The highest-performing leaders don’t work harder—they think clearer, decide faster, and sustain momentum without burnout.
Elite Leadership Starts with a Proven System for Sustainable Cognitive Optimization.
The Vital Stillness System™—A revolutionary approach for optimizing leadership, resilience, and high-performance teams.
The Leadership Challenge
The Hidden Cost Leadership Fatigue: of Poor decisions, disengaged teams, and lost revenue. Is your organization prepared?
❌90% of executives experience decision fatigue & cognitive overload(HBR, 2023).
❌ 70% of C-suite executives are considering quitting for
well-being reasons (Deloitte, 2022).
❌Burnout-related turnover costs businesses over $190B
per year (Gallup, 2023).
❌ Companies with high executive burnout report 23% slower revenue growth and 50% higher turnover (McKinsey, 2023).
Without a cognitive resilience system, your leadership team is at risk.
The Cognitive Advantage for High-Performing Leaders & Teams
Vital Stillness is a precision leadership system engineered to optimize executive resilience and employee well-being—creating sustainable high-performance cultures.
High-Impact Leadership, Backed by Science
Explore leadership solutions tailored to high-performance executives and teams.
Corporate Leadership Consulting
Transform how your leadership team makes high-stakes decisions. Our cognitive optimization strategy builds resilience, improves executive stamina, and enhances strategic clarity in fast-paced industries.
Leadership Performance Intensives
For top executives and leadership teams who need rapid, high-impact transformation. Our intensives integrate neuroscience-backed resilience training and peak performance strategies for long-term results.
Educational and Non-Profit Consulting
Empower mission-driven leaders with the same elite cognitive optimization techniques used by results-focused corporate executives. Improve leadership stamina, strategic clarity, and decision-making effectiveness in high-pressure environments.
Executive Workshops & Retreats
Step away from the noise and recalibrate your leadership performance in immersive, high-level executive retreats. These experiences blend high-performance strategy with deep mental resilience training.
Featured Research
The Cost of Leadership Burnout
Global Economic Impact
Depression and anxiety disorders, often linked to workplace stress and burnout, result in the loss of 12 billion working days annually, costing the global economy approximately $1 trillion each year (WHO, 2024)
Corporate Economic Impact
In fiscal year 2021, nearly 30% of disability-related charges under the Americans with Disabilities Act were based on mental health conditions, up from 20% a decade earlier (Employer Law Report, 2022).
Cost of Stress
Chronic stress costs businesses over $190B per year (Gallup, 2023).
Cost of Executive Fatigue
Cognitive fatigue leads to 30% slower decision-making in executives (MIT Sloan, 2022).
FAQS
We’re too busy for another leadership program...
We get it—executives are busier than ever. That’s exactly why our methods work. The Vital Stillness System requires no extra time—just better cognitive optimization, so leaders perform at a higher level without added stress.
How is this different from mindfulness or resilience training?
This isn’t just about mindfulness—it’s about cognitive mastery and leadership flow. Most leadership programs focus on stress management or motivation. Vital Stillness is different—it’s a research-backed system that combines neuroscience, performance psychology, and strategic leadership. It’s about engineering high-performance resilience, decision-making precision, and sustainable success.
We already have leadership training in place.
Vital Stillness enhances what’s already working by fixing what’s missing. Traditional leadership programs often focus on skills or motivation—but they don’t address cognitive load, mental clarity, and resilience under pressure. Vital Stillness is the missing piece that helps leaders sustain peak performance without burnout—so they can apply what they already know at the highest level.
We’re not sure this will work for our industry...
Leadership burnout, decision fatigue, and performance gaps affect every industry. Vital Stillness is designed for fast-paced, high-stakes industries like finance, tech, healthcare, and corporate leadership. Whether you’re leading a Fortune 500 company or a growing executive team, the ability to optimize decision-making, maintain resilience, and create flow is universally essential for leadership success.
What’s the ROI? How will we measure results?
Our method is backed by research and focuses on real performance shifts, not just feel-good workshops. Companies that integrate cognitive optimization strategies see an average of 20-40% improvement in executive decision-making speed, engagement, and productivity.
Why is there a cost for the Organizational Vitality Assessment?
This isn’t a sales call—it’s a high-value executive strategy session, delivered by Dr. McCarty. This isn’t a typical ‘free consultation’—it’s a structured, high-impact strategy session designed to give you a clear roadmap for optimizing leadership performance. Clients who implement these insights often see immediate shifts in their team’s effectiveness, decision-making, and engagement. The investment ensures that only serious, committed organizations participate. The cost of the assessment is credited back to any organization who moves forward and is a fit for our extended services.
What if we’re not ready for high-ticket consulting?
There are multiple ways to get started—free and paid. Not every organization is ready for a full consulting engagement, and that’s okay. We offer multiple entry points, from free discovery calls to on-demand executive briefings and our Organizational Vitality Assessment. The key is taking the first step toward leadership optimization.