Craig Young's Intrinsic Living empowers high-performing women to redefine leadership through emotional mastery, calm confidence, and a neuroscience-based approach to sustainable success.
-- The New Power Code: How Intrinsic Living Is Helping High-Performing Women Redefine Strength
In today’s high-performance world, leadership often comes at a personal cost, particularly for women balancing demanding careers with the constant expectation for excellence. While the image of success is often polished and unstoppable, many leaders quietly face internal strain. This tension has sparked a shift in the conversation about what true strength looks like, and how leadership can be more sustainable from the inside out.
Craig Young, founder of Intrinsic Living, is at the forefront of this movement, helping women leaders reconnect with a sense of internal balance while maintaining their ambition and leadership edge. Young’s approach emphasizes clarity, calm, and conscious self-awareness, moving away from pressure-driven performance toward aligned, effective leadership.
Reframing Leadership: A New Model for Success
“For many high-achieving women, success has been built through resilience and control,” explains Craig Young. “But over time, that constant tension becomes unsustainable. The goal isn’t to work harder, it’s to access clarity and confidence from within.”
This philosophy of leadership stems from Young’s own experience. Having spent years in high-pressure leadership roles, he personally recognized the toll that nonstop striving had taken on his well-being. That realization prompted a re-evaluation of his approach to success, leading him to develop Intrinsic Living, a model that promotes leadership rooted in balance, emotional mastery, and self-awareness.
Intrinsic Living: A Personalized Approach to Sustainable Leadership
Intrinsic Living is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, it provides clients with guided practices that help them identify unproductive habits, reconnect with core values, and shift their approach to leadership. By integrating principles from psychology, behavioral science, and performance coaching, the method encourages reflection and self-awareness, allowing leaders to reset and lead with renewed presence.
This model of strength doesn’t require sacrificing ambition. Instead, it empowers individuals to align their leadership style with their true values, helping them to perform effectively while maintaining emotional well-being. “Leaders perform better when they feel grounded,” Young says. “It’s not about removing challenges, but about learning to meet them with greater self-awareness and composure.”
Shifting Mindsets: From Pressure to Presence
Women in executive roles often report feeling the need to constantly prove their worth, a dynamic that contributes to chronic stress over time. Intrinsic Living helps to reframe success on a day-to-day basis, shifting the mindset from pressure-driven performance to leading with presence and calm.
Through structured reflection and values-based practices, clients learn to lead with greater composure, which ultimately enhances their decision-making, communication, and team dynamics. According to Young, clients report feeling more focused, less reactive, and better equipped to navigate the demands of leadership without the emotional toll typically associated with high-performance roles.
Real Impact: Leadership That Feels Different
Clients of Intrinsic Living consistently describe their experience as life changing , not just professionally, but personally. One senior executive shared that learning to lead from calm “didn’t make me softer; it made me sharper.” Another reflected, “For the first time in years, I’m leading with clarity instead of control.”
These outcomes go beyond better performance metrics , they mark a return to authentic leadership. When women shift from pressure to presence, they naturally become more influential, grounded, and fulfilled. The transformation isn’t about adding more strategies, it’s about removing the internal resistance that drains energy and purpose.
As Craig explains, “When leaders feel calm inside, they don’t just lead better , they live better.”
A Cultural Evolution: The Need for Sustainable Leadership
This shift toward self-aware, emotionally mastered leadership is more than a trend, it’s a cultural evolution. As organizations increasingly recognize the impact of leadership well-being on overall performance, the demand for approaches like Intrinsic Living is growing. This model integrates ambition with intention, helping leaders create success that aligns with their personal values and supports their long-term well-being.
Craig Young’s work is sparking a broader conversation about how we define leadership in the modern world. He emphasizes that his focus isn’t on quick fixes or surface-level strategies, but on supporting leaders to create deeper, more authentic ways of showing up in their roles.
Calm is a Capability, Not a Compromise
As the leadership landscape continues to evolve, the message is clear: calm is not a compromise, it’s a capability. Leaders who learn to harness emotional mastery and lead with presence may find themselves not only performing better but living more fully.
Learn more about Craig Young and Intrinsic Living and how emotional mastery is helping high-performing women reclaim peace, purpose, and presence in leadership at intrinsicliving.com.au.
Recent Recognition: Best Coaching for High Performing Women in Australia of 2025
In recognition of its transformative impact, Intrinsic Living has been honored with the Best Coaching for High Performing Women in Australia of 2025 award by the prestigious Evergreen Awards. This accolade highlights the groundbreaking approach Craig Young has taken in empowering women to lead with emotional mastery, inner strength, and clarity.
Intrinsic Living® has distinguished itself by offering a personalized, neuroscience-based approach that helps women overcome the internal pressures often associated with success, enabling them to perform at their highest potential while maintaining balance and well-being. The award underscores the growing recognition of Intrinsic Living’s profound influence on the future of female leadership.
About Intrinsic Living:
Intrinsic Living is a leadership coaching model developed by Craig Young, designed to help high-performing professionals, particularly women, achieve sustainable success by integrating emotional mastery and self-awareness into their leadership practices. The method combines principles from neuroscience, psychology, and behavior science to foster clarity, calm, and confidence, empowering leaders to perform effectively without compromising their well-being.
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