The Framework
The From Me To We™ Method
An embodied approach to connection, built over thirty years and tested on more than a thousand rooms.
The Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
The modern workplace has a disconnection problem.
what Gallup estimates low employee engagement costs the global economy each year, about 9% of global GDP
Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2024
of employees report feeling disengaged at work
Source: Gallup State of the Global Workplace, 2023
of leaders say building trust is their #1 challenge
Source: PwC Trust Survey, 2023
The Business Impact
Despite being more "connected" than ever through technology, teams are struggling with fragmentation, burnout, and lack of authentic collaboration. Disconnected teams miss deadlines, resist change, and lose top talent. Traditional team-building creates temporary energy but fails to create lasting cultural shifts.
Why It Works
People remember what they have done. They forget what they have been told.
People who move or play in time with others report higher trust and greater willingness to cooperate afterwards.
Group synchrony is among the better-studied phenomena in social neuroscience, and the effect appears in strangers as reliably as in colleagues.
Trust rises
(reported after synchrony)
Cooperation grows
(greater willingness to help)
Attention turns outward
(from 'me' to 'you')
The Process
Three Steps to Stronger Leadership & Team Building
Awareness of Self
From mind to body
Through simple rhythm exercises, breathing, tapping and drumming, participants move out of their heads and into their bodies. Ten minutes in, the room is present in a way it was not when it walked in.
Awareness of Others
Synchronization & trust
Participants engage in call-and-response rhythms with partners or small groups. People who move in time together report higher trust and a greater willingness to cooperate afterwards.
Collective Synergy
From isolation to belonging
Multiple rhythms interlock as the full group comes together. The boundary between 'me' and 'we' dissolves. Participants feel part of something larger than themselves.
Awareness of Self
From mind to body
Through simple rhythm exercises, breathing, tapping and drumming, participants move out of their heads and into their bodies. Ten minutes in, the room is present in a way it was not when it walked in.
Awareness of Others
Synchronization & trust
Participants engage in call-and-response rhythms with partners or small groups. People who move in time together report higher trust and a greater willingness to cooperate afterwards.
Collective Synergy
From isolation to belonging
Multiple rhythms interlock as the full group comes together. The boundary between 'me' and 'we' dissolves. Participants feel part of something larger than themselves.
Proven Results
Trusted by the World's Leading Institutions
More than twenty years alongside IMD Business School. Sessions for Harvard Business School, the World Economic Forum, HEC Paris, INSEAD and CEIBS. Over 1,000 events delivered for 500+ organizations, including many of the Fortune 500.
Rooms of 600 achieving what they'd called impossible. A leadership kickoff that became the reference point for 'ONE Carlsberg.'
Business Impact
Why Leadership Through Rhythm Matters for Business
Disengagement costs the global economy
every year, around 9% of global GDP
(Source: Gallup, State of the Global Workplace, 2024)
Benefits After a Single Session:
Feel Less Lonely After A Single Session
Source: Internal post-session surveys, 2018-2024
Increase In Psychological Safety
Source: IMD Business School partnership data
Reduction In Employee Turnover
Source: Client follow-up reports, Fortune 500 companies
Immediate improvement in cross-functional communication, measurable increase in psychological safety, and lasting sense of collective purpose that participants reference months later.
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