15–30 min
Lunch & Learn or Corporate Demonstration
Introduce employees or decision-makers to the relationship between internal state, behavior, and workplace performance through a concise educational and experiential session.
Human performance for organizations
Your team doesn’t need more pressure. They need a better way to perform under it.
When pressure, scattered attention, and constant urgency become the norm, even capable people struggle to focus, communicate clearly, and make effective decisions.
CIELO helps employees and leaders recognize what is happening internally, shift their state in real time, and return to their work with greater focus, intention, and control.
Build focus Lead through pressure Sustain performance
The real bottleneck
The problem isn’t always a lack of skill.
Your people may already know what they need to do. But knowing what to do and being internally prepared to do it are not the same thing.
When employees and leaders are operating under chronic pressure, it can appear as:
- Constant multitasking without meaningful progress
- Difficulty focusing or completing priority work
- Reactive communication and avoidable conflict
- Procrastination, resistance, and decision fatigue
- Reduced creativity and problem-solving
- Disengagement, exhaustion, and frequent absences
- Leaders who understand the strategy but lack the capacity to execute it effectively
The CIELO Method™
Regulation is the gateway. State Before Strategy™.
A practical process for understanding the internal patterns affecting performance, and using breathwork, meditation, and metacognition to respond more intentionally.
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Comprehend
Understand what is happening in the brain, body, and nervous system under pressure.
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Identify
Recognize pressure patterns, triggers, and performance barriers as they occur.
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Engage
Use breathwork, meditation, and metacognition to shift state in real time.
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Lead
Choose an intentional response and lead yourself or others effectively through pressure.
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Optimize
Build habits and environments that support sustainable performance.
- Understand
- Recognize
- Shift
- Lead
- Sustain
What changes
What changes when people can shift their state?
- Greater focus and more intentional use of attention
- Improved productivity and task completion
- Clearer decision-making under pressure
- More thoughtful communication and response control
- Stronger leadership presence
- Greater awareness of pressure and burnout patterns
- Practical tools for recovering and refocusing
- More sustainable individual and team performance
This is not about eliminating every high-pressure situation. It is about helping people recognize what is happening, create space before reacting, and intentionally choose what happens next.
Where to begin
Choose the right starting point for your organization.
You do not have to commit to a long-term program to begin.
30 min
Workday Reset
Give employees an accessible opportunity to pause, shift their state, and return to the workday with greater awareness and focus.
45–60 min
Ignition Session
Combine evidence-informed education, guided breathwork, and intentional integration to create an experience participants can feel and understand.
60 min
Focus & Productivity Workshop
Explore how chronic urgency, multitasking, pressure, resistance, and scattered attention interfere with meaningful work — and learn a practical process for refocusing.
Half / full day
Half-Day and Full-Day Training
Move beyond awareness into deeper learning, guided practice, workplace application, and team implementation through the complete framework.
Ongoing
Customized Training and Coaching
An ongoing engagement based on your organization’s leadership, communication, performance, or employee-development needs.
12 weeks
The CIELO Protocol
The deepest tier: a nervous-system training program for executives, sales professionals and teams who need to perform under pressure.
- In-person cohort
- Virtual
- Dedicated corporate cohort
One experience can create a powerful shift.
But sustainable change requires reinforcement. Begin with the level that fits your organization’s goals, schedule, budget, and readiness.
- Experience
- Apply
- Integrate
- Sustain
Keynotes
Where neuroscience, leadership and lived experience meet.
Keynotes are delivered at the intersection of neuroscience, leadership, and lived experience — making complex somatic science immediately accessible and actionable for corporate audiences, HR leaders, and high-performance teams.
Help me choose the right experience
You don’t need to know which service to choose: we will recommend the most appropriate starting point.
Who we work with
Designed around your people and your goals.
- Leadership teams
- Employees and departments
- Sales and customer-facing professionals
- Nonprofit organizations
- Public-sector teams
- Conferences and corporate retreats
- Employee development initiatives
The framework remains consistent. The examples, exercises, scenarios, and emphasis are tailored to your people and the problem you want to address.
Looking for group classes or 1:1 sessions?
Classes & Studio at CIELO BreathworkTrained & measured
We train the regulation — and measure the change.
CIELO trains the regulation that determines whether people and teams can execute under pressure — and documents what changed.
Today
Validated before-and-after benchmarks
Change is measured with validated benchmarks that participants self-report before and after the work.
On the roadmap
Wearables and EEG
Wearable and EEG measurement are part of the roadmap for CIELO’s measurement platform.
NSF I-Corps · 2026
Toward research and commercialization
Through the NSF I-Corps program, CIELO’s measurement platform is advancing toward research and commercialization.
Credentials
Credentials & recognition.
Selected in 2026
NSF I-Corps — Fall 2026 Cohort
Through the University of Louisville’s LaunchIt program, advancing CIELO’s measurement platform toward research and commercialization.
Leadership & community
- Better Business Bureau Greater Louisville — Board of Directors
- Table Host — 100 Wise Women, Leadership Louisville Center (2026)
- BBB Greater Louisville Board Corporate Summit
- Louisville Mayor’s Office Flagship Cultural Events Partner
Media & features
- Featured in WDRB News
- The Derby Pitch Competition feature
Government contracting
- SAM.gov federal registration
- Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) designations
Founder
Cielo M. Stein, MBA
Founder & CEO, CIELO
Cielo M. Stein, MBA, is the Founder & CEO of CIELO, a human performance company built on a simple idea: performance is a nervous-system event. Through The CIELO Method™, she trains the regulation that determines whether people and teams can execute under pressure — and measures the change. A former President’s Club pharmaceutical sales leader, Cielo brings the discipline of the corporate room to the science of human performance. In 2026 she was selected as an NSF I-Corps awardee through the University of Louisville’s LaunchIt program, advancing CIELO’s measurement platform toward research and commercialization. She holds an MBA from Bellarmine University and a B.S. in Business from the University of Louisville, serves on the Better Business Bureau Board of Directors, and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
For procurement teams
Capability Statement
Our capability statement for institutional, government and corporate buyers.
Next step
You don’t need to know which service to choose.
Tell us what your organization is experiencing, what you want to improve, and what type of event or training you are considering. We will recommend the most appropriate starting point.
During the consultation, we will
- Identify the primary challenge affecting your employees or leaders.
- Clarify the outcome you want the engagement to create.
- Recommend the most appropriate experience or training.
- Discuss audience, delivery format, customization, timing, and investment.
- Provide a customized recommendation or proposal when appropriate.
Your organization does not need more information that people forget. It needs an experience they can understand, feel, and use.