About Us
Meet Our Team
Sarah Derrenbacher
Founder, Head Leadership & Performance Strategist
Bruna Mayer de Souza, PhD
Director of Operations
Tonia Finke
Administrative Assistant
Courtney Cooley
Accounting Manager
The highest performance doesn’t come from a place of relentless struggle and strain.
It comes from a place of wholeness and joy.
All our lives we’ve been told that high performance comes at a cost. And we’ve been warned that the cost is high. That it is about the grind, hustle, the sacrifice; the fearless, relentless, single-minded pursuit of excellence. They said this way was the only way.
They were wrong.
The real cost of high performance is care.
Make no mistake: Winning still takes grit. Stamina. And courage. It takes a lot of courage to care enough to win.
Caring this much requires vulnerability. It requires high tolerance for risk. It requires an environment where obstacles to success are identified, addressed, and shared openly and directly and without judgement. Where we have been given the permission and opportunity to be fully ourselves. Where it is safe to be fully present. Where it is safe to really, really care.
When the conditions are right, winning isn’t something you do … it’s something you are.
The highest performance—the most incredible achievements, the realization of our fullest potential—doesn’t come from a place of relentless struggle and strain.
It comes from a place of wholeness and joy.
It comes from a place of perfect flow, where we are totally present and exquisitely aware. It arrives in the moment where the edge of our skill meets the threshold of challenge and our talent in fully actualized.
It’s not magic.
It’s proven. It’s a repeatable, reliable process. And it’s something we do again and again for coaches, executives, and teams who are ready to win.
