Leadership academy

Leadership Learning Journeys (LLJ) – self-paced transformative experience

Choose your own Leadership Learning Journey:

Focused on expanding your leadership potential
Choose your own journey
Map your leadership journey out and select the leadership path you need the most in the moment
Tuition fee per course: 2470 BGN / 1262.89 EUR
Discount for groups of 5 leaders from the same organisation

What?

5 consecutive weeks / 4-6 hours a week – self-paced learning
Community of peer learners
Leadership coach guiding you throughout your LLJ
Case studies, tools, skills, peers dialogue
2 weeks CORE Leadership Project work (post the 5 weeks)
Online
5 one-on-one meetings with your Leadership Coach one hour each
Self-paced work (case studies, learning and implementing skills, tools)
Materials: Learning Journal / Case Studies / Self-Assessments / Articles
Hours: 1 h one-on-one + 3 hours minimum self-paced work each week = 4 x 5 weeks = 20 hours of intensive study for the whole Leadership Path + 7 – 10 hours work on CORE Leadership Project

For additional information and registration:

School of professional and continuing education

Sofia, NBU, Str. Montevideo, 21, building 2, office 108

Tel.: 02/ 8110 110 (option 6), 02/ 8110 108

E-mail: uppo@nbu.bg

Leadership Learning Journey: “Thriving Leaders in a VUCAD (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous and Disruptive) world”

Bespoke Self-Paced Programme for Leadership Transformation

This five-week programme addresses leadership challenges—from balancing well-being and navigating cultural clashes to achieving mastery in personal and professional growth. It also fosters emotional resilience, empowering you to become a confident cultural architect within your organisation.

PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS

Chemistry session with the Tutor.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

CORE Deliverables:

1) THOROUGH DIAGNOSTICS Understand your Thriving Leadership Coefficient and what stops you from thriving (Thrive Matrix©).

2) MINDSET, SKILLS & TOOLS To masterfully manage your stress response and become emotionally resilient, it's important to have tools that holistically build and sustain your well-being.

3) ALIGNED CULTURE Develop the capacity to curate a space for fine-tuning and aligning your organisational culture using the CORE Model©.

Students who complete this course will:

Know:

Their Thriving Leadership Coefficient and what hinders their ability to thrive (Thrive Matrix©)
The neurobiology of stress reactions, strategies to manage stress, CORE influencers of their energy, and the four energy blocks that impede sustainable thriving
Emotions and emotional resilience from a neurobiological perspective, psychological flexibility, and a variety of techniques to manage emotions
The concept of Thriving Leadership and its CORE principles
The foundational pillars of regenerative leading
The dynamics of becoming a Leader of Tomorrow and the virtues associated with leaders of the tomorrow.

Will be able to:

Manage their stress response and develop emotional resilience by using tools that holistically support the building and sustaining of their well-being.
Begin developing the capacity to curate a space for fine-tuning and aligning their organisational culture using the CORE Model©.
Create an action plan for their sustainable thriving.

COURSE CONTENT
	Topic	Mode of Tuition	Number of contact hours	Independent study hours
1	Awareness Unlocked Tool: Thrive Matrix©, ELI Assessment, Brain-Dominance Self-Assessment Focus: Understand your Thrive Coefficient and how far you are from your Thrive Space.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	2 (120 min)	3-5 hours
2	Design Your Path: Managing Stress Tool: SCOPE Assessment Materials: Handouts and self-study materials Focus: Understanding the neurobiology of stress reaction and strategies to manage it, CORE influencers of your energy, and the four energy blocks that impede sustainable thriving.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3-5 hours
3	Design Your Path: Developing Emotional Resilience Tool: SCOPE Assessment Materials: Handouts and self-study materials Focus: Understanding emotions and emotional resilience from a neurobiological perspective, psychological flexibility, and a variety of techniques to manage emotions	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3-5 hours
4	Design Your Path: Cultural Architecture – Inside-Out Approach Content: The concept of Thriving Leadership—CORE principles, the 4D Foundational Pillars for Regenerative Leading, the 5E Dynamics of the Process of Becoming, and the 4 Soul Virtues of the Leaders of Tomorrow. Framework and Materials: CORE Model©, Case Studies	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3-5 hours
5	Thrive Focus: Develop action plan for sustainable thriving, accountability, and preparation for your CORE project.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3-5 hours
6	Final Project/Assignment CORE work submission: Reflective piece your Learning Journey to Sustainable Thriving as a Leader	Self-paced work		5 -10 hours
	Total number of hours:		6 hours (360 min)	Min 20 hours depending on the participant’s pace of work

Course Material: Thrive Journal

ASSESSMENT

CORE project: A deep reflective essay titled “Your Leadership Learning Journey to Sustainable Thriving,” including an action plan with embedded accountability.

RECOMMENDED READING

Bruce D Schneider, Energy Leadership: The 7 Level Framework for Mastery in Life and Business 2nd Edition
Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter, Hay House Inc.
Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief, Hay House Inc.
Joe Dispenza “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself”
Daniel J. Siegel, 2009; Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz, The Power of Full Engagement
Brené Brown, Dare to Lead, ©2018 Brené Brown (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks
Ryan Honeyman, Tiffany Jana, The B Corp Handbook, Second Edition: How You Can Use Business as a Force for Good, 2019
Christopher Marquis, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism, 2020
Hutchins Giles, Nature Works: Activating Regenerative Leadership Consciousness ,Wordzworth Publishing, 2024

Elena Hinova-McNamee’s scientific articles and publications:

https://thrivingleadership.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/abstract-thriving-leadership-elena-hinova.pdf
https://thrivingleadership.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sociokulturnite-kodove-Publication-EHM-Thriving-Leadership.pdf
https://thrivingleadership.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/THRIVING-LEADERSHIP-REALITY-OR-UTOPIA.pdf

TUTOR: DR ELENA HINOVA-MCNAMEE

In the last eleven years Elena has been coaching executive leaders, helping them expand their level of consciousness through paradigm shifts. This enables them to reconnect with their core selves, discover their purpose & vision, and achieve sustainable success personally and professionally. She has coached extensively in Europe, UK, USA, Canada and Australia. In the last five years her focus has been on team coaching to enable sustainable organisational transformation.

Previously, Elena spent fifteen years in leadership roles in the corporate world - Human Resources Director and as CEO in one of the most human sensitive industries - Health Care and Pharmaceuticals.

Her mission is to enable, through executive leadership and team coaching, the transformation of leaders and teams to thrive on purpose and inspire them to use their businesses as a force for good.

Elena's company, Thriving Leadership™, is a Certified B Corporation, placing it among 10,000 businesses worldwide that meet high standards for social and environmental impact.

Elena has a PhD in Organisational Leadership and Coaching at New Bulgarian University (NBU).

Coaching Skills & Abilities:

Proven ability to challenge executives and teams to rethink the status quo and make breakthroughs and paradigm shifts.
Engaging, energetic, empathetic and open style of coaching.
Strong intuitive listening abilities.
Inspires sustainable action and keeping executives and leadership teams accountable.
Ability to create a safe environment for dialogue
Use of neuroscience to explain concepts, create clarity and impact thinking.

Previously, Elena spent fifteen years in leadership roles in the corporate world - Human Resources Director and as CEO in one of the most human sensitive industries - Health Care and Pharmaceuticals.

Her mission is to enable, through executive leadership and team coaching, the transformation of leaders and teams to thrive on purpose and inspire them to use their businesses as a force for good.

Elena's company, Thriving Leadership™, is a Certified B Corporation, placing it among 10,000 businesses worldwide that meet high standards for social and environmental impact.

Elena has a PhD in Organisational Leadership and Coaching at New Bulgarian University (NBU).

Coaching Skills & Abilities:

Proven ability to challenge executives and teams to rethink the status quo and make breakthroughs and paradigm shifts.
Engaging, energetic, empathetic and open style of coaching.
Strong intuitive listening abilities.
Inspires sustainable action and keeping executives and leadership teams accountable.
Ability to create a safe environment for dialogue
Use of neuroscience to explain concepts, create clarity and impact thinking.

Leadership Learning Journey: “Thriving Teams – Curating Spaces for Sustainable Teams Thriving”

Bespoke Program for Leadership and Team Transformation

Who is this Leadership Learning Journey for? Founders, CEOs, and General Managers who are committed to building impactful and seamlessly functioning teams.

What are these leaders’ top three challenges?

Aligning their teams
Breaking down internal barriers to foster collaboration
Engaging their entire organisation during periods of growth or market pressure

This five-week, self-paced transformative learning programme equips leaders to begin transforming their teams from silos and internal competition to cohesive unity, with clear communication and enhanced collaboration.

PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS

Chemistry session with the Tutor.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Core Deliverables:

Thorough Diagnostics: Assessment of your team's state at the start of our journey.
Mindset and Skills: Leading your team to thrive.
Road Map: Navigating your team through growth and market pressures.

Students who complete this course:

Will know:

Their leading Team Roles, as measured by the well-researched self-assessment Belbin Team Roles.
Their Leadership Potential, assessed through the well-researched self-assessment Energy Leadership Index Assessment (ELI).
About different tools and frameworks for team diagnostics.
CORE skills and approaches to coaching their team.
The differences between dialogue, conversation, and debate.
The core competencies for Team Coaching as outlined by the Association for Coaching.
The 10 Debates around Team Coaching.
The Inner Development Goals Framework and how to apply it when coaching their teams.

Will be able to:
- Embed a mindset and skills to lead their team towards sustainable thriving.
- Practice CORE skills and approaches to coaching their team.
- Build a road map to guide their team through growth and market pressures.
- Design a customised Team Diagnostics based on their challenges, supported by their Leadership Team Coach (Tutor), and implement it.
- Clarify their own 4Ps (Purpose, Philosophy, Presence, Practice) as a Leader Team Coach to navigate complex team challenges with calm, confidence, and resilience.
- Practice dialogue sessions with their team and reflect on these both individually and with their Leadership Team Coach (Tutor).
- Coach their team towards sustainable transformation.

COURSE CONTENT
№	Topic	Mode of Tuition	Number of contact hours	Independent study hours
1	Awareness Unlocked Understanding your Leadership Potential and Belbin Team Roles. Tools: Belbin Team Roles Assessment, ELI Assessment. Materials: Individual Leadership Potential Report, Individual Teams Report.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	2 (120 min)	3 – 5 hours
2	Design a Path to Your Team Transformation / Core Team Diagnostics Focus: Designing your unique Team Diagnostics based on the challenges you face, supported by your Leadership Team Coach, and Implementation. Skills Developed: Critical Thinking, Intuition, Discernment, Decision Making, Empowering Questions, and Holistic Listening. Materials/Frameworks: Team Selfie, Team Roles Dialogue, Team Thrive Matrix©	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3 – 5 hours
3	Shape Your Own Practice as a Leader Team Coach - Core Work (The 4Ps – Purpose, Philosophy, Presence, Practice) Focus: Clarifying your own 4Ps as a Leader Team Coach to navigate complex team challenges with calm, confidence and resilience. Materials: Reflective Journal, Handouts, Leader Team Coach’s CORE.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3 – 5 hours
4	Team Coaching Skills and the Essence of Real Dialogue Focus: CORE skills and approaches to coaching your team. Differences between dialogue, conversation, and debate. Materials: Thriving Teams podcast (a dialogue between Dr. Elena Hinova-McNamee and Jane Porter, Master Team Coach and PhD candidate (6 episodes x 15’ each); Teams Theory; The Ten Debates around Team Coaching.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3 – 5 hours
5	Inspire and Implement / Team Coaching Supervision Focus: Creating a roadmap to inspire your team and help it navigate complexity in a disruptive and chaotic environment. Curate your own practice as a Leader Team Coach – Summary and Team Coaching Supervision. Materials: CORE Model© for Interpersonal Transformation, Case Studies, Inner Development Goals Framework – A Team Dialogue Opener.	One-on-one online session with the Tutor and self-paced work	1 (60 min)	3 – 5 hours
6	Final Work for Graduation: Coaching your team and building a success story. Includes Reflective Journaling, Team Feedback, and Team Coaching Supervision.			6 – 10 hours (two sessions of 6 hours or three sessions of 2 hours)
Total number of hours:			6 (360 min)	Min 21 hours depending on the participant’s pace of work

Course Material: Leader as a Team Coach Pathway – Reflective Journal with Practical Tips.

ASSESSMENT

Final work for successful programme completion: Leaders will coach their team between 6 – 10 hours.

Their submission will include:

Reflective Journaling (self-work)
Team Feedback (from the Team being coached from them), and
Team Coaching Supervision (from their Tutor)

RECOMMENDED READING

Leadership Team Coaching (4th Edition) – Peter Hawkins
Coaching the Team at Work (2nd Edition) – David Clutterbuck
Mastering the Art of Team Coaching – Georgiana Woudstra
Dialogue – The Art of Thinking Together – William Isaacs
On Dialogue – David Bohm
The Wisdom of Strategic Learning – Ian Cunningham
Reading the Room – David Kantor
Beyond the Team – Meredith Belbin
The Wisdom of Teams – Katzenbach and Smith
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
Teaming – Amy Edmondson
The Fifth Discipline – Peter Senge
Reinventing Organisations – Frederick Laloux
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
The Wise Team Coach Crafting A Personal Approach To Team Coaching – Paul Lawrence

Elena Hinova-McNamee Publications:

A TEAM COACH’S WAY OF BEING, Coaching Perspectives Magazine, issue 44, January 2025, Association for Coaching
Hinova-McNamee, E. (2023). Why Real Team Coaching Can Positively Impact Business Results Using the Power of Collaboration. Economic Thought Journal, 68(5), 521-553. https://doi.org/10.56497/etj2368504

TUTOR: DR ELENA HINOVA-MCNAMEE

Previously, Elena spent fifteen years in leadership roles in the corporate world - Human Resources Director and as CEO in one of the most human sensitive industries - Health Care and Pharmaceuticals.

Her mission is to enable, through executive leadership and team coaching, the transformation of leaders and teams to thrive on purpose and inspire them to use their businesses as a force for good.

Elena's company, Thriving Leadership™, is a Certified B Corporation, placing it among 10,000 businesses worldwide that meet high standards for social and environmental impact.

Elena has a PhD in Organisational Leadership and Coaching at New Bulgarian University (NBU).

Coaching Skills & Abilities:

Proven ability to challenge executives and teams to rethink the status quo and make breakthroughs and paradigm shifts.
Engaging, energetic, empathetic and open style of coaching.
Strong intuitive listening abilities.
Inspires sustainable action and keeping executives and leadership teams accountable.
Ability to create a safe environment for dialogue
Use of neuroscience to explain concepts, create clarity and impact thinking.