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Successful AI integration is like setting CRISPR loose on the DNA of your organization. AI will collapse the distance between strategy and execution and orgs that fail to appropriately rewire decision rights and talent models will pay for speed with brittleness. It’s time to dig deep into the building blocks of your organization’s structure, define the future (including metrics) you want to see, and chart your course to make the changes you never knew were possible. Belle Walker takes organizations from Friction to Function®, recapturing lost efficiency and engagement. Bestselling author of Generation Innovation and TEDx speaker, Belle has built successful operations for multi-billion dollar companies Google and HERE. Her approach takes an engineer’s perspective, leveraging her degrees from Harvard and the University of Southern California. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Our individual networks don’t necessarily reflect the demographic shifts around us. Much of our networking now, is done virtually. Each generation has a completely different way of expressing themselves and interacting with Social Media. Did you know that 60% of the LinkedIn membership globally is age 25 – 34? Angela will walk us through some of the generational differences in values and context and give us ideas to remain relevant with our messaging in an ever-changing landscape. Angela calls herself The “Accidental Entrepreneur,” having moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with her shiny new MBA and dreams of being a CMO. Instead, she started her own business. Angela works with Attorneys sharing her expertise in Business Development, Professional Branding, Content Strategy, Video, and Thought Leadership on LinkedIn. Without a website, she built her entire vibrant business using free LinkedIn! She is a former Rock Climbing Guide and lives in Marin, where the hiking and the weather are fabulous. Being from Wisconsin, she is a devoted Packer Fan and shareholder. 💚💛 We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Discover the transformative power of validation in the workplace. In this interactive session, participants will explore what it truly means to validate others—and themselves—through seven essential behaviors: seeing, hearing, acknowledging, welcoming, honoring, understanding, and supporting. Learn how validation affirms another persons right to their experience, feelings, and perspective without requiring agreement, creating space for authentic connection and collaboration. Through guided reflection and breakthrough discussions, participants will examine real experiences of feeling validated during challenging work relationships and uncover the profound impact validation has on trust, performance, and organizational culture. Walk away with practical strategies to create environments where everyone has permission to show up authentically, fostering stronger relationships and more effective teams. This session is ideal for leaders, teams, and anyone committed to building more inclusive and psychologically safe workplaces. Gloria (Glo) Cotton is an organizational development consultant, keynote speaker, and facilitator who helps people fall in love with themselves so they can be and do their best. With over 30 years partnering with corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations, she brings what clients call & quote 'grandmother' energy meets boardroom excellence, bold, warm, practical, and unapologetically real. Gloria creates interactive learning experiences where C-suite leaders, teams, and professionals in transition discover their treasure instead of hunting for problems, navigating challenges with straight talk, respectful curiosity, and surprising joy. Her work begins with affirming the inherent value of human beings and ends with practical, SMART goals that stick. Whether facilitating truth-telling conversations about bias, building high-performance teams across diverse geographies, or helping leaders be authentic in a world of fakery, Gloria distinguishes between humanity (what we do) and humanness (who we are)—celebrating the second to secure excellence in the first. A published author, vocal performing artist, and community leader with a B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University Chicago, she promises transformation, measurable results, and if you would like—there is always a hug in your future, if you want one. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Dignity is central to our humanity and enhancing dignity in the workplace creates psychological safety so people can do their best work. But we live in stressful, unpredictable times and this can often lead to behavior and conditions that erode or violate the dignity of ourselves and others, creating an environment where more energy goes into protection than contribution. Please join us for a rich, interactive exploration into what dignity is, why it's important, and how we can enhance it with tangible strategies and repair it when violations occur. Robin Beers, PhD – Organizational Psychologist, Consultant, and Founder of Ubuntu Culture Company and author of The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Somatic Coaching Bodywork: A Door to Leadership Transformation - Somatic bodywork facilitates somatic opening. In other words, to access and transform habituated patterns, the experiences that have shaped you, and the emotions or numbing that have become automatic. By listening to and transforming the shaping that no longer serves we open up possibility and choice. Thomas Rosenberg in his 25+ year career has been guiding people to become comfortable with change, to lead change and flourish. He shifted to coaching full time after recovering sufficiently from a traumatic brain injury suffered in a near-fatal bicycle accident in June 2014. The ethos of his work is "reconnect to yourself, so we more easily connect to each other, so we reconnect to the planet."We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Reimagining our Potential: When you expand what you believe you’re capable of, you not only change your life...you shift the system around you.Personal reimagination is the seed of collective evolution.Roya Platsis is an executive leadership coach and organizational change partner based in the Bay Area. She helps growth-minded leaders move through hard change while protecting what makes their culture special. Her approach blends evidence-based tools with human truth, taught through her Active Balance philosophy. Clients come for clarity, stay for results, and leave with practices they can sustain.We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Inclusive leadership opens doors — but incisive leadership? That’s where we redesign the whole room. This week at Inclusive Leadership Weekly, we’re digging into how inclusion is evolving, why people are declaring “DEI is dead,” and what it really means to lead with both empathy and accountability. It’s not another talking-head webinar — it’s a real conversation about where leadership is headed next. This week, we'll discuss the evolution of inclusion, the "death" of DEI, and what it means to be an incisive leader. Matthew Cahill is the CEO of The Percipio Company and a Vistage Chair, guiding executives and organizations toward sharper thinking, stronger cultures, and sustainable results. His trademarked belief — If you have a brain, you have bias® — anchors his work, helping leaders identify the hidden, and sometimes not-so-hidden, biases that shape decision-making and impact performance. Through bias to belonging®, Matthew’s proprietary approach blends introspection with practical strategies to reduce mental mistakes, rebuild trust, strengthen relationships, and increase productivity. As CEO, he meets businesses where they are, accurately identifying, analyzing, and addressing how biases of all types affect the bottom line. As a Vistage Chair, he facilitates confidential peer advisory groups for CEOs and executives, creating the space for candid conversations, better decisions, and stronger leadership. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Step beyond linear thinking into a new paradigm of leadership. In this highly interactive session, Dr. Frumi Barr will guide participants through experiential practices to shift from limits to possibilities, amplify collective energy, and leave with a personal commitment to lead as if the future is already here. Dr. Frumi Barr is an entrepreneur, advisor, and educator who has spent 25 years guiding CEOs and their teams to scale with clarity and momentum. She is the Founder & Dean of Barr Business School, Chief Strategy Officer for the Cyber Security Global Alliance, and a partner in Lemonaid’s Fractional Academy. Her mission: to make the impossible possible by equipping leaders with the mindset and tools to thrive in uncertainty. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Seeing Differently: Rethinking Neurodivergence in Leadership. Neurodivergence is far more common—and often more subtle or less noticeable—than many of us realize. In this session, Rachel Radway will explore how common stereotypes miss the reality of how diverse brains show up in leadership and team dynamics. You’ll leave with fresh insight and curiosity to bring into breakthrough discussions about recognizing strengths, rethinking assumptions, and creating spaces where all kinds of minds can thrive. ⁠Rachel Radway⁠ is a certified leadership & executive coach, mentor, speaker, and award-winning author with more than 25 years’ experience in corporate leadership roles at startups, national nonprofits, Fortune 100s and global enterprises. With compassion and a deep understanding of all the disconnects between the corporate world and brains that are wired a little differently, Rachel helps high-achieving, highly perceptive and neurodivergent clients lead with confidence, clarity and authenticity—and without burning out. Her book, Perceptive: Insights for leaders who feel more, process deeply, and think differently, recently won a Nonfiction Book Award Silver and a 2025 NYC Big Book Award. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠⁠⁠ each Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Framing a decision governs the process and the outcome. Learn best practices from decision science to frame decisions properly and neutralize framing bias. Decide better today! Dr. Carrie Beam is the Academic Director of the MS in Business Analytics program at UC Davis. She earned her Ph.D. in Operations Research at UC Berkeley and has consulted in the field of decision science and data analytics long before it was cool. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠⁠Join us⁠⁠ this Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

We all find ourselves in conflict with someone at various times, be it at work, in our marriages, with our friends and family, or with strangers. The way we handle those conversations, and consequently the outcome of those conversations – or shall we say arguments – depends on our mindset, our intention, and the words we choose and the tone of voice we use at the onset of the discussion.In this talk, Conflict To Conversation: Words Giveth and Words Taketh Away, Judith Weigle shares with you the communication tips she's perfected in divorce mediations over the past 14 years, tips that are applicable in any interaction in which two parties have opposing views. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠Join us⁠ this Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

The Quiet Deal: Influence Without Pushing” unpacks how non-verbal communication drives perception and decision-making in the workplace. Alice Shikina shows leaders and professionals how to align their body language and presence with their message, ensuring they influence with clarity, confidence, and authenticity. Alice Shikina is a mediator, negotiation coach, international speaker and arbitrator. She also is the author of the play, Okinawa 1945 and Negotiating with Your Kids, both on Amazon. Alice has a theatre background. She has over 20 years of experience as an actress, director, producer and playwright. She uses the skills she learned as an actress in her work as a mediator. Alice enjoys rowing and playing violin in her free time. She lives in Oakland. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. ⁠Join us⁠ on Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

This week, we demonstrated how a story triggers the neuro-hormonal response in our body. Empathic resonance is where we connect. We shared stories of our own, discussed how stories play a role in our culture, and explored the way empathy influences our stories. Arthur “Art” Jones has three decades of experience working in Fortune 100 corporations, startups, and entrepreneurial ventures. His experience as a business strategist and coach allows him to turn narratives into strategies and insights into scalable, high-value services and solutions. His expertise in technology allows him to leverage AI, automation, and digital platforms to create scalable, systemized frameworks for leadership development and business transformation. Ashok Bhattacharya is the Founder of the Empathy Clinic where empathic capacity of his clients is explored and amplified through the narrative process. A team that practices empathy within that team will produce more with less stress and more pride. We invite leaders from all backgrounds to come prepared to challenge assumptions, ask tough questions, and leave with actionable insights to shape a more inclusive future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, reflect, and expand your leadership practice. Join us this Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time

This week, we will cover the foundation pieces of successful change: Change Management, Change Preparation, and Change Enablement. If you struggle with knowing how to systematically and repeatedly kick off change initiatives (personal, professional, small, or large) come learn a simple way to kick off the change with more intentionality and purpose. Patrick Seaton is a Change Enablement veteran and brain-friendly Sales Coach with close to 30 years working with companies, small businesses, microbusinesses, and solopreneurs in the US and Mexico. His company, Innovative Management Tools, offers companies small group, collaborative problem-solving tools (called Conversation Frameworks) to address 28 common and recurring challenges that impact all altitudes of the company. He also heads New Generation Selling which is dedicated to brain-friendly selling process and coaching tools. Walk up song: ⁠⁠Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles⁠⁠. Check out the ⁠⁠Inclusive Leadership Playlist⁠⁠. Bring your best square and join us for our virtual gathering any Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Register once⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and join whenever your schedule permits. 

Rooted in the metaphor of the bamboo grove, like the grove that survived Hiroshima, Bamboo to Breakthrough: Strength, Beauty, and Kapwa invites leadership consultants to explore and practice the essential elements of resilient, inclusive leadership. We will gather in the bamboo grove, and through storytelling, visual metaphor, and skill-building practice, we will examine how flexibility, deep-rooted values, and shared humanity (Kapwa) cultivate enduring and endearing connection. The session introduces five presence-based skills that strengthen both individual adaptability and collective resilience in the face of change. Michelle Batacan Alexander, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, educator, multi-faceted leadership consultant, liturgical musician, with over 40 yrs of experience integrating emotional resilience, expressive arts of music, poetry and storytelling, and trauma-informed care. Founder of Sages Consulting, she specializes in culturally sensitive and grounded approaches to healing and leadership, weaving together psychology, spirituality, and community wisdom. Walk up song: ⁠Sunshine on My Shoulder⁠. Check out the ⁠Inclusive Leadership Playlist⁠. Bring your best square and join us for our virtual gathering any Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Register once⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and join whenever your schedule permits.