LILA International

Living Intelligence · Liberating Alignment

Where founders realise their ultimate potential.

We help you expand your consciousness and the scale of your business.

What we do

With our help, you can:

  • Remove the inner barriers that hold back your success.
  • Reach clear, stress-free decisions with better outcomes.
  • Shape a leadership team that frees you to make your highest contribution.
  • Build an organisation designed to succeed at scale.

Is this you?

  • You're stuck BEING your business instead of enjoying OWNING it.
  • You sense your business could be much bigger, but something is holding it back.
  • You're paying for success with your health.
  • You're building your business at the expense of your relationships.

Who we are

Andrei Stepanov

Andrei Stepanov

Partner
Leadership & Organisation

  • INSEAD MBA; formerly with L'Oréal and Heidrick & Struggles
  • 30 years in leadership, talent and organisation
  • Has helped 40+ companies in 12 sectors, with 75 to 75,000 staff, and assessed 600+ managers in 15 countries

Andrei helps founders unlock the hidden potential of their people and organisation. His speciality is capacity for complexity: matching leaders, teams and structure to the complexity the business needs to handle as it grows. He makes the methods used by industry leaders available to growing companies.

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John Purkiss

John Purkiss Sri Nithya Banahastananda

Partner
Clarity in Decisions

  • Cambridge Economics degree; INSEAD MBA
  • Former partner with Heidrick & Struggles, recruiting CEOs, CFOs and board members
  • Author of the bestseller ‘The Power of Letting Go’, and ‘The Power of Moving On’ (2026)

For many years, John got what he wanted through mental and physical effort - until his life stopped working. Then he learned to let go and tune into the intelligence that runs everything. Since 2014 he has followed SPH Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam. He helps founders to go beyond the mind and succeed with a minimum of stress.

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Inspiration

Our work is inspired by the teachings of SPH Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam (Swamiji).

Lasting business growth starts with inner work, so that's where we begin.

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Let's talk

Three ways to start a conversation

Meet us at the next PowerBooks Forum

The Forum is a regular meeting space for people who'd like to achieve the next level of success in business, health or relationships by using methods from 'The Power' book series.

Reserve a place

Call us

+44 7810 082153

Write to us

andstep@lila.international