ALMP : ASCENT LEADERSHIP MASTERY PROGRAMME
Ascent Leadership Mastery (ALMP) is a neuroscience-grounded leadership journey that develops executive capacity to lead with clarity, judgement and systemic impact in complexity.
Leadership capacity for complexity, pressure, and scale
Ascent Leadership Mastery programme (ALMP) is a neuroscience-grounded leadership acceleration journey for senior leaders and leadership teams operating in complexity, ambiguity, and sustained pressure.
Designed from practice, not theory
In over a decade of deep partnership with leaders across sectors, we’ve learned that the real barrier to transformational leadership isn’t capability, but nervous system strain, outdated behavioural loops, and the quiet erosion of energy and impact under sustained ambiguity, resistance, and the relentless demands of scale.
Ascent Leadership Mastery programme (ALMP) is our response, an original IP programme drawn from our trademark Applied Neuroscience Methodology © (ANM).
What makes ALMP different?
ALMP is not a leadership competencies programme.
Rather than prescribing behaviours or skill checklists, it works with how the brain actually thinks, learns, adapts, and rewires, creating the conditions for deep, durable habit change.
Rooted in our neuroscience, ALMP combines robust insight, actionable tools, and proven techniques to free up cognitive load and expand leadership capacity. Leaders and teams learn to:
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Get more done with less mental strain
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Regulate emotional contagion in teams
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Navigate sustained ambiguity and uncertainty
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Engage constructively with conflict and tension
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Sustain productivity without depletion
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Steward long-term impact as complexity increases
The shift is visible, not only for the leader, but for those around them.
Who is ALMP designed for?
Designed for leaders carrying organisational and systemic responsibility
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CEOs, Executive and Senior Leadership Teams
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Founders and scale-up leaders
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Board members and system leaders
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Organisations operating across complex, interconnected systems
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.
Gerald Edelman
American biologist, Author, Nobel Prize winner
Expanding Leadership Capacities
ALMP works across five core leadership capacities. These capacities are developed through an integrated, neuroscience-informed leadership journey, tailored to the maturity and context of each organisation.
Expanding how leaders think
Strengthening judgement, perspective-taking, and cognitive diversity in high-stakes contexts.
Building steadiness under pressure
Enabling leaders to regulate self and system, reduce reactivity, and engage in constructive challenge.
Increasing leadership influence and impact
Developing awareness of how energy, choice, and presence shape outcomes across teams and systems.
Strengthening systemic capability
Embedding the conditions for agility, innovation, and coherence to emerge across the organisation.
Supporting leadership as stewardship
Grounding leadership in purpose, responsibility, and long-term impact.
What is unique about our approach
Content | Design | ANM Practitioners
Content
Our work is refreshing, thought provoking and engaging. We provide individualised and team levels insights into cognitive patterns, judgement, and energy; enabling leaders and teams to expand their thinking range and strategic foresight in real-world contexts.
Design
ALMP is designed in line with how the brain naturally learns and adapts. It usually is an engagement of a minimum of 3-4 months with live session, self paced work and action sets. Content is designed after a through understanding of the individual or team context,
ANM Practitioners
ALMP is delivered by certified ANM© Practitioners, not just experts, but interesting human beings.
They bring lived experience as entrepreneurs and business owners, deep neuroscience grounding, and decades of senior leadership insight.
How programmes are delivered
Flexible, contextual, and proportionate
ALMP can be delivered as:
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a leadership team journey
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a 1:1 executive coaching programme
Programme design is tailored to organisational context, leadership maturity, and strategic priorities.
“ALMP changed how my team leads, not by telling us what to do, but by expanding our capacity to think, decide, and act well in complexity.”
C-suite, Global organisation
What shifts as leaders engage fully with ALMP
When participants actively engage with the ALMP content, peer learning, and self-paced practices, they can expect to develop the capacity and capabilities to:
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experience greater internal steadiness and clarity under pressure
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expand perspective and enable sound, complex decision-making
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regulate emotional dynamics and reduce escalation or contagion
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build the bandwidth to better utilise existing talent and expertise while learning what new conditions demand
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lead systemically while remaining anchored to purpose
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develop a credible leadership presence expressed through judgement, imagination, and discernment
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steward direction, stability, and long-term impact across the wider system
🔍 Leadership Insights: A Decade in Practice
Over 10+ years of working with senior leaders in complex systems, we’ve uncovered consistent patterns that traditional leadership programmes often miss.
This brief reveals:
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What truly gets in the way of sustainable leadership impact
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Why conventional approaches fall short under pressure
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How ALMP, built on neuroscience, addresses the real mechanics of leadership capacity
➡️ Download the full Leadership Insights Brief to explore the research behind ALMP.
ALMP is grounded in frameworks from MIT Sloan, IPEC Energy Leadership, and neuroscience research. It is for leaders who recognise that leadership capacity is the most enduring determinant of organisational outcomes, not just today, but over time. The programme offers a structured, neuroscience-informed way to strengthen judgement, steadiness, and system leadership in high-complexity environments.
Reena Dayal. Lead facilitator, ALMP