08/01/2025
When I started my career post-college I had the privilege of working with incredible leaders. They truly modeled good leadership and, as a result, our 300-person project team had an amazing experience together.
The first time I had a subpar direct manager experience was what pushed me to find a new job. Nice guy, but I likened him to a pinball. He bounced all over the place, his ideas and needs changed constantly making it difficult to accomplish our goals. I had a team that took a huge amount of energy to manage with all the changing directives. Because of his internal vacillation, nothing ever seemed to meet expectations, yet I had excelled in this role for years prior to him.
But it was his leader that set the tone. If we look to the embodied 5 Personality Patterns system, this person ran the aggressive pattern. And while this type can be highly effective in motivating and facilitating groups toward a shared goal with their solid energy, charisma, and good sense of direction, when they’re in the shadow side, they become aggressive, dominating, and prone to knee-jerk reactions that lack their generally good senses. Their energy field repels instead of magnetizes and their lack of empathy causes people to walk on eggshells around them. People don’t thrive when operating in states of fear.
Whether you run this pattern or work with someone who does, change is possible.
In the Energetics of Leadership retreat, we’ll dive into the five personality patterns, how to work with your pattern and how to work with others’ patterns, both how to shift your energy field and how to help them step out of pattern.
This work is truly potent.
I wish I had this awareness and these tools when I worked in the corporate world.
It’s those years of experience that drive my love for working with people navigating work stress, influencing org culture and aiming to expand their leadership skill.
Leadership begins within.
Earlybird registration ends one week from today — August 8.
p.s. We can’t wait to fill our bellies with what the incredible chef Loghan Call prepares. Locally sourced meals designed with nourishment in mind will complement the focus of our weekend.
