LEADER, COACH, & GUIDE
” I can’t put into words how intense and amazing this experience was for me.
Marlon Quinn is an amazing teacher. Offering concise and encouraging feedback…
If you’re curious, just do it. “
– Steve, Client Review
Headquartered in Mornington Peninsula VIC
A brief, 15-minute professional consultation to see if the approach aligns with your goals. No sales pitch, just a conversation about fit.
THE EDGE IS
Psychophysiological
High-endurance breathwork for corporate leaders, elite cycling adventurers, and deep ocean explorers. Learn to control your nervous system where pressure is absolute.
The Boardroom is an Extreme Environment.
You don’t fall under pressure because of a lack of strategy. You fail because your nervous system hijacks your executive function.
Whether you are managing an intense takeover, redlining your heart rate up a 10% mountain col, or holding your breath at 40 metres deep, the psychophysiological tax is identical.
If you can master the biology of your breath (physiological), you maintain absolute clarity (psychological), while everyone else panics.
MQ Freediving in Kilsby Sinkhole in SA Australia, March 2015. Photo By Melissa McKay
THE
FOUR PILLARS
HIGH-PERFORMANCE MINDSET
Sharp focus and cognitive undurance under pressure
ALPINE & ALTITUDE
Cardio efficiency and physical capacity for the peaks
THE DEEP CALM
Radical presence and fear management born from the ocean
EXECUTIVE RECOVERY
Overcoming burnout and mastering sleep through active down-regulation
THE
BREATHLOG
DISPATCHES
THE JOURNALISM & PHILOSOPHY
Narrative dispatches, travel expeditions, and philosophical case studies from the field. For those who seek inspiration and high-level strategic insights.
SELECT YOUR
LEADERSHIP PATH
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP
Private Executive Coaching Bespoke
1-on-1 nervous system governance for high stakes business.
FIELD LEADERSHIP
Professional Certification Courses
Elite technical certifications for instructors, guides, and educators.
THE EXECUTIVE
BREATH ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM
ANNUAL COHORT ENTRY
The Architecture of Absolute Performance
Most leadership development is theoretical. I believe true leadership is forged through your calibration under conditions new, unfamiliar, and perhaps even extreme.
The Executive Breath Architecture Program is an exclusive, high-touch annual subscription designed for a strictly limited cohort of 16 leaders globally. It is a multi-phase immersion, an integration of elite freediving-based nervous system governance and high-calibre breathwork endurance training, culminating in a signature graduation expedition.
I do not teach you to manage stress. I teach you to govern the underlying physiology that dictates your decision-making, your stamina, and your longevity at the highest levels of business.
THE PROGRAM MATRIX
Phase I-II: Neural Calibration
The program delivers structured protocols tailored to your specific physiological data in a tailored coaching session and closed-door small group freediving course. Each leader independently will utilise techniques to refine your breath mechanics, CO2 tolerance, and nervous system regulation. This is the “internal work” that builds the engine for the exterior challenge. In addition to the 1:1 Face-to-Face Benchmark Coaching Session included, optional add-ons for 1:1 In-person coaching sessions are available.
Phase III: The Peak Odyssey Signature Graduation Expedition
The program culminates in a private 8-day graduation expedition. We move from the controlled environment of the boardroom to the unforgiving reality of winding roads in mountain terrain and the unpredictable conditions of the blue ocean. It is the final odyssey where you apply months of training to the mastery of new uncharted waters, territories and alpine terrain.
ADMISSION TO THE COHORT
This program is not for the curious, it is for the committed. Admission is based on a vetting process that assesses your physical baseline, your leadership objectives, and your commitment to the rigours of the training.
Cohort Capacity: 16
Status: Currently Accepting Vetting Inquiries
The Boardroom is a test of strategy. The mountain and ocean are tests of character. If you can govern yourself there, you can lead anywhere.
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As a Leader, Executive and type of modern Warrior, one of the most important things you can do in this unprecedented period of global disturbances and multi-layered pressures on business, families and your own daily presence and productivity, is to maintain composure when the going gets even tougher…
Swimming with Sharks and Loosening the Grip of Our Fears
Seconds ago, you surprised yourself with the level of calm, poise and fascination that you held whilst immersed 10-metres deep on one single breath, staring contentedly out of your mask and straight into the curious eye of a 2.5m long Grey Nurse Shark suspended there like a torpedo, very much within your arms reach.
Underdog to Top Dog, the Quest to Expand Our Capacity for Challenges using Breathwork
In Australia, we love the underdog. The struggler, the battler.
The one we least expect to overcome adversity. The least likely to come out on top. The one considered weaker of the opponents. Less powerful, less funded, and unfairly treated, less just. The one entrenched in some kind of adversity, struggling for success.
We love to see them rise to the top. And take out that poppy. The tallest one, with its neck stuck out.
SECURE YOUR LEADERSHIP
Edge
In these teachings, breathwork is much more than the popularised wellness. I teach nervous system governance for those who operate where the stakes are high. Optimise the psychophysiology and the performance follows.
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Testimonials
the best
As an instructor myself I also recommend Marlon Quinn! Teaches far more than just by the book. Of all the instructors I’ve met he’s definitely the best.
Kaeo Landon Lane
PADI Freediving Instructor, Freedive Tasmania
world class
Marlon is one of the best instructors I’ve ever met. His knowledge and training methods are world class. I will be a returning student and highly recommend Marlon.
Adam
engaging energy
Thanks heaps for a great weekend Marlon, could really see your experience across freediving and guiding cycling in Europe feeding into and providing great instructions for the Auscycling Development Instructor accreditation!
Adam Kelsall
Commonwealth Games & Elite Cycling Coach
Hero Dirt Cycle Coaching
be your best
Marlon is a wonderful instructor. Informative and supportive. Marlon takes the time to understand you and encourage you to be your best while in a safe and fun environment.
Shauna
introspective and expansive
A deeply nurturing invitation to explore breath within our bodies, witnessing your breath & gently coming to complete softness, relaxation and surrender within the water, under Marlon’s kind, safe & trusting guidance. The incredible preparation and process of learning..I personally found to be touching those spaces of personal spirituality an unexpected bonus… Marlon continued to gently kept encouraging us and refining our own nuances as we descended beneath the surface. I adored every moment of this exhilarating…experience! Thank you.
Stephanie Pollock
intensely beautiful experience
I’ve surfed for 35 years, worked and played on the oceans my whole life and freediving has always intrigued me.
I can’t put into words how intense and amazing this experience was for me.
Marlon Quinn is an amazing teacher. Offering concise and encouraging feedback… If you’re curious just do it and I wish you a similar experience to me. Absolutely amazing.
Steve
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