​How can one be a "powerful leader,"

and yet lead with “power”

that isn’t about pushing or pulling,

manipulating or coercing?

Leading through trust requires different skill sets and mindsets than leading through fear. Rewards and punishment are no longer the chosen tools in the toolkit. 

What's challenging is not the new concepts, but breaking through the cultural conditioning that we have all experienced and transforming the fear-based behaviors that still live in us. These can be measured as "personal entropy": the amount of fear-driven energy that a person expresses in his or her day-to-day interactions with other people.

The good news is that even the smallest of steps forward can have a large impact on the quality of your leadership.

Training and the Development Process

Training is a process not an event — skills development and behavior change require engagement, practice and reinforcement over a period of months, not days.

If you are looking for inspiration, understanding of concepts, or familiarity with skill sets, then taking a workshop from the list at the right will likely meet your needs.

If you are looking for sustainable impact through tangible skills development and behavior change, then a more robust process is recommended ... specifically:

Becoming a more Conscious Leader is a process that typically involves a repeating cycle of ...
  • leadership training
  • practice
  • feedback
  • leadership coaching
  • peer engagement
  • manager engagement
  • mutual accountability

Our expertise is not only in the leadership training and coaching services that we provide, but also in designing a leader development process and customized program based on your unique needs, desired outcomes and budget.

​We invite you to contact us to have a conversation about the conscious leadership development you desire!

Live Interactive Workshop Formats

Each workshop— regardless of delivery format -- is an interactive, activity-based experience where participants are invited to learn through self-reflection, interactions in pairs or small groups, and engagement with the whole group. Workshops combine innovative, interactive strategies with essential principles of leadership and communication to create a robust learning experience.

Delivery may either be as a live on-site event or a live video technology event —​ or a combination of both, depending on your needs. Each of these delivery formats has its benefits which you can see detailed below.

Dedicated workshops can be customized and scheduled to meet the unique needs of your organization. Contact us to schedule or for group rates. Note that dedicated workshops can be either live on-site events or live video technology events.

​Open-enrollment workshops provide an excellent training opportunity for individuals or small groups. To reach the broadest audience, most of our open-enrollment workshops are live video technology events.

Live Interactive Workshops
​via video technology

We are excited to announce our new live, interactive workshops via video technology as an integral approach for Conscious Leadership development. Based on feedback we are getting from our clients, this new workshop format has a number of benefits:
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  • Doable in a busy schedule. Flexible.
    • Short 75-min sessions are easier to integrate in your work week than taking a half day or full day for a workshop.
    • Participate from anywhere with an internet connection — from your office, from home, from your hotel room.
    • If you miss a session, you can watch the recording of it at a time convenient for you. 
    • Easy to connect to the video session using a mac/pc (with video camera & microphone), a tablet or even a smart phone.
    • No time lost in travel to get to the training.

  • Engaging learning process. Focus on impact.
    • ​Live, interactive sessions with integrated activities in a robust and flexible video learning environment. We use zoom video technology which includes break-out rooms, screen sharing, polling, chat windows, etc.
    • Space between sessions provides time to review core concepts and apply the learning in your day-to-day work situations before the next session.
    • You can review any session by watching the recording of it as many times as you would like.
    • Class size is limited to 12 to ensure personal interaction with every participant.
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  • Cost Effective. Strong Value.
    • Cost effective for one participant, small groups or large groups. 
      Contact us regarding group rates for 6 or more participants.
    • You may attend any future sessions of the registered workshop, on a space available basis, at no additional cost, for a period of 12 months after your first session.
    • Eliminates travel costs.

Live Interactive Workshops
​Onsite at your location

​For many of our clients, workshops at their own site with an experienced facilitator physically present are the preferred choice for training. 

Benefits include:
  • Most familiar and time-tested training method.
  • Ease of human interactions, both during structured and non-structured time, is an opportunity for a rich shared experience.
  • Physical space enables richer somatic and creative learning activities.
  • Training can be highly customized to meet specific organizational needs.
  • Experiential learning process focuses on impact.

Other Considerations:
  • Logistics include scheduling a training room with equipment and supplies, coordinating meals and refreshments, booking hotels for those traveling to the event.
  • Travel costs of the facilitator.
  • Not typically cost effective for groups of less than six.
  • Half-day, full-day or multi-day sessions require concentrated commitments of time.​

​Live Interactive Workshops

Upcoming Workshop Schedule
Interactive workshops via live video technology

October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
January 2019

Overview of Workshops

​Introduction to Conscious Leadership ​(5-part series)
A high-level view of what Conscious Leadership is, the shift in mindset that is essential, and what it takes to change culture to create a Conscious Organization
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Self-Awareness & Self-Responsibility
Foundational development for the Conscious Leader. Learning Needs-Based Communication (NVC) develops essential skills and mindsets.

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Connect First: 
Bringing conscious presence into the workplace (a 3-hour workshop)
The pragmatic application of Needs-Based Communication skills into the brief moments of interactions that a leader has with staff or colleagues so that they experience a fullness of being valued. 

Conscious Accountability (a 6-hour workshop)
Move beyond blame and punishment to learn the skills and mindsets to activate conscious accountability. Support the Conscious Leader to dynamically ensure that each person on the team fulfills their role in alignment with the shared purpose, the core values, and other guiding principles.


Conscious Conversations (a 6-hour workshop)
Enhancing the Conscious Leader's skills to engage in connecting conversations even when emotions are rising, the stakes are high, and reactivity is abundant.


Building Conscious Teams (a 6-hour workshop)
The primary goal of every Conscious Leader is to build a Conscious Team that is cohesive and effective. Ensuring your team has the direction, the structures and the supervision to succeed.


Special Topics


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​* for those workshops without a link to a detailed description, contact us for details
Examples of skills that flow through our work:
  • listening — so that the other person has an experience of being heard
  • empathy — the basis of care and compassion - recognizing the "weird" ways that we unconsciously ask for empathy
  • expressing disagreement without blame - an integral skill of feedback and mutual accountability
  • recognizing our own unconscious reactions and limiting beliefs - these are what diminish our relationships and effectiveness as leaders
  • seeing conflict as something to be harvested, not avoided