Your business results mirror how your internal system runs!

Founder, if you’ve landed here, chances are you’re living the High Achiever Loop: ambitious, visionary, relentlessly driven. Yet, despite your intensity and execution power, you’ve likely noticed a frustrating pattern: you hit strong results, but can’t sustain them long-term. Or you sense there’s still a higher gear inside you that you haven’t accessed yet.

It’s not about effort or strategy. it’s about how your system is wired.

After years working as a Behavioral Strategist alongside founders, execs, and investors across high-growth ecosystems, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat:

You can’t build sustainable external performance with an outdated internal operating system.

That’s where I come in...

Helping you decode, upgrade, and master your behavioral, emotional, and cognitive architecture so your business starts running at the speed of your real potential.

1

Debug and upgrade outdated cognitive frameworks

You’re still operating with mental models built in earlier chapters of your journey. They shaped your success but now they limit innovation and clarity. We’ll rewrite those frameworks so your thinking matches the scale of the game you’re playing today.

2

Identify and reprogram automatic emotional patterns

Old emotional code runs silently, shaping how you see risk, lead people, and make strategic calls. Once you spot and reprogram these invisible drivers, you regain clarity, confidence, and emotional range the edge every founder needs to navigate volatility.

3

Map and master your daily behavioral strategies

Your day-to-day behavior is your real business strategy. Some of your automatic patterns are assets; others are friction points. I’ll help you isolate and redesign them so your execution aligns with your vision consistently.

That's how it works:

Through weekly 1:1 strategy sessions, we’ll start a process of cognitive and behavioral reprogramming that dissolves repeating performance bottlenecks and aligns your internal code with your business goals.

You already have the potential now it’s time to make your operating system catch up!

The Founder’s Edge

The Founder’s Edge is a partnership launched in 2024 between Dr. Leo and NIU Ventures, created to bring Behavioral Strategy Sessions to founders across the NIU portfolio.

Through this initiative, NIU Ventures sponsors a set of these sessions as a strategic benefit and an investment in the personal and cognitive infrastructure behind every company they back.

Dr. Leo delivers sharp behavioral and psychological insights that help founders decode how their internal architecture, mental, emotional and strategic directly impacts leadership, execution, and decision-making.

By uncovering the hidden connections between personal history, mindset, and business dynamics, founders gain powerful clarity over the patterns driving their outcomes, transforming self-awareness into a tangible competitive advantage.

This process accelerates every NIU founder’s transition into their High Achiever Journey, aligning their internal operating system with the speed, precision, and resilience required to scale a world-class company.

Who is Dr. Leo Faleiro?

Dr. Leo Faleiro is a Brazilian M.D. who worked in his country’s public and private health systems as a psychiatrist and developed, in his own private office, a Behavioral Strategy Program for CEOs’ and founders’ health and performance.

He has been working in mental health since he graduated as an M.D. from UFPEL (Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil) in 2013.

In 2018, he collaborated at the Transcultural Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic at IPq (Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo) and collaborated with Prof. Francisco Lotufo in the mental health care of immigrants and patients with disabilities.

In 2025 Dr.Leo was appointed by ISST as an Advanced Level Therapist in Schema Therapy.

He is currently practicing as a Behavioral Strategist in his private office, where he offers long-term follow-ups focused on soft skills, self-knowledge, and self-improvement for CEOs and founders all around the globe.