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From Protector to Leader.
From Knowing to Doing.

A 7-day neuroscience-based leadership programme for senior leaders and high-potential teams. Built on 5,218 assessments across 42 countries. The only programme that addresses the biological root of why leaders stall — not just the behaviour on top of it.

THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Seven days. One complete arc.

Each day builds on the last — from knowing your own biology, to leading others from it. The arc: Who am I → What stops me → How I lead others → How I drive results → Who I become → What I sustain.

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PRE - DAY 
BEFORE IT BEGINS

Introduction & 3 Brains Assessment

Everyone arrives knowing their own biology

Before Day 1, every participant completes the 3 Brains Dominance Test and receives their personal profile. A focused online masterclass introduces the framework so the programme can go straight into depth from the first morning. No time spent on basics. Every hour counts.

Topics

  • The 3 Brains Dominance Test

  • Introduction to Head, Heart, and Gut intelligence

  • Pre-reflection: the leader I am now

Key Learnings

  • Which brain dominates your decisions under pressure

  • Why alignment is a biological need, not a soft skill

  • What you want to shift in the programme

Key Benefits

  • You arrive prepared — not starting from zero

  • The group hits the ground running on Day 1

  • Your personal leadership challenge is already in focus

🔑 Key Tool

3 Brains Individual Dominance Profile · Pre-reflection worksheet

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DAY ONE
I DEVELOP MYSELF

I Know My Three Brains

From the leader I am — to the leader I want to be

The foundation of everything. Before you can align your team, you need to understand your own dominant pattern — where you are strong, where you stall, and which brain takes over under pressure. This day connects your biology directly to your leadership impact.

Topics

  • Reading your 3 Brains profile — individually and as a team

  • How brain dominance shapes decisions, communication, and conflict

  • Leading across cultures and individual differences

  • Your Individual Impact Plan — the leader you want to become

Key Learnings

  • The specific strengths and blind spots of your dominant brain

  • How your brain profile affects the people around you

  • What continuous growth actually looks like for a leader at your level

Key Benefits

  • You stop guessing — you know exactly what is driving you

  • The team has a shared, non-judgmental language for differences

  • Your development plan is grounded in biology, not wishful thinking

🔑 Key Tool

3 Brains Leadership Profile · Individual Impact Plan (version 1) · Team Brain Map

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DAY TWO
I UNDERSTAND WHAT STOPS ME

The 12 Inner Protectors

Why you repeat patterns you know don't serve you

Every leader has patterns that once helped them survive and succeed — and now run on autopilot in the boardroom. The Analyst who delays every decision. The Controller who cannot delegate. The Peacekeeper who avoids the hard conversation. This day names them, maps them, and unlocks the hidden gift inside each one.

Topics

  • The 12 Inner Protectors — Head, Heart, and Gut patterns

  • How Protectors show up in leadership behaviour

  • Your dominant Protector — its trigger, its cost, its hidden gift

  • Moving from self-protection to self-leadership

Key Learnings

  • Why you repeat patterns even when you know better

  • The biological reason behind your most persistent leadership challenge

  • What your Protector is actually trying to protect — and how to work with it

Key Benefits

  • You stop blaming yourself — and start understanding yourself

  • Real behaviour change becomes possible because you know the root

  • You discover strengths hidden inside the patterns that have been limiting you

🔑 Key Tool

12 Protectors Individual Map · Leadership Shadow & Hidden Gift worksheet ·

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DAY THREE
I BUILD HIGH-PERFORMING TEAMS

From Self-Awareness to Team Dynamics

Reading which brain is speaking — and responding to the right one

A leader who knows their own three brains can now read their team's. The five dysfunctions of a team — absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, inattention to results — each map directly to a brain. This day gives leaders the language, tools, and practice to shift team dynamics at the biological root.

Topics

  • The five team dysfunctions through a 3 Brains lens

  • Decision-making styles and when each serves

  • Delegation — why leaders avoid it and how to do it well

  • Feedback that reaches the Heart without losing the Head

  • Leading a team meeting with all three brains engaged

Key Learnings

  • Why your team's friction is a biological pattern — not a personality problem

  • How to read which brain is driving a person's resistance or disengagement

  • When to lead top-down and when to lead from the middle

Key Benefits

  • Your team has a shared language — conflict becomes navigable

  • Feedback lands and changes behaviour instead of creating defensiveness

  • Decisions move — because the right brain is being engaged at the right moment

🔑 Key Tool

​Team 3 Brains Pattern Map · Decision-making style profile · 3 Brains Feedback Model

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DAY FOUR
I DRIVE RESULTS THROUGH ALIGNMENT

Execution, Communication, and Courageous Conversations

If you don't know which brain is speaking, you argue with the wrong argument

Strategy without alignment is a plan on paper. This day gives you practical tools for getting buy-in, handling conflict without damaging relationships, managing your energy under sustained pressure, and embedding behaviour change in your organisation at the level where it actually sticks.

Topics

  • Getting buy-in — how to speak to all three brains

  • Courageous conversations — a step-by-step framework

  • Energy and resilience under sustained pressure

  • Culture change as biological change — not policy change

Key Learnings

  • Why your most important ideas are not landing — and how to change that

  • How to have the conversation you have been avoiding

  • What drains your energy as a leader — and how to manage it at the root

Key Benefits

  • You stop losing people in the gap between what you say and what they hear

  • Conflict becomes a tool for clarity instead of a source of damage

  • You sustain high performance without burning yourself or your team out

🔑 Key Tool

3 Brains Communication Map · Conflict resolution framework (Krauthammer adapted) · Energy and resilience plan

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DAY FIVE
I SHAPE THE FUTURE

The Leader I Commit to Becoming

When a Protector is in charge, you're protecting. When your 3 Brains are aligned, you're leading.

The final day brings everything together — not into a folder of models, but into a concrete 90-day commitment with real accountability. Leaders leave knowing exactly who they have been, what has been holding them back, and who they are choosing to become. The CCT State becomes a daily practice they carry with them.

🔑 Key Tool

Individual Impact Plan (final) · 90-Day Leadership Alignment Plan · Peer accountability structure · Letter to Myself

Topics

  • Cross-team collaboration and shared goals

  • Succession planning through a 3 Brains lens

  • The CCT State — Calm, Connected, Trusting — as a leadership practice

  • Individual Impact Plan — final version and 90-day commitment

  • Letter to Myself — a personal leadership commitment

Key Learnings

  • How to access your best leadership state under high pressure

  • What three specific changes will make the biggest difference in 90 days

  • How to hold yourself — and each other — accountable without it feeling punitive

Key Benefits

  • You leave with a plan, not just inspiration

  • A peer accountability structure keeps the change alive after Day 5

  • The gap between who you were and who you want to be is finally visible — and closeable

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INTEGRATION DAY
30-60 DAYS AFTER DAAY 5

What Changed — and What Came Back

The day that makes the difference between training and transformation

Thirty to sixty days after Day 5, the group reconvenes. This is the day that separates a programme from a workshop. Real conditions have tested every commitment. Patterns have come back. Some things have shifted. This day makes that visible — and makes the transformation permanent.

🔑 Key Tool

Report-back framework · 90-day review template · Individual coaching follow-on (optional)

Topics

  • Report-back: what I implemented and what actually happened

  • Which patterns returned — and what that reveals

  • Peer accountability debrief and next-phase commitments

Key Learnings

  • Where real change has taken root in your leadership

  • Which Protector patterns are still running — and why

  • What your next level of leadership development looks like

Key Benefits

  • Change does not fade after the programme ends

  • The group holds each other accountable — with warmth, not pressure

  • Each leader receives their Letter to Myself — and reads it as the person they have become

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

What every participant leaves with

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Their 3 Brains profile

A clear map of their dominant brain, their secondary brain, and the patterns that activate under pressure — with a leadership language to describe it.

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Their team's brain pattern

An aggregate map of their team's dominant brains — showing where communication breaks down, where decisions stall, and where alignment is possible.

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Individual Impact Plan — 90-day commitments

Three specific, measurable behavioural commitments for the next 90 days, grounded in their biology and held accountable by a peer partner from the programme.

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Their dominant Protector — named and mapped

The specific biological pattern that is limiting their leadership, its trigger, its cost, and the hidden gift available when they work with it instead of against it.

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A shared language across the team

When the whole team knows the 3 Brains framework, conversations change. Conflict becomes navigable. Feedback lands. Decisions move.

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The CCT State — a daily leadership practice

The physiological capacity to access Calm, Connected, Trusting under pressure — and to help their team access it during high-stakes moments.

FORMAT & LOGISTICS

Everything your L&D team needs to know

PROGRAMME

The 3 Brains Leader — 7-Day Leadership Programme

STRUCTURE

Pre-Day (online) + 5 core days + Integration Day (30–60 days later)

GROUP SIZE

8–20 participants per cohort

DELIVERY

On-site (preferred) or fully online

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH OR SPANISH

REGION

Worldwide

INCLUDES

3 Brains Dominance Test per participant · Individual profile debrief · Team pattern analysis · All workshop materials · 12 Protectors manual · Individual Impact Plan workbook

ADD-ON

Individual executive coaching sessions (1:1 with Christoffel, pre or post programme)

ACCREDITATION

ICF · EMCC accredited methodology · 5,218 assessments across 42 countries

INVESTMENT

Programme pricing on request — based on group size, duration, and location. Contact us for a tailored proposal.

A NOTE ON CUSTOMISATION

Every organisation is different. The 7-day structure above is the full programme — but we also offer a 5-day version (without the Pre-Day masterclass and Integration Day) for organisations with tighter schedules.
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The programme can be adapted to your organisational context, your leadership model, and your specific business challenges. We have delivered this work in the context of mergers, generational transitions in family businesses, cultural change processes, and high-potential leadership development.
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Every engagement starts with a discovery conversation — not a proposal. We want to understand your organisation before we recommend anything.

WHAT LEADERS SAY

From the people who have done this work

"3 Brains Intelligence explains why leaders fail to get buy-in and gives us the techniques to do it. If you don't know which brain is speaking, you argue with the wrong argument — and you can't sell your idea. The 3 Brains theory simplifies everything. In just two questions, you know exactly what is happening and you become far more precise and effective."

François Bazini

CMO, Suntory Beverage & Food Europe

"Identifying core issues is unearthed more expediently when the Head, Heart, and Gut discussion is infused. An unexpected benefit was that it helped me better understand my own patterns. I would highly recommend this work to any leadership team."

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Ted Hawkins

Executive Coach — ex-partner PricewaterhouseCoopers

"Few have delved as effectively into the core of why clients get stuck, or offered solutions as impactful as 3 Brains Intelligence. Clients effortlessly break free from limitations and experience benefits that actually stick — because it finally aligns the Head, Heart, and Gut."

Karen Keller, Ph.D., MCC

CEO/Founder, Keller Institute™ — 20+ years as MCC

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WHO DELIVERS THIS PROGRAMME

Christoffel Sneijders, MCC

I spent a decade at Krauthammer International as a senior partner and consultant, leading international change projects in strategy and organisational culture. I then built 3 Brains Intelligence from the inside out — after experiencing burnout, rebuilding from scratch in two countries, and completing open heart surgery in 2024.

"The best leaders are not better thinkers. They are more aligned. Their Head, Heart, and Gut work together — especially when information is incomplete and decisions are urgent. That alignment can be built."

I teach Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at IE Business School in Madrid and Georgetown University in Qatar. I have worked with more than 13,000 people across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and Australia.

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Ready to bring this into your organisation?

Every engagement starts with a 30-minute conversation — not a proposal, not a catalogue. We talk about what your organisation is facing, and whether 3 Brains Intelligence is the right approach. No sales pressure. No generic package.

christoffel@3brainsintelligence.com  ·  +34 638 922 421  ·  WhatsApp available  ·  English & Spanish

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