Meet Harry Pickens
What if your nervous system could be your greatest strategic advantage?
Whether you're leading a team through uncertainty or navigating your own complex challenges, your ability to remain regulated under pressure determines everything else—your decisions, your relationships, your impact.
Too often, stress hijacks your best intentions.
You've tried the conventional approaches—time management, leadership frameworks, mindfulness apps—but when the stakes are highest, your nervous system still betrays you.
Maybe you're stepping into bigger leadership roles. Maybe you're guiding others through turbulent times and need to model the calm you want to see.
Maybe you know: the way you react isn't the way you want to lead.
That's where I come in.
How I discovered the master skill of our volatile age
I first recognized the critical importance of learning to consciously orchestrate my own brain-mind system when I sought to overcome debilitating stage fright as an ambitious 19-year old pianist.
I wanted nothing more than to establish a solid career in jazz, but my own nervous system consistently sabotaged me. I knew if I could not find a way through this challenge, that my career ambitions would never be fulfilled.
So I set out to learn everything I could about the neuropsychology of optimal performance.
After hundreds of hours of study and practice, I finally transformed my own experience from debilitating anxiety to unshakable confidence.
Because of this transformation I was able to perform internationally with many luminaries in the jazz world, including Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, James Moody and more.
Since then, I’ve mentored thousands of young creative and performing artists in multiple domains – music, visual art, theater, dance, and more — teaching them step-by-step how to access their most powerful and confident creative selves — no matter what obstacles they may face.
I've also navigated profound personal challenges – from traumatic brain injury to caring for my mother through eight years of dementia, from toxic mold illness to my current healing journey with prostate cancer.
Each challenge has become a living laboratory that has helped me discover the best-kept secrets of real-time resilience.
Along the way, I've trained over 1,000 therapists, coaches, and counselors in advanced trauma healing techniques, developed proprietary methodologies that blend cutting-edge neuroscience with timeless wisdom traditions and worked with corporate executives, social entrepreneurs, creative artists, and changemakers, helping them access their deepest reserves of clarity, calm, and confidence.
Today, I work with emerging and existing leaders who refuse to let stress sabotage their potential.
Together, we cultivate the nervous system mastery that allows you to meet any moment – no matter how challenging – with poise, presence and power.
This is the core skill of our volatile age.
What I Do Now
The Strategic NeuroRegulation™ Framework
I teach a simple 5-phase model to help leaders take charge of their nervous systems:
RESET
your baseline so you operate from equanimity and clarity.
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RELEASE
your emotional triggers so you stop unconsciously repeating painful patterns.
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REDESIGN
your future so you move toward important goals with ease and effectiveness.
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RECLAIM
your best self by bringing your most empowered emotions into the present moment.
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REENTER
the world restored and ready to bring your best to whatever the moment requires.
LET'S REWIRE YOUR LEADERSHIP—SO YOU CAN MEET THE MOMENT
Imagine walking into your most challenging situations with complete calm.
Where pressure energizes rather than overwhelms you. Where uncertainty becomes a creative opportunity rather than a paralyzing threat.
Whether you're leading through a crisis or scaling to new levels of impact, your nervous system regulation determines whether you'll be reactive or responsive, scattered or strategic, stressed or serene.
If you're ready to transform stress into serenity, chaos into calm, pressure into poise, I'd love to help.
The state of your nervous system is your ultimate competitive advantage.
Let's make it unshakeable.