Purpose & Play™ Breakthrough Impact - Heart-Centered Leadership

Hema Vyas

Pioneering heart-centered leadership

For conscious high achievers ready to realign success with heart wisdom

Purpose & Play™

You are here for a purpose beyond achievement.

Play enables you to break through.

Google’s famous “20% time” gave us Gmail and AdSense. Hackathons have kept organisations at the forefront of digital innovation.

Giving conscious leaders the same quality of dedicated, pressure-free space to explore meaning and purpose creates breakthrough leadership capacity.

Innovation is now an inside job.

By removing hierarchy, fixed outcomes, and performance anxiety, play creates a level playing field where radical honesty, new thinking, and genuine innovation become possible.

I've seen what occurs on retreats and in my work with leaders, CEOs, and creatives when they step away from the day-to-day and go inward: insights, self-knowledge, and purpose comes alive.

Purpose & Play™ creates space to uncover what brings you joy, fulfilment, creativity, and real impact, the place where new possibilities begin to take shape.

This is where Purpose & Play™ meets the silent heartache and deeper aspirations of conscious high achievers, guiding you toward the epiphanies and breakthroughs that can transform the trajectory of your leadership, career, and life.

What you’ll learn

One decision can change your trajectory. Immersive, workshop-style sessions with peer exercises and live mentoring with Hema

  • Why play is foundational to innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking

  • How play creates truth, trust, and new possibilities

  • Real-world examples of breakthrough innovations born from presence and play

  • Why heart-centered leadership is defining the future of work

  • How expanding the heart’s energetic field influences outcomes and environments

  • The power of the heart-brain to bring about quantum shifts in awareness

  • The neurocardiology of heart intelligence and decision-making under pressure

  • Heart Awareness Activation for clarity, coherence, and insight

  • Why wisdom, purpose, and heart matter more in the age of AI

  • Identify unconscious patterns that limit or elevate your impact

  • Close the gap between external success and deeper fulfilment

  • Turn inner tension into purposeful innovation and contribution

  • Sense meaning beneath complexity and uncertainty

  • Stay anchored in values while acting decisively through change

  • Lead with presence, discernment, and courage in the age of AI

  • Clarify your purpose, impact, and contribution

  • Design a personalised 30-day leadership integration practice

  • Build accountability so breakthroughs become sustained change

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Hema Vyas

Hema Vyas

Psychologist, author & keynote speaker pioneering heart-centered leadership

EMCC Master Accredited Mentor and Coach
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Who this course is for

  • Mid-to-senior leaders and accomplished professionals who feel the pull toward “something more” meaningful

  • Founders and executives in values-led organizations and startups navigating transformation or disruption

  • Conscious high achievers who have felt pressure to choose between ambition and purpose and are ready for the third way

Prerequisites

  • Openness to looking inward as well as outward for answers

    The most powerful leadership insights often come from within. This course creates the dedicated space for accessing them.

  • Willingness to explore transformative practices

    Purpose & Play™ blends psychology, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom. Come ready to experience something different.

  • Understanding that meaningful shifts take intention and commitment

    Breakthroughs can be instantaneous, but embedding them requires practice. Both are part of this journey.

What's included

Hema Vyas

Live sessions

Learn directly from Hema Vyas in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with professionals and peers who share your values.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Live workshopping of actual challenges and opportunities

Students will be selected to share a challenge or opportunity to work through live.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 5—Sep 6

    Sep

    5

    Session 1: Play as a Leadership Superpower

    Sat 9/512:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Sep 7—Sep 13

    Sep

    12

    Session 2: Lead with Heart Intelligence in Uncertainty

    Sat 9/1212:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

Free resource

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Healing the Heart for Conscious Leadership: A Journey of Empowerment

Healing the Heart for Conscious Leadership: A Journey of Empowerment

Schedule

Live sessions

3-5 hrs / week

    • Sat, Sep 5

      12:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

    • Sat, Sep 12

      12:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

    • Sat, Sep 19

      12:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

    • Sat, Sep 26

      12:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)

Testimonials

  • Hema's teachings have the ability to tap into your heart’s potential, something within awakens and suddenly you are able to see relational and behavioral patterns from a higher, more loving perspective."
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    Dianela Castellanos

    Talent Strategy at Comcast
  • "Hema is genuine, sincere and disarming. A true pro that understands the human condition. I highly recommend Hema as a guest, speaker or facilitator."
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    Dave Turano 🎧🎙🌎

    Host of Cut Through the Noise
  • "Hema brought our community such a depth of wisdom and experience, and a truly unique perspective at looking at the role of leadership in the modern world. Her understanding of what makes us human is profound and the feedback from our community was that they'd never experienced a session like it - impactful, thought-provoking and genuine."
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    Alexis Zahner

    Co-Director Human Leaders
  • "I felt a connection to Hema's every word and the flow, engagement and ease of the session was magical. Hema authentically shares from her heart, her life story and lessons learnt, connecting with everyone in the virtual room, questions and insights flowed and everyone's cup overflowed with love, connection and authenticity."
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    Stephen Karbaron

    Event Facilitator, Conscious Enterprise Network
  • "With Hema as mentor and business advisor, I fully aligned with my values and experienced the power of her framework for heart-centered leadership. Revenue grew threefold, team trust improved, and there was an energy of cohesion and trust that rippled through an international team."

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    Tina El-Hage

    Formerly of The Guardian
  • There should be more people in the world like Hema Vyas, a woman of huge integrity, compassion and wisdom engaged in crucial work for our times, that of opening our hearts in business and life in general. Hema is a passionate advocate for the soft skills that strengthen us all. She is a compelling presenter who speaks from her own heart."
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    JJ Stenhouse

    UK Health Radio

What does heart intelligence have to do with it?

Hema interview in the Irish Independent "the hidden heartache of high achievers"

Feature in Fast Company's Ask The Experts on heart-centered leadership

Feature on silent heartache in Raeoma (Dubai) magazine

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