Founder of PRESENCE™
SOMATIC
INTELLIGENCE.
The Leadership Edge
AI Cannot Replicate.
PRESENCE™ is a structured somatic method that trains leaders to regulate under pressure, expand capacity, and lead from coherence.
The body is the one thing AI cannot replicate, automate, or replace. In an era where everything cognitive is being outsourced to machines, somatic intelligence is becoming humanity's most valuable and most neglected asset. PRESENCE™ is the training.
leadership is lived, taught
to thousands globally.
Google
Microsoft
YPO
Mindvalley UniversityLeadership demands a body that can hold voltage.
Modern leadership asks you to hold pressure, visibility, responsibility, influence, emotional intensity, uncertainty, and sustained creation — all at once. That load lands in the nervous system first. Strategy, clarity, and judgment follow from the state of the body that carries them.
PRESENCE™ trains the body to become the place from which a leader can:
- 01think clearly
- 02feel deeply without collapsing
- 03regulate under pressure
- 04hold more visibility, responsibility, and intensity
- 05embody vision — in the boardroom, in the family, in the mirror
Regulation is a skill. Capacity is trainable. Coherence is measurable.
Ancient Intelligence.
Modern Precision.
PRESENCE™ works through seven layers of embodiment — breath, movement, muscular intelligence, sound, vision, the relational field, and inspiration — integrating ancient embodied traditions with modern somatic therapy and nervous system science.
The result is a leader whose power feels grounded, whose presence is felt rather than performed, and whose system can hold the voltage of their vision.
Data tells the truth.
Executives measure everything that matters — revenue, performance, sleep, recovery. The nervous system that carries all of it deserves the same rigor. Data turns a felt shift into a documented one: regulation becomes a skill you can train, track, and prove. What gets measured gets mastered.
InTruth reads the body's own signals. Biometric sensors capture heartbeat data throughout the experience, and InTruth's AI translates those signals into a live map of emotional state — the type of emotion and its intensity, moment by moment. The room watches its coherence move as one field. Afterwards, each leader receives a personal report: their system's journey through the arc of the practice.
Privacy is built into the architecture: your wearable, your app, your data — your power, in your hands. Each leader runs InTruth on their own phone and their own device; the record your body generates lives in your account and leaves with you. The room sees the collective field. You keep your own story. This is biological sovereignty in practice.
PRESENCE™️ works with InTruth because the science holds. Founded in 2021 by Nicole Gibson — formerly Australia's youngest Commonwealth mental health commissioner — InTruth built the world's first system to track emotion through wearable biometrics with clinical-grade accuracy. Backed by $9.5 million in funding and operating between San Francisco and Melbourne, InTruth works with the wearables leaders already own — Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, and more.
At live events, participants can wear biometric devices that capture nervous system data throughout the experience. The room watches its own coherence shift in real time — and each leader receives a personal report of their system's journey afterwards. The invisible becomes visible. The felt becomes proven.
Three ways this work enters a leader's life.
Keynotes & Chapter Experiences
Signature immersive events for chapters and leadership groups — keynote, somatic practice, and ceremony designed as one arc. Available with live biometric measurement: watch the room's collective nervous system shift in real time.
Forum Retreats
Private facilitation for Forums of 8–10 members. Multi-day containers built around trust, regulation, and capacity — designed with the Forum moderator, held by Layla.
Private Work
A one-to-one engagement for leaders training their own system — capacity, regulation, presence. By application. Spaces are limited by design.
Investment shared in conversation.
Layla El Khadri
Layla El Khadri is the founder of PRESENCE™ and has devoted over a decade to the body as a pathway to power, clarity, and leadership. Trained in somatic therapy in San Francisco and immersed for years in body-based traditions across Asia — Taoism, Qigong, breathwork, Feldenkrais, martial and postural disciplines — she has distilled that lineage into a coherent method built for the demands of modern leadership.
She has taught thousands of people globally, delivering her work for leaders at Google, Microsoft, YPO, and Mindvalley University, and built her own business on the same practice she teaches: a nervous system trained to hold visibility, pressure, and creation without losing itself.
She is a bridge between ancient embodied wisdom and the rooms where leadership actually happens.
In their words
“Layla has developed a beautiful way of bringing together the best of both worlds.Her depth of understanding of the physiological and scientific side of things (from knowing the anatomy of our female body and creating a deep standing of our hormonal system and brain function) to bringing in ancient wisdom through the Taoist lineage combined with a deeply enriching emotional connection to this material from having lived these wisdom for so many years. This is the very thing that takes her transmission from being informative to being deeply, genuinely transformative.”
“Layla is an activator of purpose and a curator of truth.She saw right through my stories and my limitations, she saw the version of me I wasn't able to see yet and mirrored it back to me. Layla has the gift of asking all the right questions at the perfect timing which for me has triggered a profound remembrance of my own truth and therefore an activation of my purpose.”
“Layla helped me to open up to the energies/emotions I had always numbed and dulled due to their intensity.She helped me open up, and then guided me from being a victim to what I felt -- both inside myself and from what I picked up as an empathetic female in the world -- to being a vessel, a conduit, or my favorite analogy: Layla helped turn me into an energy launderer.”
“I’ve seen Layla El Khadri move in her power and the power house that she is and her willingness to be a leader to create more leaders and her magic and light are inspiring and I am willing to learn from her.”
“I call Layla my Midwife of my gift, because she helped me birth my dream business. I am finally living my life fully empowered as I serve others with my talents.”
“It was such a relief to find Layla. She is the first woman that I met that embodied so deeply and so authentically what I've been yearning for all my life”
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