Mindful Leadership Advanced Practicum
Take this path to become a thought leader.
Once you’ve built the foundational leadership skills (our Three Pillars), the next step is to start spreading your knowledge by producing content. Thought leaders plan their goals and strategize about how to maximize their voice by creating meaningful, sharable content for their specific niche.
The real issue is the personal development and responsibility side of leadership.
In 2018, I began solving this problem by building a program to give people the tools that will actually help them become the kind of leaders who have a positive impact on everyone in the organization.
I started by teaching the Three Pillars of Mindful Leadership to deal with the three distinct scales of experience, the inner personal realm, the individual interactions with others, and the influence of the whole organization.
I've seen some significant transformations through this work; career changes, promotions, home life improvements, new companies started.
Each cohort goes deeper than the one before it, and I have learned a ton about what people really need to know.
And people want more...
The stand out challenge facing all of the people I talk to is: sharing their expertise with others.
In order to change culture, you have to spread your good ideas. But not just share those ideas blindly into the ether. Those ideas need to influence people to make an impact.
Everyone I coach struggles with writing and getting their thoughts out there.
They are stuck inside and they just don’t know how to articulate their thoughts, which is a tragedy because these are the very people who need to be writing and influencing corporate thought.
Mindful Leadership Advanced Practicum is the program I built to solve this problem.
This program is about shedding your old limitations and rebuilding yourself as a thought leader through four stages of transformation plus actionable content creation.
Transform yourself.
The Four Stages of Transformation we focus on are:
Stage 1 - Commit to change yourself
Stage 2 - Overcome your internal barriers
Stage 3 - Leverage your strengths
Stage 4 - Build Mindfulness
Take the stage.
This program is a thought leader incubator to teach you the skills to be the best quality leader, plan your goals and strategize about how to maximize your voice, and start creating and publishing high quality leadership content. This will be a real concrete step for you to create something meaningful and important to share.
How this program will make you a thought leader:
This is a six-month program, and we'll meet virtually twice a month.
The first four months we'll focus on each of the four stages of transformation, one each month: The Hero's Journey, Scripts and Games, Myers Briggs, and exploring the power of Mindfulness. This will be a deep dive into your own leadership strengths and weaknesses and how to pull out your unique story.
Then, in months 5 and 6, we'll work on your own unique piece of content and build a launch plan for getting it published and doing more in the future. This is key to giving you the momentum you need to start publishing regularly.
You will emerge from the program, not only a totally transformed leader but will also have a completed piece of content with your story to share with the world.
The time commitment from you will be about an hour of reading once a month, plus showing up at the twice-monthly virtual meetings which will be intentionally scheduled to accommodate your work-life balance. This program has been explicitly designed to be very effective and be very time-efficient as well. (And we’ll give you the books ahead of the program to get you started!)
We'll start with each cohort as soon as we have enough people signed up, so a maximum of six, and once we've got the group together, we'll pick the meeting dates that work for everyone.
Please note: this is an intimate group and each applicant is hand-picked by us.
When you’re done with this program, you will be a thought leader. I guarantee it. And you’ll never look at getting your voice out there the same way.
If you’re thinking:
“Wow, it’d be great to start a blog but I have no idea where to start…”
“I have so many ideas but I have no idea where to start and how to add this to my current plate…”
“Well, I’m already speaking but I’d love to do a TED talk, how the heck can this program help me?”
This program will put you on the path to accomplish your goal, whether you know exactly what it is or not. I’ll work with you to create an individualized plan for success and you’ll have the support of your cohort to hold you accountable and give you the feedback you need.
Now all you need to do is make a choice. Go it alone and try to find your voice or accept help and take actionable steps to transform yourself over the next six months.
This program is NOT for you if…
You are looking for a presentation or public speaking program. While those skills are important, they are not included in this thought leadership program. This Advanced Practicum focuses on the inner fire of storytelling and finding out who you really are so your content will resonate with your audience.
You are looking for a large-group learning setting. This program is very intimate. We handpick each participant for the program to ensure everyone has the ability to grow and learn together in a safe space. Please see our other service offering for larger group coaching.
“What I love about working with Sam is his ability to help navigate me to a higher plane. I feel more confident, capable and more focused than I ever have as a manager. Before Sam I was lacking confidence and convinced I was destined to failure. Through our work together, I now feel more confident and capable of reaching a higher plane of leadership.”
— Steve, Engineering Manager