Your mind is your best friend. But it can also be your worst enemy.

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Your mind is constantly sabotaging your potential for both performance and happiness. All your negative emotions, including stress, are the result of self-sabotage.

Positive vs negative thoughts

Our breakthrough, research-based tools strengthen the part of your brain that serves you and quiet the part that sabotages you.  You handle life’s challenges with a more positive mindset, and less stress.

We call this mental fitness.

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Shift the Balance in Your Mind

Experience immediate and sustained improvements in both your wellbeing and performance.

  • Boost Performance

    Boost Performance
    • 90%

      Use Mental/​Emotional Energy More Effectively

    • 76%

      Improve Ability to Develop Others

    • 92%

      Better at Teamwork and Collaboration

  • Improve Wellbeing

    Improve Wellbeing
    • 85%

      Increase Happiness

    • 91%

      Manage Stress Better

    • 83%

      Improve Self-Confidence

  • Strengthen Relationships

    Strengthen Relationships
    • 82%

      Improve Relationships

    • 84%

      Better at Conflict Management

    • 97%

      Improve Empathy

As Featured In
New York Times
Fast Company
Wall Street Journal
  • 1 / 4
    Most change initiatives fizzle because of our mental saboteurs. Shirzad gives us the tools to conquer them and creative positive change that lasts.
    Dean Morton Former COO, Hewlett-Packard
  • 2 / 4
    Working with Shirzad has had a profound impact on me. The tools and techniques to raise PQ are simple, concrete and pragmatic, yet incredibly effective. They help me remain focused on what truly matters and grounded amidst the swirl of daily life.
    Jim Lanzone CEO, Yahoo, Inc.
  • 3 / 4
    This has been an extraordinary gift for my team. The concepts are phenomenal — a true revelation in the way to think and handle work and life’s challenges. Besides the lasting impact on myself, I’ve loved hearing how many people this has touched in my company.
    Jessica Herrin CEO, Stella & Dot
  • 4 / 4
    Positive Intelligence can change your life and transform your business. A real game-changer.
    James D. White Former CEO, Jamba Juice

Discover What’s Holding You Back

Saboteurs are the voices in your head that generate stress and negative emotions in the way you handle work and life’s challenges. They sabotage your potential for both happiness and performance.

Discover Your Saboteurs
The Judge

Explore the Program

Our PQ Program grows your three core mental fitness muscles within six weeks.  Breakthrough app delivers personalized daily practices that result in powerful new habits for a positive mind.

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Positive Intelligence Program

For Business

When a team focuses exclusively on performance, performance suffers due to prolonged stress, team friction, and low Emotional Intelligence (EQ).  Positive Intelligence maximizes both performance and wellbeing, while growing 17 of 18 EQ competencies.  

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For Business