Aligning the fields within us to
transform the work around us
THE FIFTH FIELD LEADERSHIP LAB
A human sustainability container for leaders who carry real responsibility—and want to increase their impact without paying for it with their health, clarity, or relationships.
There’s a moment in leadership when you realize how much you’re holding—and how little space there is to set it down.
Not because things are broken. Because the pressure no longer has anywhere to go once it reaches you.
You’re holding results, people, risk, momentum, and long-range responsibility at the same time. You’re tracking what needs to happen now, what can’t fail, what can’t wait, and what no one else is fully positioned to hold yet. The work keeps moving, but the pressure stays with you. It follows you into meetings, conversations, decisions, and the quiet moments where you’re carrying more than you name.
This isn’t about doing everything alone. It’s about being the point where everything converges.
Most leadership work doesn’t name this moment.
The Fifth Field Leadership Lab exists
specifically for it.
OUR STARTING POINT
People should be better off because of their work—not steadily depleted by it. That includes the people you lead. And it includes you.
Human sustainability isn’t a cultural initiative or a wellness add-on. It’s a capacity issue. When pressure exceeds a leader’s ability to work with it, it doesn’t disappear. It shows up as slower decisions, narrower conversations, unresolved tension, and teams quietly compensating.
This isn’t rare. Gallup reports that only about 21% of people feel engaged at work globally. Not because leaders don’t care, but because the way pressure is held inside organizations has outpaced what people and teams can realistically sustain.
The Fifth Field Leadership Lab exists to change how that pressure is held, starting with the person it most often collects in.
THIS IS A LEADERSHIP LAB
This work is built for the reality you’re operating in, where pressure is ongoing and insight, strategy, experience, and good intentions aren’t enough on their own.
You’ll work with practical frameworks and shared language you can use immediately. Self-awareness and confidence will deepen as a result, but they are not the point of the work.
What makes this a Lab, rather than traditional leadership development, is the focus on building your capacity under pressure. We work directly with how pressure moves through your mental, emotional, physical, and relational fields, so you can stay clear and steady when conditions are complex, uncertain, or demanding.
Because under real stress, you don’t rise to your best intentions.
You default to what your body, habits, and nervous system can actually hold.
WHAT CHANGES WHEN CAPACITY STABILIZES AND BUILDS
Over the course of this Leadership Lab, you won’t adopt a new style or persona. You will regain range.
Practically, that means you will notice strain earlier and name it before it hardens. Decisions will get made and supported instead of quietly revisited. Hard conversations will happen sooner and with less fallout. Conflict will move toward resolution instead of lingering in the background. Your teams will do less compensating for what isn’t being held upstream. Execution will improve because energy is no longer leaking sideways.
This is human sustainability in practice—pressure moving through instead of settling into you and the people around you.
HOW THE LAB WORKS
The Lab runs for six months, March - August 2026, with a fixed monthly cadence designed to integrate into real leadership, not compete with it.
Each month includes a 90-minute live Lab focused on the four human fields that determine how pressure is handled:
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the mental field (decision clarity, prioritization, follow-through)
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the emotional field (truth-telling, regulation, responsibility, repair)
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the physical field (pace, nervous system load, recovery capacity)
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the relational field (boundaries, trust, feedback, accountability)
When these four fields come into alignment, a fifth field emerges—one teams don’t just feel but operate differently inside. Decisions land. Conversations clear faster. Work moves without constant friction.
Participants also receive:
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1 x 60-minute Looking Glass Session (Socratic coaching) with Carlotta + Kate (session held April - July)
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August in-person immersion (one-day in Denver), rooted in nature for integration + practice
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Integration is essential, location is optional. For those who can’t join us in Denver, you’ll be given The Fifth Field Integration Guide for you to use on your own
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Optional Learning Triads (peer groups meeting between sessions)
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Optional Book Club (light structure, curated reading)
There is no Slack. No ongoing calls. No extra systems to maintain. This container is intentionally bounded so the work strengthens judgment, clarity, and self-trust rather than adding another place to perform or keep up.
WHO THIS LAB IS FOR
This Lab is for leaders who hold responsibility for people, outcomes, and direction; who operate with authority and consequence; who can feel pressure shaping decisions and behavior; who care about results and the human cost of achieving them; and who want leadership to cost less without lowering standards or impact.
If you’re early in your leadership path, working solo, or seeking motivation or ongoing support, this is not the right container.
If you’re already carrying weight and want to change how pressure moves through you and the people you lead, this work will feel immediately relevant.
WHY THIS WORK, NOW
You already know how to lead under pressure. You’ve been doing it for years.
What’s becoming clear is that the way pressure has been handled—absorbed, and normalized—is no longer neutral. It’s shaping how you decide, how you relate, how you pace yourself, and how your organization learns what is acceptable to carry.
Nothing is “wrong.”
But something is asking to change.
This moment isn’t about pushing harder, scaling faster, or becoming more resilient. It’s about recognizing that leadership doesn’t have to cost this much—internally or relationally—to be effective.
You don’t need another system.
You don’t need more insight.
You don’t need to be fixed or optimized.
What you need is a different relationship to pressure—one where it can move, resolve, and redistribute instead of settling into you and the people around you.
The Fifth Field Leadership Lab exists for leaders who can feel that truth and are ready to work with it directly.
If you’re ready to stop being the place pressure collects and start building the capacity to hold it sustainably, this is where that work begins.