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 give leadership teams 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
Your leaders aren’t the problem. The way their week is built is.
01
THE PROBLEM
Your leadership team spends its week in meetings, and the decisions that matter keep waiting for the next one. Every new initiative, AI included, lands on people already at capacity.
02
WHAT WE DO
A 2–3 week diagnostic of how your team really spends its time and makes decisions. Then a leadership offsite where the team redesigns how it meets, decides and protects focus.
03
WHAT CHANGES
Hours back for every leader, every week. Decisions made in the room, not after it. Measured before the offsite and again 90 days later.
What we keep seeing
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
A 90-day leadership advisory engagement. Measured from start to finish.
WHAT WE MEASURE
Load
Where the team runs out of capacity
Decisions
Where they slow down or get stuck
Trust
Whether people speak up when it matters
AI Readiness
Whether the team can absorb new tools and change
Validated assessments for each leader, plus calendar and meeting data
HOW THE 90 DAYS RUN
01
Leadership Diagnostic
2–3 weeks, remote
We measure all four across your leadership team. You get a team
heatmap and a readout with the
whole team.
02
The
Offsite
1–2 days, on-site
The team tackles the one or two constraints that matter most and leaves with agreed changes, an owner for each, and a 90-day plan.
03
Embed and re-measure
90 days, Alongside
the team
Two check-ins hold the new rhythm
under pressure. At day 90 we measure again, so you see what changed.
After 90 days
Ongoing advisory
Many teams keep us on as standing advisors: monthly sessions with the CEO and leadership team, a quarterly reset, and support for the big decisions. When you’re ready, we take the same approach to the next management layers.
Also available: 1:1 work with CEOs and MDs, by referral.
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 development and consulting, including McKinsey & Company. She kept seeing strong strategies stall in execution. Not because the thinking was wrong, but because the leaders carrying them had run out of time and headspace.
She is trained in neuroscience and psychology and is an ICF-certified executive coach.
That combination is the method. The operating changes are consulting-grade, and they hold because they’re built around how people really work under pressure.
Every engagement is led by Virginia personally.
15+ years in tech, product and consulting, including McKinsey & Company
Trained in neuroscience and psychology
University of Chicago and Yale (coursework)
ICF-certified executive coach (ACC)
Guest lecturer
Technical University of Munich School of Management
Host, It’s Me, Your Brain
Listeners in 70+ countries
Keynotes in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Spain,
Croatia and Slovenia
Germany
Available globally
"Virginia identifies the real thing, not the presenting issue, and that is where the work begins. Uncomfortable. Transformative. Worth it.”
MANAGING DIRECTOR · INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, UAE
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
"The tools we already had worked beautifully in the office. What we needed was something that worked in the car, between calls, on the Thursday of week eleven."
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR · MARKETING AGENCY, GERMANY
It's Me,
Your Brain
Podcast
The mind behind your decisions
- explored slowly, clearly, and without the noise.
A podcast for people who lead, perform, and think for a living, and want to understand the organ that makes all of it possible. No self-help. No performance optimization.
Listeners in 70+ countries have already tuned in.
Where to start
A 30-minute conversation
is the right first step.
No prep needed. You’ll leave with a clear view of where your team’s time is going,
whether or not we work together.