Workshops & Experiences for Ambitious Teams
with Seven Jacobs
Self-leadership and emotional fitness. Workshops, cohorts, and executive 1:1 programmes for companies that want top performance.
Together, we build the best teams on the planet.
Seven creates highly interactive workshops, delivered for:
Scaling startups and SMEs: Building leadership, communication, and culture as the business grows.
People, L&D, and leadership teams: For HR, management, and people development teams. if you’re Looking for human-centred programmes that improve confidence, communication, resilience, and team effectiveness, you’re in te right place.
Founder, accelerator, and high-performance ecosystems: Supporting founders and senior operators with confidence, communication, pressure management, and high-stakes performance.
About
Seven Jacobs is an accredited Hypnotherapist, TEDx Speaker, and specialist in self-discovery, self-awareness, emotional fitness, communication, leadership and human development.
Seven has worked with hundreds of founders and ambitious professionals, helping them develop the self-awareness, confidence and communication skills needed to lead themselves and others more effectively.
As a former business builder, he has co-founded four businesses whose clients included Google, Meta, Nike, Nando’s, AKQA, Virgin Group, and many more, and supported founders whose companies have collectively raised an estimated £10 million in investment.
His work brings together psychology, emotional awareness, behavioural change and practical leadership development to explore the human factors that shape how people think, feel, communicate and perform.
Seven helps individuals and organisations move beyond limiting patterns, build greater emotional capability and become more self-aware, effective and high-performing. His work is grounded in the belief that meaningful personal and organisational growth begins with understanding ourselves more deeply.
He is also the founder of Discovery Group, where he designs and delivers programmes for companies, leadership teams and communities focused on human development, communication, collaboration and high performance.
Workshop Outcomes: The Emotional Fitness Content Pillars
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Calm: Clear minds under pressure
Calmer, clearer decision-making under pressure.
Emotional regulation helps people respond more effectively in complex social situations and improves decision-making capabilities, especially when pressure is high.
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Confidence: Grounded presence, emotional resilience
More confident leadership communication.
Leaders with stronger emotional intelligence tend to communicate more effectively, resolve conflict better, and manage relationships with more skill, which is why EQ is often linked to leadership effectiveness and job success.
Better performance in high-stakes rooms with clients, investors, and partners.
Emotional intelligence is closely tied to self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and relationship management, all of which shape how leaders show up in visible, high-stakes external moments.
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Courage: Workplace culture, clear communication
Stronger workplace culture and psychological safety.
Culture is all about psychological safety and trust. Psychological safety is the shared belief that people can speak up without being humiliated or punished, and research links it to stronger engagement, creativity, performance, and team learning.
Better emotional resilience and adaptability.
Teams with stronger psychological safety are more able to speak openly, raise concerns, challenge ideas, and work through disagreement productively rather than avoid it.
Sessions
02 Building Emotional Fitness: Being Empowered & Kind
Reclaiming the authority you've been giving away. The internal patterns that leak your power to external approval, perceived hierarchies, or old defaults. For audiences stepping into leadership where they need to own their position without pushing.
01 Self-Awareness for High Performance
Helping people see their patterns, strengths, blockers, and ways of operating more clearly, so their development becomes conscious, repeatable, and aligned with who they are becoming.
03 Building Mental Fitness: Rewiring Mental Patterns
The practical mechanics of how beliefs, thought patterns, self-talk, and internal habits get installed in the mind, and how they get rewritten. For audiences who want the how, not just the why.
04 Confidence In Front of Others
Building stronger speaking, feedback, influence, visibility, difficult conversations, and leadership presence, so people can communicate with more clarity, authority, and human connection when it matters.
05 Purpose Beyond Transactions
Connecting values, purpose, reflection, and deeper self-awareness to real workplace behaviour and decision-making, turning inner work into everyday leadership that feels more authentic and effective.
Formats
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Workshops
Half-day and full-day workshops for leadership teams and cohorts. Interactive, practical, and designed to produce change in the room, not just insight. Topics shaped around what your people actually need. That includes team workshops and cohort-based programme delivery, covering practical learning sessions that improve confidence, communication, and resilience.
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1:1 Coaching & Hypnotherapy Programmes
Private 1:1 work with specific team members across a company. Working on the pattern that's affecting team & leadership performance under pressure. For when the human factor is the differentiator. That includes Founder and Senior Team intensives, covering focused sessions for founders and leadership teams navigating pressure, change, or growth.
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Bespoke L&D Services
Through Seven’s company, Discovery Training Group, we can design and deliver larger bespoke training programmes, offsites, and more. We cover training and operations, so you get clear delivery. That includes becoming your Fractional People Support, covering ongoing delivery and strategic input for programmes, communities, or people initiatives.
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Speaking
Seven can speak at your event or company. Learn more on our speaking page.
The Emotional Fitness Methodology
01 Emotional Awareness
We start by understanding what is actually happening beneath the surface. We look at your emotions, reactions, patterns, assumptions, and the way they affect how you communicate and work with other people. By becoming more aware of what drives your behaviour, you can start to recognise what is helping you perform and what is getting in your way. Your people begin to see themselves and their challenges more clearly.
02 Emotional Intelligence
We then turn awareness into better choices. Understanding yourself is only useful if you can use that understanding to navigate pressure, disagreement, feedback, uncertainty, and relationships more effectively. We develop the ability to recognise what is happening for yourself and others, communicate with more intention, and respond rather than simply react. Your people become better equipped to handle their workplaces or challenges.
03 Emotional Resilience
Finally, we build the capacity to actually do it when it matters. Through practical tools, reflection, practice, and real-world situations, we strengthen your ability to stay present, communicate clearly, handle difficult moments, and keep moving when things become uncomfortable. Your emotional capability becomes something you can rely on under pressure, not just something you understand.
What expertise does Seven bring?
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CIPD Level 7
Senior People Professional Qualification at Level 7, specializing in Adult Learning and Development
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Hypnotherapist
Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner with life Coaching, accredited by the British Institute of Hypnotherapy.
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Communication Practitioner
ILM training and years of practical experience in communication training.
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Business Co-founder
Previously co-founded 4 startup businesses over 9 years, and built 3x communities of 1-6k members
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Confidence Coach & Public Speaker
Levels of training and practice in improvisation. TEDx speaker with years of presenting and public speaking on stages.
Seven has been trusted by…
“Working with Seven was a pleasure. For years, I struggled with rigid, defensive body language whenever I spoke in public, and I felt like I was guarding myself rather than connecting with my audience.
From our very first session, Seven took the time to listen deeply and truly understand the root of my challenges. He guided me through a thoughtful exploration of the beliefs and experiences that were keeping me closed off. By breaking down those walls, I began to see where my tension was coming from, and how to prevent it.
Seven’s personalised program combined insightful coaching with practical tools. His step-by-step approach gave me confidence to move with ease instead of defensiveness.
Today, I speak with a presence that feels authentic and engaging. I no longer recoil under public speaking pressure and welcome it. Thanks to Seven, public speaking has transformed from my greatest challenge into one of my most powerful strengths.”
Erfan F. | Founder of 100+ person company
Public Speaking Client
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"You clearly know the [psychology and neuroscience], but that’s only part of the puzzle… You were able to relate it to me, to a specific case and personality, and bring out exactly what was needed. You asked the right questions very quickly to [bring out the solution]. I can see why it’s so valuable to entrepreneurs!”
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"Working with Seven was an absolute pleasure. He was warm, friendly and engagement, and had an excellent stage presence. His insights on entrepreneurship—from team building to managing imposter syndrome—struck the perfect balance between candid reality and actionable advice. His engaging presence and endless energy keep audiences hooked, making even lengthy sessions fly by."
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"Seven is super engaging and sharp as a presenter, he truly delivers an engaging teaching style, with great care for all students in the class. Seven is a superstar!"
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"The public speaking workshop covered everything I needed for me to improve my public speaking skills. I never felt this good in a long time when it came to engaging in meaningful workshops. I've got so much to learn from you, Seven! I found a gem."
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"Wanted to send a huge thank you for everything you’ve done for us over the past few months. Your insight and guidance was always spot on and I will be forever grateful for the program that you put together. I have quite a few favorite sessions but, if I had to name one, it would be the one where you convinced us to think of this process as a game - it changed my world. While I’m sad to see the program come to an end I am super happy to be able to call myself an alum. Many many thanks!"
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"Amazing event today, I knew it was going to be good, but it was beyond what I imagined. You’re unlocking the internals, which 99% of the world is missing, myself included. As we move into a more AI world, we need to lean into more of our humanity, which is energy, energy in motion (emotion) and mastering that like an AI is mastering the internet and the codes of language."
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Next Steps
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