Leadership Development

Leaders play a vital role in cultivating organizations that can successfully achieve missions. To do this effectively we need to unlearn messaging that makes the task of leading harmful to leaders and teams. Transformative leaders have to be able to exercise the courage and develop the skills to be consistently vulnerable, authentic, transparent, vision and mission driven, strategic and values grounded. This means resisting seemingly easy short cuts of power-over, competition, and “never letting them see you sweat” and insisting on collaboration, co-creation, mutuality, humanity, kindness, and striving for excellence. It is key to understand that leaders are leaders not because they are “better” or more valuable than any other team member, but rather because they have agreed to play a role in service of the team and may have experience and skills that help them be effective in that role.

We support leadership development through executive coaching, key-note speaking, and large or small group trainings that focus on developing skills in:

Self-Awareness

Presence

Co-creation and collaboration

Embracing ambiguity and complexity

Managing change

Transparency

Effective and Ethical Communication

Vulnerability

Authenticity

Giving meaningful support

Fostering a learning culture

Cultivating conditions for innovation, creativity, and inspiration

Psychological Safety

Being relational rather than transactional

Cultivating conditions for intrinsic motivation

Value-aligned supervision

Play and Joy