the SCIENCE of
SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
Corporate workshops and coaching built on the neuroscience of
mental fitness through Positive Intelligence®
SARAH LESKER, MSEd
Mental Fitness Coach
MSEd in Marriage
& Family Therapy,
BS in Psychology
Certified Health
& Life Coach from Health Coach Institute
Co-founder of Shape Training, LLC
YPO Spouse
Forum Moderator
Sarah Lesker brings a rare combination of clinical training, business performance, and lived resilience to her corporate work. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy, was a NASM-Certified Personal Trainer with a decade of experience, and co-founded Shape Training, LLC. Her professional background also includes high-performing sales experience, including B2B outside sales and specialty pharmaceutical sales, giving her firsthand understanding of the pressure, pace, and internal noise that comes with hitting numbers under real stakes.
Sarah is a Certified Health and Life Coach and is completing her certification in Positive Intelligence (PQ). Her approach isn't theoretical. It's built on the science of mental fitness and translated for people who are already high-performing, leaders and teams who don't need more information, but need the capacity to actually change how they respond when it matters most.
Past Speaking Events & Workshops:
YPO Forum, Pittsburgh Chapter
-In person, attendees: 10 CEOs
Global Leadership Sales Team, KJL Co
-In person, attendees: 11 ASMs from US, UK, Germany, Italy, & France
Men and Women's Golf Team, Grove City College
-In person, attendees: 24 students, 2 Coaches
Global Women's Networking Group KJL Co
-In person, attendees: 51 women from US, UK, Germany, & Austria
Global Gaming Women Forum
-Virtual, attendees: 8 women
YPO Gold Spouse Forum, Pittsburgh Chapter
-Virtual, attendees: 6 women
MENTAL FITNESS for TEAMS
Self-sabotage rarely stays contained to one person. When even a few team members are operating from stress, self-doubt, or resistance to change, the effects ripple outward, eroding trust, collaboration, and performance across the entire group. What starts as an individual pattern becomes a team dynamic, and eventually, a culture.
Positive Intelligence® (PQ) is built to address this at the root, not the surface. Unlike traditional training that treats symptoms, PQ works by weakening the Saboteur brain, the source of stress, self-doubt, frustration, and perfectionism, while simultaneously strengthening the positive region of the brain, which drives clarity, innovation, collaboration, and adaptability. Validated with thousands of participants across diverse industries, PQ consistently delivers measurable improvements in team performance, stress management, and collaboration.
For sales teams and leadership groups specifically, this translates directly to the moments that matter most: staying composed after a lost deal, thinking clearly under quota pressure, and leading with resilience through change instead of reacting to it. The PQ Program for Teams combines app-based daily practice with personalized virtual group coaching, building individual capacity while creating a shared team dynamic.
What can your team expect after the initial 8 weeks of PQ coaching?
92%
enhance teamwork and collaboration
98%
experience emotional intelligence growth
90%
optimize mental and emotional energy
84%
improve conflict managementt
97%
increase empathy
85%
increased their happiness
83%
improve self confidence
91%
improve stress management
2026 Shirzad Chamine and Positive Intelligence, Inc.
MENTAL FITNESS WORKSHOP SERIES
IN PERSON or VIRTUAL
Burnout, underperformance, and lack of team cohesion aren't just challenges to manage. They're barriers to success and they almost never start as organizational problems. They start in the brain.
The prefrontal cortex, responsible for self-control, clarity, and creativity, goes offline the moment stress, fear, or self-doubt take over. In Positive Intelligence, this reactive state is called the Saboteur brain: survival-driven, negative, and quietly running the show in high-pressure moments. The good news is the opposite state, the Sage or positive region of the brain, defined by clarity, calm, and creativity, can be trained and activated on command.
Sarah's corporate workshops give teams a shared language for recognizing mental self sabotaging patterns in real time, along with simple, neuroscience-backed tools to shift into the positive region of the brain; not in a quiet moment of reflection later, but in the middle of the meeting, the deadline, or the difficult conversation where it actually counts. Each session blends the science of mental fitness with interactive discovery, so teams leave with more than a concept. They leave with a skill they can use immediately.
Workshops are fully customizable in length and format (in-person or virtual) to fit your team's goals, size, and schedule.
Most performance problems aren't a skills gap. They're internal: the pressure, the self-criticism, the reactivity under stress that quietly erodes focus, resilience, and decision-making, especially when the stakes are highest.
Sarah's workshops give teams a shared language for recognizing these patterns in real time, along with simple, neuroscience-backed tools to interrupt them, not in a quiet moment of reflection later, but in the middle of the meeting, the deadline, or the difficult conversation where it actually counts. Sessions are fully customizable in length and format, in-person or virtual, and available as a single session or a two-part series for teams ready to go deeper.
WORKSHOP 1: MENTAL FITNESS FOUNDATIONS
A foundational session introducing the neuroscience of mental fitness and Positive Intelligence, the core mental muscles that drive performance and wellbeing, and practical tools for shifting out of self-sabotage and into clarity under pressure.
WHATS COVERED:
The Saboteur Assessment: each participant walks away with a personalized look at their own patterns
The 10 most common ways we self-sabotage, and which one shows up most for you
The neuroscience of peak performance, including 10-second techniques to activate clear thinking on demand
How we unknowingly generate our own stress and how to generate peace of mind instead
The Three Gifts technique, for converting setbacks into opportunity
A live, interactive deep dive into the team's own top Saboteurs
The core mental muscle behind every top performer's edge, and how to build it in minutes a day
**Available as a 1-4-hour session, depending on your team's schedule and desired depth.
WORKSHOP 2: THE SAGE ROADMAP
A second session, offered a few weeks after Workshop 1, that turns the concept into a lived experience and teaches the Sage Powers. This is a guided, individual coaching experience delivered in a group setting, not a lecture, and not an open group discussion.
Each participant identifies a real challenge or goal they're personally working through. From there, the group is led together through a series of quiet contemplation and visualization exercises, each one corresponding to one of the 5 Sage Powers. Everyone moves through the process at the same time, but the experience is entirely individual, each person quietly working through their own specific challenge, guided by the same prompts.
By the end, participants haven't just learned the Sage perspective conceptually, they've used it, on something that actually matters to them — and they leave with a takeaway roadmap of the 5 Sage Steps to return to on their own.
60–75 minutes. Available in-person or virtually.
WHY TEAMS BRING THIS IN
When a team builds this capacity together, the impact compounds. People don't just become individually more resilient, they develop a shared vocabulary for recognizing unproductive patterns in themselves and each other, in real time, in the same meetings where those patterns used to go unchecked.
The result: improved focus and decision-making under pressure, greater resilience through change, less reactivity in difficult conversations, and a team that's not only more effective, but more aligned.
TESTIMONIAL
"Our Global Sales Leadership Team recently had the opportunity to participate in a Positive Intelligence course led by Sarah Lesker and I cannot recommend her highly enough. Sarah has a unique ability to command the room while creating an environment that is engaging, collaborative, and highly interactive. She is incredibly professional, quick on her feet, thoroughly prepared, and focused on ensuring every participant gains practical value from the session. What stood out most was Sarah's ability to help us understand our individual saboteurs, the internal voices and behaviors that can influence how we react to challenges stress in leadership situations. One of the most valuable takeaways was realizing that saboteurs are not inherently negative, they each have strengths and by understanding them and recognizing the triggers that activate them, we can become more effective leaders and communicators. The impact of the course was immediate and it provided practical tools to help us have more productive conversations, better understanding of ourselves and others, and ultimately lead our teams more effectively. Sarah facilitated an incredible amount of participation and discussion throughout the session. Every person in the room was engaged, contributing insights, and learning from one another. Sarah's facilitation style made the experience both insightful and memorable. For any sales leaders looking to invest in the development of their leadership team, I highly recommend Sarah Lesker and her Positive Intelligence program. The lessons learned are immediately applicable and can have a lasting impact on team performance, communication, and leadership effectiveness."
-Director of Sales, Global Vacuum Technology Company