ABOUT THE CLARISTRAT INSTITUTEBuilt on one principle.
We truly learn by becoming.
Claristrat Institute exists to cultivate the next generation of developed leaders: executives, advisors, and practitioners who enable others with the same rigor and depth they expect for themselves.
BUILT FOR leadership LIFE6 Continents
All programs are global
Gated cohorts
High level peer environments
Schedule-friendly
No travel or time-zone compromise
Your language
Executive faculty fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
MISSIONTo cultivate the next level of executive leadership, coaching, and advisory: bringing clarity, coherence, and integrity to complex arenas of human collaboration.
VISIONA world in which coaching capability and systems thinking are central engines for organizational vitality at every level of management
PRINCIPLEClaristrat operates under the ICF’s fiduciary standard. We work with leaders as whole humans. With rigor, serious intent, and candor over comfort.
FOUNDER AND LEAD FACULTY
Fabiana Pereira Hotz, PhD, PCC
FOUNDER & CEO. AUTHOR, THE CLARISTRAT METHOD™
Claristrat was founded by Dr. Fabiana Pereira Hotz — an executive coach and senior advisor to Fortune 500 boards, founders, and C-suites. Over a 25-year career spanning Accenture, Deloitte, and high-growth scale-ups, Fabiana led more than $200M in transformation programs across finance, healthcare, technology, public sector, and consumer industries.
She built the Claristrat Method™ as a single architecture from the core concepts of systems thinking, depth psychology, adult development theory, and applied neuroscience. The result is a sustained effort to integrate what each intellectual tradition gets right into a single coherent architecture designed from the ground up for the realities of senior leadership.
"For most of my career, I was exceptional at producing results and genuinely poor at being present to the people around me. I understood professional competence deeply and personal integration barely at all. I built this method because I needed it. Going through that work myself showed me what is possible on the other side of it."
FABIANA PEREIRA HOTZ
GLOBAL CLIENT PARTNERS
WHAT MAKES CLARISTRAT DIFFERENTFour scientific lineages,
Integrated for development.
Most leadership development draws on behavioral traditions ineffective for lasting change. The Claristrat Method integrates four leading edge, proven scientific approaches that deliver it. Each does work the others cannot.
Senior leaders bring situations that cannot be solved with a best practice solution: the right one does not exist in advance. Most coaching treat this unpredictability as an issue. We see it as a domain with action steps.
COMPLEXITY YOU CAN WORK WITH
Snowden’s Cynefin lineage
The patterns a senior leader operates from are usually what they cannot describe, because they are looking from them. Behavioral coaching cannot reach this layer. Depth psychology can.
DEPTH BENEATH BEHAVIOR
Jungian lineage
Senior roles ask for the capacity to hold complexity, competing truths, and one's own contribution to the mess, all at once. Subject-object theory is the most useful account of how that capacity is built.
DEVELOPMENT, NOT TYPE-PROFILING
Kegan lineage
Senior coaching happens under pressure, and the leader's nervous system is doing things they cannot narrate. A coach without nervous system literacy will coach the talk and miss the work.
THE BODY UNDER LOAD
Porges & Feldman-Barret lineages
PEDAGOGIC PHILOSOPHYHow development
actually works.
Beyond wishful-thinking.
MOST LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Assume development through linear knowledge acquisition and duty-based commitment.
THE CLARISTRAT METHOD™
Enables embodied leadership through an iterative, experience-based process.
The cycle is lived, not studied
Students move through Intentional Awareness, Dynamic Meaning, and Iterative Transformation — on themselves, with real stakes — before they hold the process for clients. You cannot teach what you have not inhabited. Each program is an actual growth experience.
Every session reflects the whole arc
The three-phase cycle operates at every scale simultaneously — the program, the engagement, the single session. Each session is a complete developmental loop. The client rehearses the process in every conversation — building the muscle until they can run it without the coach.
The cohort is a living system
Each cohort is a co-regulated learning environment, not a classroom. Faculty model the presence, inquiry, and feedback they are teaching. Psychological safety and developmental stretch are held simultaneously. The admission gate is required because the quality of the cohort is a core part of the learning.
Insight becomes capacity, not content
The goal is not graduates who know the method. It is practitioners who think systemically, act ethically, and serve generatively in environments of increasing complexity. The method becomes muscle memory.
BEGINFour ways to
follow your path.
A threshold brought you here: in yourself, your role, or the people you lead. Find the right way in from where you are.
A conversation will clarify your options.
CERTIFICACION PROGRAMS
The peer cohort experience
12 or 20 weeks with a selected cohort of senior leaders. The full developmental cycle lived, enabling you to hold it for others. Fully aligned with the latest ICF competencies, exceeding certification requirements.
INTERNAL PROGRAMS
Aligned human leadership
Train your people leaders, internal mentors and coaches in the Claristrat Method, so development conversations are more aligned, ethical, and effective in building culture and results.
1:1 COACHING
Personalized development at depth
For senior leaders who need a serious, private thinking space in which to realign for clearer decision-making. The approach touches identity, real-life tradeoffs, and legacy consequence.
COACHING BENCH
Coherent organizational support
Executive-level alumni coaches trained in the same effective method, matched by Fabiana and supervised by Claristrat faculty. The same developmental rigor across every engagement in your organization.
Upcoming cohorts now enrolling.
Places limited.