Conscious Conversations
Join us for the Houston Chapter’s Conscious Conversations virtual meetup! Do you want business to be a force for good? Elevate your leadership with a peer group discussion to repeat success, overcome dilemmas, and make meaningful connections. Houston Chapter board member, Tammira Philippe, thoughtfully facilitates these discussions.
Common Issues
Identify key pain points affecting your organization’s performance and strategy.
Effective Solutions
Leverage our expertise to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
Welcome cocktail reception
Ease into the Future of the Conscious Enterprise with an evening designed for connection. Join fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors for an informal reception featuring hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer, and plenty of space to spark meaningful conversations.
The end of middle management? Designing for zero distance.
Michele Zanini, Humanocracy
In a world where agility wins, the organizations that thrive will be the ones that bring decision-making closest to the customer. Michele Zanini, co-author of Humanocracy, will share what it takes to design for zero distance between those who serve and those they serve. Learn how to flatten hierarchies, decentralize control, and foster self-managed teams that innovate faster and adapt better.
Self-empowered and adaptive organizations.
Choose your path: from unlearning hierarchy to building cultures of care and navigating uncertainty with confidence. Engage with speakers in dynamic, participatory formats.
Engineered for Trust: Making empowerment a system, not a slogan.
Christopher Stubbs, Virigin Voyages
When Virgin Voyages set out to deliver a guest experience unlike any other, they realized they had to start from the inside out. Chris Stubbs shares how the company took a leap and became one of the first U.S. organizations to eliminate tip-based compensation entirely. By redesigning roles, feedback loops, and incentive structures, Chris and his team created an environment where people could show up fully and thrive.
This session unpacks how to engineer trust into your systems, so empowerment isn’t a hope, but a habit.
Clarity in Chaos: Why purpose is your only strategic advantage
Gopi Kallayil, Google
AI is driving relentless change, and organizations cannot afford to wait and see how this plays out.
Gopi Kallayil, Chief Evangelist at Google, explores how purpose-led companies can remain anchored even as AI redefines business norms. In this keynote, Gopi delves into how purpose and human well-being can serve as true norths in times of uncertainty. Through real-world stories, he’ll change leaders to ask: Can strategy keep pace with AI? Or must we rethink strategy itself? Is AI strategy an oxymoron?
Gopi will challenge you to center purpose, well-being, and happiness, not as afterthoughts, but as essential tools to lead through change.
Breakout & Design Lab: Culture & organizational design
Roll up your sleeves in facilitated design labs to tackle real-world organizational challenges. Move from “as is” to “to be” and share visual solutions with the whole group.