THE FOUNDER
PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Bringing the body into the future of work.
UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT → EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE → CHANGE THE WAY YOU WORK
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UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT → EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE → CHANGE THE WAY YOU WORK 〰️
Your business is scaling.
Your body is carrying the load.
Building a company places sustained demands on the founder. Long hours, constant screens, prolonged sitting, stress and limited recovery can affect energy, focus, sleep, physical health and decision-making.
Founders are taught how to build, lead and scale. Very few are taught how the way they work affects the body behind that performance.
We optimise performance from the neck up, while the body gets left behind.
The result can be poor sleep, low energy, physical pain, impaired focus and reduced capacity to lead under pressure.
THE FOUNDER PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
A four-part leadership intervention, that uncovers how the way founders work influences physical and cognitive performance, combining education with practical movement, breathwork and experiences that translate into changes they can apply to how they work, recover and lead.
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Understand what modern work is doing to your performance, using your own working patterns, demands and experience as the starting point.
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Work with expert coaches to experience practical movement, breathwork and recovery techniques that support physical and cognitive performance.
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Rethink how you work, and what high performance actually requires to be sustainable.
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Translate and transform those insights into changes that can be embedded into how the founder and team work.
THE RESULT: GREATER CAPACITY TO LEAD & PERFORM
SEE WHAT’S REALLY DRIVING YOUR PERFORMANCE
Understand how the way you work, sitting, screens, stress, movement and recovery, is shaping your energy, cognitive performance, decision-making and capacity to lead.
LEARN TO USE YOUR BODY AS A PERFORMANCE TOOL
Experience practical ways to regulate stress, shift energy, sharpen focus and recover more effectively, so you can perform when the pressure is high, not just when conditions are ideal.
LEAVE WITH YOUR FOUNDER PERFORMANCE BLUEPRINT
Translate what you’ve discovered into a focused set of changes to how you work, recover and lead, creating the capacity to perform sustainably as the company grows.
BUILT FROM EXPERIENCE,
NOT THEORY.
I’m Elynа Douglas, founder of The WorkBodyLab. After almost a decade working on high-pressure product launches at Apple & Google, between London & Silicon Valley, I know what it takes to operate at scalable speed, and what happens when the body is expected to keep up indefinitely.
I spent years treating exhaustion, migraines and chronic stress as the price of high performance. It took surgery to remove a cancerous tumour at 35 to make me question the model entirely. During recovery, I started looking differently at the relationship between the way we work and what it asks of our bodies. Then I started looking beyond my own experience and it was impossible to ignore, people working through exhaustion, stress and physical discomfort because that was simply what the job demanded.
I became particularly interested in founders having spent the last 12 months working closely with early-stage startups. They are building at speed, carrying enormous responsibility and making high-stakes decisions, often with no separation between the demands of the company and the demands placed on their own bodies.
That is where The WorkBodyLab comes in: looking at founder performance through the lens of the whole system, how you work, move, recover and respond to pressure, then giving founders the insight and tools to perform, lead and scale without their bodies paying the price.
Founder, Elyna Douglas
READY TO RETHINK FOUNDER PERFORMANCE?
Whether you’re a founder, investor or building support around your portfolio, let’s talk about what founder performance could look like when the body is part of the conversation.
Book a conversation
Or reach us directly at elyna@theworkbodylab.com