Emotional Intelligence &
Executive Functioning
Practical, research-backed tools for understanding your emotional patterns and building systems that work with how your brain actually operates — not against it. Led by a licensed psychologist with a neuropsychology background and over a decade of clinical experience.
Inquire About a WorkshopWhat it is
Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity to perceive, understand, use, and regulate emotions — in yourself and in the people around you. First formalized by Mayer and Salovey (1990) and expanded through decades of empirical research, EI is recognized as a reliable predictor of professional performance, interpersonal effectiveness, and psychological well-being across organizational contexts (Levitats, Ivcevic & Brackett, Sage Journals, 2025; O'Boyle et al., Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2011; Brackett, Rivers & Salovey, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2011).
In this workshop, we define what emotional intelligence is, explore how it operates in daily life, and build practical strategies for facilitating it within relationships while maintaining healthy, sustainable boundaries.
Why it matters now
Research published in Frontiers in Psychology (2022) found that EI is positively associated with organizational commitment, team effectiveness, and reduced intent to leave — outcomes that persist even when controlling for personality and cognitive ability. A 2025 study in Sage Journals confirmed that EI ability predicts performance, interpersonal effectiveness, and well-being across a broad range of organizational contexts.
The skills below reflect what current research identifies as markers of developed versus underdeveloped emotional intelligence in adults.
A 2022 meta-analysis published in Frontiers in Psychology found that EI was positively correlated with organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, and job performance across sectors. Self-regulation and empathy — two trainable competencies — were the strongest individual predictors of performance outcomes (MDPI, 2025). Research also shows that targeted EI training leads to engagement gains of approximately 20% and turnover reductions of about 30% in organizational settings.
Sources: Frontiers in Psychology (2022); MDPI Management Sciences (2025); PMC — The Emotional Recession (2025); Sage Journals — Levitats, Ivcevic & Brackett (2025)
What it is
Executive functions (EFs) are the higher-order cognitive processes that allow us to plan, prioritize, initiate, stay focused, shift between tasks, and regulate our behavior in pursuit of goals. The three core EFs — inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility — coordinate how we interact with demands, distractions, and our own internal states.
This workshop is for adults who struggle with meeting deadlines, remembering obligations, losing stamina on tedious tasks, and feeling chronically behind despite their genuine effort and intelligence. We build practical, evidence-based systems that work with your brain's actual operating style.
Why it matters now
Deficits in executive functioning are associated with significant adverse occupational outcomes — including difficulty with organizational skills, task completion, and workplace performance — even in adults without a clinical diagnosis. Research using the Executive Skills Questionnaire-Revised (PMC, 2021) identified five key EF domains disrupted in working adults: task initiation, time management, materials organization, emotional regulation, and behavior regulation.
The gap between what someone intends to do and what they actually complete is often not a motivation problem — it is an executive functioning problem. That distinction changes what solutions actually work.
Based on the EF research literature, here is what developed versus underdeveloped executive functioning tends to look like in daily adult life.
Diamond's foundational framework in the Annual Review of Psychology identifies inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility as the three core executive functions. A 2021 study published in PMC validated the Executive Skills Questionnaire-Revised (ESQ-R) in working adults, finding that executive dysfunction significantly predicted reduced well-being and work engagement — independent of general intelligence. Research consistently shows that EF deficits negatively impact organizational skills, occupational functioning, and the ability to complete goal-directed behavior even in otherwise high-performing adults.
Sources: Diamond, A. — Annual Review of Psychology (foundational); PMC — ESQ-R Validation Study (2021); Frontiers in Psychology — Attentive-Executive Functioning in Adult ADHD (2022)
Participants leave with tools they can apply immediately — not concepts to figure out on their own. The workshop is structured around practical application from the start.
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