How To Beef Up Your CEO Mental Fitness

As Featured in Forbes Coaches Council Remember gym class? Every year, K-12, because physical fitness mattered. But here's the thing no one ever talks about: nobody taught us how to think. Not in school. Not in college. Nowhere.

And for CEOs, that's a problem.

The demands on your brain have never been higher. Post-pandemic stress, accelerating burnout, and now AI doing more of our thinking for us. The result? We're getting worse at the one thing we're paid to do: think clearly under pressure.

In my latest Forbes Coaches Council article, I break down what CEO Mental Fitness actually means, why most leaders are making critical decisions with compromised equipment (their brain), and what you can do to change that.

Here's a hint: it starts with protected thinking time, better questions before big decisions, and treating sleep, nutrition, and stress regulation as performance variables, not wellness perks.

Read the full article on Forbes:

How To Beef Up Your CEO Mental Fitness

Liam Chrismer is a Denver-based CEO coach and author of the forthcoming book CEO Mental Fitness (Fast Company Press, 2027).