As a business or nonprofit leader, you’re no stranger to buzzwords like the ones in the headline for this Academy.

While these terms might seem cliché and overused, clarity, authenticity, joy, and purpose are essential to growing a thriving, sustainable organization that inspires you and your team, and makes a difference in the lives of those you serve.

Deep down, you resonate with this truth and it’s fueled your drive for professional and personal growth.

You’ve immersed yourself in books, articles, podcasts, and the wisdom of mentors. You’re a model student, swiftly translating your learnings into actions that elevate not just you, but your entire team. Yet, your pursuit has now evolved beyond finding the “right way” to lead and grow a business into seeking how “their way” aligns with “your way.”

You’re also no stranger to success.

Outwardly, your team regards you as a high-achieving leader, an example to follow.

But internally, you can easily slip into self-criticism and doubt, disregard your instincts, or tell yourself that you must follow conventional leadership and business advice if you want to sustain your success.

The truth is, you’re ready for something different – a way of leading that is more joy-full and authentic, and trickles down to how your entire team or organization operates.

You’d like to…

• Feel more clear and connected to what makes you most come alive and what you care about.
• Tap back into your wellspring of curiosity and creativity, and foster more innovation and possibility-thinking in your team.
• Be more physically, mentally, and emotionally invigorated, with a clear understanding of what energizes you and brings you joy.
• Learn to navigate your inner landscape – including doubt and fear – so you can lead with more courage, confidence, and authenticity.
• Break through the proverbial ceiling of your potential, business growth, and impact.

Self-Leadership, also known as “Inside Out Leadership” is about helping you tap into your inner resources, just like the beloved characters in the movie Inside Out. Just as Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust influence Riley’s decisions and behaviors, your internal “family” of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs shapes how you lead yourself and others. Using an Internal Family Systems (IFS)-inspired approach, you’ll get to know who is on your proverbial “Inner Board of Directors” and how to harness and guide them towards conscious decisions that lead to more impact and success. As you build your “know, like, and trust” internally, in turn, your teams, clients, stakeholders, and communities will know, like, and trust you more too!

• Make conscious decisions from a place of clarity and conviction.
• Feel more joy, ease, and flow in everything you do. Your natural geniuses and innate drives work for and with you.
• Tap into inspiring visions and courageously go after them…even if they feel a little wild.
• Cultivate resilience and confidence by addressing internal conflicts, fear, and self-limiting beliefs
• Navigate your inner landscape with curiosity and compassion, which in turn, enhances your ability to curiously and compassionately connect with your team, clients, and stakeholders
• Connect with and tend to the needs of your whole self: mind, heart, spirit, and body.
• Create real, tangible impact and success that feels satisfying on a soul-level.

I firmly believe that every one of us needs a mentor and merry band of fellow travelers with us on our leadership and business journey. One of the best ways to deepen your connection to yourself and those you lead is to be in connection with other peers. In community, you can be deeply seen and heard in ways you normally aren’t in your everyday life. You can discover things about yourself that only others could notice and reflect back to you. You can try on in a safe space what it feels like to show up as *all* of you — the powerful, confident you AND the vulnerably, messy, full-of-doubt you. And you can find comfort in how many ways you are “not the only one.”

In the Self-Leadership Academy, you’ll be surrounded by inspiring, like-hearted peers that can cheer you on, support you through the struggles, and push you to places you might not go on your own. As a community, we cultivate an atmosphere of openness, vulnerability, trust, support, motivation, and accountability. Some people may become friends for life.

• You are already successful in your business or organization, but you’re ready to create your next chapter from a more joy-full, authentic, and purposeful place.
• You’re innately curious about how you (and humans in general) work. You’re constantly growing, learning, and evolving.
• You’re all-in on cultivating a deeper relationship with your mind, heart, body, and spirit.
• You crave feedback. You know the power of discovering what others see in you.
• You are ready to show up vulnerably and to take risks. You don’t need convincing that getting uncomfortable is a worthwhile endeavor.
• You love to give as much as you receive. And you know that sometimes giving to others will give you exactly what you need.
• You’re seeking a powerful community of peers to inspire, challenge, stretch, and support you.

• Virtual Accelerator. We kick off with a half-day of teaching, facilitation, coaching, and community building. We’ll dive into the foundations of self-leadership and begin our exploration of who’s on your “Inner Board of Directors”, what you care about, how you best operate, and what you want to accomplish in the coming 6 months.

• Group Coaching. We meet 2x a month for 90 minutes. Members will receive personalized attention on their business, leadership, or life, and also be witnessed and supported by the community. Sometimes the best insights come from watching someone else be coached.
  

• 1-on-1 Coaching. We meet 3x at any time of your choosing during the program to go deeper into any area of business, leadership, or life that you’d like support on.

• Community. We stay in touch as a group throughout our time together. You’ll never have to wait for our coaching session to receive connection, inspiration, and support.

• And, there will be a dash of magic and a few surprises along the way…

The Academy is a 6-month commitment. The next cohort begins in January 2024. Your investment is $5000. Your commitment is more than time and money. The journey in this community requires energy, humor, heart, ambition, tenacity, and a willingness to connect deeply with others. 

The Self-Leadership Academy is intentionally intimate and small. I take a maximum of 8 people. If you’re ready to meet your “inner board of directors”, grow your self-leadership, and feel more authentic and joy-full in all areas of your business and life, let’s have a conversation.