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A BLANC Corporate Experience

The
Crucible

Leadership, ownership, and composure — forged under real pressure. Built around elite grappling instruction and, for those who dare, cold immersion.

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Ghent, Belgium Max 15 Participants 2-Hour Flagship Format
The BLANC Advantage

Nobody else in Belgium
can open this door.

BLANC is the only Belgian media channel that regularly sits down with genuinely world-class names and gets them talking. That access is the product — this experience is where it becomes something a company can buy.

Gordon Ryan
Braulio Estima
Robin Gracie
Mark Coleman
Mark Ormrod MBE
Craig Harrison
Sam Alvey
Bolaji Oki
Uwe Boll

No agency, no consultancy, and no local competitor has this guest roster or this platform. That's not replicable with budget — it's the moat.

Grappling session in progress
The Concept

What The Crucible
actually is.

A 2-hour, high-intensity leadership experience for teams of up to 15, led by a real competitive grappler — not an HR facilitator in a polo shirt.

Groups are put under live physical and mental pressure, and every principle taught maps directly onto how they lead at work: ownership without excuses, composure under pressure, and trust built through shared discomfort — not trust falls.

Ilyas Qazi, founder of Shogun Grappling
The Facilitator

A credentialed athlete, not a corporate trainer.

Ilyas Qazi — Founder & head coach of Shogun Grappling, Ghent, built from the ground up into one of Belgium's most respected grappling gyms.

Competitive submission grappler with a track record in high-level competition — bringing real, tested pressure, not simulated exercises.

Interviewed on BLANC's own platform, Fill in the _, alongside Gordon Ryan, Braulio Estima and Robin Gracie — vetted, on record, already part of the roster.

The Format

The 2-hour
flagship session.

00:00
The Brief
Ilyas frames the session: ownership, composure, decentralised decision-making. No fluff, no PowerPoint.
00:20
Controlled Pressure
Live grappling-based drills, scaled to zero experience. Every participant is physically tested in a safe, coached environment.
01:00
The Debrief
Group breakdown of what happened — mapped explicitly back to how the team makes decisions, assigns blame, and communicates at work.
01:30
Applied Leadership Drill
Small-team scenarios under time and physical pressure — leaders rotate, so everyone leads and everyone follows.
01:55
Close & Takeaways
One principle each participant commits to applying Monday morning.
Exclusive Add-On
The Baptism

Cold immersion
for business leaders.

  • Cold immersion is now a mainstream international corporate wellness request — over half of clients at a leading US executive-retreat firm now ask for it.
  • The certified-facilitator ice-bath category is already sold internationally as a stand-alone premium product. This is the only Belgian offer pairing it with real leadership content, not spa theatre.
  • Positioned as the exclusive close to the session: after two hours of controlled pressure, the group faces one final, collective test — together.
Cold immersion / ice bath
Packages

Pricing, anchored
to what's verified.

Foundation
€900
€60 / person
2-hour flagship session · Ilyas Qazi-led · up to 15 participants · debrief booklet.
Deluxe
from €3,000
custom
Full-day offsite · Signature session + venue, catering & extended content · exclusive to one company per booking.

Foundation matches the verified market rate for a 2-hour instructor-led corporate workshop in Belgium. Signature and Deluxe scale with added scope — cold immersion, venue, catering — not with inflated per-head pricing.

Why BLANC

We already own
the credibility this needs.

12.5K+

YouTube subscribers, Fill in the _

100K+

Monthly views across platforms

130K+

Monthly Instagram reach

Belgium's First Leadership-Through-Adversity Experience

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pilot session.

Ghent, Belgium. Bring your team. Two hours. One test.

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