So we built the academy that teaches them.
Every one is a trainable ability. They build on one another, and together they open up a level of effectiveness that most people never reach.
Reading the signals from inside your body and nervous system to understand what is actually happening in you — usually before your mind has words for it.
You catch what is building while you can still choose what to do about it, rather than working it out after you have already reacted.
The ability to tell precisely what you are feeling, and to tell one feeling apart from another. Not “bad” — disappointed, and slightly ashamed, and protectively angry.
Disappointment, shame and anger each need something different from you. Knowing which one you are actually in is what makes the right response available.
The ability to observe your own thoughts, emotions and behaviour as they are happening, rather than being inside them.
Seeing it is what makes choosing it possible. This is where changing how you operate becomes possible at all, and every capability above it depends on it.
Understanding the structure underneath your own behaviour — the fears formed early, the beliefs you built about what you are and what is possible for you, and the strategies you developed to protect yourself.
You stop managing the same problems over and over, and start changing what produces them.
Deciding for yourself what you value and what you stand for, rather than running standards you absorbed from family, culture or profession without ever examining them.
Your direction becomes something you actually chose — which is what makes it possible to commit to it fully.
The ability to see your own way of looking at things as one way among several, and to move between them.
You stop defending a position and start working with what is actually there. It is rare, and it is why some people are trusted with the situations nobody else can hold.
Something in you notices all of this happening, and is not any of it. This is the ability to rest there, rather than in whatever is going on at the time.
Nothing that happens to you has the same grip on you. Every rung below is you looking at something. This is what does the looking.
The few who build these live remarkably well. Most of us were never told they existed.
Every one of them can be trained. That is what this academy is for.
The courses are named for what is actually going on in your life, because that is what people arrive with. What you build inside them carries into everything else.
Most people know which one is theirs the moment they read it.
For anyone whose work matters to them.
The distance between what you are capable of and what you actually produce is rarely just skill. It is the human capabilities you have built, and the specific things getting in your way — which are not the same as anyone else's.
Join the waitlistFor anyone responsible for people.
How people respond to you is shaped by how you operate under pressure, and most people leading others have never been shown their own patterns. Leadership craft, joined to a real understanding of yours.
Join the waitlistFor founders and owners.
Building something is a long series of decisions made without enough information, with your own patterns running underneath every one of them. The craft of building, joined to the person doing the building.
Join the waitlistFor partners, family, friendship, colleagues.
Two things cause most relationship difficulty: what you bring into closeness without noticing, and how inaccurately people read one another. Both are learnable, and most people are never taught either.
Join the waitlistFor teams, families, partnerships.
Understanding what is actually driving the other side, lowering the temperature without giving up the substance, and rebuilding trust once it has genuinely been damaged.
Join the waitlistThe most widely recognised problem there is.
Settling yourself when it rises, and then going after what keeps generating it — so it stops being something you manage and becomes something that changes.
Join the waitlistFor old pain that is still shaping today.
The deeper work. A great deal of what runs your life today was formed by what happened to you, and when it lifts, what comes back is choice.
Join the waitlistFor transition, loss and disruption.
Staying steady while everything is moving, and rebuilding afterwards without becoming someone smaller than you were.
Join the waitlistUnderneath every course is the same body of work: ego literacy, the fourth rung of the ladder.
Most of what you do is decided before you decide anything. The fears you learned early, the beliefs you formed about what you are, and the strategies you built to protect yourself are still running — and they are shaping your work, your relationships and your choices right now.
When you can see them, you get to choose. That is where the capabilities in every course come from.
Every serious network exists for the same reason: who you spend time around changes what you become. We are building one, and membership in it is the part that lasts longest.
Y Combinator, YPO, Vistage, EO — every one of them is worth more for who is in the room than for what is taught. Nobody has built one around who you are becoming.
Small, and matched deliberately. People at a comparable point in their lives, working on comparable things, chosen because they fit you and what you are trying to do.
What that changes. Everyone is applying this to a real life, so what gets said in the room is real. You watch the same capability play out in a marriage, a company, a family. You get years of other people's experience in months.
Who they are. Everyone here is going after a level of capability that most people never reach, and has committed real time and real money to getting there. That selects hard. You spend months in close company with people like that, working on the things that genuinely matter to them — and they with you.
A network of exceptional people, rather than one person for everything.
The coach who is right for how you lead is rarely the one you need for a relationship, a transition, or the business you build afterwards. You work with whoever fits what you are actually doing — and because they arrive already understanding how you operate, you get their best work from the first session rather than the fourth.
Access to people at this level has normally belonged to those who could assemble it for themselves. This is what it looks like built for everyone else.
Your cohort is where it starts. Beyond it is everyone else — every cohort, every course, every country, before you and after you.
The course ends. Your membership does not. People stay for the network long after they have finished learning, because that is where the value settles.
Most networks connect people through what they do. This one connects them through who they are becoming.
Everything you have tried gave you one real piece of this.
Each is one piece, and you are left to assemble them yourself — which book, which therapist, which retreat, in what order, applied to what. Almost nobody manages it, and it is nobody's fault. It has never existed as one thing.
Deeply, and with real precision — how you are built, what drives you, what you protect, and how you make sense of things.
Where you are right now. What you already understand and live. What you know intellectually but have not yet made real. What you have never encountered.
What you learn, in what order, at what depth, is built from who you are, where you are, and what you are trying to reach.
A cohort chosen deliberately — comparable point, comparable ambition, people whose work will sharpen yours.
Whoever fits what you are actually working on, arriving already understanding you.
The conversation, the decision, the relationship, the pattern. Your life is where it gets applied and where it gets proven.
Every time you apply something and something happens, the understanding of you updates — and what comes next changes with it.
07 returns to 01, with what changed
None of these bodies of work is new. Bringing them together is.
The most accurate available, obtained, tested and rebuilt over fifteen years.
Millennia of direct investigation into how the mind constructs a self, and what is underneath it.
What happened to a person, and how it is still shaping what they do today.
The body as the place where all of it is actually held.
What finally makes it possible to bring all of this to one person, in their language, at their depth, at the moment it can change something.
The competing selves inside one person, and how to work with them rather than fight them.
That people do not only learn more. They change how they make sense of things, and that is a different kind of growth.
How attention, memory, emotion and decision actually work in a human being.
Decades of pioneering work on how people carry responsibility and act under real pressure.
What it actually takes to build something, and what it asks of the person building it.
How understanding travels between people, and why it so often does not.
What holds people together, what breaks it, and what genuinely repairs it.
Each of these is a lifetime's work on its own. What has never happened is all of them, in one place, aimed at one person.
Most AI gives the same answer to a frightened twenty-two-year-old and a grieving sixty-year-old. What changes everything is a system that knows your history, what you are protecting, and what you are ready to hear today.
How you are built. What actually drives you and the fear underneath it. How you make meaning, which decides what guidance can land with you right now. What happens when you get close to people. And what your life did to you, because so much of what runs you was formed by what happened rather than by who you are.
What is actually going on in your life at this moment. What you already understand and apply. What you grasp intellectually but do not yet live. What you have misunderstood. What you have never encountered. And what you are ready for, uncertain about, or quietly resisting.
Underneath all of this is Morpheus, the hyper-personalization engine that does the understanding. It builds a picture of who you are and where you are, and everything else is generated from it. More than five years of development, validated across more than 1.5 million people. It keeps evolving as you do.
This could not have been built three years ago. Building an education around one person requires something that can hold a real understanding of that person and reason with it properly, every time. That capability arrived recently. It is why this exists now.
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This is also how your cohort is chosen. Understanding you this precisely is what makes it possible to put you with the right people — the ones whose work will sharpen yours, and whose company will still matter to you years after the course ends.
Something got under your skin. You reacted — sharper than you meant to, or colder, or you said the thing you cannot take back. You could see yourself doing it and could not stop. Afterwards came the regret, and then the weeks of dealing with what it cost.
You bring that here.
What comes back already understands what happens in you under this exact kind of pressure — what gets triggered, what you are protecting, and the shape your reaction takes when it does. So that is what it works on with you.
Then you work it through with your coach, who started out already understanding you. You come away knowing the mechanism, rather than the story you told yourself afterwards.
Two months later the same thing starts somewhere else entirely. This time there is a gap where there was not one before — because it remembers, and it knows you.
That is the unit of learning here: one real situation, worked all the way through.
Founder
Thirty years in human development, fifteen building AI. Trained in cognitive behavioural therapy and Jungian psychoanalysis. He has built the Sharmadá Foundation alongside his brother Patrick since 2010, through more than 120 retreats. He founded one of the earliest AI companies in the United States, and built Morpheus — the hyper-personalization engine underneath HumanIA that works out who each person is and what they specifically need.
Sharmadá is his brother Patrick Connor's teaching. Nick has built it with him from the beginning — sixteen years, more than 120 retreats, and continuing today in California, Mexico, Colombia and Spain. Much of what HumanIA teaches was tested there first, on real people, over years.
His teachers have been direct rather than literary. Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle, Michael Singer, David Hawkins, Baba Hari Dass and Sri Swami Purna — retreats, individual work, and sitting with them personally over many years. Somatic work with the Newfield Network. Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Maté. Internal Family Systems. Trauma and trauma healing, extensively. He still works with his own teacher every week.
Fifteen years of research into personality structure led him to obtain the systems behind every serious instrument in the field and test each one for predictive accuracy using machine learning. Almost none held up across the full range of human personality. The one that did became the foundation of the instrument he built with Katherine Chernick Fauvre, and developed considerably further from there.
He has deployed this work in leadership development with Microsoft, Google, DHL and major international banks.
Morpheus is the engine that makes the personalization possible: it builds and continuously updates an understanding of each person, and everything they receive is generated from it. More than five years of development, validated across more than 1.5 million people.
Founder, HumanIA LATAM
Founder and CEO of EXMA, the largest marketing and innovation platform in Latin America — 26 countries, more than 500,000 people, 800 international speakers. Four books, all bestsellers. Two Guinness World Records. Member of the Fast Company Executive Board and a United Nations Advisory Council. Formerly General Manager of Coca-Cola Colombia.
He left the Coca-Cola general manager role at the height of it and built EXMA from nothing. It now runs events, workshops, publishing and consulting across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Mexico, Bolivia and Dubai, and has worked with more than a hundred Fortune 500 companies — Samsung, Danone, Sanofi, Abbott, Bancolombia and ExxonMobil among them.
He has given more than 650 conferences across 25 countries and four continents. One of his books won an Effie Award, the first book ever to do so.
On the United Nations Advisory Council he works on connecting young people to education across 21 countries.
Founder, HumanIA LATAM
International speaker and businesswoman. Thirty years building one of the largest independent business networks in Latin America, and developing the people inside it. Author of De la mierda al éxito. She has reached more than 500,000 people across the region, as a business leader and in personal development.
She built her organisation out of Colombia and across Latin America over three decades, recruiting, training and developing thousands of people — most of whom had never run anything before. Leadership development at that scale, sustained that long, is uncommon, and it is why she is a founder here.
She speaks across the region on leadership, business building and personal development, and appears at EXMA 2026.
De la mierda al éxito is her own account of what it took. She is also an ambassador for Random House Publishing.
She is currently studying psychology.
HumanIA is assembling a faculty across every discipline this touches. As those relationships are formalised, they will be named here.
Every person accepted is genuinely accompanied — a coach, a cohort, and an education built entirely around them. We can only open as many places as we can hold to that standard.
We open in small cohorts and review every person individually. Join the list and we will come to you directly when places open.
A person reads every application.
A person will read it properly and come back to you. If it isn't the right fit or the right moment, we'll tell you that plainly — and tell you what would be.
We open in small cohorts, and we review every person individually.
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