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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.

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  • Build focus
  • Lead through pressure
  • Sustain performance

Recognized & registered

  • NSF I-Corps

    Fall 2026 Cohort

  • University of Louisville

    LaunchIt program

  • Better Business Bureau

    Greater Louisville — Board of Directors

  • SAM.gov

    WOSB · EDWOSB designations

State Before Strategy™

Performance is a nervous-system event.

Powered by The CIELO Method™ — the process CIELO uses to train regulation, and the language it uses to talk to executives.

The real bottleneck

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.

  1. 01

    Comprehend

    Understand what is happening in the brain, body, and nervous system under pressure.

  2. 02

    Identify

    Recognize pressure patterns, triggers, and performance barriers as they occur.

  3. 03

    Engage

    Use breathwork, meditation, and metacognition to shift state in real time.

  4. 04

    Lead

    Choose an intentional response and lead yourself or others effectively through pressure.

  5. 05

    Optimize

    Build habits and environments that support sustainable performance.

  1. Understand
  2. Recognize
  3. Shift
  4. Lead
  5. 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.

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.

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30 min

Workday Reset

Give employees an accessible opportunity to pause, shift their state, and return to the workday with greater awareness and focus.

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45–60 min

Ignition Session

Combine evidence-informed education, guided breathwork, and intentional integration to create an experience participants can feel and understand.

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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.

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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.

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Ongoing

Customized Training and Coaching

An ongoing engagement based on your organization’s leadership, communication, performance, or employee-development needs.

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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

Corporate Cohort

$19,997

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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.

  1. Experience
  2. Apply
  3. Integrate
  4. 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.

You don’t need to know which service to choose: we will recommend the most appropriate starting point.

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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 Breathwork

Trained & 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: core competencies, past performance, differentiators, certifications and codes, in one page.

Download Capability Statement (PDF)

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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

  1. Identify the primary challenge affecting your employees or leaders.
  2. Clarify the outcome you want the engagement to create.
  3. Recommend the most appropriate experience or training.
  4. Discuss audience, delivery format, customization, timing, and investment.
  5. 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.