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The Science of
Stress-Free Focus.

Founded by a Business PhD whose peer-reviewed mindfulness research is published in Accounting Education (ABDC A-ranked) and other top-tier scientific journals, Exec Function Lab combines organizational systems with neurological regulation to help students conquer procrastination, manage ADHD, and master their schoolwork.

Trusted by students & families · 366 five-star reviews · Research-backed methods

1,400+
Hours of EF Coaching
366
Five-Star Reviews
5.0
Average Rating
PhD
Founded & Research-Backed
The Problem

Is your student stuck in the "Overwhelm Loop"?

Many bright students don't have a motivation problem — they have an initiation problem.

When a student struggles with Executive Function (EF), large academic tasks trigger immediate emotional stress. The brain treats the assignment like a threat, not a task.

Traditional tutoring makes this worse — rigid planners forced onto an anxious mind cause deeper task avoidance, not less. The loop tightens.

At Exec Function Lab, we address the neurological root, not just the surface behavior. We don't give students more to do — we change how their brain approaches doing.

The Old Loop
Big Task Appears
Emotional Stress Spike
Task Avoidance
Deadline Panic
Repeat ↺
The EFL Method

Neurological regulation + organizational systems = tasks that feel manageable, not threatening.

Core Service Packages

Choose the program
that fits your student.

Every package is built on the same research-backed framework — personalized to the level of support your student actually needs.

Group Workshop

Workflow Sprints Workshop

Best for digital-native students who want to build a high-performance weekly routine system.

What's included
  • 60-minute virtual group sprint sessions
  • Live, guided weekly planning resets
  • Access to custom digital sprint templates
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For Parents

The Parent Advisory Bridge

Best for parents looking to reduce household friction and support their child's independent growth.

What's included
  • Monthly strategy alignment calls
  • Custom household communication scripts
  • Practical frameworks to end homework battles
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Jay Shinde, PhD
About the Founder

Driven by Systems.
Grounded in Mindfulness.

"Executive functioning is the workflow, but neurological regulation is the engine."

Exec Function Lab was founded by Jay Shinde, PhD — an Emeritus Professor of Accounting and Business PhD with a career spanning Fortune 100 companies including Eli Lilly, American Express, and Pfizer, alongside 15 years of dedicated mindfulness and cognitive expertise. Bringing a rare blend of corporate systems design and behavioral science, Dr. Shinde's original research is published in premier, peer-reviewed A-ranked journals.

After years studying performance optimization across the corporate and academic worlds, and watching brilliant students fall behind due to anxiety-induced procrastination, Dr. Shinde built a practice dedicated to one goal: teaching students how to optimize their own brain wiring.

The result is a methodology that transforms academic anxiety into independent, structured momentum — validated by rigorous science, refined through operational design, and delivered by a team of specialists who genuinely care about outcomes.

Accounting Education ABDC A-Ranked
Effect of Mindfulness Training on Future Accounting Professionals: A Randomized Control Trial
Shinde, J., Shinde, U., Adams, C., Hill, A. — 2021, pp. 1–27
Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business
Resilience During a Pandemic: Using Spirituality to Manage Employee Stress
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — 2022
Journal of Human Values
To Be or Not To Be: A Multidimensional Spirituality in the Workplace
Shinde, U., Nelson, H.J., Shinde, J. — Vol. 24, No. 3, 2018
Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business
Enabling Resilience and Satisfaction During a Crisis: The Case of a Spiritual Non-Profit
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — 2022
Research & Publications

Peer-Reviewed Work &
Conference Presentations

A full record of Dr. Shinde's published research and academic conference contributions.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Accounting Education ABDC A-Ranked
Effect of Mindfulness Training on Future Accounting Professionals: A Randomized Control Trial
Shinde, J., Shinde, U., Adams, C., Hill, A. — 2021, pp. 1–27
Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business
Resilience During a Pandemic: Using Spirituality to Manage Employee Stress
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — 2022
Journal of Business Cases and Research
Enabling Resilience and Satisfaction During a Crisis: The Case of a Spiritual Non-Profit
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — 2022
Journal of Human Values
To Be or Not To Be: A Multidimensional Spirituality in the Workplace
Shinde, U., Nelson, H.J., Shinde, J. — Vol. 24, No. 3, 2018
Journal of Ethical & Legal Issues
Social Responsibility and the CPA Firm: A Case for Aristotle
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — Vol. 11, 2018
Journal of Accounting and Finance
Kant VS Aristotle: Evaluating Consumer Responses to a Product Recall
Shinde, J., Shinde, U., Hill, A., Abdiev, J. — Vol. 17(2), pp. 67–82, 2017
Journal of Accounting and Finance
Establishment of GAAS: Impact of an Auditing Fraud
Shinde, J., Sallehu, M., Merkle, M. — 15(1): 40–55, 2015
Asian Journal of Accounting and Governance
Academic Stress in Accounting Students: An Empirical Study
Hou, Z., Shinde, J., Willems, J. — Vol. 4: 1–10, 2013
Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research and Practice
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy's Effect on an Auditor's Issuance of a Going Concern Opinion
Shinde, J., Stone, T., Willems, J. — 2013: 1–12
Advances in Management
Forensic Examination Cognizance: An Empirical Study
Shinde, J., Shinde, U., Wacker, R. — 6(30): 43–54, 2013
Journal of Accounting and Finance
Auditor Faux Pas and Managerial Fraud at McKesson and Robbins
Shinde, J., Poznic, G., Buehne, A., Shinde, U. — 11(1): 39–51, 2011
Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability
The Perennial Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Shinde, J., Shinde, U. — 7(1): 72–86, 2011
Journal of Learning in Higher Education
Socially Responsible Students: An Oxymoron?
Shinde, J., White, L., Shinde, U. — 7(2): 51–65, 2011
Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics
Superfluity and Murkiness in the Understanding of Social Responsibility: A Content Analysis
Shinde, J., Wacker, R., Hou, Z. — 8(3): 30–43, 2011
International Journal of the Academic Business World
The Impact of Organizational Spirituality on Employee Outcomes
Shinde, U., Shinde, J., Lytle, L. — Vol. 4, No. 2: 121–129, 2010

Conference Publications & Presentations

American Accounting Association (AAA)
The Dark Triad and Mindful Fraud: Is Mindfulness Salutary or Deleterious?
Hill, A., Adams, C., Shinde, U. — AAA Forensic Accounting Research Conference, 2020
Southwest Academy of Management (SWAM)
Out of Touch and in the Present: How Mindfulness and Moral Attentiveness May Not Share the Moment
Hill, A., Adams, C., Harden, J., Shinde, U. — Houston, TX, 2019
Midwest Academy of Management (AOM)
The Effects of Meditation on Resilience and its Proposed Influences in the Workplace
Adams, C., Hill, A., Harden, J. — St. Louis, 2018
Academy of Management (AOM) — Western
Social Responsibility and Small Business: A Case for Aristotle
Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — Palm Springs, AZ, 2017
Center for Scholastic Inquiry (CSI)
Cultivating Mindfulness: An Assessment of Zikr Meditation and its Effects on Mindfulness
Adams, C., Nofsinger, E., Farah, N., Shinde, J. — South Carolina, 2015
Center for Scholastic Inquiry (CSI)
Stress and Meditation
Hill, A., Fisher, A., Shinde, J. — Charlotte, NC, 2015
International Academic Research Conference
Auditing Rulemaking Dockets: An Historical Approach
Shinde, J., Merkle, M. — Chaska, MN, 2014
International Conference at St. John's University
Forensic Examination: Toyota's Fall From Excellence
Sysko, J., Shinde, J. — New York, NY, 2013
International Conference on Learning and Administration
An Empirical Study Relating to Stress in Accounting Students
Shinde, J., Hou, Z., Willems, J. — Nashville, TN, 2012
Academic Business World Conference (ABWIC)
Total Quality Management and Employee Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ventures
Shinde, J., Shinde, U., Willems, J. — Nashville, TN, 2012
Academic Business World Conference (ABWIC)
A Fraud Hidden by the Passage of Time
Poznic, G., Shinde, J. — Nashville, TN, 2011 Best Presentation
International Conference on Learning and Administration
Academic Stress in Accounting Students: Development & Validation of an Instrument
Hou, Z., Shinde, J. — Nashville, TN, 2011 Best Presentation
Academic Business World Conference (ABWIC)
Proliferation of Social Responsibility Definitions: A Model for Convergence
White, L., Shinde, U., Shinde, J. — Nashville, TN, 2011 Best Paper
American Accounting Association (AAA)
XBRL Has Arrived: But Are U.S. Students Ready? / XBRL: A Silver Bullet for Forensic Accounting
Shinde, J., Shinde, U. — San Francisco, CA, 2010
Global Business Summit Conference
A 21st Century Strategy for Conflict Management & Global Best Practices for Pedagogy
Shinde, J. et al. — Chennai, India, 2010
American Accounting Association (AAA)
A Pedagogical Model of Social Responsibility for Accounting Students Using Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Shinde, J., Youpa, A., Wacker, R. — San Francisco, CA, 2010
American Accounting Association (AAA)
Take the Humdrum Out of Accounting Classes and Receive Super High Evaluations Ad Infinitum
Shinde, J. — Poster Session, AAA National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2010
The Team

People who know
what they're doing.

Not generalists. Every person here is a specialist with a track record you can actually verify.

Jay Shinde, PhD
Company Mentor & CEO

Jay Shinde, PhD

Emeritus Professor of Accounting and veteran of Fortune 100 companies including Eli Lilly, American Express, and Pfizer. Dr. Shinde's peer-reviewed mindfulness research — including a randomized control trial in Accounting Education (ABDC A-ranked) — is the intellectual backbone of the EFL methodology.

PhD · Accounting Eli Lilly · AmEx · Pfizer ABDC A-Ranked Journal 15+ Peer-Reviewed Articles
Bianca
Academic Coach & Research Mentor

Bianca

Valedictorian at the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, PhD student and Bridge Scholar at the University of Chicago, and Fulbright Scholar Tutor. She also captained the UPR Women's Soccer Team and represented Puerto Rico on the Women's National Football Team for seven years.

Valedictorian · UPR UChicago PhD Candidate Fulbright Scholar Bridge Scholar
Vikram Suresh
Lead EF Coach

Vikram Suresh

Over 1,400 hours of executive function tutoring with a perfect 5.0 rating. Vikram's approach is practical, empathetic, and built around what your brain actually needs — not what a textbook says it should.

★★★★★ 5.0 · 366 reviews
⭐ 5.0 Rating 1,400+ Coaching Hours 366 Five-Star Reviews
Pamela Padilla
Academic & Mindfulness Coach

Pamela Padilla

MA in Positive Psychology and BA in Spanish Education. Pamela tutors math, English, and Spanish bilingually, and teaches university-level mindfulness — combining positive psychology with genuine patience for every student she works with.

MA Positive Psychology BA Spanish Education Bilingual · EN / ES Mindfulness Instructor
Nicholas Berardelli
Lead Essay Writer

Nicholas Berardelli

University of Chicago alumnus and former College Essay Guy coach. Nicholas understands elite admissions from the inside — he knows what readers actually want and how to help you say it.

⭐ 5.0 Upwork Notre Dame · Princeton Michigan Ross · Brown · Cornell 30+ Elite Acceptances
Alex Hill
Lead Essay Writer

Alex Hill

Co-author on Dr. Shinde's Accounting Education (ABDC A-ranked) study on mindfulness training, practicing novelist, and active research writer. Alex takes your raw story and shapes it into prose that gets remembered — not just read.

100% Job Success · Upwork Top Rated Plus ⭐ 5.0 Wyzant Research Co-Author
Alex Seidler
EF Coach & Academic Tutor

Alex Seidler

Executive function specialist with a long record of helping students at every level — from middle school to PhD candidates — develop the focus, organization, and writing skills that stick long after the session ends.

⭐ 5.0 Wyzant K–12 · College · Grad 106-Session Clients PhD Proposal Editing
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How It Works

Three steps.
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From first call to full momentum — here's exactly what happens.

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Book a Free Intake Call

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Get a Custom Semester Plan

We build a roadmap around your brain, your schedule, and your goals. Neurological regulation + organizational systems, tailored to you.

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Meet your coach regularly, track what's moving, and adjust in real time. We stay in it with you until the results are obvious.

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