Living Leadership: A Stewardship Approach
Designed by Lloyd Raines

This intensive program is designed specifically for leaders and organizations interested in developing expertise around living and leading daily from a stance of stewardship through a triple bottom line -- financial, social, and environmental -- an integrated or "integral focus." This stance actively serves the sustainability of local and, ultimately, global stakeholders as well.

The modules are flexible, depending on the developmental needs of the organization. Leaders experientially learn new models, frameworks, tools, and skills required to address the unique leadership challenges of service and sustainability in a dynamic and unstable global marketplace.

With over 72 hours of face-to-face learning, Living Leadership: ASA builds capacities that will:

• Improve your organization's triple bottom line: financial success, social well-being, and positive environmental impact
• Anticipate and strategically plan for climate change and related disruptions in the ecological, social and economic realms
• Incorporate a life cycle approach to business and re-design the ways of doing business
• Inspire choices and commitments that honor your company's name, and model the future look of corporate leadership with core values around global stewardship
• Access the full measure of individual leadership potential through strengthening synergies between physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions of intelligence
• Reinforce and reward informal feedback loops in the organization's culture for continual learning and self-correction -- which reduces the substantial hidden costs associated with employee turnover and customer dissatisfaction
• Enhance adaptability in delivering legendary service to customers, and creating focus, passion, and commitment in employees for meaningful goals

The program is rooted in contemporary research that includes global and national trends (business, environmental, economics), neuro-science and social science breakthroughs that inform ways to tap into creativity and deeper learning, the power of integral intelligence and collaborative relationships, and innovative approaches for leaders of living systems. This comprehensive, integral approach engages leaders in disciplined observations (of self and others), and the broader world.

Part of those observations involve a clear-minded appraisal of emerging trends, opportunities, and responsibilities to the global commons. The program is an incubator of deeper reflections, calling forth innovative and fresh approaches for acting wisely in organizational life in a global marketplace. It is a time for breaking new ground, drawing on the collective intelligence, slowing the pace for deeper forms of dialogue, and building courageous, responsible, visionary stories -- inspiring strategically-aligned actions that strengthen the quality of life and general well-being of the human community and environment.

Program Outcomes

• An integrally-developed approach for cultivating the depth and breadth of leadership capacity: from Authenticity, to Leader As Steward for Organizational Stakeholders, to 21st Century Stewardship for the Global Commons
• Applied leadership practices that strengthen authenticity and relationships, enhance organizational stewardship of vital human, financial, technical, and natural resources, build esprit de corps, and inspire innovation and productivity with clearly measurable outcomes
• Applied action learning methods for addressing organizational challenges in a global context with global influences
• Abilities to slow your pace, be still, and go into deeper levels of wisdom -- alone and with others
• Heightened awareness of actions to take to ensure your organization's "light footprint" on the ecology & commitment to restoration
• Applied abilities to employ a set of flexible leadership styles proven to be appropriate and effective for diverse situations
• A well-developed awareness of the key domains of learning (language, emotions, behaviors, and spirit) in service to your effectiveness as a leader and the effectiveness of your whole organization
• Enhanced skills of obseving one's self and others -- for making on-going adjustments for effective communication
• Developed capacities for cultivating and harnessing the creative & productive energies of people organization-wide
• Developed perspective and practices from the vantage point of the "Crow's Nest" -- observing, tracking, fanning, and meta-fanning what's good, true, and beautiful in your organization
• Expertise with assessing strengths and weaknesses collaboratively, and aligning the organization's architecture, infrastructure, and culture
• Heightened abilities for stakeholder stewardship: tending to a healthy bottom line, contributing value to society, while engaging in sustainable usage of non-renewable and renewable resources
• Well-articulated and compelling stories that inspire workforce passion and dedication to the organization's mission
• Evolved skills to promote a culture of commitment, personal mastery, integral intelligence, collective intelligence, esprit de corps, and selfless teamwork
• Improve the ability to achieve productive, coordinated action as stewards for goals that matter in your organization and to the world
• Enhanced mutually-supportive relationships with fellow leaders and colleagues organization-wide, built on respect and trust
• Heightened awareness and skills for creating safe environments for hearing and telling the truth, and caring for the interests and well-being of stakeholders

After attending you will be able to:

• Integrate and align the power of generative language, your emotional life, the body's knowledge, and a deeper wisdom - as core domains in living leadership
• Grow from intentional practices strategically aimed at personal and organizational transformations
• Learn innovative models, frameworks, tools, and skills that enhance creativity, collaboration, community, and optimal outcomes in your organization
• Apply the theory and practice of organizational learning by working with current organizational challenges
• Recognize and organizationally apply distinctions around Authenticity, Organizational Stewardship, and 21st Century Stewardship for the Global Commons

Program Structure and Content

3 modules over six months - accompanied by reading and writing assignments, learning groups, one-on-one coaching with certified and seasoned coaches, and opportunities to address real-time organizational issues. The Living Leadership: ASA program includes classic and current breakthrough research and aims to create a focused environment for both personal and organizational enhancement through action learning. As an accelerated learning program, participants will engage in on-going experiments and practices in leadership development, between sessions, to explore new behaviors that embody your learning.

First Lab	Second Lab	Third Lab
3 days   Authentic Leadership   Readings, action learning, leadership experiments, & practices	3 days   Leader as Steward for Organizational Stakeholders Readings, action learning, leadership experiments, & practices	3 days   21st Century Stewardship for the Global Commons Readings, action learning, leadership experiments, & practices

Course Events and Topics:

Up-Front Assessment, Inquiry, Dialogue

• Access any recently conducted organizational climate or culture surveys, 360 assessments, and other available research and resources to get to know the organization and collaboratively identify opportunities for development; or conduct a climate survey
• With each participant discuss the program content, structure, requirements, goals, expectations, and desired ground rules
• Dialogue about participant goals (employing an "Integral Gap Analysis")

Authentic Leadership

• Tapping into integrated synergy and power of the mind, body, heart, and spirit to attune self, enhance presence, and strengthen leadership behaviors
• Using feedback loops for self-awareness, self-reflection, self-correction or reinforcement, and further explorations in leadership
• The dynamic impact of values, beliefs, courage, transparency, vulnerability, and mutual accountability
• Creating and living bold stories for generative change
• How personal, cultural, national, and international stories shape our thinking
• Powerful language: using speech acts to make important distinctions, build trust, and get things done
• Using generative and receptive capacities in listening & speaking, living & learning

Leader as Steward for Organizational Stakeholders

• Aligning assumptions, dynamics, and outcomes of organizational architecture, infrastructure, and culture
• Honesty, courage, fairness, respect, dignity, care, faith, and trust-and their impact on organizational capacity, due diligence, socially responsible behavior, and sustainability
• Attunement with external variables and trends: scenario planning and sustainability with duties to local ecology issues and social conditions
• Practicing "U Theory" to create space to slow down, be still, and access the deeper collective wisdom for breakthroughs
• Listening within & capturing innovative energy: Conversation Café, World Cafe, and Open Space
• Addressing the breakdowns of "insiders vs. outsiders," the "chosen vs. not chosen," "being valued vs. de-valued," "seen or invisible"
• Using "power with" vs. "power over": a fundamental choice that cascades organization-wide
• Informal feedback practices (appreciative and constructive; soliciting, giving, and receiving) for learning and growth

21 st Century Stewardship for the Global Commons

• Exploring three tiers of organizational life and broader global drivers
• Stewardship for sustainability as a cardinal leadership role for democratic governance
• Deepening "U Theory" to access collective wisdom for breakthroughs
• Exploring and applying four domains of intelligence within a global community
• Exploring metaphorical and literal connections between air, land, water, & sun with mind, body, emotions, & spirit
• Awareness of and responsiveness to national and global trends: using scenario planning to plan for sustainability of social and ecological systems
• Being the leadership you want to see in the world; being the kind of leader the world needs
• Leadership's enlightened self-interest within global realities and challenges
• Redefining leadership to include the world's needs for sustainability