The word “transformation” has become ubiquitous in the world of organizational change, especially in today’s VUCA world (“VUCA”). However, in order to truly leverage the power of “transformation” we need to transform the way in which we understand the term: from that which applies primarily to organizational structures, processes, systems and institutions to that which pertains to the consciousness from which those very structures, processes, systems and institutions arise.

For those of us who see ourselves as transformation leaders such a notion of transformation necessarily implies that to catalyze transformation in others necessarily means we must also catalyze transformation within ourselves. 

Inventing Your Leadership from the Inside Out is a 4-month cohort program that takes you on a deep journey of personal leadership growth and development. A journey in which you amplify your skillfulness as a transformation agent in a VUCA world, by significantly alter the very landscape of your own consciousness as a leader. 

Leveraging a unique methodology that synthesizes distinctions and practices from the fields of adult developmental psychology, experiential learning, linguistic and dialogical practices, and systemic thinking , Inventing Your Leadership from the Inside Out promises a profound breakthrough in who you are as a leader, and in your capacity to catalyze profound change and evolution around you.

Who Is This Program For?

This program is for anyone who is called upon to lead within a complex environment in which the nature of that complexity leaves them somehow feeling “in over their heads”. Someone who recognizes that the nature of the complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity—both around them and within them—is currently beyond their capacity to act with acuity, clarity, and grace.

Someone who, nevertheless, has a deep yearning to move beyond their inner limitations—and to better leverage their inner gifts—in order to more fully embrace the power and scope of their vision, and to make real its potential for deep and sustained impact in the world.

Such a person could be an agile team or program coach, an executive coach, an agile enterprise coach, or an organizational change agent or OD (“Organization Development”) consultant. It could also be middle-tier manager or top-level executive. Anyone who is committed to having their impact in the world be a match with their vision for that world—whether that world be a team, a program, a business, a church, or a city council.

When Might You Be Ready?

Inventing Your Leadership will be perfect for you if what’s true about you is:

• You see a new possibility for yourself in your leadership and want to seriously upgrade your leadership capacity, both in your own inner leadership capability and in your capacity to impact the growth and development of the people and systems around you. 

• Your work and home situation is such that you will be able to attend all sessions, including the 4 Day Virtual Intensive (explained below). This is important since the developmental thrust of the program grows over time, and that thrust can only really happen when all are present for all sessions. Therefore, we set a very high bar for missed sessions, such as illness or an unexpected emergency.

• You are ready to do the work needed for you to move to the next level in your development. This includes a deep drive, commitment, and intensity to stay with it even when the going gets tough, and to prioritize the program in the face of the many other competing commitments that will likely arise during the course of the program.

Expected Outcomes 

By engaging fully in the program, you can expect to significantly upgrade both your inner and your outer leadership in the following ways:

• You will experience a significant upgrade in your own inner leadership, which you will be able to readily observe and even measure for yourself. Along the way, you will find yourself with an increasing level of confidence and manifested ability in your leadership, even as you face challenges (and opportunities) which might currently feel daunting or even overwhelming.

• You will dramatically increase your skillfulness in the arena of relationship, communication, and group dynamics. As a result, you will find yourself being far more effective in your ability to facilitate groups and teams toward increased relationship intelligence and, hence, high performance. 

• You will grow new skills in one-on-one coaching at all levels, especially in those areas, and with those kinds of people, where traditionally that has been hard.

• You will have immersed yourself in (over the course of the nine months), and come to integrate into your leadership, a body of distinctions and practices which hang together into a highly cohesive whole.

• You will experience a sense of confidence and calm in the face of those situations and circumstances that are currently challenging for you.

Your Program Leader