Workshops

The Inner Work of Leadership

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Many leadership training programs fail to create lasting impact because they overlook a crucial foundation — inner work. Without deep self-awareness and strong self-management, new skills are difficult to sustain. The workshops below focus on developing these essential capacities, helping you gain greater clarity, authenticity, and influence as a leader.  Enhancing your understanding of emotions, behaviors, and motivations prepares you to navigate challenges and lead confidently.

Myth of Work-Life Balance

In-person and virtual
1.5 to 2-hour workshop

Yes, it’s a myth! We guide participants through the process of rejecting the unattainable standard of work-life balance and introduce them to a model that better reflects the reality of their lives.

Invisible Barriers

In-person and virtual
1.5 to 2-hour workshop

Many of us keep trying to address the same issues over and over again without success. We help participants identify and alter the invisible psychological barriers that prevent them from making the changes to which they are sincerely committed.

Honor Your Personal Bandwidth

In-person and virtual
1.5 to 2-hour workshop

We all want to be able to do as much as – or more than – those around us are doing. (Or at least what we think they are doing.) We lead participants through the process of identifying their personal resources (and their limits) and support them as they commit to living within their personal bandwidths.

Flourish Through Strengths

In-person and virtual
1.5 to 2-hour workshop

We focus so much on trying to fix or hide our weak spots that we forget the importance of nurturing (and enjoying) our natural strengths. Participants are encouraged to discover ways to purposefully recognize and incorporate their character strengths into their lives to increase motivation, satisfaction, and energy.

The Silver Lining: How to Learn from Challenging Feedback…and Your Reactions to It

In-person
1 to 3-hour workshop

This workshop guides participants through a four-step process of gracefully receiving challenging feedback and extracting valuable insights from the feedback itself and our natural reactions to it. We will explore the concept of “defense triggers” and learn how to craft a constructive “learning response” instead of a defensive reaction when receiving challenging feedback.

Grounding Yourself…when the Ground is Shaking

In-person
4-hour workshop

We expect employees and leaders to make good decisions and complete their work despite the constantly changing and increasingly demanding organizational environment. This workshop focuses on developing three interconnected skills foundational to the inner work of leadership when working under stress: 1) Honoring Your Personal Bandwidth, 2) Emotional Regulation, and 3) Bouncing Back from Failure or Disappointment. 

Emotional Intelligence in Action: Leading with Self-Awareness and Empathy

In-person
4-hour workshop

This workshop focuses on the development of three emotional intelligence skills that are foundational to the effective work of senior leadership: Emotional Self-Awareness, Emotional Self-Regulation, and Empathy/Tuning in to Others. The workshop will be highly interactive with a combination of lecture, small group work, and individual focus time.

A Framework for
Courageous Leadership

In-person / Virtual
1-hour workshop

Courageous leadership is essential to meeting the leadership demands of today and in the future. This workshop introduces the four skill sets of courageous leadership, identified in Dr. Brené Brown’s research. These skills, which are teachable, measurable, and observable, include: Sitting with the Discomfort of Vulnerability, Living into our Values, Building and Repairing Trust, and Building Resilience. Participants will have an opportunity to identify where they want to be more courageous in their own leadership.

The Power of Vulnerable Leaders

In-person
3 to 6-hour workshop

This workshop introduces participants to the four skill sets of courageous leadership, with a focus on the skillsets of sitting with the discomfort of vulnerability, emotional regulation, and bouncing back from failure or disappointment (when we are courageous, and it doesn’t go as planned). We use individual and small group exercises, along with large group discussions to bring the concepts to life.

The interpersonal work of leadership

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Effective leaders build trusting relationships and foster collaboration.  The following workshops focus on the interpersonal work of leadership – the skills that inspire high-performing teams and create environments where individuals feel supported, valued, and motivated to contribute their best.  

Building and Repairing Trust

In-person / Virtual
3 to 4-hour workshop

Work today requires interconnected, collaborative effort and shared responsibilities among team members. Trust is the foundation of a highly functioning team. Dr. Brené Brown’s 10-year study of leadership indicates that trust is a learned skill and the culmination of seven essential elements: Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Nonjudgment, and Generosity (BRAVING). Participants will learn to use the BRAVING Trust inventory, developed by Dr. Brené Brown, to build and/or improve trust for themselves, between themselves and another individual, and within the team.

Difficult Conversations

In-person
4-hour workshop

We all dread, avoid, or endure with distress some kinds of conversations. Navigating sensitive, high-stakes, or potentially conflictual conversations takes courage and skill. This workshop teaches courage-building and skill-building to communicate more effectively when difficult conversations need to happen. Drawing from Dr. Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ program and the research of the prestigious Harvard Negotiation Project, we designed this workshop to equip you with skills to manage difficult conversations in a way that maintains – and even enhances – relationships.

Building Psychological Safety

In-person
4-hour workshop

This workshop focuses on how leaders can build more psychological safety within their teams and across their organizations. Using courageous leadership concepts and tools, along with the work of Dr. Amy Edmondson and Dr. Timothy Clark, leaders will learn to embrace, model, and reward vulnerability and learn specific behaviors that can increase team members’ trust.  Participants will practice prioritizing open, honest conversations that are clear and kind and will learn a process for giving and receiving engaged and effective feedback.  They will then build on these skills to identify how to hold team members accountable in respectful, non-judgemental ways and fuel collaboration and innovation by creating environments where it is psychologically safe to challenge the status quo.  

By the end of the workshop, all participants will have created their own customized psychological safety action plan that they can use to build more successful, resilient teams who are equipped and supported to engage courageously in the tough conversations necessary to address critical issues.

Giving Effective Feedback

In-person
2-hour workshop

In this workshop, participants explore and practice key strategies for delivering feedback in a way that fosters growth and collaboration. Topics include overcoming common barriers to giving effective feedback, cultivating a feedback-rich culture, and applying the SSBIR model to structure feedback that promotes positive outcomes.