Leadership & Teamwork Development
BIG Leadership Mastermind
Mastering Embodied Leadership: Unlock the Art of Influence and Impact
Are you a high-performing spa or pool leader ready to step into your true leadership potential, but you feel stuck in the cycle of being a people-pleaser?
Are you ready to stop feeling drained at the end of each day, even after checking off every single item on your to-do list?
Does the constant pressure of work leave you feeling disconnected from what matters most — your loved ones, your peace, and your true potential?
If so, it's time to let go of people-pleasing and embrace a fearless, authentic approach to leadership.
It’s time to Live And Love Richly through BIG Leadership.
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You’ve built a career around caring for others and creating relaxing client experiences. But you’re noticing it now comes at the expense of you working longer hours and having a diminished bandwidth for anything else.
While your massive to-do list may have gotten checked off for the day, you’re left wondering, “Is this all there is to life?”
You KNOW there must be an easier, softer, and more fulfilling way to lead your team, your business, and YOUR LIFE.
It's time for a breakthrough.
In this transformative mastermind, you’ll discover how to lead with the flow of life — not against it.
From award-winning leadership expert Leslie Cunningham, you’ll learn how to use somatic coaching techniques to influence and inspire others with ease, communication, and intention, while freeing yourself from the exhausting cycle of constant effort.
This mastermind is for leaders like you who want to…
✨ Influence with ease — use the power of communication to inspire others
✨ Work in creative flow — not through struggle and control
✨ Have more energy for the things and people that matter most
✨ Experience breakthrough results while saving time and energy
Imagine being able to lead your team, influence your clients, and grow your business without pushing down your desires and needs.
No more sacrificing your well-being for the sake of others.
It's time to embody the leader you were always meant to be — at work and in life.
That’s what this BIG Leadership Mastermind is all about.
It’s BIG Leadership™ paired with the Live And Love Richly™ philosophy.
It’s also based on somatic coaching, which blends neuroscience, embodiment practices, and somatic psychology to adapt to your body's inherent real-time intuition for clarity, information, and guidance.
While working in creative flow, you can accomplish more while using less energy.
In this mastermind, you’ll gain the tools to achieve breakthrough results effortlessly — saving time, reducing stress, and ultimately creating space for what truly matters: your family, your health, and your happiness.
If you're ready to stop sacrificing your personal life for your work, and instead learn how to lead with clarity and purpose while maintaining balance, this mastermind is for you.
Plus, the benefits of personal development are endless:
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Leads to more fulfilment and happiness in current role — LinkedIn Learning found 94% of employees would stay longer at a company if it invested in their learning and development.
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Better retention rates - It pays to keep your top management in place — to replace an executive leader, costs between 200 - 300 percent of the executive's salary, according to Mezrah Consulting.
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Increases company revenues — According to Management Consulted, one study showed that a leadership development program for first-time managers resulted in a 29% ROI within the first three months and a 415% annualized ROI.
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Develops the confidence of leaders & their teams — Leaders who receive quality coaching from management are 4.3 times more likely to feel they have a sustainable career path as a leader, according to Development Dimensions International, Inc.
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Creates a deeply engaged, connected team - Employees who have a strong trust in their organization's leadership are 3.5 times more likely to be engaged, according to Gallup Workplace.
Ready for some deep personal development? Apply and discover how effortless leadership is within your reach!
“BIG Leadership Mastermind”
Your Path to Personal Transformation & Empowered Leadership
In this transformative somatic leadership coaching mastermind, you'll shift from controlling power moves to embracing authenticity, clarity, and creative expression. You’ll learn from a leadership expert with 25 years of training and experience helping business leaders change their mindsets and businesses!
Here’s the truth… it takes more than performing, pleasing, and pretending (and working harder) to be successful.
Sure, you CAN try that, and it will work for a little bit.
But I also know as a certified somatic experience practitioner with three years of specialized training, that it’s a surefire way to get burned out — in business and life.
The Power of Somatic Leadership
When a car cuts you off and nearly shears off the front of your car, you might notice sweaty palms, a racing heart, and hyper awareness on the road after the event.
This is your body’s fight–or-flight activation.
Due to life events (like car accidents, childhood trauma, etc.), a compilation of these stressful events over time can get “stuck” in the body and elevate your responses even in the calmest of situations. It can increase your need to be reactive in a negative way, like snapping at your colleague for a mundane mistake.
Somatic experiencing releases stored energy to essentially “turn off” the threat alarm that causes dysregulation, AKA your over-the-top emotional responses to everyday life.
When you use the techniques you learn in this mastermind, you’ll better understand how to have a “body first” approach instead of immediately using the mind to respond.
Somatic coaching innovatively blends mind-body awareness with modern psychology and ancient wisdom. It emphasizes the powerful connection between your physical body and emotional well-being.
Here’s how it works:
Somatic coaching taps into insights from neuroscience, embodiment practices, and somatic psychology, enabling you to tune into the knowledge and wisdom already stored within your body.
This allows you to:
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Release emotional blockages: Move through feelings of burnout, frustration, and overwhelm more easily
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Overcome obstacles: Use your body's natural wisdom to navigate challenges at work and in life
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Promote self-awareness: Reconnect with yourself on a deeper level, understanding your emotions and how they affect your body
This mastermind will teach you to unlock the full potential of your body’s intelligence, enabling you to overcome emotional challenges, find new ways of thinking, and approach your leadership role with ease.
Who is This Training For?
Any spa or pool industry leader (of all ranks!) interested in deep personal work to cultivate a life that doesn’t feel frenzied and flailing.
This is for you IF…
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You are a high performer
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You are a lifelong learner
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You want to be less reactive
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You enjoy deep personal work
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You appreciate holistic wellness
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You want to trust yourself more as a leader
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You desire to be more playful at work and home
This is designed just for you — the overachiever with anxiety who still excels despite masking your true emotions. You KNOW you want better tools to enhance your communication and performance, allowing you to be an effective leader in the present moment — all while being true to yourself.
If you deeply value people and experiences AND want more time and energy for meaningful connection and experiences, this mastermind has a spot just for you.
Whether you’re an owner, manager, tech supervisor, or just a business mover-and-shaker who wants to create a fun, playful work environment that gets big breakthrough results, this training is absolutely for you!
**This is not a good fit for you if you are unable or unwilling to invest in yourself, as this is a five-figure investment**
This training is NOT for you if…
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You dislike personal development
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You don’t believe in the mind-body connection
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You think working harder and forcing results is the only solution
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You want an intellectual focus on leadership VS doing inner work
“I am less reactive and activated when having difficult conversations with my business partners, manager, and employees. As a result, I am achieving better outcomes and can have hard conversations in a more controlled, confident way!”
~Rene, President
Unlock your Full Leadership Potential
Imagine stepping into your highest potential as a leader, where your intuition, creativity, and personal strength converge to shape a future that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
In this exclusive mastermind, you'll tap into a new level of leadership that empowers you to not only drive success in your business but also live and love richly in every aspect of your life.
BIG Leadership is about being fully embodied, trusting your inner guidance, and making decisions that create transformational change. When you lead from this place, extraordinary things happen — both at work and beyond.
Ready to lead with vision, confidence, and impact?
Join us and start creating the future you've always dreamed of.
“I feel more confident, in control, and not as overwhelmed! I feel more empowered and can speak with a deeper sense of confidence that what I have to say has value. Now when I experience challenges, I have access to mind/body tools and skill sets that help me get back in sync so I can be a more effective communicator and leader, leading to better results!”
~Ginny, Manager
I don't know where you're at in your business, but if you're still reading this, it’s because you want more…more balance, more fun, and even richer experiences — at work and in life.
And I’m here to tell you that learning to listen to your mind & body to become an embodied leader who dreams BIG can be done, if only you’re willing to take the jump…
Introducing
THE BIG LEADERSHIP MASTERMIND
An intimate coaching experience to help you create a profitable business (and life) you love with a passion.
This mastermind gives you the tools to embrace the embodied leadership style to become a bolder, aligned, confident, and more playful leader.
** Only accepting 8 members**
Praise for the BIG Leadership Method
Leslie's training constructively provided strategies for channeling emotions during difficult conversations. We learned about tools to navigate conflicts with grace and diplomacy, fostering better relationships and outcomes within our team.
Adrianne
“I'm so grateful for Leslie’s approach and coaching style. She listens, takes the time to truly understand what I'm expressing and feeling and then provides mentorship. The combination of coaching + training has been so good.”
Rene
“It has made it easier to deliver hard messages, it takes some of the “head case" out of the conversation and allows for more grounding and regulating physically. Leslie is an amazing woman. She is like a ray of sunshine that comes across our screens each week!”
Tricia
If you’re accepted into the BIG Leadership Mastermind…
Here’s what it looks like:
Each BIG Leadership mastermind group is approximately 90 days to deep dive into the topics and apply them to real-life scenarios. There are a series of four mastermind modules total — you’ll attend each module in consecutive order to move on to the next as each module builds on the previous module. All sessions will be completed online in a Zoom format.
You’ll receive a welcome email with all the details to get started!
A Snapshot of Your First 3-Month Mastermind Module | Embodied Leadership
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Nervous System 101: Get a better understanding of your nervous system - Awareness is the first step to causing a communication breakthrough during conflict. Leslie dives into why your (and others') nervous systems are biologically wired to respond the way it does during conflict, and how to work with your nervous system responses instead of against them.
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Identify Your Leadership Style - Leslie dissects the common leadership personality patterns, allowing leaders to identify their leadership reaction/style and communication methods to discover how to use them more constructively. Discover the default response patterns in yourself and others and what to do when they arise.
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Connecting With Communicating - The failure or success of your hard conversations depends on how quickly you can shift from resentment and blame to your ability and willingness to see the impact of your emotional state, behaviors, and actions on others. Discover how to apply the critical principle of personal responsibility to every hard conversation you engage in.
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What it Takes to be a Great Leader - Learn how great leaders transform their limiting habitual, emotional, and reactive responses to become confident, impactful leaders. You’ll learn the framework and essential principles for effective communication to influence and impact others during difficult conversations.
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Discover Your Embodied Leadership Toolbox - Discover tools and techniques you can apply today to keep your emotions under control and become less reactive and defensive. Discover how to refrain from talking and listen — even when you really don’t want to.
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Stop People-Pleasing ASAP - Understand the underlying root causes of being a people-pleasing leader and how to communicate confidently so your thoughts, ideas, and perspectives are seen, heard, and respected.
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From Fearful to Fearless - Discover how to overcome self-defeating behaviors and communicate with increased confidence and assertiveness so that you cause new behaviors and results in the people you lead.
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Bold Boundary Setting - Learn to set effective boundaries. Discover how to state limits and clarify expectations and boundaries in a clear, calm way that is received, respected, and adhered to by others.
An Inside Look at Your Year-Long Journey
A Look Inside ⤵️
Module 1: Embodied Leadership
Discover Leslie’s #1 principle for not getting hijacked by the emotional responses in yourself and others. This principle alone will create a quantum leap in your ability to engage, confront, and cause breakthroughs in your difficult conversations.
You’ll learn:
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What is embodied leadership?
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Identify your leadership style & what works
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Ways to cultivate your emotional intelligence
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How to recognize non-verbal cues and body language
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Why embodied leadership matters in making a difference
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How to uncover ways to make impactful decisions in challenging, stressful situations
This is where you transform WHO you are as a leader.
Module 2: The Creative Leader
Discover simple ways to embrace your playful side and show you how to feel fulfilled as a leader. Transform how you lead people at work and in your sphere of influence. Become less deregulated and more in the flow.
You’ll learn to:
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Discover your leadership instincts
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Uncover how to co-create with creativity
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Develop a relationship by seeking guidance on getting more creative
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Learn how to be able to discern, know, and trust what’s right for you
This is where you transform HOW you produce results.
Module 3: Live And Love Richly® at Work
Retrain your brain and body to effortlessly create meaningful relationships at work by embracing the embodied leadership techniques.
You’ll learn to:
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Identify an area where more heartfelt connections are needed
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Create a plan that feels exciting & stretches your leadership role
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Try immersive techniques to transform your workplace into a fun, playful, inspired place
This is where you transform WHAT you do daily in the workplace.
Module 4: Live And Love Richly® at Home
Transform your family culture at home and create rich memories and meaningful connections that last a lifetime.
You’ll learn to:
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Live in the moment daily by embracing moments big and small
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Rejuvenate & engage in self-care to support your impact as a leader
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Develop ways to bring more playful moments into your day-to-day life
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Create in real-time your formula for success to embrace living and loving richly
This is where you transform WHAT you do daily in your home life.
The Group Mastermind Format
This mastermind is experiential AND interactive. The more you show up and put the time in, the more you’ll get out of it. It combines training along with experiential exercises with individual/group shares. It is not only a training series! We’ll meet 3x each month.
During each mastermind meeting, we’ll:
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Have an easy-to-digest topic training
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Share individual insights and celebrations/wins
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Learn how to apply the discussed Embodied Leadership topic
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Explore experiential exercises to tie to the topic for real-world application
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Connection post-session to engage with other leaders for 10-15 minutes
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Create an “Embodied Leadership” Game Experiment
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Discuss journal prompts in real-time and/or at solo times
Outside of the mastermind time, you’ll have access to:
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BONUS: 5 Morning Success Habits Worksheet - How you start your day matters. That’s why I’m including these powerful, actionable habits you can use to kickstart your morning with creativity and impact! (Value: $150)
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Private Peer-Led Facebook group - This is where even more connection and support goodness happens. This group is a way to ask questions, connect, and get deeper into the Live And Love Richly® mindset. (Value: $5,000)
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Journal work - Journaling is scientifically proven to help with problem-solving, mental health, and enhance self-awareness. You’ll get bigger breakthroughs when you journal between sessions and any time the desire hits to pinpoint BIG Leadership challenges and interactions. These sessions will help you identify “Was I present and embodied?” or “Where was I disembodied and reactive and less than effective?” (Value: $2,500)
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Wins|Celebrations - Celebrating your progress is key to cementing change and moving forward. We’ll connect for small wins + celebrations each day! (Value: Priceless!)
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Living & Loving Richly experiments - Take real action to become a fearless, authentic embodied leader for the day through games or projects you create at home and work. (Value: Priceless!)
Training Investment
Each BIG Leadership Mastermind module lasts three months. You must attend the first module to enter the mastermind and attend the consecutive sessions.
Payment options are as follows:
Pay in full: $3,997 (a $494 savings!)
Monthly payment plan: $1,497
If you choose a monthly payment plan, you will be charged at the beginning of the month.
Pay in full for the year for a 10% discount. To receive the discount, PLEASE email leslie@impactandprofits.com to complete the application process.
Upon enrollment, you will receive an email with instructions on how to set up your access to the mastermind.
My Coach’s Promise
You’re protected with a 100% risk-free guarantee.
Within 48 hours of our second live session, if this mastermind isn’t what you hoped it would be, please send an email (with your completed work) & we’ll refund you 100%, zero questions asked.
Now Ask Yourself: Is it Time for a Shift?
This mastermind will help you transform your leadership style, your personal growth, and your approach to life.
Somatic coaching isn’t just about managing stress or overcoming burnout—it’s about discovering a deeper level of connection with yourself, unlocking your true potential, and leading with vitality, joy, and clarity.
If you're ready to release burnout, reconnect with your creativity, and lead with a renewed sense of energy and passion, this is the mastermind for you.
Are you ready to embrace a life that feels easy, inspired, and abundant?
The BIG Leadership Mastermind is the key to unlocking your full potential as a leader and as a joyful human being.
Join today, and experience the shift from burnout to a future full of possibility.
Apply now to begin your transformation.
Lead with confidence. Live with ease. Love with freedom.
Presented by Leslie Cunningham
Leslie Cunningham is an award-winning leadership and teamwork development expert, with over 25 years of experience in executive coaching and organizational dynamics with leaders and their teams. Previously, she hosted a weekly call-in talk show titled “Extraordinary Leadership & Teamwork” and appeared live on CBS (formerly CNN) News Talk Radio to share leadership wisdom.
Leslie has had the privilege of mentoring and collaborating with Jim Bergquist, leadership and teamwork development coach for the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. Additionally, she is an internationally published author, with her work featured in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Leslie has worked with multi-million-dollar companies like Silk Balance, Patio Pleasures, Isaacs Pools & Spas, New England Spas, and Mountain Hot Tub…and she’s worked directly with hundreds of other business owners by teaching them her signature BIG Leadership method, too.
FAQs
Will this be recorded?
These mastermind sessions are live and interactive. Therefore, there won’t be any recordings for our sessions.
I'm too busy right now during the pool and spa season — maybe I should wait until things calm down?
It's common to think that you’ll have more time or energy to commit to your goals once things slow down, but it's a bit like the common belief that you'll save more money once you make more. Many people think, "I'll start saving when I have more income," only to find that when their income increases, they’re spending more instead of saving more.
The truth is, you have to build the habits of saving (and in this case, the habits of BIG leadership) now, not later.
By committing to showing up and putting in the work during this busy season, you'll be setting yourself up to have more time and creative energy in the future.
Learning and practicing these principles now will save you time, energy, and frustration down the road, because when things calm down, you'll be in a better place to make the most of your time. So, instead of waiting for the "perfect time," invest in building the right habits now and you'll be more efficient and energized, even during peak seasons.
What payment methods do you accept?
I’m not a C-suite leader, but I hope to be one day. Is this still relevant to me?
Can I just do one module?
We accept all major credit cards, including Visa, American Express, Mastercard, Diners, JCB, and Discover. We also accept Apple Pay, Venmo, and PayPal. Want to buy now, pay later? We also have options like Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay.
Yes! This is for business owners and/or business partners. It is also for any leader with an “official” leadership title or not. If you’re a people-caring leader (who struggles with self-doubt and people-pleasing), I’d love for you to join in!
The first session deep dives into Embodied Leadership and will serve as the building block for the following modules through our year-long journey together.
Similar to a college course, it’s not recommended to jump right into the middle of a semester or only attend one class and not the rest. Every module provides the step-by-step blueprint you need to achieve a fully embodied leadership style.