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About Neil
Neil Bierbaum is a leadership coach, award-winning writer, and thought leader who guides leaders to link humanity with performance through individual depth work and team dialogue . His approach is platformed on ontological coaching and integrates leadership best practice, neuroscience, mindfulness and psychology, and insights forged in the uniquely complex environment of South Africa. With a background as an award-winning writer, editor, early Internet pioneer, startup founder, meditation practitioner, and academic achiever, he brings a rare combination of real-world pressure experience and deep inner-work discipline. Neil’s unique quality as an educator lies in his broad academic range combined with an ability to deliver deep transformational insights, honed through five years as a trainer for one of the world’s most rigorous personal development programs, plus a lifetime of testing everything he has learned—often at great cost to himself (his life story is unusual and compelling).
Expertise Neil designs and delivers transformative personal mastery programs for individuals and teams. His work is platformed on linguistic ontology and neuroscience-based mindfulness. Neil’s learning path distinctively involved deep, specialized apprentice-style learning within a narrow range of fields combined with an adventurous life journey, extensive reading and a late-life academic Master’s degree. This translates to an unmatched ability to contextualise scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom for application across a broad range of modern life and business scenarios.
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About Neil
Neil Bierbaum is a leadership coach, award-winning writer, and thought leader who guides leaders to link humanity with performance through individual depth work and team dialogue . His approach is platformed on ontological coaching and integrates leadership best practice, neuroscience, mindfulness and psychology, and insights forged in the uniquely complex environment of South Africa. With a background as an award-winning writer, editor, early Internet pioneer, startup founder, meditation practitioner, and academic achiever, he brings a rare combination of real-world pressure experience and deep inner-work discipline. Neil’s unique quality as an educator lies in his broad academic range combined with an ability to deliver deep transformational insights, honed through five years as a trainer for one of the world’s most rigorous personal development programs, plus a lifetime of testing everything he has learned—often at great cost to himself (his life story is unusual and compelling).
Expertise Neil designs and delivers transformative personal mastery programs for individuals and teams. His work is platformed on linguistic ontology and neuroscience-based mindfulness. Neil’s learning path distinctively involved deep, specialized apprentice-style learning within a narrow range of fields combined with an adventurous life journey, extensive reading and a late-life academic Master’s degree. This translates to an unmatched ability to contextualise scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom for application across a broad range of modern life and business scenarios.
find out more
About Neil
Neil Bierbaum is a leadership coach, award-winning writer, and thought leader who guides leaders to link humanity with performance through individual depth work and team dialogue . His approach is platformed on ontological coaching and integrates leadership best practice, neuroscience, mindfulness and psychology, and insights forged in the uniquely complex environment of South Africa. With a background as an award-winning writer, editor, early Internet pioneer, startup founder, meditation practitioner, and academic achiever, he brings a rare combination of real-world pressure experience and deep inner-work discipline. Neil’s unique quality as an educator lies in his broad academic range combined with an ability to deliver deep transformational insights, honed through five years as a trainer for one of the world’s most rigorous personal development programs, plus a lifetime of testing everything he has learned—often at great cost to himself (his life story is unusual and compelling).
Expertise Neil designs and delivers transformative personal mastery programs for individuals and teams. His work is platformed on linguistic ontology and neuroscience-based mindfulness. Neil’s learning path distinctively involved deep, specialized apprentice-style learning within a narrow range of fields combined with an adventurous life journey, extensive reading and a late-life academic Master’s degree. This translates to an unmatched ability to contextualise scientific knowledge and ancient wisdom for application across a broad range of modern life and business scenarios.
“My core approach is a practical one. I’ve spent 20+ years on a personal development journey, including the practice of various forms of meditation, while operating in a business context. I also spent five years (2,500+ hours) training coaches in the methodology of Consciousness Coaching. As a result I specialise in coaching clients towards the practical application of mindfulness for optimal performance, a result which I call Personal Effectiveness.
“People high in personal effectiveness experience being authentic, peaceful, powerful, confident, caring, conscious, and successful.
“Since all human endeavour is achieved through one’s efforts in relation to other people, my sessions are always targeted at improved performance through a greater awareness of self in relationship with others.
“Converting insights into actions, and measuring those actions, is key. Developing practices to support the process embeds the new insights and actions as productive behaviour patterns.
“I have worked in corporate and entrepreneurial environments, in the areas of sales and operations. I have managed teams in high stakes, high performance environments. I have tested everything I teach and I know what works to create real results!”
“My core approach is a practical one. I’ve spent 20+ years on a personal development journey, including the practice of various forms of meditation, while operating in a business context. I also spent five years (2,500+ hours) training coaches in the methodology of Consciousness Coaching. As a result I specialise in coaching clients towards the practical application of mindfulness for optimal performance, a result which I call Personal Effectiveness.
“People high in personal effectiveness experience being authentic, peaceful, powerful, confident, caring, conscious, and successful.
“Since all human endeavour is achieved through one’s efforts in relation to other people, my sessions are always targeted at improved performance through a greater awareness of self in relationship with others.
“Converting insights into actions, and measuring those actions, is key. Developing practices to support the process embeds the new insights and actions as productive behaviour patterns.
“I have worked in corporate and entrepreneurial environments, in the areas of sales and operations. I have managed teams in high stakes, high performance environments. I have tested everything I teach and I know what works to create real results!”
“My core approach is a practical one. I’ve spent 20+ years on a personal development journey, including the practice of various forms of meditation, while operating in a business context. I also spent five years (2,500+ hours) training coaches in the methodology of Consciousness Coaching. As a result I specialise in coaching clients towards the practical application of mindfulness for optimal performance, a result which I call Personal Effectiveness.
“People high in personal effectiveness experience being authentic, peaceful, powerful, confident, caring, conscious, and successful.
“Since all human endeavour is achieved through one’s efforts in relation to other people, my sessions are always targeted at improved performance through a greater awareness of self in relationship with others.
“Converting insights into actions, and measuring those actions, is key. Developing practices to support the process embeds the new insights and actions as productive behaviour patterns.
“I have worked in corporate and entrepreneurial environments, in the areas of sales and operations. I have managed teams in high stakes, high performance environments. I have tested everything I teach and I know what works to create real results!”
