Your leadership blueprint.
You’re in the thick of it.
Scaling, transforming, transitioning.
I work alongside Leaders who are done compromising balance for performance, healthy relationships for higher achievements, and great culture for extraordinary results.
They want it all, and I am their catalyst to get it.
Leadership Impact
Traditional leadership frameworks are broken.
Stop plowing through.


Reinvent resilience.
Uncover fresh, common-sense thinking about leading as a human.
Unlock and master your capacity to be capable.
You don’t have to go through this alone. With a unique blend of science-backed models, expert mentoring and intuitive coaching, zscala ensures that you are equipped to tackle real life—where the challenges are complex, the stakes are high, and the human side of leadership is often overshadowed by outdated notions of emotion management.
“The more that I was pushing myself into work, the more that everything else in me as an individual, as a human, was deteriorating.”
Swakara Atwell-Bennett, CEO of BetterShared
Your Leadership Blueprint.
Connecting with your vision and purpose, defining the strategy to get there, with full capacity and empowered mindset.
It starts with self awareness
And the courage to ask yourself what’s really going on, what’s holding you back and what needs to happen – and the confidence to tackle real-life mess head-on. It’s going to be fine.
Break the taboo
How do you really feel? Low resources means low power mode. Dare to focus on you, so you can show up on all aspects of your life, perform at the top of your game, and avoid burnout. Pave the way and allow your people to do the same.
Compelling conversations
Co-founder, investors, board members, friends, family: each relationship demands a different facet of your emotional intelligence. Be agile and clear, be bold and kind, so you can maintain trust, alignment, and transparency with those who matter most in your life at this point in time.
You are the culture
It’s happening, so you’d better make it an intention, now. Let your behaviors, your beliefs and your choices create that humanized, high growth organization with solid processes and practices that everyone – people, investors, clients – will want a piece of.
Work with me.
Get in touchBest of both worlds
When Mechanical Engineering meets Leadership Development. My dual background allows me to merge analytical and emotional intelligence, to meet you where you are and push the boundaries of where you want to be.
Giants & Unicorns
From Apple and Medtronic to scale-up Reef Technology (Soft Bank Vision Fund), I have seen more than 50 shades of leadership. Let’s explore further with human common sense to build your unique blueprint as a leader.
What really matters
The prerequisites to peak performance and transformation are fully charged cognitive and biological resources. In the long run. It comes with mastering simple habits, and deep introspection. I will not let you off the hook.
Blog & News
Leadership Mental Wellness
Let boys cry
The sentiment that moods and emotions should be suppressed rather than expressed has deep roots in our corporate and entrepreneur world. Emotional displays are...
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Beyond the brick wall of burnout
zscala is one month old! Reflecting on these past weeks, Miami once again made my heart beat faster and my spirits rise higher. This...
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Lessons from Nevada Smith
When I was young, my Dad was a huge fan of western movies. I grew up with Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Burt Lancaster, Lee...
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