Executive coaching grounded in performance psychology and ancient wisdom to help you connect your values with peak performance.
Bold Clients
Inner Life Advisory Co. clients are visionaries, innovative creators, and successful organizations. They are pushing at the edge of their capacity and managing immense responsibilities and stress. Often they can find themselves feeling disconnected from themselves or their work—they are searching for tools to prevent burnout.
The Inner Life Advisory Co. can support if you are:
Seeking tools to prevent burnout and sustain high performance
Struggling to get the most out of your team or organization
Trapped in unfulfilling roles, habits, or external expectations
Curious about aligning values, performance, and purpose
Lacking time for rest and relationships
Wondering if your work is truly making a difference
Your Guide
Benjamin Smith, MDiv, CSCS, has walked with hundreds of leaders in business, law, medicine, and elite sport. He knows the challenges high performers face to be at their best, show results, and lead organizations.
You don’t have to sell your soul to be successful.
“I help high-performers identify their purpose, train the mental skills to pursue what matters most, and live a life of meaning and joy in the process.”
The Inner Life Process
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We only have a short amount of time in which we are alive on this planet. Many people find themselves stuck in roles and habits that are soul crushing, paralyzed by the expectations of others, or chasing external accomplishments to satisfy an inner emptiness. Sometimes we are moving too fast to even realize we are out of alignment with our desires.
Loss of loved ones and major life transitions often shake people out of this haze into waking up to the big questions of life. But even small misalignments over time can lead to burnout and the aching questions: Who am I? What matters most? Where do I want to spend my time?
Together, we will clarify what matters most to you. We slow down, explore values, and help you situate yourself as a hero in your own story—ready to live a life of challenge, meaning, and connection.
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With clarity of purpose, we collaborate on training the inner mental skills so you can pursue your goals no matter the external obstacles. World-class performers are resilient, growth oriented, and have incredible present-moment focus. Through deliberate practice, we shape your inner life to move from fear to excitement, recognizing the opportunities for continual growth.
Using evidence-based practices from performance psychology, you can become emotionally agile and focused in the present moment. No matter your context, you will have the skills to remain calm and confident regardless of the external circumstances.
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With clarity of purpose and new mental skills, you will work with a deeper sense of meaning and joy.
Instead of an endless rush of tasks and responsibilities, we approach work as an expression of self—finding ways for you to meet important external markers of success, but doing so with greater ease, creativity, and aliveness in the process.
Through this process, leadership and relationships transform, so you connect more deeply with the people around you. Your leadership takes on new courage, possibility, and optimism.
Services
1:1 Executive Coaching
This is deep, long-term coaching for those navigating fast-moving lives and wanting to find greater connection with their work, navigate stress, and improve performance.
Working at the intersection of performance science, contemplative practice, and professional coaching, each session is customized to your current challenges and goals. Sessions can include:
Identifying your values and what matters most
Nervous system training for calm under pressure
A toolkit for confidence in high-risk situations
Communication skills to gain the trust of your team
Rest and recovery in a busy life
Small-Group Leadership Development
When a group of individuals becomes a true team, excellence follows. That transformation isn’t luck — it’s the result of intentional leadership. We help organizations cultivate teams built on shared vision, trust, and emotional resilience.
Our approach starts from the inside out. The most effective leaders are not only skilled but grounded, self-aware, and fueled by meaning and purpose. They lead from joy, connection, and clarity — not fear or scarcity.
We design custom leadership development experiences for emerging leaders that spark growth, deepen connection, and create cultures where people want to stay and thrive.
Retreat Design
For organizations looking to gather better together, we offer guidance in designing retreats and gatherings that draw out human connection. Whether you are designing an off-site or facilitating a high-consequence meeting, we can provide guidance on gathering structure for more effectively connection.
We go beyond cliché team-building workshops to offer spaces for deep reflection and honest conversation. Our methods are built on the science of adult learning and include:
Deliberate opening and closing rituals
Small-group storytelling practices to connect with human experience
Integrative reflection time
Collective vision and goal-setting
Keynote Presentations
Drawing on the intersection of performance science, contemplative practice, and leadership expertise, we deliver engaging, research-informed talks that inspire both immediate insight and lasting impact. Each keynote is tailored to your audience and your organization’s context — blending storytelling, practical tools, and moments of reflection that connect deeply with those in the room.
Topics include:
Thriving in Uncertainty: Building resilience and adaptability in fast-changing environments.
Clarifying Purpose: Reconnecting to the deeper “why” that fuels performance and meaning.
Finding Joy in the Work: Shifting from burnout and fatigue to fulfillment and vitality.
The Principles and Practices of Flow: Unlocking peak performance through presence and focus.
Leading with Courage: Guiding others with clarity, compassion, and conviction — even in the face of challenge.
“Work is where self meets world.”
– David Whyte
A Life Well-Lived
Imagine a life where you bounce out of bed every morning with the fire of feeling fully alive. Instead of being defined by your results or accomplishments, you are in alignment with what brings meaning in your life. You have an inner toolkit and the mental agility to respond to whatever happens at work with ease. Relationships deepen and you find you are a part of a team bigger than yourself. Your work becomes an expression of your deepest values—it is no longer about producing, but the process of creation. The obstacles are no longer threats, they are challenges that support your continual growth. Our goal is to help you live this life of meaning and joy.
Get in Touch
Book a complimentary discovery call
Develop an action plan to train mental skills
Be at your best and looking forward to new challenges