Purpose & Play™ Heart-Centered Leadership Immersion for Conscious High Achievers
Hema Vyas
Pioneering heart-centered leadership
Creative freedom transformed products. Now it’s time to transform leadership.
Google's "20% time" gave us Gmail and AdSense. Hackathons kept organisations like The Guardian at the forefront of digital innovation. I have found that giving leaders the same quality of dedicated space to explore meaning, purpose, and what truly moves them leads to breakthrough leadership capacity.
By removing hierarchy, fixed outcomes, and performance anxiety, play creates a level playing field where new thinking, radical honesty, and breakthrough innovation become possible.
On retreats and in my work with leaders, founders, and creatives, I see what happens when people step away from the day-to-day and take a deep dive inward: insights emerge, self-knowledge deepens, and purpose comes to life. Purpose & Play brings that retreat quality into everyday leadership, creating space to uncover what brings you joy, fulfilment, and impact. This is often where positive transformation begins.
Purpose & Play addresses the silent heartache and aspirations of high achievers and guides you toward epiphanies and breakthroughs that can transform the trajectory of your leadership, your career, and your life.
What you’ll learn
Shift how you think, lead, and operate through heart-centered leadership, awakening clarity, purpose, and impact. Achieve more with meaning.
Why play is foundational to innovation, creativity, and breakthrough thinking
How hierarchy and performance pressure limit leadership evolution
Why innovation accelerates when truth becomes surfaced safely
The neuroscience of heart intelligence and decision-making under uncertainty
Heart Awareness Activation™ for clarity, coherence, and insight
Applying heart-mind integration to real leadership challenges and opportunities
Inner Audit deep dive exercise to identify unconscious leadership patterns
Exploring the silent heartache and aspirations of high achievers as a path to breakthrough innovation
Transforming emotional pressure into resilience, truth, and impact
Clarifying purpose, impact, and meaningful contribution: your unique blueprint
Designing your 30-day leadership integration practice
Leading with greater alignment, creativity, and authenticity
Learn directly from Hema
Hema Vyas
Psychologist & keynote speaker pioneering heart-centered leadership
Who this course is for
Mid-career, accomplished professionals asking themselves, "What is the 'something more' I know I am here to create? How can I step into it?"
Senior leaders in values-led companies navigating transformation or disruption, who want to lead with greater clarity, purpose and impact
Anyone who has felt the pressure to choose between ambition and purpose. This is your third way, the way of the heart and mind
Prerequisites
Openness to looking inward as well as outward for answers
The most powerful leadership insights often come from within. This course creates the space to find them
A willingness to explore transformative practices
Purpose & Play blends psychology, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom. Come ready to experience something different
An understanding that meaningful shifts can sometimes take practice
Breakthroughs can be instantaneous. Embedding them takes intention. Both are part of this journey
What's included
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.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
Week 1
Workshop 1: Play as a leadership capability
Week 2
Workshop 2: Lead with heart intelligence under uncertainty
Workshop 3: Transform the patterns defining your limits
Workshop 4 : Purpose, meaning, and wisdom-age leadership
Schedule
Live sessions
2-3 hrs / week
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."
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."
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."
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."
Stephen Karbaron
Event Facilitator, Conscious Enterprise Network - "Thank you for teaching me that there is more to the heart that I had previously thought, it is nothing short of paradigm shift. While many people teach to think outside the box. You have taught me to get rid of the box. I can't wait to put what I have learnt into practice. I know I will be buzzing for the next couple of days."
Alexandra Ofr
Student - 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"
Raemona (Dubai) magazine feature on Hema's story of silent heartache
