Never before have so many us had moments where we’ve said, “I didn’t see that coming” or “How could I have missed such a crucial piece of information?” As leaders respond to the impact of COVID-19, many lament “Leading is becoming increasingly impossible”. But what if you could find “the possible” during these challenging times? The secret is taking a pause to better understand how you lead in these difficult times. When we understand how leadership happens, relationships improve, costly missteps are avoided, goals more quickly achieved, and decisions taken that are evidence based. In this keynote, you’ll explore a collaborative framework, The 7 Stepping Stones of Relational Leadership™, a process designed to help you and your organization. By making the leap, you’ll lead relationally, building community and growing collective team intelligence.

• Enrich your leadership to unlock new behaviour
• Collaborate to create greater alignment and nurture culture
• Navigate change to awaken strategy
• Foster higher purpose leadership to ignite commitment, trust and accountability
• Harness multiple perspectives to drive more evidence-based decisions

The old adage culture eats strategy for breakfast has morphed: culture now devours everything in its path. The best people, most bullet-proof plans and finely engineered processes have all fallen prey to its silent power. How you respond to the responsibility of nurturing culture is one of the most important legacies of your leadership. From navigating moral mazes to making sound ethical decisions, your words and deeds are the promise of cultural cause-equity.

And forget about clichés of authenticity like “walking the talk” or “having an open door”, these will not engender future generations to your cause – today’s emerging leaders need to not only experience changed culture, they need to see themselves directly contributing to it. They want to be exemplars of higher purpose leadership. This session will explore a framework of five emancipators to help you earn, empower and engender a culture of trust. You’ll be supported to take a leap onto seven stepping stones that prepare you to lead a healthier culture. Beginning with a deep dive into “authentic” behaviour, leaders will more fully appreciate how to foster cultural intelligence through enabling collective and connective intelligence. Appreciating context then fuels the boundless empathy and tireless activism that are touchstones of a healthy culture. As you skip across the stepping stone process, you’ll identify possibility spaces that call for your unique cultural coaching. As a higher purpose leader, you’ll embrace the potential of trust-as-process, enhancing cultural confidence to grow your worth as an inclusive, future-facing organization.