Created in Saudi Arabia and led by world-renowned faculty, AltitudeX uses the latest advancements in neuroscience to help Gulf-area leaders unlock hidden reserves of personal energy, overcome reactive tendencies that get in the way of forward progress, increase adaptability and tolerance for change, and master the training practices necessary to sustain peak performance at top speed. Dean of Faculty, Dr. Jens Riese, describes the AltitudeX program in this video.

If you are a top-performing executive working in a high-pressure, high-stress, high-stakes environment, this program is for you.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

Just as air force pilots navigate the boundless skies, senior executives ascend to towering heights of responsibility, shouldering the weight of paramount decisions and uncertain territories. In both worlds, isolation prevails, demanding prompt judgments despite cloudy horizons. In the solitude of leadership, where oxygen is scarce, your ability to lead and inspire your team thrives when your own resilience is nurtured first.

AltitudeX offers you a transformative self-exploration journey, providing invaluable insights and tools to boost your mental toughness, manage triggers effectively, and implement habitual pattern shifts.

Guided by the latest advancements in neuroscience and decision-making research, AltitudeX is designed to empower you with proactive techniques to manage your energy levels, ensuring the sustainability of your peak performance.

Central to AltitudeX is the creation of a nurturing space where high-performance executives can learn and share strategies to thrive under pressure. The program's curriculum is not just an investment in your leadership legacy, it's a testament to your unwavering commitment to excellence and a signal that you're ready to soar to new heights.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

AltitudeX is a highly structured and deeply personal experience. Together with your AltitudeX faculty, you will take a deep dive into your fascinating inner world. Designed to ignite introspection, creativity, and accountability, this advanced leadership program is a holistic approach to inner transformation.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Update your iOS (Inner Operating System) to learn new beliefs and tools in order to remain calm, connected and creative under uncertainty, and to embrace and master complex issues with new approaches.

  • Reveal your emotional blueprint, identify triggers, reactive tendencies and navigate tricky traits that impede your cognitive capacities and overall lifestyle.

  • Uncover the anatomy of defensive habits, and learn how to break the reactive habit cycle, and to stay centered, agile and effective in moments of stress.

  • Examine your family constellation and uncover deep-rooted behavioral patterns that keep you stuck.

  • Understand principles of trauma integration, negotiate with your inner protectors, and deepen your relationships with active listening, authentic requests, and boundaries.

  • Transform work-life integration from a struggle into a strategy.

  • Master the art of managing your energy levels through intentional "power ups" and rejuvenating "power downs."

  • Hack your brain with wellbeing microdoses that are integral to sustain your health and wellbeing.

  • Develop your Personal Flight Plan to navigate your career and personal life.

If you wish you had more than 24 hours a day, if you miss precious time with family, sacrifice sleep, and have meetings during weekends and vacations, this program is for you.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

AltitudeX is designed for executives with over five years of leadership experience who are responsible for the success of their organization.

If you would like to host AltitudeX exclusively at your organization, contact us here.

“Leaders who have mastered these program practices are 5x more likely to feel equipped to navigate complex change and 10x more likely to be satisfied in their personal and professional lives.”

Dr. Jens Riese

WHAT TO EXPECT

PROGRAM FORMAT

AltitudeX Leadership Program is comprised of three main components:

  • AltitudeX Intensive
    In-person 3-day flagship experience

  • AltitudeX Masterclasses
    Advanced training on AltitudeX themes

  • AltitudeX Refueling Sessions
    Regular accountability check-ins

The entire program spans eight weeks. After the in-person intensive, participants should expect to allocate five hours per week to AltitudeX.

We limit the number of participants to ensure every leader receives personalized attention, to create a safe space for open discussions and to keep accountability groups intimate. Just like fighter pilots, this is an elite group.

WORLD-CLASS EXPERTISE

MEET YOUR FACULTY

Get ready to be guided by a diverse team encompassing world-renowned expertise in psychology, neuroscience, leadership development, executive coaching, and beyond. Our faculty comprises authors, researchers, and strategists who bring a wealth of experience. Leveraging their extensive involvement in consulting, coaching, and in-the-field research, they engage with senior leaders across corporate, government and non-profit sectors from over 30 nations.

  • Dr. Jens Riese

    An internationally renowned consultant, trainer, and executive coach specializing in transformational change, Dr. Jens Riese has been guiding high-performing professionals on journeys of self-discovery and growth for 25 years. He has worked with public and private-sector leaders, including presidents, prime ministers, CEOs, and managers from Silicon Valley to Riyadh (25 countries in total). Before becoming the Dean of Faculty for RUMMAN Academy, he was a tenured Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and the Co-Dean of McKinsey’s Leadership Mastery Programs.

    He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where his outstanding work earned him the esteemed Max-Perutz Award prize. His research and expertise encompass leadership development, psychotherapy, executive coaching, organizational behavior, and change management.

    Workshop participants describe Dr. Riese as a talented moderator and mediator who skillfully pulls from a broad range of practices to create a transformative learning environment. His deep personal experiences as a senior leader and father inform his approach, blending empathy, therapeutic skills, and analytic rigor to drive high-impact results. Dr. Riese resides with his family in Bavaria.

  • Andrea Anstiss

    A transpersonal psychotherapist and a former Hoffman Process Teacher, Andrea Anstiss has twenty-eight years of therapeutic and healing expertise and an open heart. She is focused on helping her clients heal the child within, transform trauma, addiction and challenging relationships and awaken to a life of abundance, deep self-worth, and joy.

    In her practice she connects with her international clientele in person and online. She creates a safe, nurturing space in which she facilitates the unfoldment of her clients deepest dreams, uncovering their hidden strengths and transforming blind spots and wounds into potent resources.

    She is adept with embodiment modalities which deepen talk therapy, including bodywork, breathwork, movement therapy, and trauma healing. Since the late 90’s, she has taught leading edge personal development seminars throughout the GCC, the Middle East, and in the UK.

    Andrea lives between the desert of the UAE and her retreat in the paradise of Queenstown, New Zealand.

  • Dr. George E. Everly, Jr.

    Dr. Everly is a psychologist and award-winning author whose writings shaped the fields of psychological crisis intervention and human resilience. He has authored 20 textbooks and more than 100 professional papers, and currently serves on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

    From his seminal work on textbooks like A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response to his modern-day bestselling business books, including The Secrets to Resilient Leadership, Stronger, and Leading Beyond Crisis, Dr. Everly has spent his career advising governments, organizations, and academic institutions on the adverse impact of trauma and burnout. His Johns Hopkins Psychological First Aid online course, which is available to the public, is ranked as one of the most popular online courses of all time.

    Previously, Dr. Everly served as Chief Psychologist and Director of Behavioral Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Homewood Hospital Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

Get ready to be inspired and guided by some of the most respected facilitators in the field.

THE JOURNEY

SPECIAL PROGRAM FEATURES

A full suite of perks, including:

AltitudeX Playbook

Create your Personal Flight Plan here! Your playbook will include guided exercises, insightful tips and helpful resources to help you focus on your transformation journey.

Tech-Enabled Community

During AltitudeX, you’ll build trusted relationships with other executives experiencing the same “g-forces.” They not only understand your challenges, but you have a shared vocabulary and will keep you accountable to your Personal Flight Plan.

If you are prepared to confront your current lifestyle with radical honesty and courage, this program is for you. It will assist you in shaping your future and implementing the necessary changes to lead a more gratifying life.

PROGRAM DETAILS

3-DAY IN-PERSON EXPERIENCE

AltitudeX Intensive

Faculty: Dr. Jens Riese

3-Day In-Person Experience

Embark on a transformative journey with Dr. Riese, who blends theory, experiential learning and self-reflection to empower you to navigate your professional evolution with AltitudeX Intensive.

In this program you will uncover the stages of adult development and dive into the intricate web of human needs, longings, and emotions. By the end of the three days, you will create a comprehensive understanding of your leadership profile, empowering you to understand and manage your emotional landscape effectively while leading in a high-stakes environment. In addition, you will explore the difference between reactive and creative modes of operation, identify your triggers, and transform old behavioral patterns.

During AltitudeX Intensive, you will uncover the anatomy of defensive habits and confront them head-on, develop strategies to befriend and negotiate with your inner protectors, and foster an environment of self-compassion at work. Moreover, you will master the art of meaningful relationships through exploring active listening, setting boundaries, and making requests in complex situations. You will learn how to investigate projections and map your circles of belonging for enhanced connections.

By the end of this transformative journey, you will have a Personal Flight Plan that helps you navigate your transformation journey, and your peers will hold you accountable for your commitments throughout your AltitudeX journey.

ALL VIRTUAL

Stronger

Faculty: Dr. George Everly
Four-Hour Virtual Masterclass

Emerging research indicates that the resilience commonly observed in professions like first responders, athletes, and the military is a trait attainable by anyone. Resilient individuals have mastered the art of rebounding from setbacks, fearlessly confronting challenges head-on. Why do they thrive under pressure, while others collapse? What separates the two is attitude. Dr. Everly unveils the essential factors that converge to unlock profound reservoirs of personal empowerment.

The Runway

Faculty: Dr. Jens Riese
Four-Hour Virtual Masterclass

AltitudeX is a program dedicated to guiding you along your personal journey. These advanced sessions with Dr. Riese not only help you delve further into previously covered concepts but also introduce you to new perspectives. Most significantly, they facilitate moments of reflection that enable you and your peers to integrate your new-found knowledge into your daily life, allowing you to tangibly witness the transformation and enlightenment that unfolds.

Juicy Work

Faculty: Andrea Antstiss
Four-Hour Virtual Masterclass

What kind of life do you truly desire to lead? What experiences, aspirations, and emotions do you wish to embody? Embracing a vibrant existence involves acknowledging your inner desires, comprehending your “tricky traits” and your core relational patterns that impact your business decisions. This Masterclass empowers you to recognize your personal hidden trauma (we all have it!) as it plays out in your work relationships.

Ready for Takeoff

Faculty: Dr. Jens Riese
Four-Hour Virtual Masterclass

As the program reaches its conclusion, this training is specifically structured to provide participants with the essential instruments for integrating their acquired knowledge into their daily routines and habits. Moreover, it empowers them to establish a safe space, inviting their teams to embark on this transformative expedition. Leading with intention, participants influence a culture of growth and wellbeing. This represents the pivotal moment when one becomes truly adept at aiding others with their symbolic “oxygen masks."

ALL VIRTUAL

AltitudeX Refueling Sessions

50-Minute Virtual Sessions

Refueling Sessions are thoughtfully curated to facilitate smaller groups of participants to assume roles as mutual accountability partners. This is the forum where participants engage in debriefing, exchanging insights, offering advice, discussing successes and challenges, and acquiring skills to seamlessly infuse small but impactful well-being practices into their daily routines.

Research has found that people are 65 percent likely to meet a goal after committing to another person. Their chances of success increase to 95 percent when they build in ongoing meetings with their partners to check in on their progress.

SUPPLEMENTAL COACHING

Are you willing to put in additional hours? Looking for extra support as you grow your tolerance for change? If so, you may want to opt for additional supplemental one-on-one coaching or therapy. Take advantage of AltitudeX's extensive network of therapists, psychiatrists and coaches to guide through this significant journey of self-discovery and self-compassion.

EARN A CERTIFICATE

AltitudeX memorializes the large commitment you made to yourself, your organization, community and family with a special certificate at the end of the program.

ALTITUDE X FELLOWSHIP

Gain entry to the AltitudeX alumni network and enjoy a range of invaluable benefits.

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY

AltitudeX is a rich, fast-paced experience requiring proficiency in spoken and written English.

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