Where High Performance Becomes More Human
Present Company is the leadership practice of State House Somatics, offering nervous-system-informed executive coaching and leadership development for leaders, teams, and organizations operating under sustained pressure.
Based in Brooklyn, New York · Serving clients worldwide
I help executives and leaders work with the physiological patterns that shape how they lead.
Most executive coaching focuses on insight, mindset, and behavior. Those matter. But under pressure, the nervous system can override what a leader already understands.
Using Somatic Experiencing® principles, this work helps leaders recognize the state they are leading from, build greater capacity for recovery, and develop more choice in how they respond.
The result is clearer thinking, steadier relationships, and more adaptive leadership when the stakes are high.
CLARITY UNDER PRESSURE
Maintain access to clear thinking and sound judgment when urgency rises.
RELATIONAL STEADINESS
Stay present and constructive through tension, feedback, and conflict.
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Respond with greater flexibility instead of defaulting to familiar stress patterns.
For leaders carrying significant responsibility—and seeking a more human way to sustain performance, relationships, and themselves.
Ways to Work Together
Executive Coaching
Private somatic coaching for executives, founders, and leaders navigating sustained responsibility, consequential decisions, and the need for meaningful recovery.
Begin with the Leadership Under Pressure Intensive for one high-stakes moment or 1:1 Somatic Executive Coaching.to build deeper capacity for clarity, steadiness, and choice over time.
Organizational Coaching
Nervous-system-informed leadership development for executive teams, senior leaders, and organizations operating under sustained pressure.
Available through executive retreats, leadership-team engagements, custom workshops—including Staying Human Under Pressure—and longer-term leadership development.
Programs & Cohorts
Guided development experiences for leaders who want to strengthen sustainable leadership capacity alongside a thoughtful community of peers.
Programs combine nervous-system education, reflective practice, and real-world leadership application.
OUR METHOD
The Human Capacity Method™
The nervous system work is the mechanism.
Greater capacity for work, relationships, and life is the outcome.
The method follows a four-phase progression. Each phase builds on the last, helping people recognize the state they are in, restore access to capacity, respond with greater range and choice, and bring that capacity into the moments that matter most.
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Recognize the state you are in and how it shapes your thoughts, choices, behavior, and relationships.
This includes both cognitive and physiological awareness: noticing patterns, sensations, triggers, and stress responses before they begin directing the moment.
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Build greater access to restoration, steadiness, and sustainable energy.
Recovery is not a retreat from responsibility. It is part of what allows people to remain clear, connected, and present within it.
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Expand your capacity to respond with greater range and choice under pressure, conflict, and uncertainty.
The aim is not to become calm all the time. It is to make more than one response available when it matters.
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Bring new capacity into the decisions, relationships, responsibilities, and environments that shape your life and work.
Integration is where awareness becomes lived practice and new responses become more accessible over time.
The goal is not constant calm. The goal is adaptability under pressure.
ABOUT
The Practitioner Behind Present Company
Alicia Divers, MA-SD, SEP™, is the founder of State House Somatics and creator of The Human Capacity Method™.
Before training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, she spent over twenty years in roles that put her in the room with people under real pressure — in ministry, crisis response, and organizational leadership. That background shapes how she coaches now: less interested in advice, more interested in what's actually happening in a leader's body when the stakes are high. Her work with executives and teams is about building the kind of capacity that holds up under pressure, not just when things are calm.
What Would Feel Different With More Capacity?
Whether you are seeking private executive coaching or exploring leadership development for your organization, the work begins with a conversation.