At the Interchange next week we'll explore Chapter 11 of The Great Engagement, "Leadership: Spreading the Purpose" in the context of alarming new findings from Gallup's 2025 State of the Global Workplace report.

We're looking forward to seeing you at next week's Interchange session. We'll be diving deeper into Chapter 10 of The Great Engagement, focusing specifically on "The Transformational Choice" and how moment-by-moment conscious decisions can transform both personal leadership and organizational culture during uncertain times.

As we move forward, we face an essential question that builds on our previous conversation: How do we make conscious leadership choices rather than defaulting to reactive patterns during times of upheaval? For our March session, we'll explore how to move from reactive to proactive leadership during ambiguous change:

Last week’s executive order pausing/freezing federal funding shook many people right to the soles of their feet. Over the weekend, the USAID agency was shut down (and perhaps it may be terminated?), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s head was fired, paving the way for it to be shut down.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Interchange next week. We start this new year with recent Gallup reports expressing that employees are unaware of what’s expected of them and that employee connections to company missions have decreased to a record low. 

We’re looking forward to seeing you at next week’s Interchange session and super excited to share and hear about your connection as a leader with the subject matter being discussed.  For the month of December, we are diving into Chapter 9 of The Great Engagement, Developing Conscious Purpose.  

We're looking forward to seeing you at next week's interchange session. We're going to divert from our work in The Great Engagement and instead discuss performance management as a way of motivating and supporting the growth of your people.

Next week's Interchange session will be focused on chapter 8 of our book, “The Coaching Relationship”. This chapter delves into the nature of coaching, how to learn to be coachable, creating coaching relationships with others, and how to muster sufficient energy to truly raise your personal level of consciousness.

The subject for this month's session is Chapter 7 of our book; Your Unconscious Purpose. This chapter is only 8 pages long so it's a quick read, however to really go into this subject we need you to review your elevate system workbook which most of you have completed previously.

We are looking forward to resuming our Interchange sessions after the July respite. We hope you all had a chance to get some vacation time in and enjoyed the month.

In this week’s convening of The Interchange, we'll focus on chapter 6 of our book COMMITMENT. It's only 8 pages long so we suggest you make a few minutes, it's worth the read.

The subject of our session next week is chapter four of our book entitled “Learned Forgetfulness”.  It's a short chapter, only four pages, so your homework assignment is brief. (The copy from the chapter is pasted below for your convenience.  The formatting is a bit wonky, so you may want to grab the book.) 

Here’s the subject of next week’s Interchange session:  12 Cultural Mindsets Impeding Your Organization’s Success. Below is a copy of these cultural mindsets and as thought starters, here are some of the questions we will be exploring:

I hope this finds all of you enjoying your day. The subject of next week’s Interchange session will be Chapter 3 of our book:  Emotions: Servant or Master? I have attached a digital copy of the chapter in case you don’t have your copy handy. It is a quick read but lots to think about and talk thru. 

The subject for next week’s Interchange session will be the second part of the formula for engagement laid out in our book; Empowerment. In our session, we will explore the nature of engagement, and explore how you might foster greater levels of empowerment in your people.

The new year is a natural time for a re-start, a renewal of commitment, reenergizing.  For us, this January is particularly exciting, because our book, The Great Engagement,  will be launched on January 23, 2024! 

Supportive Accountability: Empowering Success | One of the subjects that many of you have asked to talk about is that of Supportive Accountability. How do we use accountability not as a hammer but as a way of supporting people's success?

Everyone seemed to agree that Alex Gournares' presentation on AI was great...even if mind blowing. This month we think it will be valuable to talk about how we are going to put some of the learnings from Alex into action

Exciting News: Special Guest Alex Gounares on AI Advancements and Organizational Implications | We are very excited to be hosting a special guest, who is an expert on AI. Alex Gounares is a friend of Gene Boes, one of our members and will be joining us at 10 am (EDT) to give us all a brief on how AI is advancing and what the implications are for anyone leading an organization.

Leadership Evolution: From Task-Driven to Growth-Centric Succession Planning | Creating a culture of personal growth where everyone from frontline leaders all the way up to the CEO see their primary job as developing their people not only nurtures effective succession, it also makes for a more effective organization where employees appreciate the commitment to their growth and career success