Integral Focus is a coaching and consulting practice that applies a holistic approach to leadership growth. Through a collaborative process of inquiry and assessment with clients, 6-12 month cohort leadership programs, and/or six-month executive coaching modules are co-designed. This process offers powerful ways for leaders and their teams to cultivate the breadth and depth of their capacities from a perspective of leadership as stewardship, attuning and aligning high performance teams to meet ambitious organizational goals in ways that are financially, socially, and ecologically sustainable. Most leaders think expansively already. Integral frameworks, models, and tools simply and powerfully enable them to systematically assess the health and effectiveness of their own leadership, their teams, and the entire organization. It also provides data and insights for reinforcing what's working well and responding to critical areas being overshadowed, overlooked, or receiving too much attention -- causing unproductive disequilibrium. Synergy that otherwise would be gained from alignment remains latent or muted. Integral Leadership is an on-going full-field assessment & strategic action process around the applied cultivation of self-awareness, generativity, innovation, self-reflection (individual and organizational), reinforcement or self-correction -- a complete cycle of learning and growth that optimizes the strength, intelligence, resilience, and sustainability of the whole. An integral leadership approach heightens attention to active stewardship for attuning social energy, environmental awareness, and the financial bottom line. All three are essential for a strategically-focused and energized culture with balanced high-performance outcomes in dynamic and unstable global environments. An integral approach addresses these needs by leveraging the interdependencies of the internal, external, particular, and systems dimensions of leadership and organizational life -- or more specifically, of human capital's...   Mind,   Body, Heart,& Spirit       .           with the organization's ... Architecture, Structure, Infrastructure, & Culture                    with the ecology's... Air, Land, Water, Wildlife, & Natural resources

This intersection between leaders and the organization, between attunement & alignment from a holistic awareness, between the internal and external environments, is where synergy is catalyzed and sustainability lives. Attunement of the body, mind, heart, and spirit of leaders naturally strengthens authenticity -- through congruence of the interior values and beliefs with external behaviors, "walking the talk," integrity in action. But, authenticity is not enough. The impact of leadership can be diminished by the steady rhythm of counter-forces and fragmented visions. Authentic leaders address those forces, as well, through active stewardship and integrated alignment of the organization's architecture, systems, processes, and culture -- assuring the day-to-day reinforcement of a bold, clear, and meaningful vision-in-action. © Lloyd Raines, 2005