Your Transformational Leader learning journey

Every moment is unique. Becoming a more mindful leader means being aware and attentive in the moment so you can make smarter decisions and deliver highly impactful results. Until you become aware, your existing roles, scripts and routines can be like leadership prisons. They restrict your choices and limit your impact as a leader.

• Discover how to build your “mindfulness muscle” and unlock powerful new approaches to your leadership potential.
• Develop self-awareness, context awareness, and the dynamic between the two in your leadership practice.
• Examine the complex balance of history, emotion, and reason that defines who you are and what you do.
• Deeply explore your authority, personal boundaries, and role as foundations of your leadership.
• Examine the roles, scripts, and routines that you rely on and consider effective alternatives.
• Reflect on your purpose as a leader.

Your leadership context is shaped by your teams and organization, and is usually a complex collection of competing needs and goals. These collectives can make you feel anxious or excited, confused or focused, competitive or invisible, etc. How can you successfully exercise your leadership role in these complex contexts?

• Understand the dynamics of groups, teams, and organizations and the challenges they pose for your leadership.
• Make sense of the patterns and dynamics of groups or collectives to which you belong.
• Learn when to intervene and when not to; when to hold the tension and when to release it.
• Explore the resilience roles of activist, pragmatist, and container for leading in unpredictable, turbulent contexts.
• Develop effective techniques to intervene through powerful dialogue and discussion.

Discover how your organization can learn, adapt and change, and how you can learn and grow as a leader at the same time. Understand that transformation is bigger than your plan or purpose. It is about your identity as a leader and as an organization.

• Understand why we get stuck in habits and routines that limit our adaptiveness.
• Organize for adaptiveness: reorganize, re-energize, and engage people in new opportunities while being careful to preserve what needs to stay the same.
• Embrace the elements of change: holding on, letting go, moving towards, and sitting with.
• Discover the power of rewriting your narrative and take greater ownership of your leadership journey.
• Experiment with different leadership tools and inspire others to transform through effective dialogue and action.

After the program, we will continue to offer you resources and support. Many participants have found these invaluable because, for everyone, change takes time.

Entirely optional, these resources include:

• A further one-on-one session with your coach (1 hour).
• A small group call with your coach (3 hours).
• Videos and readings that provide practical tools for applying core concepts.
• Guidelines for specific activities and exercises to help build your “muscles” for change.
• An individual Learning Review with the Program Director, Ben Bryant (30 minutes).