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Leadership that holds
under pressure.

A boutique organizational growth agency. We coach executives, build managers and repair teams — with applied psychology and live simulation, not motivational theatre.

One behaviour, named

Every programme ends with a change each participant’s team can point to

We measure it with a pre/post behavioural survey run with the participant’s own manager and peers, 60 days after delivery.

Executive Coaching Psychological Safety First-Time Managers Team Performance Game-Based Learning Leadership Training L&D as a Service Executive Coaching Psychological Safety First-Time Managers Team Performance Game-Based Learning Leadership Training L&D as a Service

18yrs

Leading technology teams before the psychology training

4cities

New York · London · Vancouver · Bucharest

90days

Typical window to measurable behavior change

Senior leaders in discussion around a table in a bright glass-walled office

Who this is for

  • Organizations of 50–5,000 people scaling faster than their managers
  • Heads of L&D, CPOs and founders accountable for leadership capability
  • Newly promoted managers and technical leaders moving into influence
  • Teams under strain: merged, remote, rebuilt or newly formed

What we are not

  • One-off motivational keynotes with no follow-through
  • Tick-box compliance training
  • Programs where the sponsor will not commit to measurement

If measurement is not welcome, we are the wrong partner — and we will tell you on the first call.

Six practices.
One outcome.

People who lead better tomorrow than they did today.

A team leaning over a game board during a facilitated leadership simulation

Experiential learning

Ninety minutes.
Every team habit, exposed.

We run live, facilitated simulations — including Evivve — where your team has to coordinate under real constraints. Who takes the lead, who withholds information, who stops asking questions: it all shows up in the first twenty minutes. Then we debrief it honestly.

  1. 00–20

    Play begins. Real dynamics surface fast.

  2. 20–60

    Pressure rises. Habits become visible.

  3. 60–90

    Facilitated debrief and team commitments.

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The method

The EmpacITy Loop

Every engagement runs the same five steps, whatever the service. It is why change survives the last session.

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Interviews, a validated assessment and a baseline read of the team. We name two or three behaviors that actually move outcomes.

    Weeks 1–2

  2. 02

    Design

    A program built around your context, language and cases — not a licensed deck delivered unchanged.

    Weeks 2–3

  3. 03

    Practise

    Live sessions and simulations where people rehearse the hard conversation before they have to have it for real.

    Weeks 3–10

  4. 04

    Embed

    Between-session experiments run in real meetings, manager check-ins and short reinforcement nudges.

    Throughout

  5. 05

    Measure

    Repeat pulse at the midpoint and the end. Your sponsor sees movement in behavior, not a satisfaction score.

    Midpoint + close

Measured, not assumed.

How we measure →

180 teams

Google's Project Aristotle found psychological safety — not skill mix or seniority — is the top dynamic of effective teams.

Google re:Work

23%

Higher profitability in top-quartile engagement business units versus bottom-quartile, across 180,000+ teams.

Gallup Q12 Meta-Analysis

360°

Multisource feedback improves performance — and improves more when paired with goal-setting and follow-up.

Personnel Psychology, 2005

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The founder

An executive technology leader turned advisor and coach.

Dan Tudorache led engineering and delivery organizations for close to two decades — solution architect, then global delivery director — before adding formal training in psychology and coaching. He is not a consultant who read about your world: he has carried the same accountability your leaders carry, and he brings a psychologist's read on what is actually happening in the room.

Read the full story
  • Global Delivery Director
  • Solution Architect
  • Certified Professional Coach
  • Psychological Profiler
  • ISST Schema Therapy
  • PMP®
  • MSc Computer Engineering
  • BSc Psychology
  • Northwestern, Org Leadership
  • TEDx Speaker

Selected work

Technology · 240 people

A full-team performance program for a scaling product org

Attrition in engineering halved over two quarters.

Team diagnostic, two simulation days, manager cohort, 6-month pulse.

Banking · Mixed cohort

First-time leaders program across four business lines

Manager confidence scores up 41 points post-program.

8-week cohort, 16 managers, pre/post self and team assessment.

Professional services

Executive coaching for a newly appointed leadership team

Decision cycle time reduced from weeks to days.

Six months of individual coaching plus a facilitated team track.

Illustrative engagement examples — not attributed to a specific client.

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Investment

No mystery pricing.

Indicative ranges so you can size a budget before you speak to us. Final scope is quoted after the diagnostic.

Simulation workshop

from $4,500

90 minutes to a full day, up to 25 people, debrief and team report included.

Cohort program

from $18,000

6–12 weeks, cohorts of 12–18, diagnostics, live sessions, practice and measurement.

Embedded partnership

from $7,500/mo

L&D as a service: skills mapping, program design, delivery and reporting.

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Start with one conversation.
No deck. No pitch.

Thirty minutes to understand where your leadership is straining, and whether we are the right people to help. Or start smaller with a 90-minute team simulation.