International · Hybrid
International Corporations
A residential programme in Bhutan for senior leadership teams from global companies, joined to a measured programme of work at home.
Duration
7 days residential, plus 16 weeks of applied work
Location
Gelephu and Thimphu
Format
Hybrid
Next cohort
November 2026
Fee
On application
Who it is for
Executive committees and their direct reports at companies operating at global scale, where the cost of a poor decision is measured in years rather than quarters.
Teams that already invest in leadership development and can state plainly what has not worked about it.
We take one company per cohort. The team travels together, practises together, and is reviewed together.
The arc
Preparation
Four weeks before travel: baseline measurement, one interview per participant, and agreement on the two business decisions the programme will be judged against.
Days 1–2 — Settling
Arrival, altitude, silence. Attention training and the physiology of sustained load. No strategy content at all.
Days 3–5 — The work
The team's real strategic question, worked in the open, with faculty from Awaris and RIGSS in the room.
Days 6–7 — Commitment
What changes on Monday, written down, with named owners and review dates.
16 weeks after
Fortnightly coaching, one team session at week eight, and a closing review against the two decisions.
What is measured
Team decision audit
The two named decisions, reviewed at sixteen weeks against criteria the team set before travelling.
Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10)
Entry, exit and sixteen weeks.
Psychological safety (Edmondson, 7 item)
Team-level, entry and sixteen weeks.
Attention lapse rate
SART, entry and exit. Reported as a group distribution, never individually to the employer.
Film 03 — Between Breaths
Leading With Machines — As machines absorb speed and analysis, what remains human is judgement, discernment, and knowing what not to automate.
Watch the filmFaculty
Dr Chris Tamdjidi
Founding Director, Awaris
Two decades of mindfulness and resilience work with global corporations and public institutions.
Karma Tshering
Director of Programmes, BGLI
Leads the Bhutanese governance and Gross National Happiness content.
“Seven days without a screen changed how the committee argues. That is the outcome I can defend.”
Anneke de Vries — Group Chief Operating Officer, Meridian Industries
“We had done resilience training before. This is the first one with a control on it.”
Rahul Menon — Chief People Officer, Sundara Group
Dates
Questions
Do you run this outside Bhutan?
No. The environment is part of the method. The applied work afterwards happens wherever the team is.
How many people can travel?
Between eight and eighteen. Below eight the room is too thin; above eighteen the work stops being specific.
What is shared with the employer?
Group-level measurement and the decision audit. Individual data is never reported.