Lara Bezerra, WorkCoherence, Florida City, FL (2026)

10/14/2026

Who would have told me that one of the proudest moments of my life would be watching my daughter swear in to the U.S. National Guard?

Not me. Not in a hundred years.

It started with her, at fifteen, asking to leave her private school for a public one to join JROTC. She set up a meeting with a sergeant so I would understand it. I supported her, because it was hers, not mine. I quietly assumed it would pass within a year.

One year later, she swore in.

Then she graduated high school, was accepted into college for Nursing, and on July 1st, 2025, she left for Basic Camp at Fort Sill. She came back, started studying, then was summoned to work in Washington in July 2026. While she was there, she changed colleges and started at UCF.

When she was twelve, I asked my kids why they were here. She said she wanted to be someone people could count on. Dependable. I never imagined where that answer would lead.

Those 6 months of basic camp are designed to break people.

They built my daughter. She had fun; she learned to love difficulties and see anything as a door to something better, bigger.

When she ran into my arms after camp, that hug was pure. Strong. Certain. And the love I thought could not possibly grow, grew, because she is happy. Because she is fully herself.

I understand my job now. To be there. To trust her. To keep sending my blessings so my love keeps her kindness awake, wherever she is, whatever she is doing. Always. This is her gift, her magic.

My baby, you will always be my baby. And now you carry our family's purpose forward: to bring light wherever we are, and to be remembered for our respect, our care, our kindness.

Fly, my love. Thank you for choosing me to be your mother.

To every parent learning to let go so their child can fully become who they are: I see you. It's their choice, and I promise, it will become yours!

10/09/2026

I had the honor of sharing my book with some mentor friends.

I learned much more about what it was actually about.

Just before launching Coherent Leadership in Brazil, I joined a Top2You retreat and ran a workshop on the book with some of the most experienced mentors and human beings I have ever been around.

I was there to share my thoughts on why coherence matters and my model for achieving it.

Those ideas landing in people that sharp, that generous, did something I will be forever grateful for - they reflected the work back to me deeper than I had written it. They asked questions I hadn't asked myself and made me see angles I had noticed more while mentoring these last years, reinforcing my beliefs about leading companies.

And this reminded me: you never fully understand your own work until you watch it change someone else.

That week validated the book and showed me how much further and deeper I want to take this work. The book isn't the end, but the doors to a much larger discussion I want to invite all leaders to - we can transform the workplaces we lead for better.

Immensely grateful to Top2You and every mentor in Jericoacoara who helped me become a better version of myself.

When was the last time sharing something you know taught you more than learning it?

10/07/2026

The most useful leadership education of my life had nothing to do with business.

In Austria, while we were inaugurating the castle, I received teaching from four Rinpoches in a single week. I did not go there to become a better leader. I came back as one.

Here is why, for me, this is not a spiritual detour but the missing core of leadership: Buddhism, as I hold it, is not a religion. It is a cognitive philosophy. A way to raise your consciousness and, with it, your cognitive maturity.

And cognitive maturity is the skill hiding underneath every other leadership skill.

You cannot lead human beings well if you do not understand how human minds actually move. Fear, attachment, reactivity, the stories we tell ourselves. A leader who sees those clearly, in others and in themselves, leads from a completely different place.

A significant part of Coherent Leadership was shaped by this. Because leading, at its highest, is helping human beings flourish, and letting that flourishing produce the results and the legacy.

I broke down what that week taught me in the carousel. Swipe through.

Which of these does your leadership still struggle with most?

10/05/2026

The leadership schools we normally look for teach you to perform better - this is not enough anymore.

On July 17th, in a castle in Austria, we had dinner inside the one we are building to teach something else entirely: how to become whole and lead the flourishing of humanity and societies.

It was the first official donors dinner at Kremsegg Castle, the home that will nest Kremsegg University, part of the Bodhi Project, where I have the honor of serving on the advisory council.

There was the future of an idea. Prof John Dunne, the university's future rector. Our beloved Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, whose vision set all of this in motion. People from very different worlds, held by one purpose.

What makes this different from anything I have seen in leadership development?

At Kremsegg, a contemplative practice program will run in parallel to a coherent leadership program. Inner work and outer work, finally in the same university, feeding each other as one.

We do not need more leaders who perform. We need leaders who are whole. Leaders who take responsibility to help the people under their care flourish, and who make their businesses thrive precisely because of it, and know how to bring true value to society through their companies’ products and services.

The feeling of a dream take its first real breath over dinner I will not forget.

And this is only the first course. Wait for more.

If a university could teach leaders one thing our current schools miss, what should it be?

10/02/2026

As a mother of one son and two daughters, I can't let this week end without speaking up.

When my son goes out to have fun, my worry is about his responsibilities and his choices. If he has fun responsibly, I can rest.

When my daughters go out, my worry is about their responsibilities too, but also about everything around them. Who are they with? Did anyone touch their drink? Are they taking an Uber alone? Who is driving them home?

If my son is handsome and catches people's eye, I feel proud, with no fear behind it. If my daughters catch people's eye, I hope it doesn't awaken the wrong instincts in someone.

What happened this week, with the Cornell 7 case, has created a surge of awareness for all of us. It shows how concerning and challenging the world still is for women. We have come so far, yet the system we live in, and that we go along with, is still not doing enough to make a truly safe space for women.

I'm afraid, and a little embarrassed, to admit that I hadn't fully seen it before. Maybe I took it for granted.
But when I look at the advice I give my son and my daughters side by side, it becomes very clear. We need to act now, raise more conscious and active men, and change our systems.

Swipe through the carousel to see what I mean.

I'd love to hear your ideas. How can we do better in our different spaces: in research, in universities, in workplaces, in schools? Let's share them with compassion and love, not with hate or rage. We have seen enough of that already.
Only with love will we truly change things.

09/28/2026

For years we answered burnout with two words: work life balance.

What if those two words are part of the problem?

Look at what they actually say. Work on one side. Life on the other. As if work had no soul. As if you had to become a slightly smaller version of yourself the moment you badge in.

That quiet split may be one of the most expensive mistakes we made in the last century.

Because human beings were never designed to live divided.

Mental health does not break because people work hard. It breaks when people are forced to live incoherently, when what they believe, feel and value has to stay in the car.

So this is not only an individual issue. It is a cultural one.

The sanity of a company is tied to its coherence. To how honestly its culture matches human values, purpose and truth.

In this video I share a different way to see mental health at work. One that stops chasing balance and starts inviting integration.

Because work is life. Leadership is human. And coherence is the foundation of performance that does not cost people their well being.

I would love to hear you after you watch.

Do your systems ask people to fragment, or to integrate who they are?

09/25/2026

You saw the photos from my book launch in Brazil.

You did not see one of the people who actually made it happen.

On June 22nd, Coherent Leadership met Brazil at Livraria da Vila, on Avenida Paulista. A bookstore full of faces from every chapter of my life. One of the most meaningful nights I have lived.

Here is the part the photos do not show.

I built my life from abroad. Launching a book across an ocean, in the country that made me, is not something you do alone. Every detail that made that night feel effortless was carried, quietly and with enormous love, by my sister Maya.

She handled what I could not. From Brazil, while I was far away. She had no obligation to do it, but she did because she chose to care, the way she always does.

"Maya, I am doing my book launch in São Paulo in 2 months, at Livraria da Vila. Can you help me and buy me some nuts to serve there? I will have only a table to sign the books and some nuts."
"Only nuts? No drinks, no food, no nothing? People will expect more..."
Há! From the food served, the banners spread around, the flower arrangements she made herself, going to the CEASA at 5 am, the drinks, and every detail people could see or not, even the quality check on the printing proof of the book, she was behind it...

While I received so many compliments because of the care and beauty of the launch, she was the care and love of my book launch.

This is the truth about almost every visible success. There is always someone special who makes themselves invisible, who is holding it up. A person who never asks for the credit, and without whom none of it stands.

Today I am saying her name out loud. Thank you, Maya. This launch was yours as much as mine.

Who is the person quietly holding up your biggest moments?

09/24/2026

I flew to the Amazon with a room full of global CEOs to talk about impact.

Then the forest quietly out taught every summit on our agenda.

With YPO, we spent a week in Manaus. A board meeting for the Peace Action Network. Two days of a Global Impact Summit. Two days of retreat with my chapter. The kind of time you almost never protect as a leader: to think slowly, to build with people you trust, to design what comes next with intention instead of urgency.

We came to discuss how to create impact.

And the whole time, the most sophisticated model of impact on Earth was breathing around us.

The Amazon is seen as a resource to be managed, but it is indeed a masterclass in leading a living system. Thousands of species, held for millennia in a balance no strategy deck has ever matched, and a depth of ancient knowledge that our newest words like "regenerative" and "sustainable" are only beginning to reach for.

It made something very clear to me.

We keep flying across the world to engineer impact in slide decks, while the oldest wisdom about living in coherence with a system is already here, carried by people we rarely invite to the table.

Leadership, at its highest, is not about dominating a system. It is about belonging to one, and leaving it more alive than you found it.

That is the shift I carry home from Manaus.

Where in your leadership are you still trying to control a system you were actually meant to serve?

09/23/2026

For three years in India, I watched a country do the one thing most leadership teams swear is impossible.

Hold together without making everyone the same.

I moved there in October 2017 and left in March 2020. I was living a dream, and not only professionally. For the first time I could lead exactly as I had always imagined: purpose, depth, and no gap between what I valued, what I said, and what I did.

But the deepest lesson happened in India.

I traveled through states that felt like different countries. A new language, a new cuisine, a new rhythm of life at almost every border. On paper, a perfect recipe for division.

It was the opposite.

The differences were not tolerated. They were not "managed." They were celebrated, and woven into something stronger precisely because of the contrast.

And I keep thinking: this is the leadership we keep failing to build.

We tell people to bring their whole selves to work, and then we quietly reward the ones who blend in. We call it culture.

Often, it is control wearing culture's clothes.

Real freedom in leadership is not the absence of responsibility.

It is building a place where people can be fully themselves, certain that their individuality is seen and that their contribution matters to a shared purpose.

In my book Coherent Leadership, we call this Integrality. The root of trust. The bridge between diversity and unity.

So here is what I keep asking the leaders I walk with, and what I want to ask you:

Does your leadership free your people to grow, or tie them to fear? Do you unify them through purpose, or through control?

Choose freedom. Choose purpose. Then watch the very differences you feared become the strongest thing you have.

09/18/2026

A Coherent Leader Is Not a Destination. It's a Choice You Make Again Every Day.

If the fifth revolution is going to unfold in a way that actually serves humanity, and not only technology, it will be because of the leaders who show up to guide it. So I want to answer the question I left open in the newsletter directly: who are these leaders, and what will define them?

I want to be honest about something first. A coherent leader is not a title you earn once and then hold onto. It is not a certificate, a stage of seniority, or a state you finally arrive at after enough success. It is a style. A choice of life, renewed every day, especially on the days it would be easier not to renew it. In Coherent Leadership, I describe the journey toward coherence as a spiral, not a straight line, because it keeps repeating itself. We keep growing our consciousness as we acquire new tools to face new challenges, and life will always bring new things to disturb our harmony. That is not failure. It is the practice.

With that said, here are the four traits I believe will define the leaders capable of guiding the fifth revolution well.

The leaders this future needs:

1. Integrality. They see their life and their organization as one interconnected system, not separate compartments, and they understand that every choice ripples through the whole. Leading with AI well starts with knowing themselves, their teams, and the systems they influence, deeply and honestly.

2. Intentionality. They choose, deliberately, what they want technology to serve, rather than letting technology decide the direction for them. They are aware of the impact of every decision they make and use that awareness to act, and to adopt new tools, on purpose rather than on autopilot.

I continue this reflection in the comments below.

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