Boost Productivity and Find Your Flow with Mindfulness

This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.

Your expert

Andy Hix

Andy Hix is a leadership consultant specialising in working with men in high-pressure roles in tech, finance and law. He enables them to get more out of their team, avoid burnout and make more strategic decisions. With over a decade of experience, Andy has worked with organisations including Clifford Chance, Deloitte, PwC, Lloyds, Amazon and Unilever. He trained to teach mindfulness to adults through Bangor University and received his ICF coaching diploma from the Somatic School. During the Covid lockdowns in 2020, Andy also founded a men’s group to explore his own relationship with masculinity and deepen his ability to be open and vulnerable with other men. Andy continues to deepen his work through coaching, retreats, study, yoga and meditation. Outside of work, he enjoys improv, dance and playing ukulele.

All sessions by Andy →

Session Summary

In today’s busy workplaces, staying focused can feel next-to impossible. Constant notifications, noisy environments, and the endless chatter of your own mind pull your attention in all directions. The result is stress, frustration, and a struggle to get meaningful work done.

But there is another way.

Mindfulness can help you enter a state of ‘flow’—where you’re fully immersed in a task, performing at your best with a sense of ease and clarity. This isn’t just good for your wellbeing; it’s also good for your productivity.

Interaction

During the expert session, Andy Hix engages the audience through interactive methods such as Q&A sessions, live demonstrations using the Mentimeter app for polls and exercises, and reflective activities.

Key Learnings

A clearer understanding of what gets in the way of deep focus—and how to overcome it.
Practical tools you can immediately apply to boost your concentration and calm your mind.
Increased confidence in your ability to work ‘in the zone’, even in demanding environments.

We invite participants to share experiences and explore how mindfulness can transform not just how they work, but how they feel while working.

Detailed session description

In this expert session, mindfulness coach Andy Hix explores the significance of productivity, flow, and concentration in our modern work landscape, filled with distractions. With over a decade of experience helping individuals enhance their happiness and productivity through mindfulness practices, Andy begins by sharing insights from his professional journey.

He then dives into the concept of "flow," a mental state characterized by complete absorption in an activity, explaining how our productivity plummets when we multitask and our intellect is diminished as well. Andy highlights mindfulness meditation as an effective tool to train our attention, enabling us to concentrate on a singular focus, such as our breath.

Andy leads the audience through an exercise to practice focusing their attention, emphasizing the importance of remaining calm and patient with oneself when one's mind wanders. He then presents the Pomodoro Technique, which involves dedicating 25 minutes of uninterrupted focus on a specific task while avoiding distractions, followed by a brief respite.

Throughout the session, Andy advocates for the consistent implementation of mindfulness practices and the Pomodoro Technique to bolster concentration, improve focus, and increase overall productivity. He also underscores the potential benefits of reducing stress levels and boosting job satisfaction.

Andy closes the session by inviting listeners to explore apps that facilitate the application of the Pomodoro Technique within their professional routines.

Before you book

Questions about Boost Productivity and Find Your Flow with Mindfulness

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: In today’s busy workplaces, staying focused can feel next-to impossible. Constant notifications, noisy environments, and the endless chatter of your own mind pull your attention in all directions.

Is this a workshop or a talk?

A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Andy, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.