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Welcome to Positive Intelligence

Positive Intelligence (PQ) empowers you to build mental fitness, giving you the tools to conquer self-sabotage and unlock your true potential.

This program is for anyone who is ready to shift from mental stress to lasting resilience and purpose-driven success. By strengthening your mind’s positive responses, you’ll gain clarity, elevate performance, and experience deeper fulfillment across every aspect of your life.

Experience immediate and sustained improvements in your well-being, relationships, and performance.

Positive Intelligence (PQ) is a six-week training using a simple, highly validated method for achieving breakthrough results:

Convert negative self-talk into something useful

Dramatically improve mental and emotional well-being

Unilaterally transform your relationships

Enhanced performance without stress and anxiety

This typically leads to better productivity, engagement, well-being, and peace of mind—including a remarkable reduction in self-limiting and self-sabotaging thoughts, feelings and behaviors. PQ is a godsend for executives and managers, parents, spouses, anyone who sometimes struggles to remain focused and productive without stress, reactivity, depression or unhappiness.

The PQ App

The PQ practice is self-directed and asynchronous using the PQ app.

The app is based on best educational and motivational practices.

Participants continue to have access to the PQ app after the program. Check out this brief video overview of the tool and the practice!

How It Works

Practice makes progress, and this program is designed for both—regardless of how busy life may be. The training breaks down into three simple parts:

ONE

15-min of daily practice broken into three separate segments each weekday

TWO

Listen to a one-hour video over the weekend that cues up the following week’s focus

THREE

Participate in a one-hour weekly online small group pod

There are also a rich variety of self-directed practices on the app (called PQ reps), in addition to those included in the training. These are great for walks, for getting centered and focused before important conversations or events, or for serving a natural impulse for accelerated development. The essential practice is bringing focused attention to one sense at a time.

What clients have to say about their PQ experience.

PERFORMANCE

RELATIONSHIPS

WELLNESS

PQ drives better behaviors and better outputs. The team culture built on trust and mutual accountability is really important—it means we can be braver. We know our colleagues have our backs so ultimately that means we can achieve more. We’re able to take calculated risks.

I am discovering a level of mental mastery that I didn’t even know existed. I have been amazed to realize how much of my mental energy is spent wasting time worrying about problems and challenges in an unproductive way—which typically leads to procrastination and self-judgment. It is such a relief to be able to catch these thoughts and redirect them. I not only get more done but actually enjoy doing things that would have bummed me out before.

What I discovered helped me manage an unexpected business crisis. In the past I would have isolated myself, not shared my feelings, and tried to solve it myself. PQ allowed me to let my guard down, and the team was able to do the same. As a result, we have really leaned in together to face the hardship. This is completely new and has worked astoundingly well. In the end, we turned adversity into a gift. PQ really changed my perspective.

For me, PQ has been a lot like working out, just committing to regular simple practices. One of the main differences I notice is how much more consistently pleasant my wife seems. I also observe that my creative problem-solving skills are dramatically improved.

My husband and I have been able to disagree without falling into bad feelings using some of the simple communication techniques. This has been a real game-changer for us. PQ is the best daily practice I have found. This feels more organic, a doable operating system for mental and emotional health.

PQ has allowed me to keep my cool better while parenting a couple of rambunctious boys. This has been good for everyone’s self-esteem. I am starting to introduce some of the key concepts to them with good effects.

I've seen a tremendous improvement in my relationships with my husband and my mom. I feel so proud and good about myself because of the changes I’ve made and incorporated into my daily life. My husband has commented several times about changes in my communication style and approach. What is even better is that my work has excited him to be the best man and husband he can be. I loved everything about the program.

My wife has noted that I am not escalating conflicts anymore. What she doesn’t know is all the times that I am able to catch myself before I even react. Also, my work has dramatically increased recently and I am able to reset myself when I feel overwhelmed and avoid wasting time by freaking out. In the end, I am able to accomplish more, with less stress.

My mind has been blown with how these simple techniques can make such a difference.

Starting a daily PQ practice has helped me recognize when I’m under the influence of negative thoughts. I am now more able to take the time to listen carefully and respond more appropriately, without causing myself undue stress and anxiety. I’m able to stay more centered and be resilient when facing negativity.

I’ve been a regular meditator, so I assumed this is just another approach to mindfulness. But it goes way beyond that... The ability to label destructive voices makes it easier to weaken them and know you’re not stuck with them and don’t have to follow their bad advice… Life-changing with impact that continues to build.

PQ has supported me in loving life and being kind and not worrying about things too much. I am a lot calmer and more confident now.

THE SCIENCE BEHIND PQ

Data driven, scientifically validated.

The basic practice—PQ reps—involves bringing acute attention to one sense at a time. It is a mindfulness practice, however, rather than being a technique for clearing the mind, PQ reps are intended to focus the mind and leave it more open to useful inputs, innovative ideas and workable solutions.

Remarkable third-party research powerfully validates these techniques. For a compelling example, listen to this Hidden Brain interview with guest Norman Farb, the co-author of Better in Every Sense—How the New Science of Sensation Can Help You Reclaim Your Life. The meat of the conversation begins at 20 minutes in.

There’s good reason PQ has been embraced by major corporations and universities. This whitepaper both updates and expands the original neuroscience foundation of Positive Intelligence, based on the latest findings in this fast-evolving field.

500,000+ participants agree: this works!

In our experience, based on working with more than a thousand clients over 30 years, people do not fundamentally change as a result of great ideas.

Mental and emotional fitness is a lot like physical fitness—it is based on a commitment to repeating targeted practices over time. The result is the ability to quickly identify and break out of repetitive judgmental thoughts that produce:

Undermining self-judgment and self-doubt
Feeling alienated or resentful of others
Being unable to effectively deal with challenging circumstances

Our internal dialogue is frequently focused on self-preservation strategies, with much self-talk devoted to rehashing the past and litigating imaginary futures—when what is needed is a clear-headed recognition and pro-active embrace of the present.

This opens the way for focused and effective action—without procrastination, false starts, or reactivity. The predictable result is better peace of mind, happiness and fulfillment. For those motivated to invest in modest consistent effort—in service of rapid game-changing results—PQ is an extraordinary tool.

Measure your own mental and emotional fitness!

The Who Behind PQ

Shirzad Chamine, Founder & Coach

Shirzad Chamine is the New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence. He is the former CEO of the world’s largest coach training organization and is a faculty trainer at Stanford and Yale business schools.

He has coached hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams, and is a preeminent C-suite advisor. His background includes a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, an MBA from Stanford, as well as PhD studies in neuroscience.

Shirzad provides on-demand audio and video guidance through daily practice audios and weekly videos. His passionate and engaging style includes self-effacing humor and compelling storytelling, as well as understanding and compassion.

He is a brilliant educator and relentless, data-driven innovator. His resonant voice, welcoming and generous demeanor, and sage advice make it easy to create lasting personal and professional progress using the PQ program.

Michael Moore, Small-Group Guide

As co-founder of Couples Solutions, I have been leading psychoeducational programs for couples for 30 years, in addition to serving as an instructor and curriculum developer for PAIRS International, Matrix Leadership, and Fearless Living. With multiple coaching certifications and decades of experience as a master Enneagram instructor, I bring a deep level of commitment to my client’s success.

I previously owned a survey engineering firm, contributing to projects such as Concourse B at Denver International Airport, the Federal Solar Energy Research Facility, and the East Campus of CU Boulder, while also working as a boundary law instructor, expert witness, and consultant.

As a PQ coach, I draw on a broad skill set to facilitate small groups, where the benefits of the practice are powerfully reinforced. Sharing challenges and breakthroughs within these groups fosters accountability and inspiration, offering a uniquely effective way to become more aware of—and responsible for—our impact on others. Meaningful bonds of friendship and respect are a common outcome.

The Keys to Mental & Emotional Fitness

THE PQ SABOTEURS

The program begins with an exploration of how default mental loops undermine our happiness, affecting our ability to reliably achieve commitments and manifest our desires. These are universal challenges, involving judgments of ourselves, of others, and of circumstances as being unacceptable.

Being in resistance to what is actually happening disrupts problem-solving, lowers morale, and makes progress unlikely, if not impossible. Each individual has a blend of secondary saboteurs unique to them, which have correlates in the Enneagram. However, this application of those nine distinctions is more accessible and immediately useful than traditional Enneagram studies.

For more details—and to assess the typical ways in which you self-sabotage—take the Saboteur Assessment.

PQ SAGE POWERS

Self-awareness gained from understanding our saboteurs and their diabolical impacts is crucial. However, the bulk of the PQ program focuses on replacing these defaults with forward-focused techniques that bring mastery to any situation, no matter how challenging, including strategic planning and human motivation.

For more information on the five Sage powers—Empathize, Explore, Innovate, Navigate, and Activate—and techniques for evoking them, visit the program’s resources.

Ready to uplevel your mental + emotional fitness?

Imagine yourself able to remain calm, clear headed, stress-free, and positive even in the middle of handling work and life’s greatest challenges. What becomes possible for you, in achievement, in peace of mind and wellness, and in your relationships?

Make a commitment now to boost your mental fitness.

Program priced at $997. Reach out to connect with Michael for more information.