Built 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.
6 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.
- Mission
To cultivate the next level of executive leadership, coaching, and advisory: bringing clarity, coherence, and integrity to complex arenas of human collaboration.
- Vision
A world in which coaching capability and systems thinking are central engines for organizational vitality at every level of management.
- Principle
Claristrat 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 facultyFabiana Pereira Hotz, PCC
Founder & CEO. Author, The Claristrat Method™
Full profile on faculty pageClaristrat was founded by 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
Four 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.
Snowden's Cynefin lineage
Complexity you can work with
Senior leaders bring situations that cannot be solved with a best practice solution: the right one does not exist in advance. Most coaching treats this unpredictability as an issue. We see it as a domain with action steps.
Jungian lineage
Depth beneath behavior
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.
Kegan lineage
Development past the profile
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.
Porges and Feldman Barrett lineages
The body under load
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.
How 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 first
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. 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
The goal is practitioners who think systemically, act ethically, and serve generatively in environments of increasing complexity. Knowing the method is the floor they start from. The method becomes muscle memory.
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