Accelerate Leadership Performance, Decision Quality, and Strategic Momentum

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If your decisions feel heavier than they used to —
this experience is designed for you.

 

MAX ENERGY is for leaders who already know what to do —
but need clarity, regulation, and momentum
when pressure no longer allows mistakes.

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Nobel Prize–winning research that under pressure,

leaders are biologically pulled into fast, reactive thinking.

At the exact moment strategy is required,

survival takes over.​

MAX ENERGY is designed to restore regulation before decisions are made.

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New Research: Poor Decisions Cost Companies $250M Per Year​

New research shows that decision-making inefficiency is one of the most expensive blind spots in modern leadership.
McKinsey reports that 57% of C-level executives believe most of their decision-making time is used ineffectively, costing the average Fortune 500 company 530,000 lost workdays — or roughly $250 million per year in labor costs alone.
McKinsey research shows that organizations making decisions both quickly and with high quality are significantly more likely to achieve superior financial returns — with firms that succeed on both dimensions reporting at least 20% higher returns from recent decisions compared with slower, lower-quality decision makers.

This is not just an inefficiency. It is a hidden tax on your leadership impact. Max Energy removes the biological tax on your strategic results.

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Leaders under pressure lose clarity before they lose intelligence.

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According to Harvard Business Impact, only 20% of organizations are truly effective at decision-making.

Decision authority is no longer concentrated at the C-suite.
It is distributed across teams, functions, and layers of the organization — often without clarity or alignment.

The greatest risk is not lack of data.
It is when the most persuasive voice or the most senior title quietly dominates decisions, regardless of decision quality.

Research identifies the core drivers of poor decisions:

• Cognitive bias

• Emotional attachment

• Misapplied past experience

• Lack of psychological safety

The real issue is no longer what decision to make.
It is who is actually making the decision — and from what internal state.

MAX ENERGY strengthens personal leadership impact where it matters most:
when pressure is high, authority is diffused, and decision quality defines outcomes.

 

Sharpen decision quality and strategic momentum with MAX ENERGY —
in environments where leadership impact determines outcomes.

 

Harvard Business School adds another critical insight:
nearly 80% of new products fail — most often due to poor strategic decisions, not lack of talent or effort.

In the age of AI, the cost of bad decisions is accelerating.

 

Over the past year alone, Microsoft, Google, and Meta increased AI investment by more than $200 billion — dramatically increasing speed, complexity, and decision pressure at the top (WSJ).

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MAX ENERGY models what research identifies as the core advantage of winning companies:
the ability to make high-quality decisions quickly — even under pressure.

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Strategy Doesn’t Fail.
Decision Quality Does
— Under Pressure.

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Senior leaders today operate in an environment defined by
high stakes, constant decisions, and compressed timeframes.

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The constraint is no longer intelligence.
It is regulation.

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MAX ENERGY is an invitation-only leadership experience
designed to restore clarity, strengthen decision quality,
and accelerate strategic momentum — in one focused evening.

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What This Is (And Isn’t)

❌ Not a seminar
❌ Not a motivational talk
❌ Not theory-heavy

✅ A guided leadership experience
✅ Regulation before decision-making
✅ Live application under pressure

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Activate leadership energy
— when it matters most.

 

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THE MAX ENERGY PROMISE:

1. Lower the Noise: Eliminate redundant decisions.

2. Raise the Signal: Isolate your 'One Next Move'.

3. Command the State: Dominate the pressure before it dominates you.​

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This experience is intentionally small.
This is not a mass-market event. It is a closed-door laboratory for decision effectiveness. We curate the room as carefully as you curate your board. High-signal leaders only.

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Max Energy is not about feeling good.
It’s about making effective decisions when it matters most.

 

THE LEADERSHIP PROBLEM

Modern leaders are not under-informed.
They are overloaded.

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More information does not improve decisions.
Better signal does.

Dashboards, trends, productivity hacks, and optimization tools
look impressive — but fail under real pressure.

 

MAX ENERGY operates as a filter.
Not more inputs.
Clearer signal.
Better decisions.

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WHY ENERGY COMES FIRST

When pressure leads:

• Decisions slow

• Strategy weakens

• Momentum stalls

When energy is regulated:

• Clarity returns

• Strategy holds

• Momentum accelerates

 

Energy first.
Strategy second.
Results follow.

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This is not about doing more.
It is about operating better.

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Trust Changes Decision Biology — Not Motivation

According to Harvard Business Review, people in high-trust organizations experience:

• 74% less stress
• 106% more energy at work
• 50% higher productivity
• 40% less burnout

 

This isn’t culture talk.
This is biology.

Trust doesn’t motivate people.
It changes the internal state from which they think, decide, and lead.

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Low trust → threat mode → survival energy
High trust → safety → life energy → clarity

 

Under pressure, leaders don’t lose intelligence.
They lose nervous system regulation.

That’s why no strategy survives the wrong state.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

Are you struggling to articulate your value now that you're no longer 'doing' the work? MAX ENERGY helps senior leaders define their individual contribution not by the tasks they finish, but by the strategic clarity they enable.

This experience is not for motivation seekers.

It is designed for:

• Founders and senior executives

• High-performers operating under sustained pressure

• Leaders whose decisions carry irreversible consequences

If pressure is currently deciding for you,
this experience changes the order.

 

FORMAT

MAX ENERGY is not a seminar.
It is a guided leadership experience leaders move through.

• Curated arrival & connection

• Nervous system regulation & state reset

• Decision clarity & strategic activation

• High-signal leadership interaction

No forced participation.
No abstract theory.
Direct application.

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PROGRAM LEADERSHIP - MATTHEW MG
Creator of the Max Energy Movement | Leadership Strategist | Neuroscience-Informed, Field-Tested | Lecturer in Applied Psychology | Member of Harvard Business School Association of Boston

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As a member of the Harvard Business School Association of Boston Presidents’ Club, Matthew MG designs leadership and decision-making strategies for leaders and organizations seeking to accelerate business and career performance in the age of AI.

 

CEO experience in high-pressure environments:

• Former CEO in healthcare, leading growth and new service lines

• Designed decision and regulation frameworks used in tech, public sector, and global brands

• Works at the intersection of neuroscience, leadership, and high-pressure decision environments

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Over the past two decades, Matthew MG has designed and delivered leadership, decision-making, and organizational transformation initiatives across automotive, technology, healthcare, public sector, and creative industries.

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Matthew MG served as CEO of a medical center, where he led organizational growth and launched new clinical service lines, including Nutrition, Cardiology, and Smoking Cessation programs.

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He also oversaw the psychological counseling and guidance function across 11 city-wide branches of a private education institution, supporting student well-being, performance, and organizational coordination.

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He has supported organizations including CHIESI, Hyundai GLOVIS, IPSOS, and LEGO, as well as national institutions such as the Ministry of National Education and the National Police Department, focusing on executive development, behavioral assessment, and high-stakes decision environments.

In a global talent and research initiative conducted with Ipsos, 25 teams composed of university students from Türkiye were selected, structured, and trained by Matthew MG. As part of the program, AI-enabled research methods were applied to real-world use cases for global brands.👉 Learn more

The initiative also examined the academic study “The Fury Beneath the Morphing”, accepted for publication by the Academy of Management Journal, within the context of leadership and organizational decision-making, connecting it to real-world business practice. 👉 Learn more

Matthew MG translates leadership research from Harvard, MIT, Oxford, BCG, and McKinsey into applied strategic tools that improve decision quality, organizational alignment, and leadership performance under pressure.
👉 Learn more

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Featured Insight
How Fortune 500 Leaders Accelerate Strategy in the Age of AI
Published by IB Journal

👉 Read the article

 

Selected Outcomes

• Designed and delivered 10-day decision and communication programs for immigration and law-enforcement professionals operating in sensitive, high-risk contexts.

• Matthew MG delivered a stress management and resilience program for family physicians, conducted over a one-month period with weekly sessions, across two regions in one city and an additional city.

• Led a one-year organizational transformation in public transportation, including psychological assessments of 1,050+ employees and leadership advisory on selection and decision frameworks.

• Conducted organization-wide needs analysis using the Five-Factor Personality Model for municipal workforces and a multi-campus university system.

• Provided early-stage consulting to a medical devices company, supporting market entry with an international brand and long-term market positioning.Led the annual dealer conference and delivered leadership training on stress management, teamwork, and decision-making under pressure.

• As CEO of New York Business Excellence (NYBE), Matthew MG has participated as a media sponsor in university leadership and career forums alongside global organizations including Google, Deloitte, Siemens, Huawei, P&G, UPS, EY, and Mercedes.

Core focus: enabling leaders and institutions to make clear, high-quality decisions under pressure, where time, risk, and consequences matter.

👉 Learn more about the framework & background

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WHY NOW

AI increases speed.
Volatility increases pressure.

 

The competitive advantage is no longer IQ.
It is the ability to remain clear under uncertainty.

 

MAX ENERGY is not a trend.
It is a leadership filter.

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INTEGRATED CLARITY TOOLS

Mindset Kingdom Game™ 
→ Decision Reality Lab™ — Live Strategic Simulation

Research from McKinsey & IoD shows that
inefficient decision-making costs Fortune 500 firms
over $250M per year.

Mindset Kingdom places leaders inside high-stakes, time-compressed decision scenarios, where information is incomplete, pressure is real, and consequences are immediate.

This is not about winning a game.

It is about seeing how you actually decide when it matters most.

There are no right answers.

Only consequences — and clarity

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HarvAccelerate AI™
→ From overthinking to decisive movement

High-performing leaders do not win by thinking more.
They win by identifying the right next move.

HarvAccelerate AI™ isolates your
One Next Strategic Move,
reducing hesitation and restoring momentum.

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Da Vinci Mindset AI™
→ Strategic agility under changing conditions​

Strategy fails when leaders remain locked
in outdated mental models.

Da Vinci Mindset AI™ trains leaders to
reframe challenges, recognize hidden options,
and adapt strategy with speed and clarity.

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Leaders Personality Intelligence™ 
Living Decision Data Experience

→ A pressure-based decision mirror

Leadership personality patterns directly shape
strategy, risk posture, and outcomes.

Grounded in the Harvard-published Five-Factor framework,
this is not a test, but a decision mirror —
revealing how you decide before pressure decides for you.

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HarvConnections AI™ ​
→ Strategic Signal Network™

Most leaders meet too many people
and move too slowly as a result.

HarvConnections AI™ filters noise, surfaces signal,
and enables fewer — but decisive — strategic connections.​​

 

MAX ENERGY Dance Experience™
→ Regulation Lab: A structured closing experience designed to restore energy, openness, and cognitive readiness for forward action.

Peak performance is a rhythm, not a workload. This is the final neuro-regulation step: Clearing the cortisol and anchoring the clarity so you leave with strategic momentum, not just notes.

You don’t think your way into peak performance.

You regulate your way into it.

ENJOY THE FUN

Regulate first. Decide better. Lead clearly.
Feel the Energy of Joy.

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A HIGH-ENERGY CLOSING MOMENT.
Leave energized.
Not depleted.

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A high-energy closing moment designed to leave participants
energized, open, and ready to move forward.

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MAX ENERGY Dance Experience™

• Unleash The Max Energy Within ​

• Under pressure.Higher Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Agility Stronger

• Activate your Greater Energy

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The brain is regulated, the body is in rhythm, and leadership is in flow.