You Were Prepared for the Wrong World
For 150 years, Western education shaped knowledge workers for speed, execution, optimization, and correctness; the language of machines. But a new dynamic era has arrived.
Today's work is relational, interpretive, mood-based, and breakdown-rich. It requires the language of human beings.
Almost no one was prepared for it.
This is not an individual's fault. This is a civilizational failure of education.
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Why Nothing Else Has Worked
❌ Consulting sees performance issues as structural — it does not see the moods or the conversations.
❌ Psychology treats breakdowns as individual pathologies.
❌ Leadership Development teaches frameworks divorced from lived language.
❌ Coaching cannot map commitments, requests, promises, or declarations.
The actual problem is a collapse of skill in the human domain — the very medium in which all work and life happens: conversation.
The Waste Is Everywhere
In our people: Loneliness. Resignation. Anxiety. Relational drift. The inability to ask for help, navigate conflict, or open futures with others.
In our enterprises: $8.8 trillion is lost annually to disengagement and coordination failure. Teams that cannot move. Leaders who cannot lead. Managers who cannot make requests. Workers who cannot make promises.
Same root cause.
The Institute for Human Potential
Conceivian is not coaching, consulting, therapy, or leadership development.
We are an institute for human potential — research, activation, and mobilization — built for an era our education never prepared us for.
We help people declare breakdowns, make requests, negotiate promises, repair trust, navigate moods, and coordinate action. And by doing that, have joy at work.
Work is where humans build futures. Conceivian exists to enable the skills that make that possible.
Where We Begin
Something is blocking you — in your career, your team, your enterprise, or something you cannot quite name.
But you feel it anyway.
Most people who come to us are stuck in patterns they cannot see.
We offer a diagnosis conversation — not a sales pitch — to help you see what is actually in the way.
The Work
We work with individuals ready to transform themselves and organizations ready to transform their culture. The entry point depends on where you are and what's breaking down. Start where it makes sense. We'll figure out the rest together.
Transform Yourself
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Indispensable
Rediscover the power of work. Join The Indispensables—a 12-week journey + ongoing community to grow, lead, and become indispensable in the age of AI.
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The Power Course
At the Power Course, you expand yourself, expand your work, and expand your world. You learn 16 superpowers for action. And you will develop lifelong friendships. 1 year.
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Ontological Reconstruction
A direct 1:1 relationship with Saqib. He'll challenge your thinking, perturb your stuck mood, and help you see what's been invisible. For executives ready to transform.
Transform Your Business
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Enterprise Turnaround In Language
Transform performance in 90 days where speed, clarity, and care become the new operating system.
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Organizational Diagnosis
A rigorous assessment of where trust, coordination, and conversation are breaking down — and what it is costing you.
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Emerging Leaders Program
Develop the next generation of leaders who can navigate moods, coordinate commitments, and mobilize teams.
What We Are Here To Do
To reclaim the wasted potential of an entire generation.
To redesign how human beings relate, coordinate, and create value.
To eliminate the waste of modernity — one conversation at a time.
The aim of all this work? Joy. At work. In life.
The kind that comes from being able to move, to coordinate, to trust, to act.
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