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A Message from Connie
 
As founder of Phenix and Associates Inc., I have witnessed during my 20+ years of consulting that businesses and organizations typically change only to the degree that the senior leadership change. I wondered, “Can it be that organizations cannot transform without the leadership going through their own transformation?” Is it true that you can’t take people to places you have never been yourself?

We all intellectually accept that in an ever-competitive and uncertain marketplace, one advantage is the quality of the leaders. More and more, committed leaders want to create high performing organizations. They know what a great leader does and many know how to engage and inspire workers.

Their efforts and those of their organizations have “dramatically improved and transformed human life - doubling our life expectancy, improving the quality of living, and expending the horizon of possibility [and filled with a global prototype of human potential]. At the same time, the rush to capture market share, propelled by the profit motive, has caused untold damage to this planet and its people.” [Elizabeth Debold]

 

Time after time, I have watched initiatives be partially, or poorly implemented, and behaviours relapse, because a leader was not prepared to take the risk to embed the change in themselves or in their corporate culture. What a paradox these leaders face and live!

 

Here are these intelligent, well-educated, mostly well-intentioned, and very experienced leaders who are no longer experiencing success as they understand it; or success as it used to be; or the success is short lived before the next challenge hits them. Some even go on to tell me that they no longer find meaning or purpose in their work. They ask, from a state of exhaustion, “Is this all there is?”

 

What keeps us from doing things differently? What causes us to just do it the old way when the going gets tough? What keeps us from transforming how we work? What do we do with the fear, the guilt, the exhaustion, or the pain of not knowing which way to lead? What do we do with our yearning for joy and purpose in work? What are we being shown by all of this?

 

It is these questions that drive me to do this important work. The inner path of leadership is the one I have personally chosen to walk and it is the path I choose to walk with leaders such as you.



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