THE ALLIANCE
Creative leadership for an exponential age
The pace of change has outrun the playbook. AI is rewriting industries on a bi-weekly clock. The geopolitical floor keeps moving. Your team can execute on what you've already figured out, but you're the leader, and your friends and family likely don't have the context to weigh in. The questions you actually need to think through have nowhere to go. Or worse, the questions themselves aren't clear.
A few things remain true.
Adaptability is no longer a leadership virtue; it's a survival requirement. Creativity isn't optional; it's oxygen. The leaders who will be at the peak in ten years are the ones training for it now.
Founders, operators, visionaries, and creative leaders who have already built something real and are honest about the fact that the next chapter requires a different operating system than the last one did.
It is equal parts high-speed training, think tank, and mastermind, anchored by three in-person gatherings with a science-backed training cadence in between. The curriculum is rooted in biology and neuroscience: flow, creativity, decision-making under pressure, nervous system regulation, longevity, and how to use AI without losing the cognitive edge that made you valuable to begin with.
The Alliance is designed to accelerate your next breakthrough, finish stalled projects, and sharpen the edge that amplifies your impact.
Steven Kotler curates every seat.
12x bestselling author of We Are as Gods, The Art of Impossible, Stealing Fire, and others. Human performance researcher. He has trained executives and teams at Google, Meta, Deloitte, and Accenture, and advised hundreds of founders and CEOs on the neurobiology of how they think, decide, and recover.
80% of last year's cohort renewed.
"The curation of people is amazing. What's crazy to me is that the things I'm doing in the Alliance and what I'm learning have had such a huge impact in such a short order. I didn't expect to be seeing change this quickly." — Adrian M., CEO, StarTech
Who the Alliance is designed for.
The Alliance tends to attract a particular kind of person. Builders. Founders. Operators. People who have already done well by most standards and are now asking a harder question: how much further can I actually go?
They're usually the person in the room who can't find the room. They've outgrown the conferences, the networking groups, and the generic leadership programs. They want people around them who are as obsessed with getting better as they are. People who are hard to find. True-peers that will tell them when an idea is bad. People who bring expertise they don't have.
They understand that whether they're creating art, building technology, leading a team, or driving change, their output starts with their personal performance. They want to dial in their blind spots before the market does it for them. They welcome challenge and independent thinking. They're seeking truth, clarity, and hard science to navigate whatever comes next.
If that sounds familiar, apply.
THE ADVISORY BOARD
Peter Diamandis — CEO, XPRIZE
Ivy Ross — Chief Design Officer, Google
Salim Ismail — Former President, Singularity University
Jody Levy — CEO, Summit
Dr. Sarah Sarkis — Performance Psychologist
Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman — Creativity Researcher, Bestselling Author
Dr. Michael Mannino — Neuroscientist, Chief Science Officer, Flow Research Collective
Jason Silva — Emmy-Nominated Storyteller and Futurist
HOW TO APPLY
Twenty-six seats. Intentionally intimate. Steven personally reviews every application.
To learn more about the Alliance, who's involved, availability dates and training, apply below, If it is a fit, Steven reaches out directly.