


RADU MANOLESCU
K.M.Trust&Partners

UMA NAIDOO
Harvard Medical School

KEYNOTE
SRINI
SPEAKER
PILLAY
NeuroBusiness Group



As K.M.Trust & Partners' mission is to “help companies live their values while having a memorable positive impact in the lives of the people we work with” and Srini & Uma’s mission is about “improving health and longevity”, this executive development program is about creating the context and the awareness for an improved leadership and quality of life with better health and increased longevity.
Thus, the module led by Radu Manolescu is about addressing the self-judgement, self-awareness and 6 other leadership super-powers of today: Vitality, Presence, Adaptability, Flexibility, Possibility and Kindness.
The modules led by Uma Naidoo focus on:
- Understanding the impact of the Gut-Brain Connection: Why the leader’s mind is not separate from his or her body
- Overview and the science behind foods that help attention, boost energy, improve vitality and enhance longevity
The modules led by Srini Pillay are designed to:
- Understand how you can leverage your own brain and the brains of teams to enhance health, meaning and longevity
- Incorporate brain-based frameworks with everyday challenges for individuals and teams to enhance business impact
Program is designed for senior management level.

Share and clarify current personal and business challenges
Enhance understanding about:
- Share and clarify current personal and business challenges
- Share current personal and business challenges with health, meaning and longevity
- Understand multidimensional nature of vitality
- Anchor program in a brain-based definition of leadership
- Understand the cognitive problems underlying vitality and what to do about this
- Deep understanding of psychological defenses that prevent self-expression
- Understand how trauma is connected to vitality and the future of work
- Strategic application of trauma, vitality and defenses
- Understand breakout moments and what this implies
- Understand how to design leadership strategy for longevity
- Develop a committed leadership strategy for longevity

Dr. Srini Pillay is the CEO of NeuroBusiness Group, a company that specializes in developing transformational leaders, voted one of the Top 20 “movers and shakers” in leadership development in the world by Training Industry.
He is a Harvard-Trained psychiatrist, experienced brain- researcher and certified master executive coach who combines his experience in all three fields to develop custom approaches to help senior leadership teams enhance strategic speed by enhancing leader confidence and resilience, facilitating change, enhancing agility, and boosting productivity and creativity.
In addition to being on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, he has also served on the faculties for executive education at Harvard Business School, Duke CE and Mobius Executive Leadership, a current partner of Egon Zehnder. Dr. Pillay is currently a member of the by-invitation only Transformational Leadership Council (TLC) and The Future of Executive Development (FRED).

Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef and trained in Nutrition.
Her nexus of interests found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. Dr. Uma Naidoo is regarded as both a national and international pioneer in Nutritional & Lifestyle Psychiatry, and the American Psychiatric Association has asked her to author the first academic book in this area. Dr. Uma Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based clinical service in Nutritional Psychiatry in the USA. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

Radu is the Managing Partner of K.M.Trust & Partners which he co-founded in 2006 and who became, starting year two, one of the leading executive search and leadership development firms on the Romanian market. K.M.Trust’s mission is to help companies live their values.
K.M.Trust works together with leaders and organizations to increase awareness about this by helping them focus on and actually live their moral values when they hire, retain, promote and develop their people.
Radu’s personal mission is to have a fundamental & positive impact in the lives of the people he works with, in their business and in the society. While he considers profits essential for growth and development of any business, he also believe that greed destroys value and that we should all guard against falling into this trap.

- Arrival
- 18h00 - 19h00Arrival at Mikes Estate, Zabola, Covasna, Romania
- 20h
Dinner at the estate
- 21hr30
Leisure time, networking
- Radu Manolescu & Uma Naidoo – Program Day 1
- 7h00 - 7h45
Yoga and/ or Mindfulness, sports at will
Optional activities
- 08h00 - 09h00
ORGANIC Breakfast
Casual
- 09h00 - 09h15 Intro & Overview – Radu Manolescu
- 09h15 - 10h00
Recap of the key messages from Managing Anxiety & Stress in Leadership
Self-assessment on sleep, air, water, food, mental fitness, physical fitness, HIIT, etc. from both quantity and quality perspective.
Review of the leadership benchmark, the 7 superpowers of today’s leadership and the importance and impact in leadership of a balanced, health focus approach.
- 10h00 - 10h30 Q&A – Radu Manolescu
- 10h30 - 10h45 MORNING BREAK
- 10h45 – 11h00
Uma Naidoo led modules
Why the leader’s mind is not separate from his or her body
EXERCISE: MIND-BODY RFLECTION EXERCISE
Participants will understand the developmental, anatomical and physiological reasons to think of the leader’s mind and body simultaneously
- 11h00 - 11h45
The gut-brain connection
Participants will understand how their guts, brain and leadership decisions are all connected
- 11h45 - 12h15
Foods for attention
Participants will understand what foods will boost their attention and how and why this happens
- 12h15 - 12h30
EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION: EXERCISE: FOOD AND ATTENTION REFLECTION EXERCISE
Participants will commit to new changes in foods for attention
- 12h30 - 14h00 Focus, energy, longevity LUNCH
- 14h00 - 14h30
Foods for energy and vitality
Participants will understand what foods will boost their energy and vitality
- 14h30 - 15h00
EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION: EXERCISE: FOOD AND ENERGY/VITALITY
Participants will commit to new changes in foods for energy/vitality
- 15h00 - 15h15 AFTERNOON BREAK
- 15h15 - 16h15
Foods for longevity
Participants will understand what foods will boost longevity
- 16h15 - 16h45
EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION: EXERCISE: FOOD AND LONGEVITY
Participants will commit to new changes in foods for longevity
- 16h45 - 17h00
GROUP DISCUSSION: FOODS FOR ATTENTION, ENERGY AND LONGEVITY
Participants will share ideas about food changes
- 17h00 - 17h30
Group Feedback
Create a new FOOD PLAYBOOK
- 17h30+
Leisure time at choice/optional
18h30 - 19.30 Yoga/QiGong/mindfulness
Activities at the estate: horse riding, boat on the lake, walk etc
- 20h00 Dinner
- 21h30 Sufi music evening
- Program Day 2
- 7h00 - 7h45
Yoga and/ or Mindfulness, sports at will
Optional activities
- 08h00 - 09h00
ORGANIC Breakfast
Casual
- 09h00 - 09h30
What does psychology have to do with longevity?
Participants will understand the impact of mood, vitality and relationships o psychology
- 0930 - 09h45
EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION: Ground entry points for mood, vitality and relationships (use experiential exercises)
Participants will have a baseline to work from
- 09h45 - 10h00
GROUP DISCUSSION: Entry points for mood, vitality and relationships
Share group perspectives
- 10h00 - 10h30
Psychological Defenses That Obstruct Vitality
Understand defenses that block our way forward
- 10h30 - 10h45 MORNING BREAK
- 10h45 – 11h15
EXERCISE: PSYCHOLOGICAL; DEFENSES
Understand and get feedback on personal defenses
- 11h15 - 11h30
GROUP DISCUSSION: Psychological defenses
Share group perspectives
- 11h30 - 11h45
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 11h45 - 12h15
Trauma, vitality and the future of work
Understand how trauma is a 2021 priority in the workplace and how this impact vitality
- 12h15-13h15 LUNCH
- 13h15 - 14h00
EXERCISE AND DISCUSSION: Trauma, vitality, memory and longevity: Re-writing one’s autobiography
Understand and get feedback on trauma, vitality and memory
- 14h00-14h15
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 14h15 - 14h45
MUSIC EXPERIMENT IN BREAKOUT GROUPS
Look at a performance and discuss break-out attributes
- 14h45-15h00
GROUP DISCUSSION: Breakout moments
Share group perspectives
- 15h00-15h30 AFTERNOON BREAK
- 15h30 - 15h45
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 15h45 - 16h15
Operating model: How will you use the teachings of the day to operate your personal and business life differently; vitality, defenses, trauma and breakthrough moments
Strategy will be set
- 16h15 - 16h45
GROUP DISCUSSION: Operating model
Share group perspectives
- 16h45 - 17h00
Summary of day and Q&A
Synthesis
- 17h00+
Leisure time at choice/optional
18h30 - 19.30 Yoga/QiGong/mindfulness
Activities at the estate: horse riding, boat on the lake, walk etc
- 20h00 Dinner
- 21h30 Sufi music evening & Rumi poetry recitals
- Program Day 3
- 7h00 - 7h45
Yoga and/ or Mindfulness, sports at will
Optional activities
- 08h00 - 09h00
ORGANIC Breakfast
Casual
- 09h00 - 09h45
Review: Day 1 Insights, Actions, Questions
DISCUSSION: SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS FOLLOWED BY LARGE GROUP FEEDBACK
A list of updated insights, actions and questions
- 09h45 - 10h00
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 10h00 - 10h30
Designing for Dopamine (D4D): Model for Personal leadership development: Part 1: Exercises included during session
Learn insights about how dopaminergic circuits subserve paradoxical elements within ourselves that impact vitality
- 10h30-11h000 MORNING BREAK
- 11h00 - 11h30
Designing for Dopamine (D4D): Model for Personal leadership development: Part 2: Exercises included during session
Learn insights about how dopaminergic circuits subserve paradoxical elements within ourselves that impact vitality
- 11h30 - 11h45
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 11h45 - 12h00
GROUP DISCUSSION: D4D
Share group perspectives
- 12h00 - 13h00 LUNCH
- 13h00 - 14h00
Operating model: How will you use the teachings of the day to operate your personal and business life differently; vitality, defenses, trauma and breakthrough moments
Strategy will be set
- 14h00 - 14h30
Group discussion: D4D
Share group insights about D4D
- 14h30 - 15h00
Advanced psychological halloweenism: The opposites of me exercise
Groups will gather to understand and choose opposites of themselves to move themselves forward
- 15h00 - 15h30 AFTERNOON BREAK
- 15h30 - 16h00
Summary: Diet, Trauma, vitality, defenses, trauma, breakthrough moments and D4D
Synthesis
- 16h00 - 16h30
EXERCISE: Self-Diarizing the Day: Insights; Action: Questions
Self-reflection on strategy
- 16h30 - 16h45
Group discussion: D4D
Share group insights about D4D
- 16h45 - 17h00
BIG GROUP FEEDBACK
Walk though group findings
- 17h00 - 17h15
Personal reflection: Changes to baseline
Commitments to change will be spelt out
- 17h15 - 17h30
Frame after-program course
Understand what needs to be done
- 17h30+
Leisure time at choice/optional
18h30 - 19.30 Yoga/QiGong/mindfulness
Activities at the estate: horse riding, boat on the lake, walk etc
- 20h00 Dinner
- 21h30+ Music evening (local quartet or pan flute in the spirit of the program)
- Departure
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Up to 10h00Breakfast
Checkout
Follow-up after the program:
- With Radu Manolescu: A one to one discussion on structuring the continuation of the “training” and/or clarifications, support in embedding the key learnings, coaching.
- With Uma Naidoo: Webinar of 3o minutes to recap the concepts around how optimal nutrition enhances the leader’s brain health.
- With Srini Pillay: Webinar on “obstructions to change” , address needs to expand and scale the learning.

which can only be installed upon registration, will facilitate all the logistical and functional aspects of the program, but will also enable you to interact with the speakers and co-participants in real time during the event. Moreover, the app will provide a tool for connection and networking with fellow C-suite executive after the event and will also grant access to relevant materials.
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Fees
1 participant
2 participants
3 participants and more
What is included in the program fees
We will refund you in full in case our event needs to be postponed due to COVID-19 regulations.
Offer valid by June 30th for the executive who register and pay.
Our Clients benefit of a special pricing of EUR 3,400 + VAT/person irrespective of the number of people sent. In addition, there will be 2 follow up sessions with us instead of one included in the standard fee. Discount registering code will be communicated individually.
5% of the program fees will be redirected to AVE www.ave-romania.ro. AVE will be financing a pilot project to introduce “kindness and compassion training” in schools in Romania.
Sponsorships are to be discussed on a company need basis as they will be customized on the value for the company. Please send us your interest for sponsorship at execdev@kmtrust.com
*The fees are exclusive of VAT.
* or RON/USD equivalent
* accommodation is separate. For details, please contact Judit.stoica@kmtrust.com with cc to execdev@kmtrust.com
* Registration closes September 1st. After that date applicants will be put on a waiting list and will be confirmed by September 15th the participation.