SHARPEN HOW YOU THINK, DECIDE, AND LEAD AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
A neuroscience-based decision-making program for CEOs, founders, and senior executives navigating complexity, pressure, and high-stakes growth.
At the top, there’s no margin for unclear decisions.
The leaders who move fast and see clearly build the future.
Those who don’t? Get overtaken by it.
Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making isn’t another leadership course.
It’s a clarity accelerator for those who already operate at a high level—designed to rewire how you think, decide, and lead under pressure.
This program doesn’t teach better habits.
It refines the internal system through which all your decisions are made.
So you lead not just with speed, but with sharper perception and strategic calm, even in the most complex environments.
Where Most Leadership Programs End, This One Begins
You’ve already succeeded where most don’t.
Now, the question isn’t whether you’re capable of leading—it’s whether you can consistently cut through bias, distortion, and momentum-driven instinct to see clearly when it matters most.
This program was built for exactly that.
It’s not designed to motivate you. It’s built to challenge and upgrade the precision of your leadership thinking—when you’re under pressure, facing speed, and being shaped by invisible emotional loops that most leaders never catch in real time.
Through the lens of applied neuroscience, you'll develop a new strategic edge that operates not after the fact—but in the moment when decisions are made.
The Data Leaders Can’t Ignore
Even the most experienced leaders aren’t as logical as they think.
Not because they lack skill—but because decision-making is never purely rational.
1%
Only 1% of businesses consistently make the level of strategic decisions required to reach scalable growth.
70%
50–70% of senior leaders ultimately fail—not from lack of intelligence, but from unexamined emotional and cognitive patterns that derail clarity.
2%
Just 2% of individuals operate with the level of conscious decision-making that unlocks full leadership potential.
This program exists because the data doesn’t lie.
Instinct, experience, and intelligence alone aren’t enough anymore.
What separates high-functioning leaders from those who truly evolve is a different level of insight—anchored in conscious, clarity-driven decision-making.
WHAT YOU
WILL MASTER
INSIDE THE
PROGRAM
01
Rewire Distorted Thinking Patterns
Leadership clarity isn’t blocked by incompetence—it’s hijacked by unrecognized bias loops. You’ll learn to identify the influence of momentum chemicals like dopamine and testosterone, and how emotional loyalty or survival-driven caution can subtly sabotage your decision logic. Then, you’ll train to intercept these patterns before they turn into costly strategic drift.
02
Build Real-Time Clarity and Decision Architecture
This program gives you a high-performance protocol to lead decisions under pressure—custom-built through neuroscience. It’s not theoretical. It’s a structured system you’ll apply live and refine with coaching. So when the pressure peaks, your process holds steady, grounded in clarity and speed.
03
Expand Into a Higher Leadership Identity
Leadership isn’t just what you do—it’s how you think under fire. You’ll evolve past the old rhythms of instinct, and step into a leadership identity anchored in clean logic, emotional precision, and the ability to adapt with clear intention. This isn’t about discarding what got you here. It’s about expanding it.
What’s Included in the Experience
Live Strategic Mentoring
Four 120-minute sessions delivered over four weeks.
Each week combines a deep-dive masterclass (30 minutes) with live coaching and application (90 minutes) inside your cohort. Built to fit intense schedules—recordings included if you can’t join live.
Applied Frameworks & Toolkits
You’ll receive downloadable decision tools and access to an on-demand neuroscience-based course to complement live learning.
Every framework is built for real-world use—inside boardrooms, under deadlines, and during the moments where stakes are highest.
Peer Group + Private Community
Each cohort is capped at 10 leaders to maximize depth, focus, and meaningful challenge. You’ll also access a wider private network of growth-driven executives for continued accountability and insight. These are peers who operate like you do and think deeply about how they lead.
MEET TOMASZ DRYBALA
I’m the founder of the Neuro-Based Leadership Centre, bringing nearly 30 years of experience as a business owner, and almost a decade focused exclusively on coaching and speaking around leadership decision-making. My work lives at the intersection of neuroscience and leadership precision—built for founders, CEOs, and senior executives navigating fast-moving, high-stakes environments.
What sets this work apart isn’t theory or motivation. It’s architecture.
I’ve spent years developing a clarity-first leadership approach grounded in how decisions are actually formed in the brain—especially when leaders are under pressure, facing uncertainty, and making choices that affect more than just outcomes, but people, direction, and trust.
I’m also the author of three upcoming books: Breaking Patterns: Leveraging Neuroscience to Unlock Your Leadership Potential and The Neuroscience of Decision-Making: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Choices And How to Fix It, both publishing later this year; and Choosing The Right People: How Neuroscience Helps Us Build Secure, Aligned Relationships, due for release early next year.
Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making was built for leaders who understand that the real advantage isn’t found in working harder or acting faster—it’s found in thinking cleaner, seeing sharper, and disrupting the unseen patterns that silently shape every major decision. This is where leadership evolves from instinct to intention, from speed to clarity.
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
What You’ll Learn, Week by Week
This is not a surface-level seminar. It’s a progressive transformation designed for leaders who think seriously about how they think. Each session explores a specific neurological and emotional dynamic that silently distorts decision-making at the highest levels—and replaces it with tools for sharper, more resilient strategic clarity.
WEEK 1: Momentum, Status, and the Illusion of Progress
How Dopamine and Testosterone Shape Fast-Moving Decisions
We begin with the chemicals that make you feel unstoppable—dopamine and testosterone. These same forces that fuel ambition and confidence can also create the illusion of clarity, locking you into momentum-driven choices before true strategic depth has emerged. In this session, you’ll explore how early emotional validation amplifies confirmation bias, overconfidence, and the halo effect. We'll work through scenarios where leaders double down on first ideas, mistaking motion for progress.
More importantly, you’ll learn to intercept that impulse—not by slowing down, but by learning how to pause the internal reward loop just long enough to pressure-test your clarity. You’ll leave with a framework to balance ambition with discernment, and a new capacity to stay sharp without sacrificing speed.
WEEK 2: Pressure, Delay, and Emotional Risk Aversion
How Cortisol and Serotonin Distort Strategic Judgment
Most leaders think they handle pressure well. And to some extent, they do. But beneath the surface, stress chemicals are reshaping how risk is perceived and acted upon. In this session, we examine cortisol and serotonin—not as enemies, but as forces that, when unchecked, nudge leaders toward caution masquerading as prudence.
You’ll uncover how fear of loss, sunk cost investment, and emotional attachment to initial ideas subtly undermine forward movement. This isn’t about becoming more aggressive—it’s about learning when your “rational caution” is actually fear in disguise. We’ll map out the decision-making traps that arise when pressure peaks, and install a method for distinguishing between emotional safety and true strategic necessity. So you can lead with action, not avoidance.
WEEK 3: Trust, Loyalty, and the Emotional Cost of Alignment
How Oxytocin Shapes Leadership Judgments
Leaders pride themselves on building trust. But trust, when left unexamined, becomes one of the most potent distortions in strategic clarity. In this session, we dive into oxytocin—the chemistry of connection—and how it hardwires you to preserve emotional safety, sometimes at the cost of objectivity.
You’ll see how loyalty subtly reinforces status quo bias, groupthink, and misaligned consensus. How shared history makes it harder to challenge assumptions. And how team dynamics can unconsciously steer your thinking toward preserving relationships rather than pursuing the clearest path forward. This isn’t about removing emotion from leadership—it’s about learning to lead through it. You’ll develop tools to preserve loyalty while reasserting objectivity, and to lead teams with both strength and independence of thought.
WEEK 4: Breaking the Reinforcement Loop
Codifying a Clear, Clarity-Driven Decision Framework
The final session brings it all together. You’ve learned to identify the invisible neurochemical loops—momentum, status, hesitation, loyalty—that shape high-level decisions. Now, we architect the system that helps you see through them, every time.
This is where theory becomes protocol. You’ll map how the five core neurochemicals—dopamine, cortisol, testosterone, serotonin, and oxytocin—interact to create automatic patterns. And then, you’ll build a practical framework for recognizing and neutralizing those loops in real time. The goal isn’t to slow you down—it’s to speed you up by reducing distortion. This system becomes your internal GPS: not reactive, not intuitive alone, but precise, trained, and scalable.
You’ll walk away with a high-performance decision model ready to apply under pressure, in complexity, and at pace. The kind of clarity system that sustains leadership not just at your current level, but as you scale to the next.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
- A refined internal system for leading decisions under real-time pressure
- A set of neuroscience-driven tools to neutralize distorted thinking patterns as they form
- Sharper mental rhythms that reduce fatigue and increase strategic consistency
- A repeatable decision-making framework that scales with your leadership and the complexity you face
- The ability to challenge instinct when necessary, and move with deliberate, clear intention
Investment
Individual
£1,850
one-off
Add a Team Member
£1,200
For every full seat purchased, you can bring a team member at a 35% discounted rate.
Apply to Join the Next Cohort
Only 10 seats. Leaders selected intentionally.
If you’re ready to step beyond instinct, and into a new level of leadership clarity—let’s break the patterns that quietly break momentum.
FAQs
I already consider myself a strong decision-maker. How will this program sharpen what I’m already doing well?
At your level, success isn’t about knowing more—it’s about seeing finer distinctions under pressure. Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making doesn’t replace your leadership instincts; it sharpens them. It helps you recognize the invisible distortions that even sharp, experienced leaders can miss when moving fast. It’s not about questioning your strengths—it’s about elevating the strategic architecture behind them, so you can move faster, decide clearer, and adapt sooner with greater precision and control.
Will I be able to fit Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making into my demanding leadership schedule?
Absolutely. This program was built specifically for leaders whose time is already operating at a premium. Each week includes a single 120-minute live session, combining focused masterclass learning with strategic coaching—deliberately structured for maximum impact with minimum disruption. Recordings are available if you cannot attend live.
More importantly, the time invested here isn’t another obligation—it’s a multiplier. By sharpening your critical thinking and removing hidden decision-making distortions, you’ll recover time you didn’t even realize you were losing: time spent overanalyzing, second-guessing, or repairing the results of compromised decisions.
The program requires roughly 2 hours of your 168-hour week—but the clarity and decision efficiency you gain will compound across every hour of your leadership. When better decisions are made faster and with greater precision, you don’t just free up time—you accelerate outcomes that would have otherwise been delayed, diluted, or missed. This is not a cost to your schedule. It’s a strategic investment in the one resource you can never get back: high-quality leadership time at the moments it matters most.
How is Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making different from typical leadership courses or masterminds?
This isn’t theoretical content or motivational coaching. Breaking Patterns is built on neuroscience, precision frameworks, and active skill-building. It’s designed specifically for experienced leaders who don’t need more information—but who demand better clarity, sharper decisions, and leadership adaptability at the highest level. Instead of being given answers, you’ll be given thinking architectures—built to strengthen your critical decision-making in the moments that matter most.
My company and leadership style are unique—how do I know this program will be relevant for me?
Every business is different. Every leadership style has its own rhythm. This program doesn’t teach rigid methods. It sharpens how you see, assess, and decide — in any environment, with any leadership style. The frameworks you’ll develop apply to any strategic context where high-stakes decisions, fast-moving complexity, and leadership clarity are critical. You won’t be asked to change who you are—you’ll be equipped to see more clearly through the patterns that already shape your leadership today.
How quickly will I start seeing real changes in my decision-making and leadership clarity?
Many leaders notice a shift within the first week. Because the training focuses on real-time awareness, you’ll start catching distortions and decision-making patterns even as you continue operating at full pace. The deeper integration — building new thinking rhythms — continues after the program ends, but immediate improvements in precision, confidence, and clarity often show up quickly when practiced deliberately.
Will the program cover real-world decision challenges I’m currently facing, or is it purely theory-based?
This program is designed to be applied immediately to your real decision environments. You’ll be encouraged to bring live challenges into coaching discussions, map decision patterns in real-time, and sharpen critical thinking directly against your current leadership landscape. The theory is minimal—application is constant.
What if I already have access to leadership coaching—how is this different or complementary?
Traditional leadership coaching often focuses on goal-setting, behaviour shifts, and accountability structures. Breaking Patterns of Decision-Making focuses one layer deeper: it builds how you think under pressure. It’s not about setting better goals or managing better behaviours—it’s about rewiring the cognitive and emotional patterns that drive every major decision you make. It complements coaching by upgrading the internal architecture behind every strategic move you lead.
What happens if I can’t attend one of the live sessions?
All sessions are recorded and made available in case you are unable to attend. While live participation allows for deeper discussion and application, you’ll still have full access to every masterclass, toolkit, and framework so you can stay on track and apply the material to your real-time leadership challenges.
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