Anthony Venus
Managing Partner and Council Member
Four-time founder and CEO with successful exits.ICF-certified and IMD-qualified executive coach.Postgraduate studies in psychology and Buddhist philosophy.
The company has outgrown the way you lead it.
You know the feeling.
We guide the crossing.
Luminous works with CEOs, founders, family business leaders and senior leadership teams at thresholds of scale, succession, renewal and organisational transformation.
“I thought the question was how to scale the company. The real work was seeing how much of the business still depended on me.”
What are you navigating?
Which leadership threshold are you standing at?
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Scaling a Vision
When the business has grown, and the way you lead has to grow with it.
2Succession
When authority, responsibility and ownership are beginning to move.
3Renewal and Transition
When what brought you here no longer fits what is emerging.
4Organisational Transformation
When strategy has moved ahead, but the system and culture have not yet changed.
Not sure which one is most alive right now?Take the Threshold Diagnostic · 3 minutes
Leadership Journeys
Three ways to work. One conversation to start.
One leader
The Executive Leadership Journey
One-to-one work with a leader where the role, the organisation or the next chapter requires a different way of leading.
Where it leads: From the leadership that built this chapter to what the next one requires.
Explore the journey A senior teamThe Team Leadership Journey
Work with a senior team to build trust, authority and honest collective leadership.
Where it leads: From capable individuals to a leadership system the organisation can trust.
Explore the journey The whole systemThe Organisational Leadership Journey
Work with an organisation to translate transformation into behaviour, decisions and ways of working.
Where it leads: From transformation as a programme to transformation as a way of leading.
Explore the journeyThe Long Arc of Leadership
The decisions you make next will be felt for generations to come.
Beneath every threshold sits a longer arc: the movement in a leader that makes the crossing possible.
In their words
“Luminous is transformational leadership. It goes beyond traditional leadership and management and so much deeper. It’s a personal journey, and it is helping me look deeper into my own leadership style and become the leader La Vallée Spa needs to succeed as a purpose-driven global brand. It’s a gift to be on this journey.”
“It’s easy to focus on strategy, execution and growth. What Luminous showed me is how much the psychology of the leader shapes the business. Understanding my own patterns and blind spots, and how I respond under pressure, has made me a more focused, intentional and effective leader.”
“There are people who change the direction of your life, and people who change how you meet your life. Luminous did the second for me, and everything else started changing with it.”
A deeper kind of intelligence
When intelligence is everywhere, wisdom becomes the work.
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Ancient wisdom, modern leadership science
Luminous is deeply practised in both. Modern psychology and leadership science give leaders a language for what they are experiencing. Contemplative traditions give them a practice for meeting it.
Explore our methodsII.
They ran companies. Then went deeper.
Our faculty bring lived experience as founders, CEOs and C-suite executives, with equally serious credentials in psychology, coaching, leadership development and contemplative practice. They understand both the pressure of leading and the disciplines that help leaders change.
Meet the facultyIII.
Pattern intelligence, held by human wisdom
Luminous Mind, our pattern intelligence, looks across the arc of a leadership journey to surface recurring questions, tensions and shifts. Technology expands what can be seen. Human wisdom determines what matters and what to do with it.
Explore Luminous MindThe Luminous Faculty
Our faculty are former founders, CEOs and C-suite executives, deeply trained in leadership development, psychology, coaching and contemplative practice. They bring both the lived experience of leading organisations and the disciplines required to help other leaders develop and change.
Susan Goldsworthy PhD, OLY, Rev.
Partner and Council Member
Former C-suite executive and Olympic finalist.IMD professor and PhD in Organisational Change.Executive master’s in neuroscience and ordained Interfaith Minister.
José-Luiz Moura
Partner and Council Member
Former COO of Salesforce UK and Ireland.More than 30 years in global corporate leadership.ICF-certified Integral Development Coach and strategic adviser.
Eugene Vyborov
AI Partner and Council Member
Three-time founder and AI expert.Founder and CEO of Ability.ai and creator of Trinity.Shapes Luminous Mind’s AI architecture and advises clients on applied AI.
Nikolai Ladanyi
Senior Practitioner
Serial entrepreneur.Leading European scaling expert and first German-speaking Scaling Up coach.IFS practitioner and purpose guide trained in systemic constellations.
Palma Michel
Senior Practitioner
External adviser to McKinsey.Former leader at Korn Ferry and Heidrick & Struggles.Executive coach, author and host of the Explorer's Mind Podcast.
Ralph Ashton
Senior Practitioner
Former founder and CEO.Executive coach and strategy consultant across business, government and academia.Postgraduate studies in Jungian psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich.
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Who We Serve
Who is standing at the threshold changes what it asks.
See more clearly.
Choose more wisely.
Lead more consciously.
Retreats · The Becoming · Ibiza · 24 to 28 September 2026
Some leadership moments ask for more space than the day-to-day allows.
The Becoming is an invitation-only retreat for leaders standing at a threshold: contemplative practice, embodied inquiry, equine constellation work, fire circles and time in nature, held by senior Luminous faculty on the island of Ibiza.
The Emergence · Royal Institution, LondonCommunity
A living community of leaders, practitioners and wisdom holders
The Emergence at the Royal Institution, the Long Arc of Leadership at IMD and intimate community dinners bring people carrying real responsibility into continuing dialogue around the thresholds of leadership.
A place to stay in conversation with the questions that matter most, alongside the work and long after it ends.
The invitation
Begin with a conversation.
A complimentary consultation with senior Luminous faculty, to understand the threshold you are standing at and whether a Luminous journey is the right way to cross it.
Not sure where to begin?Take the Threshold Diagnostic · 3 minutes