THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.
For leaders in biotech, pharma, and academic research
whose next level of impact will not come from thinking harder.
The next level of leadership is rarely more information.
It is fuller access to the intelligences already in you.
The version of you that succeeded
is it starting to feel too small
for what comes next?
Everyone brings their problems to you.
Who do you go to?
If you slowed down long enough to feel your life
what would you find?
What is the cost of continuing
like this for five more years?
The answer is not to push harder.
It is to lead from more of yourself.
WHAT IS MORE — THE WORK
More is not effort. It is not strategy. It is not another framework laid on top of what you already know. More is the rest of your intelligence — the parts your training did not develop because it did not need to, until now.
You have a head, a heart, and a gut — three intelligences, not one. Your head knows facts. Your heart knows what matters. Your gut knows what is true before your mind.
Each intelligence knows what the others cannot.
Most leaders lean on one. The strongest access — and lead from — all three.
There is also a fourth voice: your inner critic. It poses as prudence — but drowns out your deepest knowing.
The work is to lead from all three — and see through the fourth.
Together, we practice harmonizing your three intelligences and disengaging from your inner critic — in our sessions and in the leadership experiments you run in your real life.
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WILLEM W. OVERWIJK, PhD
Private advisor to leaders in biotech, pharma, and academic research.
I worked my way from pulling weeds in the tulip fields of the Netherlands to leading the Cancer Immunology Research Laboratory at MD Anderson. After tenure, I moved into biotech as VP of Oncology Research. I have broken the news after a failed Phase III and stood with the teams whose work I cut that day.
In parallel, I spent twenty years in serious contemplative training across multiple wisdom traditions. I am an ordained teacher in the Diamond Approach, where I work long-term with students individually and in groups.
My work now centers on private advisory for senior leaders in biotech, pharma, and academic research. I also continue to consult for biotech companies on R&D and strategy.
I am Dutch and bring a certain directness. Not rudeness or coarseness, but a lack of window dressing. That means you will not be flattered here. You will be seen. You will be challenged. And you will have a place to say what is actually true — and to hear truth spoken back.
That is the short version.
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WRITE TO ME WITH ONE REAL QUESTION
A decision. A conflict. A threshold. A private doubt. A place where thinking harder is no longer enough.
It does not need to be polished. A sentence or two about what you are actually carrying is enough.
The first conversation is a working session: one hour, no charge, no pitch, no obligation to continue.
Subject: First Working Session
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