Presence.
Mental Clarity Is Political Capital
helping high-performing leaders reclaim clarity and calm through deeper interior presence
helping high-performing leaders reclaim clarity and calm through deeper interior presence
About Presence
“What is presence?”
In today’s high-stakes political environments, presence isn’t a soft skill—it’s a strategic advantage.
I’m Kathleen Reily, the founder of Presence, teaching political leaders a proven method of calm and clarity. I share a high level of self mastery rooted in a Neuroscientific method of internal regulation that transforms your chronic stress response into calm and clear decision making with commanding presence.
With a background in Positive Neuroplasticity, Energy Psychology, and Heart-Brain Coherence Meditation, I have worked with physicians, key executives, and team leads who were in high stress environments.
I came to see that leaders who work in this current political climate are also subject to high stress work environments fraught with division and frustration.
You are often fighting your way through, using force to have your issues heard and your agendas supported.
Political leaders operating under chronic stress— are often praised for their composure but are silently burning out.
My approach turns stress from a default setting into a mastered response, enabling a calm presence of mind, stronger connection through authenticity, and clear decision-making.
This work is especially critical for political and public-facing leaders, where reactivity can derail trust, and clarity under pressure defines legacy.
In today’s high-stakes political environments, presence isn’t a soft skill—it’s a strategic advantage.
I’m Kathleen Reily, the founder of Presence, teaching political leaders a proven method of calm and clarity. I share a high level of self mastery rooted in a Neuroscientific method of internal regulation that transforms your chronic stress response into calm and clear decision making with commanding presence.
With a background in Positive Neuroplasticity, Energy Psychology, and Heart-Brain Coherence Meditation, I have worked with physicians, key executives, and team leads who were in high stress environments.
I came to see that leaders who work in this current political climate are also subject to high stress work environments fraught with division and frustration.
You are often fighting your way through, using force to have your issues heard and your agendas supported.
Political leaders operating under chronic stress— are often praised for their composure but are silently burning out.
My approach turns stress from a default setting into a mastered response, enabling a calm presence of mind, stronger connection through authenticity, and clear decision-making.
This work is especially critical for political and public-facing leaders, where reactivity can derail trust, and clarity under pressure defines legacy.
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Who We Serve
Members of United States Congress and Cabinet as well as Members of British Parliament.
Your Obstacles
Your Solution
Our Program
Our immersive program is confidential and safe.
Our method delivers rapid and high impact results, using powerful tools to manage your stress. Allowing you to be present with your colleagues, and feel fully connected with your family.
From this program you will possess the innate ability to demonstrate clarity in your decision making, and emotional regulation as muscle memory.
Along with absolute prevention of burnout granting you the stamina for long sessions.
Your Obstacles
- You are a public servant and are inspired and passionate about making your community and the world a better place, while struggling to balance your personal and professional life.
- Your work environment is polarized and prone to combustion, this has taken a toll on you and puts strain on your personal relationships, making it difficult to be present with your family when time is scarce and so valuable
- You work in an environment that is noisy and fraught with frustration, division, dysfunction, and reactivity, this makes it difficult to get things done.
- You are in constant negotiation, and are often under great scrutiny and criticism because the decisions you make carry high stakes.
- Your are often faced with decision fatigue given the constant struggle to achieve consensus, making it a challenge to find agreement around your issues and agendas.
- Your progress is slow, and your sense of accomplishment and meaning from work has diminished.
- Most of your energy is allocated to seeking agreement rather than achieving great wins in work.
- You are wondering, why am I here? Especially given what you have sacrificed in your personal life.
- You know there must be a better way to live and to achieve your professional goals, what if you could live feeling restored, calm, and clear each and everyday?
Your Solution
- You are most effective when you are present, calm, and clear. This state of mind yields cooperation and agreement among others.
- Your strength and resilience comes from an inner stillness, yielding a greater level of compromise and common ground between yourself and others.
- You begin your day restored and recharged by your morning practice, this allows you to manage difficulties with ease and remain calm and clear under scrutiny. In this state you are at your peak.
- You must embody the change you wish to see in your world. If you wish to see order, you must become order within. Your outer world will always be a reflection of your inner world, this is natural law.
- With these attributes you will make great strides and attain great wins in your work, while being present with the ones you love.
Our Program
Our immersive program is confidential and safe.
Our method delivers rapid and high impact results, using powerful tools to manage your stress. Allowing you to be present with your colleagues, and feel fully connected with your family.
From this program you will possess the innate ability to demonstrate clarity in your decision making, and emotional regulation as muscle memory.
Along with absolute prevention of burnout granting you the stamina for long sessions.
Mental clarity is political capital, the best person in the room leads the room, resilience is a long partisan advantage.
Meet The Founder
My name is Kathleen Reily, and I specialize in helping high-performing leaders—particularly men in political, executive, and public-facing roles—rewire their relationship with stress and develop the inner foundation for sustainable, resilient leadership.
After undergoing 18 surgeries and living with severe anxiety, as a result, in my early life, I made the choice to heal without medication. That journey led me to develop a method rooted in Positive Neuroplasticity, Energy Psychology, and Heart-Brain Coherence—designed to help individuals shift from chronic stress into calm, presence, and decision-making clarity.
Presence isn’t just a mindset—it’s a trainable, neurological state. And it’s what separates reactive leadership from enduring influence.
Through Presense, the organization I founded, I work with leaders who are under constant pressure to perform and lead others, often while suppressing the very stress that limits their full capacity. My work helps shift that internal operating system—restoring access to grounded, responsive leadership that others can trust and rally behind.
In one recent engagement with a political strategy executive, a six-week customized program led to measurable improvements in executive functioning, emotional regulation, and team coherence. These are the kinds of outcomes I specialize in: restoring internal alignment so outer leadership becomes more impactful, consistent, and calm.
You can find an overview of my signature program above. If this resonates, I’d welcome the opportunity to meet with you in person or present to your leadership team or advisory circle. It would be a privilege to support the kind of leadership that builds trust from the inside out..
After undergoing 18 surgeries and living with severe anxiety, as a result, in my early life, I made the choice to heal without medication. That journey led me to develop a method rooted in Positive Neuroplasticity, Energy Psychology, and Heart-Brain Coherence—designed to help individuals shift from chronic stress into calm, presence, and decision-making clarity.
Presence isn’t just a mindset—it’s a trainable, neurological state. And it’s what separates reactive leadership from enduring influence.
Through Presense, the organization I founded, I work with leaders who are under constant pressure to perform and lead others, often while suppressing the very stress that limits their full capacity. My work helps shift that internal operating system—restoring access to grounded, responsive leadership that others can trust and rally behind.
In one recent engagement with a political strategy executive, a six-week customized program led to measurable improvements in executive functioning, emotional regulation, and team coherence. These are the kinds of outcomes I specialize in: restoring internal alignment so outer leadership becomes more impactful, consistent, and calm.
You can find an overview of my signature program above. If this resonates, I’d welcome the opportunity to meet with you in person or present to your leadership team or advisory circle. It would be a privilege to support the kind of leadership that builds trust from the inside out..
OUR MISSION
To support the mental, emotional, and physical resilience of politicians and political professionals through customized meditation, mindfulness, and high-performance wellness programs.
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OUR SERVICES
Presence Under Pressure
Introductory and Advanced Meditation & Mindfulness Programs for Political Leadership
Program Purpose
To equip high-performing political leaders with practical tools to regulate stress, sharpen decision-making, embody calm and strategic presence—especially under pressure.
Program Format Options
Level 1
8 Week Immersive:
Group or One to One
Three 20 Minute Sessions Per Day
Delivery, Hybrid
Level 2
Advanced Monthly Coaching:
Group or One to One
Delivery, Hybrid
Additional Offerings
Half-Day Onsite Intensive:
Ideal For Retreats or Team Summits
Keynote or Intro Session:
Delivery Onsite or Remote
Ideal For Broad Awareness
Core Pillars of Each Program
Train the Nervous System
Simple breathing + body-based techniques
Introduction to Heart-Brain Coherence
Understanding the stress-reaction loop
Mental Clarity & Decision-Making
Meditation to increase cognitive flexibility
Reframing reactivity into presence
Grounding practices for pre-meeting or high-stakes conversations
Sustainable Inner Leadership
Foundations of Positive Neuroplasticity
Rewiring from default stress to chosen calm
Cultivating “command calm” as a leadership tone
Reported Outcomes
Reduced internal reactivity and anxiety
Improved presence, focus, and emotional control
Elevated communication clarity and trust-building
Tools for maintaining calm in high-pressure environments
Inquire Below Introductory and Advanced Meditation & Mindfulness Programs for Political Leadership
Program Purpose
To equip high-performing political leaders with practical tools to regulate stress, sharpen decision-making, embody calm and strategic presence—especially under pressure.
Program Format Options
Level 1
8 Week Immersive:
Group or One to One
Three 20 Minute Sessions Per Day
Delivery, Hybrid
Level 2
Advanced Monthly Coaching:
Group or One to One
Delivery, Hybrid
Additional Offerings
Half-Day Onsite Intensive:
Ideal For Retreats or Team Summits
Keynote or Intro Session:
Delivery Onsite or Remote
Ideal For Broad Awareness
Core Pillars of Each Program
Train the Nervous System
Simple breathing + body-based techniques
Introduction to Heart-Brain Coherence
Understanding the stress-reaction loop
Mental Clarity & Decision-Making
Meditation to increase cognitive flexibility
Reframing reactivity into presence
Grounding practices for pre-meeting or high-stakes conversations
Sustainable Inner Leadership
Foundations of Positive Neuroplasticity
Rewiring from default stress to chosen calm
Cultivating “command calm” as a leadership tone
Reported Outcomes
Reduced internal reactivity and anxiety
Improved presence, focus, and emotional control
Elevated communication clarity and trust-building
Tools for maintaining calm in high-pressure environments
Inquire Below
Client Testimonials
- Jason SExecutive Leader - Real Estate“Working in a high stress work hard play hard sales environment in London for over 30 years I believed high anxiety and high stress were the price to pay for success. However in recent months the price paid by my family and my mental health were too great to ignore! I reached out to Kathleen through LinkedIn
where I had been following her posts and learning from her observations.
I cannot over state enough how positive the change in my life, relationships and mental health have been having taken this course. Kathleen’s program has been truly transformative for me and I am deeply grateful. The investment of time and focus
in the program is well worth it” - Nicholas WAttorney and Firm Partner“With pressures from various areas of life all competing, I would at times become overwhelmed. I would handle the pressure until it crossed a threshold and would then collapse under the weight of it, often with a sudden stress reaction. It is no overstatement to say that my innate reflex response to high-pressure, stressful situations has transformed completely.
Not only has the negative stress reflex largely disappeared, but more than that it has been replaced by a new reflex that takes me, without the need for conscious thought, to a place of calm. It is genuinely remarkable.” - Trey AManaging Consultant - Insurance“Stress was so ingrained that I really didn't know life without it. It seemed like it was a necessary part of being a high performer. If I wasn't stressed, I felt like there was a problem. It affected my relationships, my perception of the world and counterintuitively... my job performance. I feel like it's fair to say that there is a night and day difference between where I started and where I am today.
The most valuable takeaway from the course
was that I have a better perspective and am less likely to fall into stress. Kathleen teaches you techniques for managing acute stress and explains
the neuroscience behind all of these patterns. Additionally, I should add that I'm actually more free of physical, chronic discomfort. This was not an outcome I expected, but obviously
is such a gift.”
A Free Meditation
Enjoy A Free Meditation Experience Below. Relax With Me.
Contact Us
Washington, DC
inquire@politicalpresence.org
inquire@politicalpresence.org
