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100% Responsibility: Enhancing Consciousness Inside Your Organization
Leaders: Anna McGrath
Accelerating Business Growth through Conscious Leadership
Leaders: Brett Thomas
Co-Founder, Stagen Leadership Academy /// Founder, Conscious Business Coalition
Conscious leadership—as one of the four pillars of conscious capitalism can be a tremendous source of leverage for small and mid-size businesses. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will learn some of the most successful methods the Stagen Leadership Academy has used to accelerate the social, emotional, and psychological growth of leaders, which in turn, can accelerate the growth of the business. Learn specific frameworks, practices and tools that small and mid-size company leaders use to inspire their workforce, get their message out to more people, and build a highly respected brand.
The Art & Science of Sustainable High Performance Fueling Human Capacity in a World of Infinite Demand
Leaders: Bob Chapman
Chairman & CEO /// Barry-Wehmiller
Think for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up most mornings feeling sleep-deprived? Check your email before you get out of bed? Run from meeting to meeting with no time in between?
Big Muse
Leaders: Peter Himmelman
Performer & Composer ///
We know that creativity and flexibility are key characteristics of successful Conscious Business. So how is creativity learned and acquired? We must start by unlearning the ways we’ve shut down our creative potential and stifled ourselves from childhood onward. Peter Himmelman will guide participants to connect with their natural creativity, quiet the ‘inner critic’ (that little voice inside that tells us we’re not good enough), and joyfully explore our creative potential. Participants will approach the two main components of any successful organization: set structure and highly creative thinking, using songwriting as a metaphor.
Watch Perter’s video “Marv the Inner Critic”:
Building a Values-based Culture
Leaders: Gayle Watson
This interactive practicum is designed to give the participants the tools to develop a Values-based Culture. Participants will learn how to apply the principles from Ann Rhoades’ book, Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that Outperforms the Competition. Participants will develop a Values Blueprint®, interviewing applicants based on Values, and reinforcing a culture around the Values. Participants will leave with an action plan to create a culture by design for their organization.
Changing the Game with Conscious Capitalism
Leaders: Laura Roberts
Co-Founder & CEO /// Pantheon Enterprises
Pantheon Enterprises exists to change the way chemical companies do business, and
to sustain better life through Conscious Chemistry™.
Changing the way industry uses chemical products – from paints and other coatings, lubricants,
cleaners and many others – is a Herculean effort. Long held beliefs and relationships create
inertia that inhibits movement from using toxic chemicals that harm workers, natural ecosystems
and everyone who comes in contact with them, to using non-toxic chemicals – even if they are
more effective and cost less.
Learn how Pantheon Enterprises is employing the core principles of Conscious Capitalism –
Higher Purpose, a Stakeholder Orientation, Conscious Leadership and Conscious Culture –to
successfully changed long-standing beliefs and practices in several segments of the Industrial
Chemical marketplace and is working to transform the entire industry. And learn how you can
employ a similar approach to effect dramatic system-level change in your industry or
marketplace, and within your organization.
Conscious Capitalism and Biomimicry
Leaders: Chris Allen
CEO & Co-Founder /// Biomimicry 3.8
Erin Meezan
Vice President, Sustainability /// Interface
Ken McLellan
Business Connection Leader /// Burt’s Bees
Conscious Leadership: To Serve First
Leaders: Joe Iarocci
CEO /// Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Participants in this session will explore Conscious Leadership through the frameworks developed by Robert K. Greenleaf, the founder of the modern servant leadership movement. The philosophy and practice of servant leadership is founded on many of the principles highlighted in Conscious Capitalism such as valuing the stakeholder community, leadership as a journey, persuasion not coercion, and growing people. In this session participants will explore how organizations themselves can demonstrate servant leadership, leading to higher performance on multiple bottom lines.
Culture in Action: Achieving Alignment and Autonomy
Leaders: Mark Bonchek
Founder /// ORBIT
Conscious leaders know that authority has its limits, but sometimes feel a tension between autonomy and alignment. You want to empower your people, but can’t have everyone going in all different directions. Purpose and values can be too broad, while policies and procedures can be too narrow. Is there a middle way? It turns out there is an answer, and it comes from some surprising places including the Navy Seals, flocks of birds, the U.S. Constitution, and Wikipedia. In this thought-provoking, hands-on session, learn how to create decision principles that connect to your higher purpose and put your culture into action. You will leave with practical insights for creating a more networked and collaborative organization.
Click here to see Mark’s video “The Social Leader”
Click here to read Mark’s article “Use Doctrine to Pierce the Fog of Business”
Disrupt & Delight: Using Humanity-Centered Design to Create Shared Value
Leaders: Raphael Bemporad
Founding Partner /// BBMG
Like few times in history, a fundamental shift is upon us. A growing number of brands are designing smarter, safer and healthier solutions while a new generation of consumers is asking what really matters and creating new ways to do much more with much less.
- How might we design new business models driven by more than just consumption?
- How might we unleash participation and co-creativity to deliver more value in more ways?
- How might we create more meaning and a better quality of life for more people even as our economy shifts to meet nature’s limits?
Elevating Your Business through Employee Engagement
Leaders: Katie Hunt-Morr
Senior Manager, Values & Impact /// Etsy
After narrowly meeting the qualifying score to become a B Corp, over 130 Etsy employees gathered for a ‘hackathon for good’ to help improve the company’s social and environmental practices. Using the B Corp assessment tool to identify areas for improvement, Etsy employees took ownership of improving and expanding their company’s impact initiatives. From training marginalized craftspeople how to scale their ventures, to measuring their impact of their data centers, Etsy not only improved their B Corp evaluation scores, they elevated their business through employee engagement. Join Katie Hunt-Morr, Senior Manager, Values & Impact, Etsy, and Hardik Savalia, Senior Associate with B Lab, to explore the frameworks through which you can use employee engagement to take your work, your company, and your culture to the next level through employee engagement.
Enabling the Full Release of Human Possibility
Leaders: Dale A. Herold
Chief Customer Officer for EnPro /// President, Garlock family of companies
Do you believe you have the right to pursue your life’s vision and purpose while at work? Do you and your company support this belief and put that to action? At EnPro, they recognize that people learn and change from the inside of themselves, on their terms, based on their beliefs and mental models. During this practicum, Dale will share with you how their global company is transforming to create a dual bottom line organization where they are not only succeeding financially, but at the same time, are actively working to enable the full release of human possibility in each and every one of their employees. Don’t miss this this highly interactive session, as you will be sure to walk away with actionable insights to further transformation in your organization.
Engaging Your Stakeholders for Purpose Beyond Funding
Leaders: Danae Ringelmann
Founder and Chief Development Officer /// Indiegogo
For companies to sustain a Conscious Business, there needs to be a focus on purpose beyond profit – and understanding of the importance of creating value for and engaging their stakeholders. Crowdfunding not only connects companies and people, but it provides companies with an outlet to empower and engage people – all of which are potential customers.
Financing an Enterprise: It’s About People and Purpose not just the Numbers
Leaders: Bill Vogelgesang
Finding Your Inner Consciousness and Spreading the Vibe
Leaders: Jeffrey Sinelli
Chief Vibe Officer /// Which Wich Superior Sandwiches
Join the Which Wich (WW) team as they share real-life examples of what can happen when an organization embraces a culture of consciousness. Which Wich Headquarters staff will share testimonials of how the brand culture has tangibly evolved to create a greater consciousness at WW, and a better business. You will explore through music, the psychology of vulnerability, and discovery, how by holding true to your convictions, you will see an exponential return more than any one quarter will bear. You will leave this session with your own personal course and chart of what consciousness looks like for you and your organization.
Foundation Principles in Action: The Container Store’s Key to Sustainable Success
Leaders: Audrey Robertson
VP, Cultural Programs, Community Relations and Social Media /// The Container Store
With a perennial presence high on the FORTUNE “100 Best Places to Work” list and its leadership role in the Conscious Capitalism movement, The Container Store carries more than 35 years of cultivating a Conscious Business with it to CC 2014.
Implementing a Cultural Leadership Model: Aligning Your Words with Actions
Leaders: Bill Withers
Founder of ADAPT by Design /// Founder of acQuire Technology Solutions
Building a sustainable culture is very challenging. The Cultural Leader model was discovered empirically in the building of acQuire (Bill was a founder of acQuire). It was our way of connecting an employee to a leader within our company, based on a spiritual care basis, as well as a task and commercial basis. Participants in this session will be introduced to building a cultural leader framework and learn about the tools to support it. They will be able to obtain these tools for the use in their own organizations from the ADAPT by Design website so that they can align words and actions on Monday morning.
Inspirational Leadership in the Era of Behavior
Leaders: Julie Arsenault
Leader – Governance, Culture, and Leadership Practice /// LRN
In our more interconnected and interdependent world, the governance structures, organization models, corporate cultures, and leadership styles that succeeded in the past are increasingly proving obsolete and inadequate. And it is particularly true for organizations that seek to inspire the kinds of elevated behaviors our 21st century world demands: collaboration, innovation, cooperation, creativity, discretionary effort, pride, etc. On this journey, a certain kind of leadership is needed – one that doesn’t coerce or motivate but one that inspires people and a company’s broader “ecosystem” to act in the common interest, in pursuit of a values-based mission, with a deeper commitment and purpose than shareholder interest. These organizations must create freedom from restraints, excessive rules, needless hierarchy and superfluous policies and embrace freedom to unleash the very best in their people.
In this highly interactive and experience based session, participants will explore the concept of Inspirational Leadership: To guide and develop the kinds of game changing behaviors we need in a non-coercive way, using trust, and values to achieve mutual goals; achieving missions of significance through others rather than by exerting power over them. Participants will learn techniques, approaches and tools that can help you have greater capacity to have impact; to align leadership and your broaden key stakeholders to embark on the journey toward or have a deeper commitment to creating values-based organizations.
Ingredients to a Culture of Excellence
Leaders: Josh Paine
President /// CheapCaribbean.com
When employees are aligned and together pursue a worthy vision with a passionate sense of purpose, they all try harder to make it succeed. Employees become focused and fully engaged in the mission. They adapt to change with astounding nimbleness and become a continual source of creativity and innovation that fuels growth and value creation. In this practicum, Josh Paine, CEO and President of CheapCaribbean.com, will provide practical steps for activating the change process and developing a Conscious Culture of engaged employees that drive performance. Josh will address the common challenges to transforming culture and unveil his ingredients to a successful implementation.
Accelerating The Journey to Conscious Capitalism
Leaders: Timothy Henry
Managing Partner /// Arete Management LLC
This is a session focused on the “how to” of accelerating the journey your organization is on towards Conscious Capitalism. Conscious Capitalism, Inc. is developing a practical, “hands on”, 2-day workshop for CEOs and their executive teams to work together to identify opportunities and commit to action to accelerate their Journey to Conscious Capitalism. Practically, the goal of the 2-day workshop is to identify 3-5 areas in which your team and organization can significantly improve how you operate your business within the framework of the four pillars of Conscious Capitalism. Come and get a preview of the 2-day workshop and work through an exercise on stakeholder orientation and thinking win-win; develop a 12-18 month action plan to move forward with one of your key stakeholders.
At the end of the practicum, you will have:
- An understanding of where you are on the journey to Conscious Capitalism and what it means to take a holistic approach to transforming your organization
- For one of your key stakeholders, a high-level implementation plan for the next 12-18 months on what it means to think win-win.
- An overview of the “Accelerating the Journey to Conscious Capitalism” workshop and how this might be helpful to your organization in accelerating this journey.
Language, Accountability and Execution
Leaders: Barrett C. Brown
Ph.D, Consultant, Entrepreneur /// Dynamic Results, LLC
Over 70% of change initiatives fail. Less than 30% of the actions in strategic plans are ever fully implemented. The business community tends to be good at designing strategy and big change initiatives, but poor when it comes to going the final mile and fully executing them.
Meetings that Don’t Suck
Leaders: Brian Robertson
Co-Founder and Partner /// HolacracyOne
Do people in your organization love meetings? Do they seem an incredibly productive use of time? Despite best intentions and smart people, the answer is usually no – meetings often end up too long, too slow, somewhat painful, and mostly ineffective. They’re often seen as a necessary evil – and sometimes even the necessity is questioned.
New Metrics for the New Enterprise: HOW Self-Conscious Organizations Achieve Sustainable Economic Value
Leaders: Caterina Bulgarella, Ph.D.
Leader – Governance, Culture, and Leadership Practice /// LRN
Business is always about metrics and measurement, and we have evolved complex systems to measure the quantity and quality of what we do. Yet, without question, our systems of measurement have often failed to take an in-depth look at key behaviors and the impact of behavior on business results.
In business, the old adage goes, you manage what you measure, and you measure what you value. New business models won’t be adopted until we change what we measure and we have a discussion of the kinds of values that we should use to gauge the state of our economic system and institutions. This transformation will require much more than a leap of faith by the investment community – it will need hard evidence that the new measures provide even greater indication of viability and success than those used previously.
This practicum will discuss the models, frameworks and tools at the basis of a new set of metrics created for a more fully human enterprise. Participants will leave with a framework and a new approach to assessing the health of their own organizations. By means of active participation and mutual engagement, the session will improve attendees’ understanding of the impact of behavior, as well as how they can help create a greater focus on values and the way things are done in their organizations. Participants will also get acquainted with the steps that take organizations toward a more values-based governance, culture, and leadership super-system.
The Nature of Investing – Biomimicry, Investing, and Conscious Capitalism
Leaders: Chris Allen
At its core, investing is an activity rooted in exchange, mutual benefit, and connection; it is a multidimensional endeavor, in service to our organizations, our communities, and our planet. However, most of our current investing tools focus on a transactional, linear, uni-dimensional view of investing, making optimal decision making more difficult.
Personal Mastery in the Practice of Conscious Capitalism
Leaders: Jimmy Carter
Client Partner – Americas /// Effective Leaders International
Intentionally linking the growth of individuals with the growth of an organization is central to the paradigm of conscious capitalism. The energetic source of sustained inspired performance in these enterprises, and in fact any enterprise, is the practice and fostering of personal mastery (PM). In fact, without personal mastery there can be no truly shared vision, no alignment of purpose, nor common culture or values. Without PM there can be no “consciousness” in the “capitalism.”!
But what is personal mastery? What is it not? How is it applied in key organizational process such as talent management, customer retention, teamwork, or day-to-day interactions? What is its role for leaders at all levels?
In this highly interactive session, we will deepen participants’ understanding and use of classic personal mastery, as taught by one of its progenitors, Robert Fritz the author of The Path of Least Resistance. We will focus on the four tenets: Life Postures, The Path of Least Resistance, Creative vs. emotional tension, and accountability & responsibility.
More than a quarter of the time will be dedicated to group conversation, participant-based examples, and application. Some familiarity with the subject is useful but not necessary.
PURPOSE. The most powerful engine for creating a high-performing, highly-aligned organization.
Leaders: Haley Rushing
Co-Founder & Chief Purposologist – The Purpose Institute /// SVP & Chief Planning Officer, GSD&M
One of the central tenets of Conscious Capitalism is having a Purpose beyond making money. In this interactive workshop, Haley will give a brief presentation on the power of purpose to drive a host of benefits including organizational alignment, employee engagement and marketplace performance. She’ll share best practices from several of the companies she’s worked with including Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods Market, Interstate Batteries and GE. You’ll then dive-in to a series of exercises designed to help you think about the deeper purpose of your work and how you might begin bringing it to life in your organization.
Power & Consciousness: How To Be Powerful Without Being a Jerk
Leaders: Dave Kashen
Founder, Quantum Leading /// Co-founder of MeetingHero
Power has gotten a bad wrap in recent history. It invokes images of corrupt politicians, tyrannical rulers and greedy corporative executives. But being powerful is one of the most fundamental aspects of being an effective leader. Join Dave Kashen to explore what power really means, where it comes from, and what makes some leaders more powerful than others. Participants will walk away with a felt sense of their own power, greater clarity about how they inadvertently undermine their power, and developed strategies for how to have the impact they want on those around them and to inspire people to action.
Raising Capital for Your Conscious Business
Leaders: Eric Jacobsen
Managing Partner /// Dolphin Capital
If you are going to build a fully human organization, you need all key stakeholders to share the vision, including your capital partners. As an entrepreneur, Eric Jacobsen has raised over $200mm from many different areas of finance — venture capital, private equity, banks, alternative lenders, and more, and has invested over $100mm – much of this in conscious businesses. Eric will share his experiences and lessons of raising money and investing in companies for the past 30 years in an interactive work session. Participants will gain insight into how to think about the process of raising money, where to go, how to position your company, which types of investors might be interested, and when to avoid raising money at all.
The Renewing Organization
Leaders: Joseph Jaworski
Founder and the Chairman /// Generon International and the Global Leadership Initiative
Susan Taylor
Managing Director /// Generon International
Dale A. Herold
Chief Customer Officer for EnPro /// President, Garlock family of companies
Today, leaders and their organizations are facing profound change and rising complexity, accelerating at a scale, intensity and speed never experienced before. To respond to this challenge, our institutions must be led by an advanced generation of leaders – The Renewing Leader (Stage IV Leaders).
In this highly interactive session, participants will explore the models of “Stage IV Leadership” and the “Renewing Organization.” Generon will present its framework for what is required to become a Stage IV Organization (“4 Circles”), providing an overview in each of four areas. Dale Herold of EnPro Industries will join the practicum, sharing his general reflections about each of the 4 areas; how Generon’s approach was implemented in his organization; what worked; and what didn’t.
After a brief Q&A session, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on their own relationship to each of the “4 Circles” in both life and work, and take a deeper dive via paired dialogue to expand their understanding of the implications of the framework, sharing practical experiences to apply to what they’ve learned.
Service Engagement: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Talent, While Benefitting the Community
Leaders: Adrienne Schmoeker
Talent Solution Lead /// Catchafire
Systems Thinking: A Language and “Power Tool” for Stakeholder Integration
Leaders: Jimmy Carter
Client Partner – Americas /// Effective Leaders International
Simply, stakeholder integration generates value when parties productively cooperate. Cooperation demands a common language to achieve a shared understanding and to take coordinated action. Systems Thinking is that language. In this highly interactive session, participants will deepen their ability to understand and apply Systems Thinking to their stakeholder integration issues – even those that may seem intractable. More than a quarter of this session will be dedicated to case studies and application.
Transforming the Inner Landscape
Leaders: Tara Sheahan
Co-Founder /// Conscious Global Leadership
Julie Meissner
Chief Operation Officer /// San Francisco Sentry
Our whole life is relationship, and the potential for remarkable ones is a matter of choice. From creating something remarkable with a new business partner, to enhancing what we have with a life partner, the way we interact can come from a place of judgment or joy.
Transforming your Organization
Leaders: Rhonda Spencer
Chief People Officer /// Barry-Wehmiller
Yoga
Leaders: Brent Laffoon
This 75 minute Yoga session is intended for practitioners at all levels.