Leadership Cookbook

a menu of food-themed workshops based on the wisdom of food and focused on human connection and stronger relationships

At the time when we revise the roadmap of how to engage with the world around us, going back to the fundamentals can offer clarity.
Food has forever been at the core of human connection helping us understand ourselves and engage with others.
Diving into the world of food, the Leadership Cookbook shines a light on building strong relationships at work and provides strategies and skills for doing that.

REASONS
Why?

Because food is at the heart
of the human connection

FORMAT
What?

Workshop
Seminar

PROCESS
How?

Designed to engage emotional, cognitive and sensorial experiences.

Duration: 2 - 4 hrs each

Individuals seeking to foster healthy relationships at work
Teams aiming to build greater cohesion and collaboration

AUDIENCE
Who?

Workshops Menu

Skills in focus: Empathy. Active listening. Feedback. Delegation. Patience. Creativity. Self-awareness. Stress management.

  • practice the fundamentals of engaged and trust-based leadership by baking bread, an activity that has taught people all over the world a mindful mastery of the simple acts and their ability to bring about big results.

  • slow down and connect with motions, emotions and joys of cooking to shift away from action and reaction of the mind. Find council in rhythm, enjoy circumspection and give time time.

  • close the eyes, and give into the senses; explore alternative input channels, but your reason. Reconnect with the body as a communication instrument.

  • get playful with a cooking task that challenges you to find and amplifying your voice. Know thyself and show who you are.

  • practice leadership by learning how to lead and organise disconnected teams guided by limited information. Develop the skill of harnessing the power of an emerging momentum.

  • explore what drives your inner energies and how you can replenish them.

  • experience the world through eyes and stories of another.


  • learn to be, hear and see though an ancient tradition of fermentation. Drive transformation by mastering the complexity and enjoy fruits of delayed gratification arising out of patience and attention.

  • give your best to the challenge of matching the unmatched, and finding ways to bring together parts that do not belong together.

  • experience the ways of achieving results by delving into combinations that might be seemingly uncommon. Find power and potential in contrast and complementarity.

Anthony Bourdain:

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight.

Get the cream sauce.

Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar.

Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you.

Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster.

Have a Negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you,

but have a drink with them anyways.

Eat slowly. Tip your server.

Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.”