Today’s organizations function differently than those of the past. Leaders are challenged with moving quickly, finding a balance between multiple priorities, and gaining real commitment. Sustaining and growing your business doesn’t translate to traditional clear-cut problem-solving. That’s where Leading Conscious Change comes in.
After years of leading leadership development and coaching in market-leading firms, Teresa founded LCC to bring her experience of cutting-edge transformation, systems thinking, human development and award-winning program design to a variety of global organizations, small businesses, individual leaders empowering them to become stronger and to create more resilient, highly collaborative teams.
She is sometimes referred to as the coach’s coach and serves as faculty developing the next generation of coaches at Georgetown University as well as teaching sustainable leadership at American University. Teresa’s program, the Coaching Leaders Lab, has become a leadership development mainstay for a global financial company.
How Leading Conscious Change Can Help Your Company
Teresa is an expert in unlocking the potential, performance, and collaborative capacity of senior business leaders.
She focuses on elevating leadership mindsets and performance as she works with organizations, teams, executives, and high-potential emerging leaders. She’s especially gifted at helping teams become comfortable with the idea that there’s not always one clear answer to today’s complex business problems. Instead, she empowers leaders by providing powerful but easy to access tools to elevate their effectiveness – such as recognizing and utilizing common polarities at play in their work experiences.
In her work with organizations, Teresa meets with leaders to understand their unique challenges, then develops custom programs to address the organization’s top needs, including increased/improved communication, higher accountability, and greater resilience.
How Leading Conscious Change Can Support You as a Leader/Executive
If you’re in a leadership role, how did you get there? You probably advanced because you were recognized as an expert, the one who showed up and got things done, the one who was able to step in and make decisive moves. Or you may have tapped your innate ability to relate to others, building strong networks of successful people. Leaning too far into your strengths can start to derail your success if you’re not equipped to both consciously recognize the tensions at play and build your capacity to scale your leadership amidst change.
To be an effective leader, you may need to acquire new abilities as well as continuing to leverage your strengths. When you lead, you can’t be the person who jumps to do all of the work and maintain a high bar or the one who puts enormous amounts of energy in relating to those in their network at the expense of driving results. Instead, you must find the right place between the tensions, such as taking on responsibility and giving autonomy to your team members. Greater leadership effectiveness does not equate to more work; it’s actually about more clarity, ease and collaboration.
Teresa helps leaders to discover and embrace their own leadership style and to incorporate their top values into (more powerful) ways of interacting and leading. Working together, leaders can assess their style and discover how to bring out the best in people, groups, and organizations.
Teresa also embraces the concept of whole-person leadership, encouraging leaders to incorporate caring, connection, and mindfulness into their roles. Leaders who have trained with Teresa reference her ability to help them lead more mindfully, enhancing their mental health and functioning and improving their emotional (intelligence) regulation so they can better lead in high-stress environments.
How Leading Conscious Change Creates Stronger, Healthier Teams
Teams function best in an atmosphere of clarity and trust. Teams that are built on trust are also more able to be agile in the face of challenges.
Teresa works with teams to build structures of accountability and to create communication strategies and norms. For example, one of the biggest challenges many business professionals face is the ability to give productive, straightforward feedback. Teresa works with teams to ensure they can handle the polarity of clarity and care, so each individual team member is equipped to manage their responsibilities and can do so in an atmosphere of trust. She also supports development on the job whereby leaders hold coaching conversations to uplevel their team’s abilities.
Change will happen in the business world. It’s how we respond to it that matters. When you work with Leading Conscious Change, you have a better toolbox for yourself, your team, and your organization, so you can navigate change purposefully with flexibility, resilience, and empathy.
