with room to think, decisions made in the room, people who speak up, and AI that actually gets used.
Who you’ll work with
Strategy is designed in slides. It is delivered by people under pressure.
Virginia Palm founded Augment Mind after 15+ years in tech, product and consulting, including McKinsey & Company, watching strong strategies stall because the leaders carrying them had run out of time and headspace.
Trained in neuroscience and psychology and an ICF-certified coach, she works on both the person and the system. Every engagement is led by Virginia personally.
Former McKinsey & Company
ICF-certified coach (ACC)
Host, It’s Me, Your Brain, listeners in 70+ countries
What clients’ say
"She brings both the rigour of a strategist and the depth of a psychologist. She does not let you off the hook, but creates conditions where doing the hard work actually feels possible. Our ExCo came out genuinely changed."
CHRO · EUROPEAN SCALE-UP
"Virginia gave me a new vocabulary for something I had been experiencing for years but could not articulate, the gap between what I knew I should do and what I actually did under pressure. Once you understand what is happening in your brain, you can work with it instead of against it."
C-SUITE EXECUTIVE · GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
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