Do you want to Develop High Performance Teams?

Build a Culture of Trust?

Develop your Executive Mindset?

Achieve Executive Presence in the Boardroom?

Increase your own E.Q. as you lead your team?

Remove all your excuses as to why you don’t Ask More; Tell Less when coaching others?

As an individual contributor, develop a growth mindset?

Scroll down to read the results our 6-Month Mental Fitness Program: combining the 8-weeks mental fitness bootcamp training imbedded in the “coach-in-a-box” app with 1:1 and Group Coaching, delivered by our InnerCor certified coaches can deliver:

Which of these results would best serve you?

In less than 2 months working with Karen and using the daily “coach-in-the-box" app, I have already gained more confidence in myself, experience less daily stress with greater “ease & flow,” making better investment decisions, resulting in a $20k profit! I can’t wait to discover what I’ll create in Month 3!

— confidential USA-based client (June 2023)

I’ve achieved increased patience, increased discipline, and increased laser-focus on whatever I’m working on. I plan better. I employ better time-management strategies; overall have more confidence and feel stronger. My team comments that they see me deliver on time, on target, and they say I am better at listening to them, with less talking ‘at them’.

— H.L. Finance & Security Leader in the banking industry, Saudi (October 2022)

I reached out to Karen who introduced me to the program for mental fitness, to shift my mindset from negative to positive, to enhance my happiness and performance, and remove the obstacles in my own path, and prisoner of my own thoughts.

— Finance Leader, Oman, Shell Oman (May 2023)

I've been on a coaching journey with Karen for over a year which was transformational... I was challenged, pushed, cheered on, and held accountable to deliver. The coachwas the cherry on the top after a 1-year coaching commitment that pushed me even further to look inward, raise not only my self-awareness, but also my self-compassion... like all meaningful experiences in life, this program was both challenging and rewarding.

— HR Leader, Saudi Aramco (September 2020)

Every coaching session with Karen created a sustainable and powerful inner shift in clarity, confidence, and readiness to take action... the coach-in-the-box app kept me charged, engaged in between sessions... and I knew Karen was tracking me, rooting for me, and holding space for my growth.

— VP, Silicon Valley start-up (August 2021)

Your mind is your best friend. But it can also be your worst enemy.

Recently published research findings:

“…Fortunately, reactivating the brain’s sensory networks is accessible to us at any time; the only cost is making time to pay attention.

“…many contemplative traditions have already figured out that sensation is a natural way of quieting an overactive mind. Neuroscience is only now catching up. Scientists have already established that sensory attention is sufficient to activate parts of our brains. What’s new is showing that sensory activation naturally inhibits the cognitive networks activated by stress.”

-Making Time for Sensation is Essential for Mental Fitness, 17 February 2024

Our breakthrough, research-based program with brain activation tools strengthen the part of your brain that serves you, and quiets the part that sabotages you. 

You handle life’s challenges with a more positive mindset with less stress.

Most attempts at positive change fail because we stop at insight and don’t build mental muscles. Sustained positive change requires consistently activating the part of the brain that serves us and quieting the part of the brain that sabotages us. That’s what this Mental Fitness Program empowers you to do.

“Having found this Mental Fitness program post-retirement, I often reflect on what a game-changer it would have been for our organization if we had all gone through this Mental Fitness program together. Sure, we achieved amazing mission outcomes, but often at the expense of sleepless nights, heated conflicts, stress, burnout, long hours, missed time with family, guilt, self-doubt, and all-around unhappiness. An initial reaction to change is a normal human response, but there is no need to suffer longer than a few seconds. So, to all my former colleagues, don’t waste another minute suffering from the sabotaging effects of your survival brain — sign up now!” -Jennifer A.

Whether you hold an executive role, lead a team, are emerging as a leader, in transition, or an individual contributor dedicated to personal growth, our coaching and consulting services are tailored to enhance your productivity, reduce stress, and foster happiness, leading to a state of "ease & flow" in your everyday activities, both at work and at home.

Our approach involves identifying your strengths and weaknesses, crafting strategies to overcome internal saboteur voices, and facilitating the transformative change you aspire to achieve. 

Our 6-Month Mental Fitness Program includes the 8-week foundational Mental Fitness training, “coach-in-a-box”, 1:1 and Group Coaching and is facilitated and coached by InnerCor Certified Mental Fitness Coaches:  Karen du Four des Champs, PCC, CPCC, CPQC, COF, ORSC and Lara Meyer, ACC, CPCC, CPQC.

Certified Mental Fitness Coach Karen began her own personal mental fitness journey during lockdown in June 2020 (while unable to leave Oman) and continues her own personal & professional growth applying these powerful brain activation tools daily, and this Mental Fitness Framework 4 years later. As an ICF Credentialed coach — and ICF Registered Mentor coach — she knows that modeling the core competency of “Embodies a Coaching Mindset” includes “develops an ongoing reflective practice to enhance one’s own coaching.”

 We work with executives

• Develop your communication skills and your attitudes to significantly improve your executive presence (through enhanced confidence, self awareness, self-regulation and advanced influencing skills)

• Expand your ability to see opportunities, improve innovation, and build resilience during uncertain times

• Enhance your cultural empathy for greater collaboration and more profound relationships across your team and organisation

• Increase your overall wellness for greater fulfillment, purpose-driven leadership, and life-balance

• Improve decision-making by enabling you as leader to navigate complex situations and find creative solutions to challenges

• Facilitate effective, authentic communication with team members, customers, and stakeholders

Our 6-month Mental Fitness Program starts with 8-weeks of foundational Mental Fitness training** to turbo-charge your brain in order to operationalize your Growth Mindset. To go beyond building your EQ. To build Mental Muscle. To change those neural pathways inside your brain. To achieve lasting change.

**As an Affiliate of this Mental Fitness Training Program, my offer represents a a discounted rate from the publicly-stated fee.

Just like going to the gym regularly builds your physical muscles, your brain has neuroplasticity to g-r-o-w your mindset… grow more productive habits… rewire your brain for peak performance which in turn enhances team effectiveness, and increases your calm, laser-focus attention, ultimately resulting in more happiness as you move from FEAR to GROW with less stress, more “ease & flow,” resulting in more balance.

“Becoming aware of your thought processes and limited beliefs is the first step to examining, gaining awareness, and changing behaviours that no longer serve you.” - S.C., former CEO of Co-Active Coach Training Institute (CTI)

First, ask yourself: “which zone am I usually in along this Growth Mindset continuum?”

Then, ask yourself: “If I know MRI imagery shows a shift to a growth mindset (increase grey matter) after just 8 weeks of steady brain activation exercises— easy-to-learn and easy-to remember, all based on neuroscience—into my daily life, would I do it?

Would I do it build up my EQ muscles?”

Then ask yourself: What would the impact for me if I increased this EQ?

Our Mental Fitness Program represents a breakthrough in your ability to raise Emotional Intelligence (EQ) first within yourself, and simultaneously across your organisation. The main challenges until now have been: 1. the existence of too many EQ competencies (18) and 2. initial improvements quickly fade over time.

Our Mental Fitness Program dramatically simplifies this challenge due to factor analysis research that identified the root-level building blocks of EQ. 17 out of 18 EQ competencies are automatically developed through a combination of intercepting the negative Saboteurs, activating Self-Command, and then shifting to one or all of the 5 positive Sage Powers.

The resulting EQ improvements are sustained because we focus on building habit-forming mental muscles, not just insights.

This Mental Fitness Program is an “accelerator” for faster results—and THE key component in all of our coaching packages. It takes coaching to a new level of accountability, reflection, and action — “disrupting” your typical day to build long-lasting results by doing 15 minutes of brain activation exercises —a type of mindfulness practice—throughout your day, leading to higher performance, improved productivity, less stress, and increased happiness.

Your Mental Fitness Score is the current measure of your mental fitness (e.g. stress level, happiness barometer), over the past 24-hour period.

What do you think yours is?

If you’re physically fit, you can climb steep hills without physical stress. Similarly, If you’re mentally fit, you can handle life’s great challenges without mental stress, frustration, or other negative emotions.

Your Mental Fitness Score reveals your mental fitness level by measuring the strength of your positive mental muscles versus the negative.

Your top strengths can help you succeed, but if they're overused or used in the wrong way, they become your Saboteurs.

Saboteur Assessment. Next, we invite you to identify your Saboteurs— those Inner Critics or negative voices inside your head which crop up in daily life, wreak havoc on your wellbeing, and hijack your success, performance, and productivity—while causing stress and unhappiness.

Ask yourself the following four Questions… then take the 10-minute Saboteur Assessment.

Q1. Do you waste time on perfectionism even when “good enough” would do? (Stickler saboteur)

Q2. Are you constantly distracted in response to new stimuli — at work and/or at home? (Restless saboteur)

Q3. Do you achieve more than the next person but suffer workaholic burnout? Has your balance with work life and family and friends suffered? (Hyper-achiever saboteur)

Q4. Do you misplace your priorities and aim at pleasing others instead of honouring your boundaries and being able to say no firmly, yet respectfully? (Pleaser saboteur)

(There are 10 Saboteurs; these are just 4 of them.)

To debrief your results, schedule a 30-minute complimentary Breakthrough session.

ROI. People with awareness of ‘what gets in their way’ and make a commitment to build their mental fitness and EQ awareness muscles to achieve a growth mindset, tend to achieve higher levels of performance because they put more effort into improving themselves over time. “Coaching” is one such effort. Especially “coaching that facilitates goal-setting and mitigates negative self-talk” is known to successfully improve your mindset and demonstrate a high return-on-investment.

Convert the insights you receive from coaching into new mental-fitness-growth-mindset-muscles for longer-term, sustainable behavioural results, building lasting change; creating an ROI.

Our foundational Mental Fitness Training includes:

Our foundational Mental Fitness Program is designed like a mental fitness bootcamp and starts with 8 weeks of intense practice, combining weekly video sessions with daily app-guided practices to boost your 3 core mental fitness muscles. That’s why we call it a “coach-in-a-box”!

3 Core muscles: 

• Saboteurs Interceptor Muscle: Your Saboteurs generate all your negative emotions, including stress, anxiety, self-doubt, anger, avoidance, procrastination, insensitivity or discontent. Mental fitness requires the ability to intercept and discredit the Saboteurs.

• Sage Muscle: Your Sage is the one in you that handles challenges with a clear and calm mind, and positive emotions. It also has access to your 5 primary powers. All you need to paint any canvas is 3 primary colors. Similarly, through factor analysis research we’ve discovered that there are only 5 primary powers: Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate. For peak performance, you learn to boost all 5 powers and know when to use which power.     

• Self-Command Muscle: You’re not in full command of your mind. If you were, you would choose to entirely silence the Saboteurs in your head. You would choose to not stress out over what you can’t control, push away self-doubts, recover from disappointments immediately, and spend little time in anger, regret, or blame.    

This Mental Fitness Program vs. traditional training

Traditional training and development tends to have short-lived impact for 3 reasons:  

• Focus on insight rather than muscle. For example, the insight that being frustrated isn't helpful doesn’t automatically lead to you not feeling frustrated. That would require mental muscles to shift brain activation. 

• Treating symptoms rather than cause. For example, teaching you techniques of active listening to improve empathy will have temporary impact if your deeply-seated Judge Saboteur is not exposed and intercepted. 

• No common operating system. Since each training you attend uses a different framework—the 7 steps of managing conflict, the 5 secrets of managing time, etc.--the frameworks compete for mindshare and all fade away. 

Through extensive factor analysis research, the Mental Fitness Program we bring to our clients has identified the 10 root-level negative factors (Saboteurs) and the 5 primary powers (Sage). This enables a common operating system.  

All personal and professional development become applications of this Mental Fitness operating system. Whether learning to manage conflicts, manage time, or perform better under pressure, you’d apply the same exact operating system: 

• Intercept Saboteurs

• Issue Self-Command (through 10-second PQ Reps)

• Mobilize Sage (Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, Activate)  

You’d be using one simple framework for a variety of applications, boosting root-level mental fitness.

This dramatically simplifies personal and professional development.

You achieve this through a commitment to daily practice:

• Assessments. Begins with 2 assessments: Mental Fitness Score Assessment—measures your mental fitness; and your Saboteur Assessment—identifies your inner critics and to re-discover the why and how they have held you back from getting what you want (both tangible and intangible)

• Clarifying your Core Values. Includes an hour facilitated session with one of our Certified Mental Fitness coaches to guide you through a “look back” activity to help you gain clarification on your top core values

• “Coach-in-a-box” app. An interactive app, embedded with the latest in technology gamification features, supplements the 1:1 and group coaching InnerCor Certified Mental Fitness Coaches uses. This daily app helps you not only generate insight and motivation, but aids you in converting your daily mindfulness practice into new mental muscles and accelerates your growth mindset and increases your productivity

• Bite-size training videos begin your 8-week foundational program. 1-hour videos are released in the app every Saturday during bootcamp.

• Reading resources. The author of the Mental Fitness Program we use is a New York Times best selling author. Both an audible and PDF version are embedded inside the app

• Daily Brain Activation Exercises with a specific focus aligned to disrupt your top saboteurs: just 15 minutes of practice per day over 7 weeks allows you to run your brain, rather than allow your Saboteur-hijacked brain to run you  

• Daily Progress Tracking: the app tracks your daily “# of brain activation exercises,” your “brain charge” of self-command, and “your PQ muscle” — those neural pathway (muscle) formations seen under an MRI scan

• Personalized daily coaching tips and updated content inside the app. After the initial 8-week foundational program, we have ongoing modules embedded inside the app to continue your leadership professional development journey on topics most leaders are searching for, including topics like: Stress Management, Conflict Management, Impact Optimisation, Intuition & Decision-Making, DEI, Raising EQ, Growth Mindset, Relationship Mastery, Happiness, Leadership, Self-Actualisation, Resilience, Persuasion in Leadership, Parenting, Productivity, Wellness, and Change Management to both encourage and challenge you to keep growing (new content is added regularly)

• Daily Journaling for reflection, insight and review, since the “coach-in-the-box” stays active for at least 1 year. And if you renew our 6-month Mental Fitness Coaching Program, it continues to stay active.

• Regular Support. Daily or weekly WhatsApp check-in for support, Q&A, and mental fitness content clarification by one of our Mental Fitness Certified Coaches

• Weekly accountability group to gain support and accountability along with your coach, and keep you on track to meet your goals. You can’t undo a life-time of poor habits and retrain your mind in just a week. Research shows a minimum of 6-8 weeks of intensive daily practice, support and accountability. is required to show the in the brain with MRI imaging.

• 1:1 coaching sessions with Coach Karen, serving as your "thought partner" and "accountability coach" to deepen real-life application in your professional (and personal) lives, with the visceral experience of your Saboteurs and Sage.

• **Team Coaching sessions with Coach Karen when working with you and your intact team.

“The saboteur concept embodies a group of thought processes and feelings that maintain the status quo (“comfort zone”) in our lives. Often operating as a structure that seems to protect us, it in fact keeps us from moving forward and getting what we truly want. The saboteur will always be with us. It is neither good nor bad; it just is. The saboteur loses its power over us when we can identify it for what it is, notice our options in the situation, and then consciously choose what we truly want at that time.” -CO-ACTIVE®

Still not sure if this Mental Fitness Coaching Program is for you?

Contact Coach Karen for a complimentary session after taking a 10-minute saboteur asessment.