Speaking Topics:
• Visionary Leadership: Awakening the Dreamer
• Emotional Intelligence: Awakening the Heart of Leadership
• Spiritual Intelligence: Connecting to the Soul of Leadership
• Intuitive Leadership: Developing Your Competitive Edge in Business

Visionary Leadership: Awakening the Dreamer

"Your vision will only become clear when you look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams and Reflections

"I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul;
the blue prints of your ultimate achievements." Napoleon Hill

There are many styles of leadership, but the style that adds meaning and purpose and cohesion to all the rest is called Visionary Leadership. How do you develop it? From where does it come from? How do we apprehend, claim and work with our visions and dreams and make them a part of our reality?

Most of us feel that our dreams are unimportant ("It's only a dream…), disconnected from our waking reality, or a product of our thoughts, feelings and physiological processes ("It must have been something I ate…) of what we had experienced during our day that we entertain and rehash within our dreams at night.

However, those who pay attention and work with their dreams see them as a place of inspiration, an inner teacher, an oracle about future trends and events, a place of potential integration, and a source of emotional healing from the pains and hurts of our recent and distant past.

The practice of paying attention to our dreams and visions helps us to integrate the intuitive with the pragmatic, the symbolic with the literal and help us to see life as a dream in which we can become, perhaps for the very first time, truly awake.

In this program, through a series of lectures, dialogues, self assessments and workshop exercises, you will understand the elements of visioning and dreaming; determine your current state of awareness and learn skills and tools that will help transform yourself and your organization into a visionary, sustainable and life giving organization.

Program Outline:

• Develop a practice of working with your visions and dreams.
• Explore the underlying principles of our creative & receptive (intuitive) natures.
• Learn how your visions and dreams contribute to the foundations of Visionary Leadership
• Consider "Life as a Dream" and "Dreams as a Reflection of Your Life".
• Summary, Plans and Conclusions

Emotional Intelligence: Awakening the Heart of Leadership

"Leadership is not an affair of the head. Leadership is an affair of the heart."
Kouzes & Posner, 2002, The Leadership Challenge

"The emotionally intelligent leader creates a reservoir of positivity that inspires, arouses passion and enthusiasm, instills trust and creates (an organizational) climate that fosters innovation, all-out performance and warm, lasting customer and employee relations." Goleman, 2002, Primal Leadership

Lifelong success depends on our ability to understand and effectively manage emotional states in ourselves and others. Emotional Intelligence (EI) permeates and influences every aspect of our personal and working lives. Developing EI increases your competitive advantage and empowers you to perform at your best. And as you do so, so will others resonate with you within your organization.

Goleman defines EI as the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in our relationships and ourselves. Others have defined EI as the ability to monitor and regulate one's own feelings and to use feelings to guide our thoughts and actions.

Leaders who are awake emotionally positively impact organizational climate that, according to Goleman's research, accounts for nearly a third of bottom line business results.

In this session, through a series of lectures, dialogues, small group discussion and self assessments, you will understand the what and why of emotional intelligence; you will understand your current level of EI through practical evaluation tools and assessments; and you will learn methods to increase and develop your EI quotient that will positively impact your life and the profitability of your organization.

Program Outline:

• Understand the "what" and "why" of Emotional Intelligence (EI)?
• Determine your Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EQ)
• Understand and experience the Four Elements of Emotional Intelligence

• Self-awareness (Goleman, 2002, Primal Leadership)
• Self-management
• Social Awareness
• Relationship Management

• Discover five ways to develop and improve your Emotional Intelligence
• Explore twenty suggestions for overcoming an emotional hi-jacking
• Plans, Contributions and Conclusions (Taking EI home with you)

Spiritual Intelligence: Connecting to the Soul of Leadership
"Perhaps we lost our way when we forgot that the heart of leadership lies in the hearts of leaders. We fooled ourselves, thinking that sheer bravado or sophisticated analytic techniques could respond to our deepest concerns. We lost touch with a most precious human gift -- our spirit". Lee G. Bolman & Terrence E. Deal, 2002, Leading with Soul

"There is an understanding and practice of leadership that elevates spirit, honors the whole self, and encourages us to use all of our energies in the activities of leadership. There is an understanding and practice of leadership that taps into the best that is within us, that gives each of us an opportunity to be involved and engaged. There is an understanding and practice of leadership that helps us discover meaning in our work, that helps us live out our vision and make our mission manifest. It is an understanding that makes use of our spiritual energy, and it is understood as a spiritual experience. It leads to inspired performance." Russ S. Moxley, 2000, Leadership and Spirit

Much of leadership research over the past one hundred years has focused on linking the three dimensions of hands (behaviors), head (thoughts) and most recently heart (feelings), often neglecting the fourth dimension of our human natures, our spirit or soul. Spiritual Intelligence (SI) is the essential dimension that provides an inner platform and foundation from which to integrate our life and work, physically, mentally and emotionally.

Spiritual intelligence is about meaning and purpose, intent and integrity. It is about calling and vocation, and not just about a job. It is about sensing the interconnectedness of life, and not necessarily about being religious. It is about allowing our essence to express with authenticity, clarity and conviction. It is not just about the intelligence of the body, nor of the rational mind--although it contains elements of both--but is about connecting with the intelligence of the soul.

When this connection occurs, miracles happen, creativity abounds, new options are seen, and new visions are apprehended for the benefit of yourself, others and your organization. You have an opportunity to become a visionary leader, and by your presence, help create a successful, visionary life and organization, which is the very essence of Integrative Leadership TM.

Through a series of lectures, dialogues, self assessments and experiential exercises, you will learn how to develop spiritual awareness that can lead you to profitably. Transform yourself and your company into a visionary, sustainable and life giving organization.

Program Outline:

• Experience the essence of Spiritual Intelligence (SI)
• Determine your Spiritual Intelligence Quotient (SQ)
• Explore the seven dimensions of Spiritual Intelligence (SI)
* Connection * Mindfulness * Exploration * Communion
* Perception * Awakening * Reflection
• Discover seven practices to develop and enhance your SI Quotient.
• Summary, Plans and Conclusions (Taking SI home with you)

Intuitive Leadership:
Developing Your Competitive Edge in Business

"The really valuable thing is intuition." Albert Einstein

"People with high levels of personal mastery…set out to integrate reason and
intuition and cannot afford to choose between their head and heart, any more
than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye." Peter Senge

"Intuition often turns dreams into demonstrable facts." Buckminster Fuller

The idea of "doing more with less" has been with us for much of the past decade. Today, many feel that the logical, left brained solutions have all but been exhausted and that the only avenue remaining in order to accomplish this idea is to begin to explore our inner resources and develop our inherent faculty of intuition. Everyone has experienced their intuition but may have called it different names like gut feelings, hunches, instinct, vague or disturbing images or dreams, or a nagging feeling that something is wrong even though all the logical, conventional business information they had analyzed indicated something so right.

Most often, when people follow their inner hunches or feelings, things turn out right. When they don't, things turn out wrong. And in the end, these same people regret not trusting their original impressions. This inner sense, regardless of form, is called intuition.

But why do we not trust our intuition more? What stops us from developing this talent, skill or ability? Is there a way to do so safely with minimum risk? When should we use it and when should we not?

Use your intuitive faculties with your analytic abilities for problem solving, decision making and planning. Tap into these two strengths to produce optimum solutions to the unique challenges and opportunities you face each and every day.

In this program, through a series of lectures, dialogues, self assessments and workshop exercises, you will understand the elements that comprise your inherent faculty of intuition while learning the skills and tools required to develop this inner resource to gain a significant competitive advantage within your life and work.

Program Outline:

• A model for understanding and developing your intuition.
• Explore the three reasons we don't trust our intuition
·• Seven ways to develop your intuitive abilities
• When to use intuition and when you shouldn't use it
• Summary, Plans and Conclusions

The Leadership Imperative:
Doing the Extraordinary with Ordinary People

Today's mangers and executives face many challenges: changing technologies, global competition and the growing demands of clients, employees, shareholders and stakeholders. A new kind of leader is needed; one who thrives on change, who fosters innovative environments and who is able to lead successfully into the third millennium.

But what distinguishes exceptional leadership from ordinary leadership? It is not simply an awareness of practices, vision, mission and values alone. The key to unlocking the leader within is a passion and enthusiasm that originates from the heart.

In this session, we hope you will find "kindling" that will help allow you tore-ignite the fire of understanding and passion for yourself, your work and for those you lead.

In this session, through a series of lectures, dialogues, group discussion and self assessments, you will understand leadership and management and why both are important; you will understand the concept of leadership as it applies to personal development, team building and organizational development; and you will gain a greater understanding of your personal vision and mission and formulate plans for approaching specific issues and challenges affecting you, your position and your business.

Outline of the Program:

• What is Leadership?
• The Leadership Challenge Model (Kouzes and Posner, 1987, 1995, 2002)
• Challenging the Process
• Inspiring a Shared Vision
• Modeling the Way
• Enabling Others to Act
• Encouraging the Heart
• Transformational Leading and Learning
• Personal Vision and Mission
• Plans, Contributions and Conclusions

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Clients Have Said:

"I really felt the presenter's passion for the whole subject of leadership."

"Your evening program made me see that I want more of this kind of leadership development. The evening validated my personal research as to what is important in working with & developing others. I very much enjoyed the evening and information presented."

"Rick's approach had me looking at leadership from a slightly different perspective … this program gave me another set of "tools" to help me develop my leadership skills."
Ian Swann, Chairman Program Development, APEG of Saskatchewan

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Sample Client List:

• University of Calgary
• University of Saskatoon
• APEGGA
• TEC Canada Ltd.
• Santa Clara University

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