The Leadership Imperative
Walking the Path of Growing Up, Waking Up and Showing Up
A 7-Month Online or Onsite Conscious Leadership Program
Are you ready to take your leadership effectiveness to the next level? Are you ready to invest what it takes to grow up, wake up and show up as a more conscious and impactful leader?
If the answer is “yes”,
then The Leadership Imperative program is for you.
Why Competencies Are No Longer Enough
In today’s increasingly complex and disruptive world, the stakes have never been higher and the need for conscious leaders, never greater. That’s why focusing on developing competencies alone is no longer enough to grow as a leader. Leaders also need to think and act from a higher level of presence and consciousness. They need to grow up and wake up in order to show up in their full power to create what matters most.
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"… research strongly suggests that developing leaders for the future has as much to do with consciousness as competence … It is not merely the development of skill, but the consciousness required to skillfully deploy one’s leadership in ways that are well matched to the complexity of organizational challenges. In short, great leadership requires higher order consciousness."
"I’m not sure how to express my deep appreciation for what Monica does and how grateful I am for her presence in my life and that of my team. She’s helped me see all the goodness we have and the profound desire we each have to have an impact. I’m left with a desire to really understand my colleagues and what they need from me to grow and be their best."
Milla Craig
Founder and President, Millani
How This Conscious Leadership Program Is Unique
The Leadership Imperative program provides the learning, tools, principles and practices needed to catalyze a profound shift in how you think, act and feel. It enables you to develop the critical competencies that define today’s most effective leaders.
Our unique developmental and transformational methodology focuses on two core axes: growing your leadership competencies and evolving your level of consciousness. Using a proven learning process, it incorporates deliberate practices, accountability partners, practical exercises, feedback and support to build your leadership effectiveness.
The Leadership Imperative program integrates the latest transformational teachings and frameworks, including:
- Leadership Circle (Bob Anderson and Bill Adams)
- Leadership Agility (Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs)
- Immunity to Change (Robert Kegan)
- Integral Model (Ken Wilber)
- Presence (Eckhart Tolle)
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself (Joe Dispenza)
- Theory U (Otto Scharmer)
Join us for The Leadership Imperative program and begin shifting your leadership capability and capacity now.
Key Features of the Program
Every month, you will have access to:
Principles & Practices
Explore one core principle and deliberate practice of conscious leadership
Virtual Workshop
Participate in one live 90-minute virtual workshop a month (transcript included)
Virtual Group Coaching
Participate in one live 90-minute virtual group coaching session
Mastermind Group
Be part of The Leadership Imperative mastermind group
Leadership Action Project
Take part in a leadership action project
Practice Sessions
Engage in practice sessions with your triad
Curated Resources
Benefit from a curated selection of leadership resources
Optional Program Elements
The Leadership Circle Profile™ 360° assessment and:
- 2 debriefing sessions or
- 2 debriefing sessions and 3 or 6 x 1:1 coaching sessions or
"Gilles inspires: he shows you the inner path to be the best leader you can become and for the common good."
Peter Jones OBE
Programme Director, General Dynamics Mission Systems
You should join us if you are a leader who:
- Needs to reach a higher level of leadership effectiveness
- Understands that leadership development is not only a matter of learning new skills and competencies but also involves a deeper process of inner transformation and growth
With this program, you can expect to:
- Move beyond your current mindset and limitations to better lead, collaborate and deliver the outcomes that matter
- Follow a clearly defined transformational process to accelerate individual and collective leadership growth and effectiveness
- Develop the inner and outer agility to more easily navigate your environment’s increasing complexity and competing stakeholder needs/priorities
- Practice and rapidly integrate new learning, insights and behaviours
The Leadership Imperative Principles and Practices
Month 1 – Self-Mastery: Growing Up
Self-Mastery is the result of a steadfast commitment to self-awareness and personal and professional transformation. It starts with cultivating deep curiosity and a learning mindset. Self-Mastery requires that we take ourselves off ‘automatic’ to build our capacity to self-observe and self-reflect. It is about evolving our mental models as we begin to see and shift our unconscious and reactive habits of thinking, feeling and acting. As our self-awareness grows, so does our ability to transform and achieve ever-higher levels of Self-Mastery.
Month 2 – Conscious Presence: Waking Up
While Self-Mastery is about growing up through the different stages of adult development, Conscious Presence is about waking up and embodying a higher state of ‘Being’. At its essence, it is mindfulness in action. It is the practice of being at peace with and empowered by the present moment. We shift the inner place we come from and awaken to a heightened state of consciousness that is separate from our thoughts or ego. This process involves the practices of non-judgement, non-attachment and non-resistance, leading to more resilience, receptivity and equanimity.
Month 3 – Purposeful Achievement
Purposeful Achievement aligns us with our calling and grounds our actions in a broader context and deeper meaning. It reminds us not to seek achievement for achievement’s sake. Rather, we have an obligation to use our unique talents to serve humanity. Purposeful and visionary leaders are passionately committed to actualizing their unique purpose in this world. They inspire a shared and compelling vision while supporting others in discovering their own.
Month 4 – Engaging in Conscious Relationship
Building on Otto Scharmers’ ego-system to eco-system work, Engaging in Conscious Relationship calls us to be in caring connection and purposeful partnership with others. It is based on evidence that the best leaders actively cultivate deep relationships. It provides a roadmap for building relationships where we genuinely see and value others. We learn to be curious about and truly listen to others. We also become more inclusive and skilled at enabling and empowering others and building strong teams.
Month 5 – Courageous Authenticity
How often do we avoid speaking our truth or raising an issue because we believe there is too much at risk? Probably too many times to count. And yet each time we fail to do so, we deplete our energy and rob ourselves and others of the opportunity to address the elephant in the room. Courageous Authenticity is about being brave and vulnerable, taking tough stands and bringing up the ‘undiscussable’. It is about honestly and straightforwardly dealing with risky and uncomfortable issues with the people directly involved.
Month 6 – Radical Responsibility and Accountability
This leadership principle is about fully owning our reality and taking 100% responsibility and accountability for our experience in life and at work. It calls on us to leave behind our tendency to blame others and see ourselves as victims. Rather it invites us to be fully accountable for what we sign up to deliver. It speaks to the importance of clear agreements and of building trusting relationships by taking Radical Responsibility and Accountability for all that we are aware of and responsible for.
Month 7 – Co-Creating What Matters Most
The era of the heroic leader is over. Collective leadership is the new, adaptive game in town. It is perfectly suited to the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) times we live and lead in. Co-creating What Matters Most entails the practices of deep collaboration, collective responsibility and unwavering commitment to building capacity and capabilities in others. It is about co-sensing and co-creating what wants and needs to emerge in service of building a thriving future for all.
Your Facilitators
Gilles Brouillette, Ph.D.
Gilles is a founding partner and the President of the Transformational Learning Institute. He has a Doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology. He is the Co-director of the Conscious Leadership Program at the Professional Development Institute of the University of Ottawa. He is also a Senior Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach for The Leadership Circle.
"Gilles Brouillette did a brilliant job during a two day session on Conscious Leadership. The balance between theory and practice was excellent, and the depth and take-aways from the exercises was remarkable. The insights and wisdom acquired is truly transformational, and I am already implementing what I have learned in my personal and professional life."
Andreea Dutescu
VP, Strategy & International Business Development
Monica Callon
As a certified leadership coach and Leadership System™/Leadership Circle Profile™ practitioner, Monica partners with courageous and open-minded leaders to foster breakthroughs in self-awareness, influence and business results. Her focus is on executive and team purpose, values, capacity, authenticity and impact.
"I had the chance to be coached by Monica for almost a year during a difficult period for me professionally. With compassion and authenticity, she guided me through a process that turned out to be extremely refreshing and eye-opening. Her coaching allowed me to move forward and see an array of opportunities that I couldn’t see before. I recommend Monica to anyone seeking to strengthen his/her leadership skills, gain more confidence in his/her competencies, and go after the next challenge."
