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The Leadership & Living Unlayered Experience
A guided leadership journey designed to bring clarity, alignment, and intentional action.


The Leadership & 
Living Unlayered Experience

A guided leadership journey designed to bring clarity, alignment, and intentional action.

This experience is for leaders who have achieved a great deal — yet sense that the next level of growth requires more than strategy, effort, or performance.

The Living Unlayered Experience invites you to slow down, see clearly, and lead from a more grounded place — where decisions are aligned, relationships are healthier, and growth is sustainable.

This experience is for leaders who have achieved a great deal — yet sense that the next level of growth requires more than strategy, effort, or performance.

The Living Unlayered Experience invites you to slow down, see clearly, and lead from a more grounded place — where decisions are aligned, relationships are healthier, and growth is sustainable.


The Living Unlayered Journey


The Living Unlayered Journey

The Living Unlayered Experience unfolds in intentional phases. Each step builds on the last, creating clarity that moves from insight into action and embodiment.

Begin with the Axiogenics Leadership Assessment
Establish a clear baseline of how your values, beliefs, and internal drivers currently shape how you think, decide, and lead.

Unpack your results with April
Meet one-on-one with April, a certified Axiogenics leadership coach, to interpret your assessment and uncover patterns influencing your leadership.

Engage in six weeks of group coaching
Participate in a guided self-leadership experience designed to deepen awareness, apply insight, and strengthen accountability in real time.

Prepare intentionally for the retreat
During the seventh week, focus on integration and preparation through guided reflection and personalized support.

Participate in the Living Unlayered Retreat
Enter an immersive retreat environment designed to consolidate learning, strengthen presence, and support meaningful, lasting change.

The Living Unlayered Experience unfolds in intentional phases. Each step builds on the last, creating clarity that moves from insight into action and embodiment.

Begin with the Axiogenics Leadership Assessment
Establish a clear baseline of how your values, beliefs, and internal drivers currently shape how you think, decide, and lead.

Unpack your results with April
Meet one-on-one with April, a certified Axiogenics leadership coach, to interpret your assessment and uncover patterns influencing your leadership.

Engage in six weeks of group coaching
Participate in a guided self-leadership experience designed to deepen awareness, apply insight, and strengthen accountability in real time.

Prepare intentionally for the retreat
During the seventh week, focus on integration and preparation through guided reflection and personalized support.

Participate in the Living Unlayered Retreat
Enter an immersive retreat environment designed to consolidate learning, strengthen presence, and support meaningful, lasting change.


What This Experience Makes Possible


What This Experience Makes Possible

Through individual coaching, group learning, and immersive retreat work, participants gain more than tools or techniques. They develop clarity, confidence, and capacity that carry forward into how they lead every day.

Participants often experience:

  • Clearer thinking and steadier decision-making under pressure
  • Greater self-awareness and alignment between values and action
  • Increased confidence rooted in understanding, not performance
  • Healthier team dynamics built on trust and honest communication
  • Stronger ability to navigate obstacles without burnout
  • A renewed sense of direction and purpose in their leadership
This is not about fixing weaknesses or adding more strategies.
It’s about understanding what’s shaping your leadership — and choosing how you move forward.

Through individual coaching, group learning, and immersive retreat work, participants gain more than tools or techniques. They develop clarity, confidence, and capacity that carry forward into how they lead every day.

Participants often experience:

  • Clearer thinking and steadier decision-making under pressure
  • Greater self-awareness and alignment between values and action
  • Increased confidence rooted in understanding, not performance
  • Healthier team dynamics built on trust and honest communication
  • Stronger ability to navigate obstacles without burnout
  • A renewed sense of direction and purpose in their leadership
This is not about fixing weaknesses or adding more strategies.

It’s about understanding what’s shaping your leadership — and choosing how you move forward.


Reflections from the Experience


Reflections from the Experience

Paul H.
Financial Services Consultant

“This experience helped me clarify my priorities and lead with greater intention. I gained practical tools for self-leadership and realized I had been living to work, not working to live. That shift has changed how I lead and how I approach my life overall.”

 Charlie H.
General Manager

“The Living Unlayered Experience changed how I think and how I show up as a leader. It helped me step back, see what was really driving my decisions, and lead with greater clarity and confidence—both at work and beyond.”
 Brenda G.
OnPoint BIM & Drafting, LLC

“Living Unlayered helped me understand what was influencing my leadership from the inside out. Gaining that awareness allowed me to be more transparent, intentional, and aligned in my decisions—and to take meaningful action instead of staying stuck.”




Paul H.
Financial Services Consultant

“This experience helped me clarify my priorities and lead with greater intention. I gained practical tools for self-leadership and realized I had been living to work, not working to live. That shift has changed how I lead and how I approach my life overall.”



Paul H.
Financial Services Consultant

“This experience helped me clarify my priorities and lead with greater intention. I gained practical tools for self-leadership and realized I had been living to work, not working to live. That shift has changed how I lead and how I approach my life overall.”




Charlie H.
General Manager

“The Living Unlayered Experience changed how I think and how I show up as a leader. It helped me step back, see what was really driving my decisions, and lead with greater clarity and confidence—both at work and beyond.”




Charlie H.
General Manager

“The Living Unlayered Experience changed how I think and how I show up as a leader. It helped me step back, see what was really driving my decisions, and lead with greater clarity and confidence—both at work and beyond.”





Brenda G.
OnPoint BIM & Drafting, LLC

“Living Unlayered helped me understand what was influencing my leadership from the inside out. Gaining that awareness allowed me to be more transparent, intentional, and aligned in my decisions—and to take meaningful action instead of staying stuck.”






Brenda G.
OnPoint BIM & Drafting, LLC

“Living Unlayered helped me understand what was influencing my leadership from the inside out. Gaining that awareness allowed me to be more transparent, intentional, and aligned in my decisions—and to take meaningful action instead of staying stuck.”



Why Participants Choose This Experience


Why Participants 
Choose This Experience

This experience is grounded in the Living Unlayered philosophy — the same work explored in April’s book Slaying the Onion. It invites participants to peel back what has been built over time and lead from a place that is clear, honest, and aligned.

Professionally, participants often want to:
  • Gain clarity around their leadership identity and direction
  • Clearly see and articulate the value they bring to their work and organization
  • Release patterns, assumptions, and stories that no longer serve their leadership or business
  • Lead with greater confidence, alignment, and intention — without forcing or overperforming
Personally, participants often want to:
  • Strengthen important relationships at home and at work
  • Communicate more honestly, thoughtfully, and effectively
  • Reconnect with their voice, values, and sense of self beneath the roles they carry
This work isn’t about adding more layers — it’s about removing what no longer belongs.

This experience is grounded in the Living Unlayered philosophy — the same work explored in April’s book Slaying the Onion. It invites participants to peel back what has been built over time and lead from a place that is clear, honest, and aligned.

Professionally, participants often want to:
  • Gain clarity around their leadership identity and direction
  • Clearly see and articulate the value they bring to their work and organization
  • Release patterns, assumptions, and stories that no longer serve their leadership or business
  • Lead with greater confidence, alignment, and intention — without forcing or overperforming
Personally, participants often want to:
  • Strengthen important relationships at home and at work
  • Communicate more honestly, thoughtfully, and effectively
  • Reconnect with their voice, values, and sense of self beneath the roles they carry
This work isn’t about adding more layers — it’s about removing what no longer belongs.


Living Unlayered in Practice


Living Unlayered Retreat


Living Unlayered in Practice


Living Unlayered Retreat



 Where the Work Comes Together

The Living Unlayered Retreat is the culminating, in-person experience within the Living Unlayered journey.

By the time participants arrive at the retreat, the foundational work has already been completed. This experience is designed to bring everything together — allowing insight to settle, awareness to deepen, and leadership to be fully embodied.

The retreat includes and builds upon everything participants have been engaging with throughout the Living Unlayered Experience — and extends far beyond it. Here, clarity moves from understanding into lived experience, supported by presence, reflection, and intentional connection.

Program & Retreat Info + Pricing


Where the Work Comes Together
The Living Unlayered Retreat is the culminating, in-person experience within the Living Unlayered journey.

By the time participants arrive at the retreat, the foundational work has already been completed. This experience is designed to bring everything together — allowing insight to settle, awareness to deepen, and leadership to be fully embodied.

The retreat includes and builds upon everything participants have been engaging with throughout the Living Unlayered Experience — and extends far beyond it. Here, clarity moves from understanding into lived experience, supported by presence, reflection, and intentional connection.

Program & Retreat Info + Pricing

Have a question before taking the next step?
We’re happy to help you explore whether this experience is the right fit.

Have a question before taking the next step?
We’re happy to help you explore whether this experience is the right fit.

April Ballestero
Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author
Contact Me!



April Ballestero
Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author
Contact Me!



April Ballestero

USA
9162015146 • april@aprilballestero.com