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For leaders
Decision fatigue, constant firefighting, and the sense that there is never room to think clearly.
BUILD CAPACITY BEFORE PRESSURE SETS THE PACE
High performance needs capacity before pressure becomes the norm.
Build attention, recovery, judgment and constructive relationships through everyday practice—and support them with realistic workloads, resources and clear priorities.
Capable people do not always need more effort. They may need a better way to respond.
When assumptions, stress, and habitual reactions quietly drive decisions, communication and performance, even strong strategies can lose momentum.
The cost of operating on autopilot
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For teams
Avoided conversations, friction between functions, and accountability that depends too heavily on one person.
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For organizations
Good strategy weakened by inconsistent execution, strained relationships, and pressure that spreads through the culture.
The mindshift
Turn pressure into useful information—not a command.
My work helps people notice the thought patterns that shape their responses, then practise more constructive choices in real decisions, conversations and moments of pressure.
Positive Intelligence® provides an app-guided, coach-supported mental fitness framework. Mindfulness practices help train attention; building the three mental fitness muscles helps turn that awareness into more deliberate choices under pressure.
How the work progresses
NoticeRecognize pressure patterns.
PauseCreate room for choice.
ReframeUse a more useful perspective.
ActApply it to the real work.
EmbedBuild shared habits.
THE PQ DIFFERENCE
PQ Isn’t Simply Taught. It’s Lived.
Knowing what to do and being able to do it under pressure are different challenges. I use Positive Intelligence® to help you turn insight into everyday action through an experiential journey of learning, daily practice and application to the situations you actually face.
We build mental fitness muscles through app-guided practices and coaching, then use them in real conversations, decisions and moments of pressure. The aim is to make a constructive response easier to access when it matters.
01 · EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION
Notice. Understand. Respond.
Practise noticing your reactions, listening with empathy and getting curious about another person’s perspective—especially when a conversation becomes difficult.
02 · CLEARER CHOICES UNDER PRESSURE
Pause before you react.
Build the habit of redirecting your attention so you can consider what matters and choose a useful next step, rather than letting urgency decide for you.
03 · MORE SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
Bring the practice to work.
Apply the same mental fitness framework to meetings, setbacks and team pressures, with the aim of reducing emotional drain and supporting consistent performance.
Less theory. More experience. Repeated practice helps turn awareness into habits you can use every day.
APPLICABILITY ACROSS ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations referenced by Positive Intelligence®
Positive Intelligence® lists these organizations alongside its description of PQ programme use by teams across leading global organizations.
- Procter & Gamble
- Stanford University
- Nestlé
- Eli Lilly
- DBS Bank
- Microsoft
These are organizational references published by Positive Intelligence®, rather than a client list for Malcolm Evans or Sales Accent LLC. The references do not establish organization-wide adoption.
MINDFULNESS INTO EVERYDAY CAPACITY
Mindfulness creates the pause. Mental fitness helps you use it.
Mindfulness helps you notice where your attention has gone and bring it back to the present. In the Positive Intelligence® framework, this supports the Self-Command muscle. We also practise recognising unhelpful reactions and choosing a more constructive response—so awareness becomes something you can use in a decision, conversation or demanding moment.
01 · NOTICE THE PATTERN
Saboteur Interceptor
Recognise habits such as self-criticism, rushing or defensiveness before they take over your response.
02 · STEADY YOUR ATTENTION
Self-Command
Use brief, focused practices to redirect attention and create room to choose your next action.
03 · CHOOSE YOUR RESPONSE
Sage
Practise responding with empathy, curiosity and perspective, then turn that clearer view into purposeful action.
Build the capacity before you need it. We apply these practices to everyday work, rather than waiting for the next difficult meeting or high-pressure decision.
For example: notice the urge to defend your position, briefly refocus your attention, then ask a question that helps you understand what matters to the other person.
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“Everything changes with a mindshift.”
Malcolm EvansSupport built around the work you are already doing
Leaders
Confidential leadership support, mental fitness, and practical coaching for clearer judgment and sustainable performance.
Teams
Build the shared language, healthy conflict, trust and mutual accountability that help teams deliver together.
Organizations
Culture and performance programs that connect strategy, leadership behavior and cross-functional execution.
Why Malcolm
I bring global experience across large and small companies, manufacturing, leadership, sales, and coaching. My approach is direct, practical, and grounded in the pressures people actually face—not theory removed from the workplace.
I use and trust Positive Intelligence® to help my clients build the mental fitness needed to navigate high-stakes conversations, decisions, and team pressures. Rather than adding another disconnected training course, we apply these practices directly to the goals and challenges already on your calendar. A short conversation helps us assess the fit.
The message matters. The messenger makes the difference. Let’s talk and find out.
Choose a practical starting point
- Individual coaching: confidential support for a specific leadership challenge.
- Positive Intelligence® Foundations: seven weeks of app-guided mental fitness practice with coaching support.
- PQ-Powered Teamwork: develop shared purpose, earned trust, healthy conflict and mutual accountability.
- PQ-Powered Sales: Mindfulness alongside your sales process.
- Culture and performance work: identify friction and align people around a business priority.
Client experience
Working with Malcolm
Angela’s experience
Angela, a client, shares her experience and feedback from working with Malcolm.
Watch Angela’s testimonial on YouTube (opens in a new tab)“Malcolm, phenomenal…”
Jeffrey Gitomer · Author and Speaker
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Define what better looks like.
We connect the practice to a real business priority and agree on what to watch. Progress should show up in the work, not just in a learning session.
- More constructive conversations when stakes rise
- Clearer ownership and fewer repeated handoff problems
- Better recovery after setbacks
- More deliberate decisions under pressure
These are goals for the work, not guaranteed outcomes. Measures and pace depend on your starting point and context.
A little clarity to take with you.
Modern pressures can follow us from work into everyday life. Keep a one-page guide to how mindfulness, mental fitness and practical coaching can help you choose a more useful response.
Download your printable takeaway
One-page PDF · US Letter · Includes a company pilot starting point and Malcolm’s contact details.
What may be getting in the way?
If you’re facing an active challenge, book a confidential conversation so we can explore it together.
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