COACH, AUTHOR, SPEAKER
Relational Intelligence
I support people in building healthy relationships with themselves, others, and life itself.
COACH, AUTHOR, SPEAKER
Relational Intelligence
I support people in building healthy relationships with themselves, others, and life itself.
TRUSTED BY LEADING ORGANIZATIONS WORLDWIDE
Transforming How We Relate
I spent many years exploring how to build healthy relationships with oneself, others and life. Now, I share my framework for Relational Intelligence that can lead you towards a more fulfilling life.
Through keynotes, workshops, and organizational consulting, I help leaders, teams, and individuals unlock the potential of healthy relationships. When we relate more skillfully, we transform everything, from personal wellbeing to organizational culture.
Relationship with Self
Transform limiting beliefs, turn trigger into teachers and navigate uncertainty with ease
Relationship with Others
Build trust, deepen connection, transform conflicts and lead with compassion
Relationship with Life
Experience the interconnectedness, build trust in life and discover meaning
Keynotes That Transform
Each presentation is tailored to your audience, combining research-backed insights with practical strategies for everyday life.
01
The Foundation of Healthy Teams & Trust
Most workplace challenges are relational, not technical. This keynote shows how Relational Intelligence creates the conditions for psychological safety, collaboration, and innovation.
PEOPLE AND CULTURE, CEOs
02
Transforming Conflicts Into Opportunities
Without conflict competence, conflicts can derail growth and collaboration. This keynote shows how to turn conflict into trust, innovation, and growth with practical tools for teams and leaders.
LEADERS, TEAMS IN TRANSITION
03
Leading with
Relational Intelligence
Leadership is shaped by the quality of relationships a leader creates with themselves and their team. This talk introduces Relational Intelligence as the key to trust, engagement, and healthy team dynamics.
EXECUTIVES, LEADERSHIP TEAMS
04
Relational Intelligence for Kids
Relational skills can be taught early in simple and meaningful ways. This keynote inspires parents and educators to nurture awareness, empathy, and communication from a young age. The practical tools can be applied at home and at school.
PEOPLE AND CULTURE
What Clients Say
John is an exceptional coach and consultant with an incredible ability to understand and clarify complex systems and relationships. He draws from a rich toolkit of conceptual frameworks and facilitation methods, making his sessions highly impactful. Above all, he is a deep listener and a skilled practitioner of non-violent communication. His unique combination of deep empathy and a strategic mindset is truly remarkable. I highly recommend John as both a trainer and consultant for anyone looking to improve leadership, company culture, or organizational dynamics. Working with John is a transformative experience!
John Lack’s conflict transformation coaching is truly insightful and empowering. His deep empathy and broad skill set in leadership and communication create a supportive space for growth and self-discovery. His approach helped me deepen my self-awareness, enhance communication, and navigate challenges with confidence. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking more authenticity, ease, and impact in their professional lives!
Conflict is likely one of the most uncomfortable topics in our lives. None of us like it, many of us avoid it. Through John, I learned how to transform these conflicts into opportunities for learning, growth and better decision-making. This shift has completely transformed the way I lead. Now I feel ready to step into them with ease, knowing I have the tools to navigate them with integrity and impact.
Working with John as a co-trainer at my academy, I experienced his deep understanding of Nonviolent Communication as a real asset to our groups. His calm and clear presence supported participants in navigating and transforming conflict. I warmly recommend him to anyone looking to grow through the challenges of human interaction.
About John
There was a time when I had developed an unhealthy relationship with myself. This realization marked the beginning of a 10+ year reconnection journey.
During these years, I explored many different approaches for building healthier relationships with myself, with others and with life. I experienced how fundamental these skills are, and also that they often seemed more complicated than they needed to be.
Wanting to make these insights more accessible, I began writing children’s books about empathy, nervous system regulation, and conscious communication.
Today, I share my experience through keynotes, workshops, and coaching on relational intelligence for organizations, leaders, and teams.
Let's Create Something Meaningful
Whether you're planning a conference, corporate retreat, or leadership development program, I'd love to explore how we can work together.
Booking Lead Time
Typically 2 months in advance
Speaking Locations
Worldwide, in-person and virtual
The Essence Framework
Authentic leadership, to me, is a state and skillset, where mind, heart and body align so that you can lead yourself and others through uncertainty with the highest degree of authenticity, integrity and confidence.
The Essence framework can support you in fully embodying your authentic leadership. These pillars uniquely combine aspects of nonviolent communication, nervous system regulation, trauma-informed facilitation, systemic coaching, embodiment, mindfulness and shadow work.
When all three pillars come together, we call this an authentic leader.
Authentic Communication
Authentic leaders are able to communicate vulnerably and with confidence. They have the capacity to clearly name their emotions & needs and differentiate between moments to share their inner truth and moments to give empathy to others.
This fosters psychological safety and inspires others to bring their whole self, which can
Self-
Awareness
Authentic leaders are aware of their own triggers, patterns, trauma, projections and personal conditioning. Therefore, they are able to take responsibility of their inner world & can swiftly move out of relational dynamics and stay connected to your vision.
This contributes to healthier relationships, trust, growth and improves decision making
Emotional
Mastery
Authentic leaders are capable of dealing with complex emotional situations and can remain connected to their inner balance, while navigating uncertainty. Being able to bring yourself back into center will be a life saving skill to create the impact you deserve.
This contributes to trust in their organizations and teams.
Become an Authentic Leader to Have the Impact You Deserve!
FAQs
What is Relational Intelligence, and how is it different from coaching, therapy, or traditional leadership training?
Relational Intelligence combines fundamental skills like emotional intelligence, deeper self-awareness of your own patterns and communication skills. It's a holistic framework that applies to personal wellbeing, leadership, culture, communication, and performance, without being therapy.
Who are your keynotes and workshops designed for?
Leadership teams, CEOs, HR teams, founders, healthcare and education institutions.
What changes after your keynote or workshop?
Participants leave with a new lens for understanding themselves and others, and practical tools they can apply immediately.
They develop conflict competence, learn to stay grounded in high-stakes situations, and understand how their patterns shape the quality of their relationships at work and at home. Teams often report more trust, fewer unnecessary tensions, more innovation, and a stronger sense of psychological safety.
Leaders gain a practical framework for building healthier cultures and high performing teams.
People relate differently and that changes everything.
Is your work research-backed? What is it based on?
Relational Intelligence is grounded in research from psychology, neuroscience, and leadership development, as well as many years of applied practice in real teams and organizations.
The ideas are informed by how humans regulate emotions, build trust, form culture, and create meaning through relationships. What makes this work unique is not just the theory, but how these insights are translated into simple, practical ways people can use in everyday life and leadership.
What is the format of your sessions?
Offerings can be adapted to your needs and context, including:
- 45–60 minute keynote talks
- Half-day or full-day workshops
- Multi-session journeys for teams or leaders
- Ongoing organizational consulting
- Together, we design the format that best serves your goals and audience.
Even in keynote format, participants are invited into moments of reflection and connection. In workshops, the experience becomes more interactive, with guided exercises, conversations, and real-life application.
What makes your approach different from other leadership or wellbeing speakers?
Many talks inspire people for a moment. Relational Intelligence offers a framework people continue to use long after the session ends.
Instead of focusing only on performance, wellbeing, or communication as separate topics, this work shows how they are all connected through the quality of our relationships with ourselves, with others, and with our work.
Participants often say they have never seen these themes brought together in such a clear and practical way.
What does the booking process look like?
Start by reaching out through the contact form. From there, we schedule a short conversation to understand your context, goals, and audience.
You then receive a tailored proposal with suggested formats and focus areas. Once confirmed, the session is customized specifically for your organization.
Why is Relational Intelligence important?
Because the quality of our lives, our leadership, and our cultures is shaped by the quality of our relationships.
Most challenges in teams and organizations, like miscommunication, burnout, conflict, disengagement, are not technical problems. They are relational ones.
Relational Intelligence gives people a way to understand and improve how they relate: to themselves, to others, and to the work they do. It combines various approaches from emotional intelligence, communication and embodiment in a unique and simple way. How we relate changes everything.
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