FAQs - Positive Intelligence PQ®️

  • This program is right for you:

    If you are committed to improving your performance and effectiveness in your day to day life while reducing stress .

    If you prefer science-based and trusted systems.

    If you are willing to put in the initial effort to rewire years of mental habits that don’t serve you.

  • We will learn to use negative emotions as a helpful alert, for example, feeling pain for a split second when your hand touches a hot stove is indeed useful, delivering an important alert. But your Saboteurs keep your hand on the hot stove, continuing to feel negative emotions which harm both performance and happiness. In this program we will learn to quickly shift to the positive region of the brain that has the calm clarity, objectivity, and creativity to handle the challenge most effectively.

  • Shirzad, the New York Times bestselling author of Positive Intelligence, conducts each of the weekly video sessions. He also also participates daily in the exclusive online community of the program participants to answer questions, provide coaching, and cheer them on.

    Shirzad is the CEO of the largest coach training organization in the world and has trained faculty at Stanford and Yale business schools.

    His background includes graduate level studies in neuroscience in addition to a BA in psychology, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford.

  • Less than 2% of your awake time for the duration of the program.

    You’d be committing to watching a 1-hour video once per week and doing a combined total of 15 minutes per day of practice guided by the Positive Intelligence app exclusively designed for this program.

  • The Video Session guides you through experiential exercises that help you personalize the tools to your own personality and needs.

    The Mobile App coaches you to practice one tool at a time in the context of your own daily work and life challenges.

    You’ll be asked to read the first 8 chapters of the book while participating in the program as it provides the research foundation and introduces the tools. You’d never learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book about it.

  • The PQ Program is $995.

    Included in your purchase is:

    Six weeks of app-guided practice, including Daily Focus & Coach Challenges

    Accountability group made up of other PQ Program participants (optional)

    Audiobook version of the Positive Intelligence, read by the author, Shirzad Chamine

    Access to the PQ online community

    Personal coach support throughout the 6-week program

    Unlimited access to the PQ app for a full year

  • Yes, you can choose to split the cost of the PQ Program over 3 monthly payments of $375.

  • As soon as you receive your welcome email for the PQ Program, you should be able to log in to the PQ app.

    You can use the PQ Gym, while logged in.

    The app-guided exercises will unlock on Tuesday after your Program begins. The first training session will provide more context and direction for your daily practice within the app.

    If you are unable to log in, please see this troubleshooting article.

    1. Open your PQ app,

    2. Click on your Profile.,

    3. Click on a 2 line drop-down menu in the upper right corner.

    4. Select Goals.

  • If you joined the Positive Intelligence Program as an individual, you should receive an email introducing you to your Pod members the week before your program begins.

  • We only allow participants to be a member of a single pod.

  • Yes, you can watch the videos on your desktop using the web version of the PQ app.

If you still have questions, please feel free to write to me!