Fuel Your Brain, Transform Your Performance: Introducing Project Brain Food
When Sarah sat down for her PMP exam, she wasn’t just relying on her Cheetah Sheets and practice exams. She’d followed the peak performing mind diet during her prep week: high protein, complex carbs, no refined sugar or caffeine. Her brain was firing on all cylinders, and she passed on her first attempt.
But here’s what happened next: within three months, old habits crept back in. The afternoon energy crashes returned. The mental fog at 2pm became routine again. She’d proven she could fuel her brain for peak performance during exam week, but how could she sustain it for her entire career?
This is exactly why we partnered with The Signature Plate to create something we’ve never offered before.
Peak Performing Mind: Not Just for Exam Week
For over 20 years and tens of thousands of students, Cheetah Learning has taught the peak performing mind approach, involving nutrition, mindfulness, and activity, each of which transform how professionals learn and perform. Our students experience it firsthand during PMP prep. They see the results. They pass exams. They feel the difference.
But many don’t know how to translate those four intense days into a sustainable lifestyle.
Until now.
Introducing Project Brain Food: Your Nutrition Transformation Project
We’re excited to announce Project Brain Food: Fueling Peak Performance Through Strategic Nutrition, a brand-new 5-PDU course developed in partnership with The Signature Plate Clinical Consulting.
This isn’t another generic wellness course. It’s peak performing mind principles applied to your everyday work life, structured using the project management framework you already know and trust.
Why This Course Matters
Research shows the numbers we can’t ignore:
- Poor nutrition costs the U.S. economy $1 trillion annually in lost productivity
- Employees with unhealthy diets are 66% more likely to experience productivity loss
- Workers who rarely eat fruits and vegetables are 93% more likely to have high productivity loss
- For every dollar invested in workplace nutrition programs, companies see a $3.27 return
Just as you wouldn’t show up to the PMP exam sleep-deprived, why would you fuel your brain poorly during the projects, presentations, and decisions that define your career?
How It Works: PM Framework Meets Nutrition Science
The course uses the five project management phases you know from your PMP training:
Initiation: Define your SMART goals and stakeholder analysis (yes, your accountability buddy is a stakeholder)
Planning: Create your 90-day roadmap with work breakdown structure and risk management
Execution: Implement evidence-based strategies (reducing ultra-processed foods, adding healthy fats, supporting gut-brain connection)
Monitor & Control: Track KPIs, conduct progress reviews, course-correct as needed
Close: Evaluate results, document lessons learned, transition to maintenance
Sound familiar? That’s the point. You already know how to manage projects. Now apply that same discipline to fueling your most valuable asset: your brain.
What You’ll Learn
You’ll build a complete 90-day nutrition transformation project plan using PM principles you already know. Starting with the business case for peak brain performance, you’ll develop measurable goals, identify stakeholders, and estimate resources.
Then you’ll scope three strategic interventions: reducing ultra-processed foods that sabotage cognition, integrating healthy fats your brain needs to function, and supporting your gut-brain connection through fiber and prebiotics.
Throughout the five modules, you’ll apply initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout phases to create sustainable behavior change with built-in risk management, accountability systems, and performance tracking. By course end, you’ll have an actionable implementation plan that treats your nutrition like any successful project: clear objectives, defined scope, scheduled milestones, and measurable results.
Free for Cheetah Alumni
Here’s the best part: This course is completely free for all Cheetah Learning alumni!
You’ve already invested in your PM education. You’ve already experienced peak performing mind during your exam prep. Now we’re giving you the tools to make it a career-long practice. If you’re an alum, reach out to info@cheetahlearning.com for your promo code.
Not a Cheetah alum? The course is available for $299, still a remarkable value for evidence-based nutrition education that could transform your daily performance.
The Real-World Impact
Think about your last major project deadline. How did you fuel yourself? Vending machine snacks? Skipped meals? Multiple coffees to push through?
Now imagine approaching that same deadline with sustained mental energy, sharp focus, stable mood, and resilience under pressure. Not because you forced it through willpower, but because you’d systematically fueled your brain for success.
That’s what peak performing mind looks like beyond exam week. That’s what this course delivers.
Your Next Step
Remember what we always say at Cheetah: the program works when you follow it. You’ve already proven you can do this during PMP prep. Now it’s time to apply those same principles to your everyday performance.
The course is available now in our online learning portal. Start whenever you’re ready. Complete at your own pace. Apply immediately to your work life.
Your brain got you through the PMP exam. Isn’t it time to fuel it for everything that comes next?
Enroll in Project Brain Food: Fueling Peak Performance →
Free for Cheetah alumni. 5 PDUs. Evidence-based. Project management framework. Start today.
Non-alumni: $299
About The Partnership
The Signature Plate Clinical Consulting brings evidence-based nutrition expertise to this collaboration. Their registered dietitian specializes in translating nutrition science into practical strategies for busy professionals. Combined with Cheetah’s 20+ years of accelerated learning and peak performing mind methodology, this course represents the best of both worlds: rigorous science meets proven implementation framework.