The 5 Spheres of Empathy

Almost every business problem is a people problem. Empathy is intelligence about people, starting with you.

The strategy is sound, the team is busy, and somewhere between intention and impact things keep leaking. The 5 Spheres is a practical method for understanding yourself and the people around you well enough to make decisions that hold. Without it, you are guessing expensively.

Find the one thing you can't name yet The Leadership Reset

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200+ startups across ASEAN, Europe and New Zealand

From the UN and Oxfam to Google.org funded teams

Author of The 5 Spheres of Empathy

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There is something in your business you haven't put words to yet.

You feel it in the meetings that go nowhere and the strategy that everyone agreed to but nobody follows. Most leaders try to fix it with more process. It is almost never a process problem.

This guided session walks you through the first sphere of the method: a head and heart audit that surfaces what is actually driving your decisions. It takes about twenty minutes. People regularly tell us it found the thing they had been circling for months.

The Sphere 1 Self-Audit

A guided session with Optomize, the AI coach built on this method, plus the written audit to keep. Free, in exchange for your email.

No spam, no drip sequences pretending to be friendship. Just the session, and an occasional letter worth reading.

The first paid step

The Leadership Reset

A small, guided cohort built on the first two spheres: who you actually are as a leader, and what care looks like on a Monday morning. This is the work most leadership programmes skip, which is why their effects fade by the following quarter.

Ninety minutes live each week, for six weeks. Between sessions, you work with Optomize and a small group of peers who are doing the same honest work you are. You will not be handed a binder. You will leave with clarity you can act on, and people have called the experience purposeful therapy.

Cohorts are deliberately small and run on fixed dates. When the seats are gone, the next cohort opens in six to eight weeks.

Format6 weeks, 90 minutes live weekly, online
Between sessionsGuided work with Optomize and the cohort community
Built onSpheres 1 and 2: The Vulnerable Self and The Conscious Self
Group sizeSmall by design, so every voice gets room
Next cohortSeptember 2026

EUR 1,000per seat

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What people say

The rooms keep telling us the same thing.

Asking yourself the right questions and walking away with practical tools to embed empathy into your day-to-day and create greater impact.

Maria Zatelli, INCO

Truly eye opening and delivered in a very engaging way. It has encouraged me to reflect on my decision making process and how I can improve it.

Michal, mottl.io

A dynamic and honest space to reflect on our values, drivers and impact as a team.

Maca, INCO

Galeno Chua, author of The 5 Spheres of Empathy

Who is behind this

Galeno Chua. Mr. G to most rooms.

A Kiwi-Singaporean social entrepreneur based in Warsaw. Nearly two decades working with organisations from the United Nations and Oxfam to more than two hundred startups across ASEAN, Europe and New Zealand. His frameworks have been applied by Google.org funded startups, the New Zealand Government and ASEAN government programmes.

He wrote The 5 Spheres of Empathy because he kept arriving at the same conclusion: almost all business problems and all sustainability problems are people problems. The method in the book, the sessions and the cohort is the one he uses himself, on his own ventures, in real time.

Start with the thing you can't name yet.

The free session takes twenty minutes. Most people find it takes them somewhere they have been avoiding. That is the point.

Begin the Sphere 1 Self-Audit