SALUZ Insight#001
The Missing Competency
Why the biology of performance belongs in Executive Education.
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Human Performance · Executive Education
Advancing Human Performance in Organizations.
SALUZ Institute
Every professional capability your organization invests in — leadership, judgement, learning, composure under pressure — runs on the same biological system. SALUZ Performance Labs bring that system into executive education, with evidence and without wellness language.
01The gap
We train the capability, never the system that produces it.
Attention, learning, emotional regulation and decision-making under pressure are biological before they are behavioural. Yet almost no executive curriculum teaches how that biology works, or what changes when a leader has slept five hours, crossed three time zones and is chairing a difficult meeting at four in the afternoon.
That is the subject of a Performance Lab. It is not a wellbeing initiative.
02The science
Four territories. One connected system.
Research across neuroscience, sleep science, nutrition, exercise physiology and psychology now describes the conditions that shape performance with real precision. We translate it into learning, and update it as the evidence moves.
Brain
Attention · Learning · Cognitive performance
How focus is built and lost across a working day, and what that means for learning and judgement.
Energy
Nutrition · Metabolism · Microbiome
Why energy availability shapes cognitive endurance through long days and compressed travel.
Sleep
Recovery · Cognitive function · Resilience
The measurable cost of short nights on memory, emotional regulation and decision quality.
Movement
Brain health · Energy · Physical capacity
Movement as a cognitive intervention, not a fitness objective.
03Performance Labs
Designed around your people — not a lecture off the shelf.
A Lab is built with your team, in your programme's language and against your objectives. It runs in three movements and ends with decisions written down, not resolutions.
- Formats
- From 120 minutes to a full day, or a series
- Group size
- 15–50 participants
- Delivery
- In person, online or hybrid
- Languages
- English and Spanish
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Understand
The evidence itself — what the research shows, and where it stops.
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Experience
The conditions participants recognise: load, travel, compressed weeks, high-stakes calls.
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Apply
Two or three specific decisions that survive a real working week.
04In the classroom
What a session looks like.
05Faculty
The people behind the method.
Researchers, physicians, psychologists and executive educators working to one shared Human Performance methodology. Scientific expertise matters — so does the ability to hold a room of sceptical executives.
VB
Virginia Bombín
Founder & Academic Director
Energy, Nutrition & Performance
LinkedIn ↗VP
Vanesa Pytel, PhD
Brain & Cognitive Performance
LinkedIn ↗AR
Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz, PhD
Sleep & Recovery
LinkedIn ↗RC
Rosa Caballero, MD, PhD
Microbiome, Immunity & Inflammation
LinkedIn ↗AB
Álvaro Barroso, PhD
Exercise, Metabolism & Performance
LinkedIn ↗PJ
Pedro Jiménez-Reyes, PhD
Exercise Science & Physical Performance
LinkedIn ↗06What participants say
“The workshop made me realise my breakfasts weren't really nourishing me. Small changes, I learned, can bring large improvements. Since then I have more energy through the day and no more glucose spikes.”
“Highly practical. A simple change — the order in which I eat — has made a real and lasting difference to how I feel after meals.”
“A genuinely enriching experience. It changed how I structure what I eat, especially in the morning, and dismantled several myths about products I had assumed were healthy.”
“The session was, literally and metaphorically, food for thought. The shift in how I understand the effect of nutrition and energy on my cognitive capacity has been profound. I strongly recommend it to any leader who wants to see real change in their working day.”
07Where we work
Built into programmes that already exist.
A Lab rarely arrives on its own. It sits inside a leadership curriculum, an academy, or a leadership team's own calendar.
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Leadership programmes
A Performance Lab built into an existing leadership curriculum, aligned to its language and objectives.
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Executive teams
Closed sessions for leadership teams working under sustained demand and constant decision-making.
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Corporate universities
Faculty contributions inside in-house academies and continuous development programmes.
Programme overview
Download the Performance Labs overview.
A short PDF covering the method, the four scientific territories, formats, durations and what participants leave with. Written for the people who commission executive programmes.
08Knowledge
Evidence, ideas and conversations on Human Performance.
Short, peer-reviewed-grounded pieces on how we think, learn, decide and perform — and what it means for organizations.
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