Helping individuals lead themselves so they can lead others.
Vertist helps founders, executives, teams, and mission driven organizations build the mental fitness, leadership habits, and execution rhythm needed to perform with clarity under pressure.
Grounded in Positive Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, coaching, and change execution experience.
Execution Capacity
Execution + Leadership
Mental fitness helps leaders stay clear, resilient, and accountable when pressure rises.
under pressure
follow through
Execution
Leadership
Mental
Fitness
presence
alignment
Execution
Leadership
Resilience
Collaboration
Accountability
Sustainable performance
Who It Is For
Built for leaders and organizations carrying real responsibility.
Vertist supports people and teams navigating pressure, growth, complexity, or change. The work is practical, personal, and designed to help leadership behavior translate into stronger execution.
Founders navigating growth, uncertainty, or decision pressure
Executive teams that need clearer communication and stronger follow through
Individual leaders who want more self command, confidence, and resilience
Managers leading through change or organizational complexity
Philanthropic, NGO, and mission driven organizations in Mexico and beyond
Companies looking to turn leadership development into repeatable practice
Business Case
Pressure does not just affect people. It affects execution.
When pressure rises, even capable people can lose clarity, avoid difficult conversations, overthink decisions, or drift from commitments.
Over time, that creates real cost: slower execution, inconsistent leadership behavior, emotional fatigue, and teams that know the plan but struggle to sustain it.
"Vertist helps leaders build the internal capacity to stay clear, steady, and accountable when the stakes are high."
Ways We Work
Practical support for individuals, teams, and organizations.
Vertist can support a single leader, a founder, an executive team, or an organization building mental fitness into the way people lead and execute.
Method
Mental fitness becomes useful when it changes how people lead in real moments.
Vertist uses Positive Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, coaching, and change execution support to help people notice internal patterns, regulate under pressure, and choose more effective responses. The goal is not more information. The goal is repeatable behavior change.
Individual Leadership Coaching
For leaders who want stronger self command, confidence, resilience, and decision quality.
Founder and Executive Coaching
For leaders navigating growth, complexity, pressure, or major transitions.
Team Mental Fitness Pilots
Focused implementation for teams that want shared language, stronger habits, and a repeatable practice rhythm.
PQ Implementation Support
Support for organizations that want to use Positive Intelligence as a practical development layer, not a one time training event.
Change Execution Support
Coaching and implementation support for leaders who need to move people from insight to action.
How It Works
A practical path from conversation to repeatable practice.
Fit Call
Clarify the pressure, leadership context, and practical support that would be most useful.
Focused Design
Match the coaching, team, PQ, or change support path to the person, team, and operating reality.
Practice Rhythm
Build repeatable habits that help leaders apply the work between meetings, not just understand it.
Review and Adjust
Use reflection, engagement signals, and lived application to strengthen follow through over time.
Start with fit, then build the smallest useful rhythm that can grow.
Why Now
Leaders need a steadier operating rhythm when pressure rises.
Organizations are operating with tighter timelines, higher stakeholder expectations, and more complex decision environments.
Better decisions, stronger conversations, and more consistent follow through are easier to sustain when people have a practical way to reset, regulate, and lead themselves first.
Start small. Build evidence. Let proof earn expansion.
Outcomes
What this can unlock
Participant reported outcomes from the Positive Intelligence methodology after six weeks of mental fitness training. Results vary by participant.
Selected participant reported outcomes
Performance Under Pressure
85%
reported improved focus in high pressure moments
91%
reported better stress management
90%
reported stronger use of mental and emotional energy
Leadership and Collaboration
92%
reported stronger teamwork and collaboration
97%
reported improved empathy
84%
reported stronger conflict management
Resilience and Execution
83%
reported improved self confidence
76%
reported improved ability to develop others
82%
reported more consistent resilience under pressure
These participant reported outcomes reflect broader Positive Intelligence cohort data and are not organization specific.
Evidence
Proven methodology. Practical leadership application.
Vertist applies Positive Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence to strengthen self leadership, team behavior, and execution under pressure.
Proven Base
Positive Intelligence has supported over 1 million participants across 100 plus countries. The method is practical, repeatable, and built for sustained behavior change.
Practical Application
These outcomes are not the promise. They show why mental fitness can serve as a credible development layer for leaders, teams, and organizations that need behavior to translate into execution.
Led By Kevin Thibodeaux
Coaching, strategy, change management, and mental fitness in one practical operating lane.
Kevin helps high achievers, founders, executives, and teams build clarity, resilience, confidence, and execution capacity under pressure.
Credibility
Kevin brings together global consulting experience, executive coaching, change management, and mental fitness implementation. His work is shaped by an MBA from Duke University, nearly a decade at Accenture, more than 25 years leading a boutique change management consulting firm, and deep coaching training through ICF, Coactive, Positive Intelligence, and Emotional Intelligence work.
Global consulting
Nearly a decade at Accenture plus more than 25 years leading change work.
Executive coaching
ICF and Coactive trained, with deep practice across leaders, founders, and teams.
Mental fitness expertise
Positive Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and leadership behavior under pressure.
Mexico relevance
Focused interest in leaders, NGOs, and mission driven organizations in Mexico and beyond.
Related Work
Focused applications of the same core work.
Vertist is Kevin's broader coaching and implementation home. The MBA Experiment and The Esquire Experiment apply the same mental fitness and leadership principles to specific high pressure environments.
A focused application of this work for MBA students and business school environments.
Explore The MBA Experiment →
A focused application of this work for attorneys and legal performance environments.
Explore The Esquire Experiment →FAQ
Common questions
Is Vertist for individuals, teams, or organizations?
It can support all three. The starting point depends on the pressure, goal, and level of readiness. Some clients begin with individual coaching, while others begin with a focused team or organization pilot.
Does this replace our existing leadership development or training programs?
No. It strengthens what you already run by helping people apply leadership behavior more consistently under pressure.
Can this fit philanthropic or NGO contexts in Mexico?
Yes. Vertist is especially interested in mission driven organizations, philanthropic leaders, and NGO environments where self leadership and change capacity affect real community outcomes.
What does implementation commitment look like?
Most organizations start small. Scope, cadence, and reporting are tailored to priorities, culture, and operating realities.
What methodology does this use?
This work is grounded in Positive Intelligence, strengthened through Emotional Intelligence practices, and supported by coaching and change execution discipline.
How is this different from coaching or one time workshops?
It combines personal practice, coaching, implementation support, and review rhythms so behavior change can be applied and sustained over time.
Let's Talk
If pressure is affecting leadership, clarity, or follow through, let's talk.
Schedule a 30 minute fit call to explore what is happening, what support would be most useful, and whether Vertist is the right next step.
Schedule a 30 Minute Fit CallFocused, practical, and tailored to your goals.