Power-Up leadership
Do you want your work teams to be high functioning and cohesive?
Sometimes things break down: tensions arise, information isn't shared in a timely fashion, feelings of competition undermine our good work, people behave poorly. This series addresses productive uses of power to support effective, cooperative teamwork.
Exploring the influence of social pressures, including gender norms, sheds light on our behaviors, such as why men and women may stay silent in the face of unhealthy power patterns. From this perspective, you can design effective ways to speak up together, building workplaces that empower everyone.
This program is a five-step power-up leadership approach to real power and thriving workplaces for: men and women, executives, leaders, and executive coaches.
It includes two interactive zoom sessions on real power and how to use it effectively, one 1:1 development conversation, and one small group, peer-to-peer discussion, along with a final panel with Dr. Riane Eisler and Dr. Jed Diamond, and a think-tank dialogue that welcomes your experience of best practices and new ideas.
Benefits
1) Recognize early signs of unhealthy power patterns.
2) Recognize various social pressures to conform or stay quiet.
3) Identify how you best respond (4 “responder” types).
4) Develop your most powerful, personalized leadership style.
5) Use assessment & alignment tools to strategize structural changes.
This series enables you to:
This series enables your organization to:
1) Strengthen leadership skills.
2) Increase empowerment & job satisfaction.
3) Reduce employee stress & turnover.
4) Create innovative team cultures that thrive (excellence & enjoyment)
5) Increase productivity & profitability and attract great people.
Speakers
Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h)
Center for Partnership Systems
Dominator vs Partnership Systems
Author of 13 books, including The Chalice & the Blade, The Real Wealth of Nations, and Nurturing our Humanity
Described as “one of the most original thinkers of our time” by Scientific American 9/28/23)
Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is the recipient of many honors, such as the Distinguished Peace Leadership Award earlier given to the Dalai Lama, and internationally known for her groundbreaking contributions as a systems scientist, futurist, and cultural historian. She is author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade, now in its 57th US printing and 27 foreign editions, The Real Wealth of Nations, hailed by Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu as "a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking," and Nurturing Our Humanity, Oxford University Press, 2019, co-authored with Douglas P. Fry.
Eisler’s innovative whole-systems research offers new perspectives and practical tools for constructing a less violent, more egalitarian, gender-balanced, and sustainable future. Eisler is President of the Center for Partnership Systems, which provides practical applications of her work, and Editor in Chief of the online Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies published at the University of Minnesota. She keynotes conferences worldwide, has taught at many universities, has written hundreds of articles and contributions to both scholarly and popular books, pioneered the application of human rights standards to women and children, has addressed the UN General Assembly, and consults to businesses and governments on the partnership model introduced by her work. For more information, see www.rianeeisler.com and www.centerforpartnership.org.
Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW
Men Alive, Moonshot for Mankind
Author of 17 books, including Long Live Men! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Men, Close the Lifespan Gap, and Offer Hope to Humanity
Dr. Jed Diamond is one of the world’s leading experts in Gender Medicine and Men’s Health. He specializes in men’s mental, emotional, and relational health. He has written seventeen books, including international best-sellers Surviving Male Menopause and The Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression. His latest book, Long Live Men! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Men, Close the Lifespan Gap, and Offer Hope to Humanity has been called “a triumph,” by Iyanala host of Iyanla Fix My Life. Dr. Harville Hendrix says, “To all men, if you want to know more about the challenges of being a man, about maleness itself, and about healing and transcendence, this is the book for you.”
Diamond holds a Ph.D in International Health and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been a practicing psychotherapist for more than fifty years, helping men and the women who love them to live fully, love deeply, and make a positive difference in the world. He, and his wife, Carlin, are proud parents of 5 grown children, 17 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren.
His work has been featured in major newspapers throughout the United States including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today. He has been featured on more than 1,000 radio and T.V. programs including The View, Good Morning America, Today Show, CNN-360 with Anderson Cooper, CNN with Glenn Beck, CBS, NBC, and Fox News, and To Tell the Truth. He also did a nationally televised special on Male Menopause for PBS-TV.
Facilitators: Drew Kundtz & Deborah Blake Dempsey, MS, Acc
Drew Kundtz is a management consultant and executive coach. He currently runs a coaching and consulting business called Leadership In Practice. He has been committed to leadership, sustainability and process improvement for the last 20 years. In addition to helping clients orient what direction to point their "business compass," Drew specializes in using tried and true frameworks and toolkits to co-generate "action maps" that simplify the landscape and identify HOW to navigate the most efficient path. Drew is certified as an executive coach through the Center for Executive Coaching, a change manager through Prosci Change Management Institute, and an agile scrum master through the Scrum Alliance.
Deborah Blake Dempsey, MS, ACC, is a Life Strategist and the CEO of Human Being Human, LLC, a boutique coaching company in New England. She is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified integrative and holistic life coach, writer, and speaker specializing in Leadership & Personal Mastery. Deborah helps people explore their human potential and make positive changes in their personal and professional lives that align with their self-defined values and vision. She has a Master of Science degree in Psychology. Deborah is deeply committed to lifelong learning, promoting social justice, overcoming fears, and pursuing her curiosities, often leading her to unexpected adventures.
Betty J. Woodman Consulting, LLC
Betty J. Woodman, Ph.D.
Dr. Betty Woodman is a transformational leadership coach. She works with professionals to develop their most powerful leadership style and create cultures that empower everyone. Woodman especially focuses on strengthening the power of effective partnership and breaking the cycle of reactive power dynamics. Through a career as an engineer, software sales rep, technology executive, and professor, Woodman has seen the universal value of trust-based, high integrity, collaborative connections.
Woodman’s business experience and research led her to develop the Proactive Power Path and Culture Alignment Frameworks. Roots of the Proactive Power Framework can be traced to the course approach described in her Men’s Studies Press chapter, “Shifting Views,” and her relational integrity programs reflect the research of her thesis, “Passionate Entanglements,” and dissertation, “Sustainability Mindset.” Previously she taught business ethics, leadership, marketing, sustainability, philosophy, and interdisciplinary courses as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Maine, and as a graduate teaching fellow at Emory University. Woodman has an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Applied Ethics from Emory University, degrees in engineering and philosophy, and certificates in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and sustainability leadership. She is the owner of Betty J. Woodman Consulting, LLC. Contact her at bettyjwoodman@gmail.com.
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