OUR TRAININGS
Train With Steven Kotler and the Flow Research Collective
The teams that will dominate the next decade aren't working harder. They're running on different neurochemistry.
The gap between where you are and where you need to be won't close by working harder. It closes when you understand the neuroscience of peak performance. The same science used by elite athletes, special operators, and the world's most innovative organizations.
Steven Kotler has spent three decades studying what separates sustained high performers from everyone else. He's a 14-time bestselling author, founder of the Flow Research Collective, and has advised organizations including Google, Deloitte, Audi, and Bain Capital. His fieldwork spans 156 countries and 28 industries, from Fortune 100 companies to military special forces. That research now lives in a set of tools your organization can use.
Three ways to bring this work to your team:
Keynotes
Best for: Annual conferences, leadership summits, all-hands meetings, and high-stakes events where you need to deliver real value to a large audience.
Steven has shared stages with some of the best speakers in the world. What sets him apart is that he doesn't motivate through hype. He teaches. Every talk is built on three decades of research into the neuroscience of flow, translated into language anyone can understand and tools anyone can apply.
Keynote topics include:
The Art of Impossible — The neurobiology of peak performance. How to access flow on demand, train motivation and focus into your day, and sustain excellence without burning out.
Dancing with Robots — AI isn't coming for your job. It's coming for your cognition. This talk reveals how to partner with AI to unlock creative advantage and future-proof your talent.
Flow OS — A blueprint for building teams that are resilient at speed. How to deploy flow triggers, manage bandwidth like capital, and engineer psychological safety alongside velocity.
What your audience walks away with:
- How to access peak states through the three most reliable flow triggers
- Why motivation, focus, and grit are trainable skills, not fixed traits
- A burnout-proof protocol for sustainable high performance
- A new understanding of what's actually possible for themselves and their teams
The result: Your event delivers lasting value. Attendees talk about it for months. And they remember who brought Steven to the stage.
Workshops
Best for: Executive teams, CEO peer groups, and leadership cohorts ready to spend one to two days building systems they can take back to their organizations.
A workshop creates space to go deeper. To move from understanding the science to practicing it. To build frameworks specific to your team, your challenges, your goals.
Led by Steven Kotler and Dr. Sarah Sarkis, these sessions combine research, hands-on exercises, and real-time coaching. The Flow Institute's CEO Weekend and in-organization workshops are designed for leaders who want to walk away with more than ideas. They want skills. Systems. A playbook they can run.
What you and your team will walk away with:
- A performance culture framework that sustains speed without burning people out
- A leadership operating system for navigating complexity, AI, and rapid change
- Neuroscience-backed rituals for focus, decision-making, and creative problem-solving
- Personal and team recovery protocols modeled on Olympic and special operations training
- A scalable approach you can install across your organization
The result: You and your team walk away with a clear, science-backed, and battle-tested framework to lead more effectively and operate a team with more ease, efficiency and speed.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
The Alliance is an immersive led by Steven Kotler for entrepreneurial visionaries and creative leaders who want to master performance and leadership in an exponential age. Across eight six-week cycles and three live gatherings, you’ll train the full spectrum of human potential—from individual flow to collective intelligence, from mindset mastery to legacy design.
Built on the framework of We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, the Alliance blends neuroscience, psychology, and systems thinking into an applied curriculum for modern leadership. You’ll learn to think faster, adapt to change, and lead with clarity in a world defined by speed, complexity, and opportunity.
You’ll experience:
- Three immersive retreats in Tahoe, Park City, and Death Valley with Steven Kotler, Members, Advisors and the Flow Institute faculty.
- Eight structured training cycles covering flow, creativity, resilience, and leadership at scale.Direct mentorship and coaching from Kotler and the Flow Institute team.
- Live digital sessions with leading scientists, creative visionaries, and innovators.
- A proven system to rewire your biology and mindset for peak performance in the exponential era.
Advisory board:
The Alliance is guided by a world-class advisory board including Peter Diamandis (CEO of XPRIZE), Ivy Ross (Chief Design Officer at Google), Salim Ismail (former President of Singularity University), Jody Levy (CEO of Summit), Dr. Sarah Sarkis (performance psychologist), Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman (creativity researcher and bestselling author), Michael Mannino (neuroscientist and Chief Science Officer at the Flow Research Collective), and Jason Silva (Emmy-nominated storyteller and futurist).
The result: A transformational year that upgrades how you think, create, and lead—equipping you to perform, innovate, and thrive at the speed of the modern world.
Not Sure Which Fits Your Situation?
A keynote works well when:
- You're hosting an event and want to deliver memorable, high-value content to a large group
- You want to introduce the science of peak performance to your organization
- You need a speaker who can command a room and leave a lasting impression
A workshop works well when:
- Your leadership team is ready to dedicate focused time to building new systems
- You want hands-on practice, not just exposure to ideas
- You're looking for something your team can implement immediately and scale over time
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