Corporate performance experience
Cyber Elite Edition · featuring an elite performance coach
When pressure removes time, certainty and control, how does your team actually perform?
Performance is a mindset.
The expertise behind the experience
The programme is built around two complementary disciplines: performing under pressure and leading through a live cyber crisis.
An elite combat-sport professional with top-level competition experience, now coaching people to perform under pressure. Their full profile is shared with clients under confidentiality during preparation.
He leads the physical pressure drills and remains active during the crisis as a performance observer and challenger.
Senior cybersecurity practitioner with current operational leadership experience in a regulated environment.
He designs and runs the cyber crisis, and shows the team the real business consequences of each decision.
Fluent French support.Hosted by Irina Santin, founder of Zanshin Cyber Combat CH. Speaks English, French, Spanish, Catalan and Italian, and intermediate Russian.
What makes it different
Cyber crisis simulations already exist. Around a calm table, most teams look composed. UNDER PRESSURE adds our elite performance coach’s way of testing people when the pressure is real: first we expose how your team reacts as pressure rises physically, then we see whether the same behaviour comes back during the cyber crisis.
| Classic crisis simulation | UNDER PRESSURE | |
|---|---|---|
| Setting | Around a table, in a calm room | On the mat first, then at the crisis table |
| Pressure | Discussed more than felt | Felt first, physically, under control |
| What you see | What people say they would do | How people actually react when control disappears |
| What it tests | The plan | The plan, and the people who have to run it |
It’s not about teaching people how to fight. It’s about showing them how they actually perform when control disappears.
How it works
Short, controlled drills led by our elite performance coach raise the pressure physically. Within minutes, the team’s real reactions become visible. No sparring. No combat-sport experience required.
A cyber incident tailored to your organisation keeps evolving while the team is away from the table. Now we see whether the same behaviour comes back, when decisions are business-critical and information is incomplete.
The same behaviours, first under physical pressure, then in the cyber crisis.
| Behaviour | On the mat | Then, at the crisis table |
|---|---|---|
| Hesitation | The split second of doubt when the pressure rises. | Waiting for certainty while the incident spreads. |
| Communication | Calling out what you see, or going quiet. | Whether critical information reaches the people who must decide. |
| Initiative | Stepping forward without being told. | Taking ownership of containment, escalation and notifications. |
| Composure | Breathing, focus and control as the pace rises. | Decision quality when new information keeps arriving. |
Physical pressure → human behaviour → cyber decision-making
Each engagement is tailored to the organisation. The exact drills, scenario and crisis injects stay confidential and are shared with the client during preparation.
The method
Our coach’s combat language, translated into how leaders decide in a crisis.
Act decisively before the situation controls you.
Read what changed, update the hypothesis and change the plan.
Recognise the critical moment and act before escalation becomes harder to stop.
Maintain clarity, communication and decision quality when pressure rises.
Client value
You leave knowing how your team performs when control disappears, and what to fix before a real incident tests it.
What we saw on the mat, what came back at the crisis table, and three to five practical recommendations. Focused on the team, never on individual ranking.
Learning from elite performance
Leaders listen differently to someone who has performed at the very top.
Our coach has competed at the highest level of combat sport, where one moment of hesitation decides the outcome. He knows from the inside what pressure does to people, and what holds up.
He watches your team on the mat and again during the crisis. He spots the hesitation, lost composure and silent moments most observers miss, and his observations go straight into your debrief.
Our coach doesn’t lecture. His way of teaching is to put people in the moment, let them feel it, then show them what changed. It is how he coaches athletes, and why the lessons stay with your team long after the day.
Year-round programme
Pressure skills fade without practice. The debrief shows what to work on. For teams that want lasting results, we train it all year round, in a programme built together with you.
The year-round programme is open only after a first executive seminar.
Regular drills and crisis exercises, organised around your calendar and goals.
The seminar fee is deducted from the annual contract if you sign within 30 days.
Private corporate engagements
Find out how your leadership team performs when control disappears, before a real incident shows you. Tell us what matters in your environment and we will shape the crisis around your organisation.
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