I’m Dr Dorian Minors, and Karstica is where I sell you on a slightly different approach to leadership development, executive coaching, and culture transformation.
Scholarship into wisdom. That’s the promise.
My job is simple: help you and your team think, decide, and lead with more intelligence and less noise. After a decade in research, six years in the Infantry, and countless classrooms and boardrooms, I’ve learned that most “secret formulas” are just re-packaged common sense. What isn’t common is the ability to translate solid science into day-to-day habits that stick.
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Most leadership, culture-change, and coaching programmes lean heavily on one of two things:
But lore isn’t leverage and buzzwords don’t make you better. If you want to know which programmes work, ask the question “how do you measure impact?”
If they can’t answer, then they can’t deliver. I can.
I’m Dr Dorian Minors—a Cambridge-educated brain scientist with ten years of clinical experience. I’m a former Infantry platoon commander, and a permanent lecturer in leadership at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. I’ve taught psychology and science of mind at the Unversity of Cambridge and the Judge Business School. So you can trust me when I say that human betterment and interpersonal dymanics might be the best-studied phenomena in modern sciences of mind.
You can also trust me when I say that using the language of science isn’t the same as using the science.
For over a decade I’ve helped executives, founders, teams, and military leaders avoid the kind of karstic, fluffy nonsense that populates this space, and concentrate on real, measurable impact. I can help with:
No reason not to try, right?
Tell us a bit about what you want to do, and I'll see if we think we can help.
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My content on leadership, culture, and human systems change.
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I talk about something I call the “neuroscience confidence game” a lot, but I realised I hadn’t ever written an article I could easily link to to explain it. Some unfortunate soul on instagram, using this technique as their primary strategy, had me fall into their ad-targeting and I’m going to use them to illustrate, so that you can tease this kind of thing apart yourself.
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A lot of people were upset with me for teasing the ‘neuroscience-based’ coaching programme ‘Positive Intelligence’, so I thought I’d do a little autopsy. This is part three, on the brain science… Such as it is.
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A lot of people were upset with me for teasing the ‘neuroscience-based’ coaching programme ‘Positive Intelligence’, so I thought I’d do a little autopsy. This is part two, on the content… Such as it is.
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