Performance coaching
Let’s build you up for your greatest work
Founded by Cleo Shortland, the Wā Programme offers one to one performance coaching and fluid structure to create your greatest work
Designed with you in mind
You're moving into new territory. Something is ending. Priorities are shifting. Your body and energy levels may also be changing shape.
The self you built to succeed in the version before is still running the show. It kept you going. It has stopped fitting, and you can feel it.
The experience
Starting at the core of who you are, we explore what is true for you right now and where you’re headed.
This is where the vision lives, expansive and alive. Getting honest about what's yearning to come through you and into the world. Confusion and uncertainty show up here too, because you’re moving into unfamiliar territory. Old mindsets and old beliefs are shedding, and that's part of the work.
We geek out on the data presenting how you spend your time. Goals become part of the process together with a fluid structure that has you stepping into your future with disciplinary ease. The process becomes second nature. Intuitive decision making sits right alongside this work.
What emerges stays live and changing. It moves with each disruption and grows after every win.
Wā
(noun) time, season, period of time, interval, term, duration.
“Your positivity wasn't just uplifting, it was empowering. You have a way of helping people see what's possible rather than focusing on limitations, and helping them recognise their own strengths and potential. That gave me greater confidence in my own abilities, and I always left interactions with you feeling energised, capable, and more willing to back myself and take the next step forward. The lasting impact for me was a stronger belief in what I could achieve and the confidence to go after it.”
Aime Carter, South Island Super Yacht Services
What you receive
Fortnightly 90 minute video calls, one to one with Cleo.
An open communication line between calls, so what surfaces gets named as it happens.
Visual tools that hold what's emerging across time, following what you’re creating.
US$2,000 a month, cancel anytime.
Kia ora, I’m Cleo Shortland
As I've gotten older and my family and responsibilities have grown, I've found my energy levels and body have changed and in response have had to rebuild how I worked. The way I had always operated, the systems, the hours, the sheer volume, stopped being available to me. I had to create new ways of increasing income, running my businesses, and getting the important things done.
I learned then what I still hold now: burnout and chronic stress are poor representations of performance intelligence.
That sent me looking for more...
Book a curiosity call to find how you will create your greatest work
Step into the
Wā Programme
Book a curiosity call with Cleo to learn how to step into the experience.
“My time working with Cleo was alchemical. I had never felt so deeply held and understood, a natural gift she holds. What stayed with me was a connection that transcended the surface and the ordinary. You could always tell that holding space energised her as much as it uplifted us both.
Through ritual, contemplation, deep enquiry and a focus on creating the future, Cleo sped up my personal evolution in a way only very few people can. Blending the rational and the creative, her structures and frameworks create a safe container for deeper magic to come through.
There is a true element of belief and magic in working with Cleo that goes far deeper than the mind, and you have to experience it to understand what can be created together. I made so much progress in those years, having Cleo hold my visions with unwavering faith. Cleo is the real deal.”
Rhea James Fox, Writer
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Wā Programme is designed with a focus of bringing your ideas into creation, so each video call is built on the last across each of the phases:
Ideation and vision
Uncertainty and confusion
Aligned action towards creation
You arrive with whatever's most alive: a decision, a doubt, a pull you're still finding words for. I listen for what's underneath it, and we work to understand it deeper and whether anything needs to shift.
We then thread the findings into your personal framework to support you in taking aligned action.
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This is coaching built around deep listening and aligned action. It draws on a real, structured method rather than open conversation alone.
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This work suits a genuine change of season as much as a hard moment: a shift in capacity, a decision on the horizon, a pull toward something new.
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This work is built around the particular expansiveness and weight of being the person a business ultimately answers to. That weight has a shape I know well from almost two decades inside that world.
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It keeps this work reachable across time zones and travel, and keeps a full season possible regardless of where you're based.
I do travel a bit and love connecting on the ground and in-person when I can.
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Everything shared stays between us. This is a private container for thinking something through, held with the same discretion you'd expect from your own profession.
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This work is built on individual attention and discretion, better suited to conversation than broadcast. Find more through the podcast, or start with a curiosity call.