Leadership Academy (Virtual)
$750/person
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Your investment includes:
A Live Stream Experience on How To Connect, Inspire, and Engage – Through The Power Of Presence
Watch for 2023 dates to be posted shortly.
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FOCUS YOUR LEADERSHIP
AMPLIFY YOUR IMPACT
BUILD COMMUNITY
Whether you are looking to level up your own leadership or develop the leadership of those in your care, the Authentic Leadership Academy promises to deliver an experience that will inject new power, purpose, and passion into each attendee.
Through a combination of practical skills, provocative lessons, and a journey into the human condition, David helps leaders connect, engage, and inspire in new and transformative ways.
- Are you sensing disconnection or a lack of engagement in your team?
- Are you finding it more difficult for your team (or family) to bond in a meaningful way?
- Are you experiencing frustration, roadblocks, or discouragement at work or at home?
- Are you at a place where things are good, but you are not the kind of person that is satisfied with good?
- Do you want to infuse new power, passion, and purpose into your life?
- Are you finding that your team isn’t real with you when you check in with them?
- Do you crave better connections with people in your life?
- Are you committed to help bring out greatness in everyone around you?
- Are you committed to showing up as the kind of leader that your organization deserves?
- Are you tired of leadership courses that create a lot of hype but don’t leave you with practical tools for getting results that matter?
- Are you a lifelong learner who enjoys new ideas, and questioning your current perspective?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, David’s Authentic Leadership Academy is for you.
The Authentic Leadership Academy is for those who understand the incredible responsibility of leadership and are committed to unleashing the best in themselves and their team. If you want to infuse new passion, power, and purpose into your leadership and life, come prepared for a life-changing experience that will ask you to question everything you know about leadership and provide you with a roadmap to achieve new levels of impact and success.
Whether a CEO entrusted with an entire company, a supervisor committed to building a great team, a middle manager who oversees a division, a front-line healthcare professional, an entrepreneur, a parent, a coach, a teacher, a community volunteer, or a citizen dedicated to making a difference, this three-day Academy will be valuable to you and unlike any experience you’ve had before.
“We all understand that there’s a difference between a boss and a leader. You can get promoted to being a boss, but you can’t get promoted to being a leader. You have to earn it. And you aren’t a leader until someone calls you one. This makes every person a potential leader – with or without a title. Leadership is ultimately about presence, not position.”
– David Irvine
Overview
The world hungers for leaders who are authentic – people whose inner compass guides their daily actions and who inspire trust by being honest and real. In this unique three-day experience, you will discover what it takes to lead with authenticity and purpose to become the kind of exceptional leader you most admire.
Based on David Irvine’s ground-breaking books, The Other Everest: Navigating The Pathway To Authentic Leadership, and Caring Is Everything: Getting To The Heart Of Humanity, Leadership, and Life, this program immerses you in a profoundly personal exploration.
This in-depth program goes beyond traditional leadership training by getting to the heart of authentic leadership. Focused on developing self-awareness and emotional intelligence, you will gain practical tools to lead with renewed passion, purpose and confidence, inspire others to do their best work, and bring exceptional value to your organization.
In short, this program cuts through the superficial hype and gets to the core of what it takes to be a leader.
- Empower yourself and the people you care about to live their best lives.
- Discover the true source of leadership power and how to amplify your impact by connecting more deeply with your authentic self.
- Learn how authenticity fosters self-respect, resilience, energy, and well-being.
- Realize the core leadership skills required to build a high trust, engaged, accountable organization.
- Attain a deeper understanding of yourself by being a part of a diverse learning community of commited, authentic difference makers.
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We will be blessed by having Nancy Callio open each morning in the three-day Academy with a ceremony by lighting a smudge, offering prayer, and acknowledging the land we are all on.
To Nancy, the power of presence is how to connect first to the power of your Spirit to hold your divine presence. Nancy believes we are all leaders in our own unique ways of capacities. In order to change we first need to acknowledge our own spirit and all that we are. If you want others’ behaviors around you to change, you have to change yours.
From a western perspective, Nancy will engage and learn along with all the participants, as she sees these teachings as gifts to help grow her own leadership abilities.
Nancy’s first home is on the Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory and she is one of 12 siblings. Her father was Cree from Treaty 8 and her mother is Metis from Treaty 6 territory. Nancy is married and has nine children: three biological, two stepchildren, and four who came to them through foster care. Her second home is an acreage near Ardrossan, Alberta. Nancy is a daughter, sister, auntie, mother, wife, colleague and friend – she is nehiyaw – Cree.
Nancy prefers to be called a wicihtasow (we ci ta sue) – a person who helps. She believes in the wahkotowin (wa koh to win) laws of being related to all living beings and relational accountability and wicihotowin (wee ci hit o win) that we are all here to help each other.
Nancy is guided by Elders and Knowledge Keepers and she believes in walking with Creator and her Ancestors. Nancy is the Director of Indigenous Resources at Unlimited Potential Community Services in Edmonton, Alberta. Collectively, she helps serve our Indigenous peoples to connect to their family, cultural identity, land, ceremonies, Knowledge Keepers/Elders, and to their nation’s territory or settlement.
Academy Curriculum
PART I – LEADERSHIP PRESENCE
Module I. Authentic Leadership – It’s About PRESENCE, Not Position
- Become an inspiring leader – with or without a title.
- Discover the difference between a “boss” and a “leader” and how to be a better leader by being a better person.
- Learn what it means to be an authentic leader and how to create safe environments where our whole selves are welcome.
Module II. Learning From Your Life Story – How To Transform Your Pain Into Pearls
- Understand authenticity and how authenticity lies at the core of great leadership.
- Understand the story of your life and how it impacts your authentic leadership.
- Excavate your authenticity from the difficult experiences in your life.
Module III. Transcendent Leadership – How To Discover – And Serve – A Noble Cause That Inspires
- Awaken to your life’s purpose and unlock your greatest source of energy.
- Clarify your values and eliminate everything that is unimportant so you can make the highest contribution toward that which you truly care about.
- Connect to your vision, purpose, and deepest core values to unlock your true leadership potential and amplify your impact and influence in all areas of your life.
Module IV. Credibility Through Character – How To Make Integrity Real
- Learn to infuse energy, self-respect, passion, and trustworthiness into your leadership and life by closing your integrity gaps.
- Develop a Personal Strengthening System™ to build your resilience, energy, and well-being so you can be present for others.
- Learn the difference between resume virtues and eulogy virtues and what it means to be a person of strong character.
Module V. Self-Awareness, Blind Spots, and Reconciliation – How To Inspire Action By Facing Your Shadow
- Understand why self-awareness is critical to great leadership.
- Bring the shadow aspects of yourself into the light of awareness and realize your full capacity.
- Discover the power of reconciling your past and realize your true leadership potential.
PART II – LEADERSHIP PRACTICES
Module VI. Fostering Trust – How To Make The Connection
- Learn the fundamentals of trust: the one thing that changes everything.
- Discover how trust builds psychological safety – the foundation of a great organization.
- Discover the core leadership skills required to build a high trust team.
Module VII. Embracing Change – How To Take Your Team From Chaos To Confidence
- Discover how to make change inspiring, productive, and creative through the power of possibility.
- Develop a road map for turning uncertainty into possibility.
- Understand how to transform chaos, fear and resistance into confidence and commitment.
- Learn how to use times of disruption and loss to connect more deeply with your authentic self.
Module VIII. Accountability (Part 1) – How To Turn Your Employees Into Owners
- Gain a renewed and positive perspective on accountability, along with tools to build a personal responsibility mindset in your organization.
- Understand how to transform blame, entitlement, and fear into courage, personal responsibility, and commitment – through the power of agreement.
- Discover how to inspire people around you by being accountable.
Module IX. Accountability (Part 2) – How To Turn Your Employees Into Partners
- Learn how to make the shift from parenting to partnering in your organization.
- Develop skills for having the tough conversations that ensure clarity, ownership, and empowerment.
- Learn how to move the values statements off the wall and into the hearts and actions of every person.
- Understand how to get a grip on sustainable results – through the power of effective accountability agreements.
PART III – INTEGRATION
Module X. Transforming The Way We Work And Live: The Power Of Authentic Engagement
- Integrate accountability and authenticity in your workplace – and build an unstoppable organization.
- Become empowered with a unique blueprint for living and leading the authentic way.
- Realize deep fulfillment by designing a life that is aligned with your authentic calling – leadership that integrates the soul’s desire with the world’s need.
BONUS SESSION
Resilience and Mental Health: How To Use Adversity to Make You Stronger
As a leader, you are responsible for attending to the health of those under your care. This bonus session will be a great addition to your leadership tool kit to ensure that you have the insights and skills to take care of yourself so you can care for those you serve.
- Understand what it means to be mentally tough and resilient, and how every leader benefits from their own unique strength building system that you will learn how to create.
- Leave with practical strategies to increase your mental toughness enabling you to thrive and grow during adversity.
- Learn ways to support those in your care to find renewed strength amid fatigue and fear.
Note: This session will be pre-recorded and available to registered participants to watch before or after the session.
Academy Guest Speakers
Chas Waitt, a passionate leader in his home as well as a construction manager in one of our province’s largest commercial construction companies, will be sharing his value of showing up – for his family, his team, his community. He will cover the currency of time spent – a truly passionate topic for him. He will reference how people spend their time: Is it spent well on things that matter; and why we must spend time as currency. He will also share a quote about being a father of a disabled child that was published in a paper.
Ken Ritsco is a finance professional with over 15 years of leadership experience in various industries. His core values of fairness and caring come through in his everyday life. Ken’s free time is spent coaching and being involved in volunteer work around his community. He strives to have a positive influence on those around him and hopes it can become contagious.
Nazira Jaffer is the Executive Director of Yee Hong Hospice and will share the innovative principles and practices she learned from her personal grief and bereavement journey. She’ll describe what helped her along her journey and the innovative ways that she received supports, compassion, kindness, and comfort to help her heal. Through her journey, she also learned how to enhance leadership by being authentic, embracing diversity and inclusion, and cultural humility.
GUARANTEE
Our promise and 100% Guarantee
We’ve been hard at work for several months creating this program, and because you are still reading, we think this is for you!
To help you feel more confident taking the next step, we offer you a full money-back guarantee. If you are unsatisfied for any reason, we’ll refund your payment after the first day of the program. Simply contact us immediately on the first day and we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.
Enrollment
The Authentic Leadership Academy is 3 days (21 hours) and qualifies for funding under the Canada – Alberta Job Grant. For more information you can go their website: https://www.alberta.ca/canada-alberta-job-grant.aspx#jumplinks-0
