Focused Leadership: Digital Habits for Peak Performance

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4 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Elite leaders learn to be focused, confident & intentional. Could doomscrolling & poor screentime habits be silently derailing your growth?

Students From

Microsoft
King County Library
Stripe
Caterpillar
Harvard University

Course overview

Get off the hamster wheel of mindlessly checking devices. Quantifiable outcomes.

Poor digital habits are not just about doomscrolling Instagram, LinkedIn or TikTok. They commonly include Email, WhatsApp, Slack, Texting, News cycles, Binge-watching and more! For adults, the symptoms of excessive unmanaged screentime can shows up as:


❌ Lack of Focus ❌ Inability to Prioritize ❌ Blocked Creativity


NEGATIVE IMPACTS TO YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL


🚩Poor Decision-Making: When you're caught in a cycle of consuming negative news or irrelevant content, the digital exhaustion makes you more prone to impulsive choices rather than thoughtful, strategic ones.


🚩Weakened Interpersonal Connections: Constant device checking signals to your team that you're disengaged or uninterested in their contributions. 


🚩Missed Opportunities for Growth: Poor digital habits can trap you in echo chambers, preventing exposure to diverse perspectives and ideas that could enhance your leadership.


🚩Decreased Resilience and Well-Being: From poor sleep to physiological damage (e.g. tech neck), poor digital habits can spin up a cycle of stress, diminishing your ability to inspire and support your team effectively


You can't effectively lead others until you can confidently lead yourself. People count on leaders to be focused, inspiring and resilient - even when surrounded by digital distractions.


WHO WILL BENEFIT MOST FROM THIS COURSE?

- You are introspective and open to reflect on your blind spots.

- You are self-aware and carry a growth-mindset.

- You believe in the leadership principle that actions speak louder than words.


WHO WILL NOT BENEFIT FROM THIS COURSE?

- Those looking for an app as a fix for their digital habits. This course works inside-out, not outside-in.

- Those that think technology is bad thing. This course doesn't line up with that philosophy.

- Those who need to work with a doctor or therapist for support. This course is focused on leadership coaching but doesn't offer medical advice.


We'll leverage established behavioral science and the latest digital wellness research, including exercises to help you stay on track. You also have access for 1:1 coaching from the instructor for personalized action planning (more information will be provided to enrolled students)

Who should sign up

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People Managers: If you check Email/Slack/Teams before going to bed and/or the first thing in the morning - this course is for you.

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Parents: Your digital habits inform your child's relationship with devices. The framework we teach is easy for you to learn and model.

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Senior Individual Contributors (ICs): Product to HR, Engineering to Sales - don't let poor digital habits derail your leadership potential!

What you’ll get out of this course

Activate your Sense of Agency

This course challenges you to introspect: Are in the driver's seat of your habits or has an algorithmic habit taken control?

Identify Attention & Focus Potholes

There are macro digital trends that are fracturing your attention and focus. Through the lens of established research on topics such as nostalgia, psychology of control, humor etc. we will explore why people tend to lose control over their digital habits.

Track metrics beyond screentime

Just counting hours in front of a screen is of limited value. As work, life and entertainment share the same screens, it's time to go beyond tracking screen time. Via Scroll By Choice - you'll develop a baseline score of your relationship with technology, and track progress.

Reclaim Control over your digital habits

Building better digital habits isn’t just about turning off notifications or deleting apps. You'll learn how to use a human-centered Digital Wellness framework—a "trampoline"—to bounce back when distractions pull you into rabbit holes.

Develop an action plan that works you

Leverage 1:1 coaching to personalize your plan - including supporting those around you (ideal for parents)

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

12 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 5—Feb 9

    Feb

    6

    Class 1: Why you can't stop doomscrolling.

    Thu 2/62:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

    Your Sense of Agency. What is it, and why it matters

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    Baseline Your Digital Wellness: Choice Score

    3 items • Free preview

Week 2

Feb 10—Feb 16

    Feb

    13

    Class 2: Macro digital trends designed to grab attention

    Thu 2/132:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

    The Digital Wellness Trampoline!

    2 items

    1:1 Coaching

    1 item

Week 3

Feb 17—Feb 23

    Feb

    20

    Class 3: Hybrid work and it's affect on digital wellness

    Thu 2/202:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

    Dopamine + The Seeking System: Looking to Neuroscience for help

    1 item

    1:1 Coaching

    1 item

Week 4

Feb 24—Feb 26

    Feb

    27

    Class 4: Putting it all together

    Thu 2/272:30 AM—3:45 AM (UTC)

Post-course

    Endlessly chasing perfect information

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    1:1 Coaching

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What students are saying

Free resource

Happy with your screentime?

Facts: 4 out of 10 people check email first thing in the morning. You lose 45 minutes every day to social media alone. The digital debt is adding up and burnout now affects 1 out of 2 people.


Discover how your digital habits - from email to TikTok - are impacting your wellness, productivity and creativity.

Learn how to reclaim control!

Meet your instructor

Riz Vazir: Founder at Scroll By Choice

Riz Vazir: Founder at Scroll By Choice

Founder/CEO, Scroll By Choice

Riz Vazir is the founder of Scroll by Choice, a digital wellness company focused on empowering people to reclaim control over their screentime.


Previously, Riz held leadership roles at companies such as Microsoft, where he was the Director of Business Strategy and AON, where he led employee health benefits administration programs for Fortune 50 clients.


He is a certified Change Management professional, underscoring his commitment to driving positive transformations.


Riz has an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in computer science & economics from Knox College.

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Focused Leadership: Digital Habits for Peak Performance

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Dates

Feb 5—27, 2025

Payment Deadline

Feb 4, 2025
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Join an upcoming cohort

Focused Leadership: Digital Habits for Peak Performance

February Cohort

$450

Dates

Feb 5—27, 2025

Payment Deadline

Feb 4, 2025
Get reimbursed

$450

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