Intentional Coaching + Consulting offers a variety of speaking, training, and workshop topics that can be customized to your team, organization, or community’s needs.

We guide organizations from the inside out using the GetReal Leadership Model© as a framework. This model understands that it all starts with the individuals on the team. From individuals, to teams, leaders, and the organization itself we focus on the driving forces—The Thing Behind The Thing—that keeps organizations from achieving their best results. Working from the inside out, is the best way to achieve the full-scale success. And that success has trademark qualities. Below is a visual of the customizable and comprehensive model:

Here are our specific training, workshop and speaking summaries, each of which are customized to your team, organization or community’s needs:

The Energy Leadership Model™: Enhancing Leadership and Interpersonal Relationships
Being an effective leader requires you to be engaging and flexible, yet also powerful enough to motivate and inspire others. This, coupled with the complexities of your environment, role and interpersonal dynamics, does not make it easy to execute your priorities and get what you want out of situations. In this session, you will learn about the seven levels of Energy Leadership™, the benefits and challenges of each and how to recognize and mitigate stress triggers. Understanding these levels will help you hone your leadership influence, maximize relationships, communicate more effectively, get more done with less effort and focus on what really matters. *This workshop may be supplemented with Energy Leadership Index Assessments

Break Through Your Limiting Beliefs
How valuable would it be to explore those devious limiting beliefs that might be holding you back without you even being aware of them? Join together with your peers for an active working session to:

• Learn how to identify your limiting beliefs
• Discover the negative patterns they create that are affecting you and others
• Explore how they are affecting the way you are showing up in your work and life right now
• Create strategies to sidestep them

Leadership Foundations:  6 Critical Practices
This course, developed by our partners at FranklinCovey, equips leaders at every level with the essential skills and tools to get work done with and through other people.  The program is ideal for leaders who are transitioning from their pervious role as an individual contributor, as well as seasoned leaders looking for practical, relevant guidance for effectively leading and managing their teams.

What is a Team and What Makes a Great Team?
We spend every day engaged as a part of a team yet we don’t spend enough time understanding what a team is and what makes it great. Explore what makes a great team and what areas your team is knocking it out of the park as well as the characteristics of a team that would be game-changing, should your team focus on and master them.

Values-based Leadership
Gain clarity on your personal values and how they align with your organization’s values. Gain clarity on the behaviors that support living into values and how to be a values-based leader.

Creating a Culture of Trust
Trust is a BIG important word that is the foundation of effective teams and relationships yet we don’t spend enough time really understanding what it means and how it works. Together, we will explore the anatomy of trust so you can understand how to build it better and how to communicate about it more effectively if it’s broken.

Creating a Culture of Feedback
Explore the mindset and skillsets needed to develop a culture of feedback within your organization. If you are like most leaders, the idea of giving and receiving feedback seems scary and includes having a difficult conversation–one we tend to avoid hoping the situation will go away. It doesn’t have to be that way! Together we will build our skills and capacity for these conversations while working with real examples pertinent to your role. Prepare to explore new ways to think about these interactions, learn a simple method to plan and exchange feedback and have important conversations with your leaders and teams, and have plenty of time to practice and reflect.

Creating a Culture of Coaching (Recommended to be a half day/full day/multiple sessions)
When we utilize coaching skills in the workplace, we empower our teams to create sustainable and lasting change. We allow them to self-discover the answers. In this session, you will learn the difference between management and coaching, when to utilize each and how to integrate the two. You will also learn four powerful coaching skills and four coaching questions that can be used to coach anyone in most workplace situations.

Creating a Culture of Well-being (Recommended to be a half day/full day/multiple sessions)
Explore what’s needed to create a culture of well-being in our nonprofit organizations. Looking at organizational culture and well-being as “soft” or “nice to have” is an old way of thinking. Research shows us that focusing on well-being in the workplace is an essential strategy for sustainable results. Current and prospective employees are beginning to place as much emphasis on culture and well-being as they are on job responsibilities and salary. It is becoming essential to attract top talent and it fosters high performance and results. Together, we will explore two frameworks for activating a culture of well-being by looking first at organizational well-being, and second, at the well-being of our people. Prepare to explore new ways to think about these topics, the dangers of not tending to them as well as practical, tactical, and actionable strategies to implement within your organization.

Leveraging Emotional Intelligence to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Organization
Boosting your employee’s EQI can support building healthier and more productive nonprofit cultures. Organizations with higher emotional intelligence provide better psychological safety and trust while creating spaces for leaders to reach their full potential.

*This workshop may be supplemented with EQI 2.0 Assessments

Strengths-based Leadership
Help your team learn how to use your natural talents to thrive in life and at work; featuring StrengthsFinder 2.0 book and assessment. Learn strengths through the StrenthsFinder assessment and philosophy. Participants will understand their top five strengths, how to use them for success, and will engage with other people on their team to learn about the strengths of their team. Together, we will focus on the strengths of the team and how to can partner to improve communication and collaboration. The team can receive an optional team talent map and will engage in a team-building activity.

Building Business Acumen:  What the CEO Wants You to Know
Today’s modern employees are increasingly specialized in order to have the greatest impact.  But that often means they don’t see how the whole organization runs, and how their role affects the bottom line.  Based on the book, What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan, the course provides employees with C-level insights of how an organization runs so they can align their efforts to your goals and maximize your organizational impact.

Dynamic Communication
Understanding your behavioral style and the style of others to enhance communication, cooperation, and effectiveness; featuring the DiSC Assessment or the Energy Leadership Index Assessment. DISC training helps individuals within the team begin to understand themselves and each other while developing an appreciation of the unique differences each person brings to the team. The team can receive an optional team style summary and can optionally engage in a team-building activity. *This workshop is intended to be supplemented with DISC Assessments and Reports

Using the Enneagram to Discover You
The Enneagram is a map for self-discovery and personal growth based on 9 basic personality types. The Enneagram accurately and clearly describes why you think, feel and behave in particular ways based upon your core fears and core desires.  The power of the Enneagram is in its ability to harness and transform self-limiting behaviors into life-enhancing personal empowerment. The gift of the Enneagram is that through self-discovery, one can create and sustain meaningful and lasting relationships with others, and themselves.

Shifting from The Drama Triangle to The Empowerment Dynamic
Understand three roles of unhealthy and unproductive relationships that nearly all of us engage in until we know better. Learn about the three unhealthy roles of the Drama Triangle and how to shift to the Empowerment Dynamic. The Drama Triangle is harmful because it creates conflict between the people in the relationship and prevents either of them from solving the problem at hand. The Empowerment dynamic is healthy, empowering and solves problems and less stress and more effectiveness.

Change Management
Our “new normal” isn’t so new and still doesn’t feel normal. Many non-profit leaders are working in overdrive to find the best path forward. Change is hard. And we have all experienced more than our fair share of change this year. With everyone responding to change differently, being a leader can be confusing and difficult. Join together with peers and other leaders for discussion and learning around The Cycle of Change, which is the most effective and simple model for leading ourselves and others through uncertain times. On the surface, it’s about assessing and pivoting, yet it’s really about helping people through the emotions of change and the change cycle. Everyone is always in some part of this cycle and we can be in differing phases for differing situations simultaneously.  This session can be customized or expanded to include the Change Style Indicator, a self-assessment designed to help participants identify their change style and how it intersects with other people’s styles.

Leadership in Times of Stress: Self-Leadership (Can be a series or stand-alone)
Being a leader in times of stress creates fear, worry, and doubt and we’ve all been under a lot of stress for a long time. Join together with peers for an interactive and engaging discussion about where we are spending our time and energy during this rapidly changing time and how to increase clarity and focus on what matters most.

• What’s been the impact of recent stressors on each of us?
• What’s happening in our brains as a result of change and stress and what makes sense about how we’ve been feeling about ourselves as leaders
• What is causing you the most stress and how to prioritize what matters while releasing some of those stressors

Leadership in Times of Stress Series: Team Leadership (Can be a series or stand-alone)
Managing people and teams who are under stress and constantly feeling fear, worry, and doubt creates unique leadership challenges. Join together with peers to learn some new ideas about how to lead your team through times of stress. Learn about:

• How to help discern between problems and worries
• Modeling healthy self-care
• Inspiring the team as a whole and individually
• Setting and adjusting expectations
• Coaching strategies to support your team
• Remote meeting tips and strategies

Inclusive Teams Trainings & Workshops

Inclusive Leadership:  Practical Ways to Cultivate Inclusion and Build a Better Team
Many Organizations are focused on building diverse and inclusive cultures.  To support that, they’ve made progress on building more diverse teams; but is diversity enough?  This course shows leaders that leading inclusively isn’t about doing more.  It’s a way to prioritize inclusion in daily behaviors to disrupt bias and create an environment where everyone feels valued and sees an opportunity to thrive.

Unconscious Bias:  Understanding Bias to Unleash Potential
Unconscious bias is a natural part of the human condition and how the brain works.  It affects how we make decisions, engage with others, and respond to various situations and circumstances, often limiting our potential.  This course offers a principle-based and practical approach to identifying and addressing unconscious bias in our everyday life.

Time Management and Productivity Training & Workshops

The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Every year, organizations spend more than $30 billion on strategy creation and more than 80% of those strategies fail.  This course, developed by our partners at Franklin Covey, provides the framework for organizations seeking to increase strategic execution by creating a culture of high performance.

The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity
It’s not about getting everything done, it’s about getting the right things done without burning out.  This course, developed by our partners at Franklin Covey, combines timeless principles with current neuroscience research to help better manage decisions, attention and energy.  Participants learn to make more selective, high-impact choices about where to invest their valuable time, attention, and energy.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Not matter how competent a person is, they will not have sustained and lasting success unless they can effectively lead themselves, influence, engage and collaborate with others and continuously improve and renew their capabilities.  This course, developed by our partners at Franklin Covey, help individuals, teams, and leaders, do just that!