EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP 

Become a more Visionary Inspiring Purposeful - VIP - Leader

Accelerate Your Vertical Holistic Systemic Leadership Development

Our Effectiveness as Leaders Depends on Complexity of Mindset

Discover how to expand your mindset and heartspace to double your leadership effectiveness!

“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

 

Become a VIP Leader with a Synergist Mindset

Each level of Vertical Development provides a leader with greater clarity and integrity, agility and dexterity. The StageSHIFT to a Synergist Mindset with a Transforming Worldview is especially powerful and essential to face today's increasingly complex challenges. The more conscious Mindset at Synergist and beyond for CXO, Management Consultants and Executive Coaches is the single largest driver to lead a successful sustainable transformation of an organization, industry, region or business ecosystem. This Program accelerates your journey to realize your potential as a Visionary Inspiring Purposeful - VIP - Leader with a Synergist Mindset.

Match Conscious Mindset to Role Complexity = Success

Our Mindset, Worldview, Perspective, Stage, or Action Logic are all terms associated with our level of Vertical Development or Human Consciousness. To be effective in a role, our Mindset must match its level of complexity. This chart sets out the level of Mindset needed at the progressive levels of systemic complexity found in increasingly senior executive roles e.g., CXO & Divisional Executive Leaders will flourish if they have an open Synergist Mindset. 

The Learning Outcomes

  • Learn how to construct the Systemic Strategic Scaffolding to create open expansive space and the traction for vertical growth.
  • Master time and energy by streamlining workflow and orchestrating engagement to shift from exhausted to exhilarated!
  • Discover how to cultivate conscious mindfulness and a warm heartspace to enhance wellbeing and build trust in relationships.
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve shadow issues to eliminate self-sabotage, emotional triggers, and recurring reactive patterns.
  • Dive deep into reframing history, redesigning identity, to reshape your destiny through elevated storytelling and meaning making.
  • Discover how to stand your ground to create psychological safe space for courageous authenticity and vulnerable disclosure.
  • Learn how to articulate and raise your voice to inform, influence, and inspire diverse conflicting stakeholders to take shared action.
  • Build a broad coalition across your business ecosystem to realize sustainable long term outcomes for today and tomorrow.

The 6 Steps in StageSHIFT VIP Leadership

INTRODUCTION

Find out how the Program rolls out and how to optimize your participation in it. Share your aspirations and meet the other participants who will be companions on your journey.

  1. Program and Participant Introductions
  2. The Set of Vertical Assessments
  3. The RADAR Learning Architecture
  4. The 8 Steps in Vertical Development
  5. Learning by Doing, Relating, Thinking, Creating

You'll discover that you're on a big adventure! Being supported and challenged to see life through the mature 4th Perspective and beyond is exciting, enthralling, and transforming. Enjoy!

ASSESSMENTS

Undertake two Vertical Assessments. The Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile (VHLP) is capability-based and My World View involves completing a series of Sentence Prompts.

  1. Vertical Holistic Leadership Development
  2. VHLD Assessment
  3. My World View Assessment
  4. Individual 1:1 Discovery Debrief
  5. Your Unique Evolutionary Journey Map

Deepen your self-awareness in both subjective and objective ways to ignite your development and set up your own Evolutionary Journey Map to step up as a more Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Leader.

STRATEGY

Re-imagine your place in the world to build a more conscious sustainable business that leaves a lasting legacy. Discover how to lead collaboration on setting and cascading Strategic Direction to create outer strategic alignment and inner team cohesion. 

  1. Visionary Purpose
  2. Evolutionary Values
  3. Primary Strategic Focus
  4. Team EQUIP Scorecards
  5. Cross-Boundary Initiatives

Setting multi-level strategic focus including high aspirations, conscious intentions, and team outcomes distributes leadership, uplifts team accountability, empowers decision.making, and enables you to step up as a Strategic Leader.

SYNCHRONY

Most organizations' operating systems are messy and continuously changing. This places us out of synch with our inner sense of order and flow. Learn how to orchestrate the internal operating system for your part of the organization.

  1. Master Time and Energy
  2. Value Creation Streams
  3. Dynamic Operating Rhythm
  4. Liberating Meeting Agendas
  5. Annual Calendar Series

Instead of feeling exhausted and overwhelmed with a never-ending workload, make the shift to feeling exhilarated and overjoyed by moving into the flow of conscious emergence with ease. You'll discover how to step up as a Systemic Leader.

 SINCERITY

The foundations of our character are built in our thoughts, words, actions, and habits. By cultivating our inner self and outer self-expression, and learning from our relationships, we have the opportunity to upgrade our life experience.

  1. Cultivate an Open Mindset
  2. Navigate Energy in Motion
  3. Discern Energy Fields
  4. See Relationship Dynamics
  5. Resolve Team Conflicts

You’ll quickly discover how to exercise a level of self-discipline and discernment that transforms your presence in the eyes of others. Learning to think and speak with respect for self and others enables you to step up as an Authentic Leader.

 SHADOW

While it's important to lean into our evolutionary growth and latent potential, it's equally essential to resolve and release the emotional triggers and reactive patterns that form our shadow. Go beyond emotional regulation to shadow resolution.

  1. Interpret Emotional Triggers
  2. Heal Inner Personal Shadow
  3. Release Inner Saboteurs
  4. Dissolve Ancestral Shadow
  5. Absolve Cultural Shadow

You'll learn how to identify, diagnose, and appreciate your shadow as part of your soul evolution. Illuminating and resolving previously hidden shadow integrates the Holistic Self and clears the mind to step up as a Conscious Leader. 

 STORY

How we see and tell our story is indicative of our level of conscious awareness. By reframing and transforming story with new insight and hindsight, we can reset our identity and reshape our destiny.

  1. The Hero's Spiral Journey
  2. Story Behind Your Narrative
  3. Listening into Psychodynamics
  4. Archetypal Constellations
  5. Transforming Identity

You'll discover how to interpret events and patterns in life through a wider telescopic lens and listen into your narrative with others to deepen your self-awareness. Expand your understanding of systemic dynamics to step up as an Adaptive Leader.

STANDARDS

Uplifting corporate culture and creating safe psychological safe space depends on graciously challenging the status quo and upholding values-based standards the moment they are infringed.

  1. Interactive Communications
  2. Courageous Caring Conversations
  3. Respectful Conscious Cultures
  4. Psychologically Safe Space
  5. Upholding Ethical Standards

You’ll learn how stand strong in your own presence on behalf of others, you team, colleagues, or stakeholders, so they experience the respect and care we each deserve. Uphold standards courageously to step up as an Ethical Leader.

GIFTS & GRACE

To complete the Program, take the time to share with all of us the special GIFTS you've received on your journey, your GRATITUDE to each participant, and the special GRACE that you've embodied.

  1. The most meaningful GIFTS you've received
  2. Your GRATITUDE for each fellow traveler
  3. The new Leadership GRACE you leave us with

You’ll complete this Program from a reflective perspective reviewing the journey you've taken. We'll all delight in your new sense of self-identity and enhanced leadership integrity.

PHASE II

Continue on the current program to reinvigorate your understanding and application of the concepts and frameworks. 

Alternatively you may wish to upgrade to Phase II:

  1. Elevate Presentations and Partnerships across the Business Ecosystem
  2. Cultivate the Self through Systemic Shadow Team Principles and Paradigms
  3. Generate the StageSHIFT by uniting Perspectives and conscious Presencing.

WHY a StageSHIFT Program?

The StageSHIFT approach to Vertical Leadership Development covers all four quadrants of our life experience: our inner and outer worlds as a holistic individual and as the systemic collective.

The VIP LEADERSHIP PROGRAM covers these four quadrants in a specific sequence proven to accelerate Vertical Development to embed and embody a Synergist Mindset. You will soon double your effectiveness as a Senior Executive Leader, double People Engagement, and uplift Sustainable Conscious Business Performance.

StageSHIFT takes a 3rd generation Transformative Coaching approach replete with deep inquiry and revelatory insights to accelerate growth to a complex Synergist Mindset within 1-2 years, 3 times faster than the usual 5-6 years, if ever.

INTRODUCING

Our RADAR Learning Architecture

The RADAR Learning Architecture offers a cyclical iterative cumulative approach to deepen your understanding of human experiences and apply that learning to yourself and others.

  • Review & Reflection of the online materials.
  • Attention & Awareness to deepen self-inquiry.
  • Discovery Dialogues to explore and integrate learning.
  • Assignments & Application to learn by doing.
  • Results & Revelation to appreciate our growth.

Evolve through Engagement, Exploration, and Enablement Zones.

The VIP Program includes:

  • The VHLP Assessment, 12 modules of online resources with a 1:1 Discovery Debrief & the MWV Assessment at the beginning of the Program.
  • 20-min Videos and 15pp of RADAR Notes for each of 30 Modules across the 6 Leadership Dimensions. These rich curated materials are drip-fed monthly throughout the Program.
  • A series of reflective questions to invite deep personal inquiry.
  • 40 *90-min Immersive Live Group Discovery Dialogues pa or 15 *90-min 1:1 Private Coaching Sessions to deepen the inquiry, share experiences, integrate and embody the learning.
  • Assignments to apply the frameworks and techniques. You'll learn by doing and feel the joy of growing self-confidence and ease.
  • Thoughtful feedback and input on Assignments to close the gap between ideation and implementation to ensure success.
  • Responsive Transformative Coaching on any situations, challenges, or dilemmas you encounter.

The Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile Assessment

The StageSHIFT VHLD Profile

Vertical Holistic Leadership Development

This mini-Program introduces you to the concept of Vertical Development. By understanding where you are on your journey, and appreciating your key sources of shadow identified through Stressors and Blind Spots, we can customize your Evolutionary Journey Map.

  • 3 Modules on the Psychology, Structure & Nature of VHLD.
  • Your Self Assessment across 156 leadership capabilities and shadow elements thru 6 Stages from Specialist to Alchemist.
  • A 40p VHLD Profile Report calibrating your current Leadership Presence and top 7 Strengths, Stressors, Blind Spots & Stretches.
  • Video guidance and a template to review your VHLD Report.
  • A 90-min 1:1 Deep Discovery Debrief on your VHLD Findings and MWV below.
  • The articulation of your Aspirational Leadership Brand Declaration.
  • The creation of a unique 12-month Evolutionary Journey Map.

We take a sophisticated thematic resonance approach to the Discovery Debrief to develop your intuitive awareness of your Holistic Self beyond the more conventional rational gap analysis related to role fit. Through the lenses of Stage and Style, we relate Mindset to Role Fit.

My World View Assessment

Sentence Completion Exercise

MWV introduces you to the concept of Vertical Development. After completing a series of sentence prompts, you'll receive an objective assessment of where you are on your evolutionary journey, followed by a 90-min 1:1 Deep Discovery Debrief for the MWV and VHLP.

The Report offers you findings on:

  • Your Current Stage
  • Your Thinking Patterns
  • Your Individual Drivers
  • Working with Others
  • Fit with Organizational Culture, and
  • Time, Power, and Change Dynamics.

Are you ready to ...

  • Discover where you are on your unique evolutionary journey and consciously evolve to quickly realize more of your latent leadership potential?
  • Set aspirational strategic direction that opens up the opportunity to have a much bigger impact in the world?
  • Create strategic alignment, team accountability, and organizational coherence to empower everyone to realize High Trust Team Performance?
  • Master time and energy to shift from striving to thriving and flourishing in the flow of emergence so that ideas and insights just come to you?
  • Learn how to choreograph your life over multiple time horizons while keeping your focus on the present so you can live a fuller freer life?
  • Explore, understand, resolve, and heal parts of your subconscious shadow so you develop a greater personal resourcefulness and wellbeing?
  • Gain a better understanding of the psychodynamics and archetypes that underlie relationships?
  • Reframe your history to renew your identity and actively shape your destiny to live a more emotionally free life with much deeper self-awareness?
  • Build more constructive relationships embracing conflict and dissonance to become a wiser, kinder, bolder and braver leader who inspires others?
  • Develop a living signature presentation that brings your voice to life to lead stakeholders to realize purposeful shared goals?
  • Span boundaries across your business ecosystem to lead collaborative innovation that creates a more sustainable, healthy and equitable world?
  • Advance your career as a Visionary Inspiring Purposeful Senior Executive Leader to create a more meaningful and fulfilling life?
TO FIND OUT MORE, ARRANGE A STRATEGY MEETING WITH DR ANTOINETTE BRAKS

The VIP EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

This is a 12-Month continuing Accelerated Leadership Development Program.

VHLP Assessment

  • The Vertical Holistic Leadership Profile Assessment
  • A sophisticated 40-p VHLP Report including your VHLP Circle and your Top 7 Strengths, Stressors, Blind Spots, and Stretches
  • 12 Online Modules on Vertical Holistic Leadership Development
  • A 1:1 Discovery Debrief with your StageSHIFT Coach.
  • The creation of your own unique 12-month Evolutionary Development Map.

MWV Assessment

  • An objective highly validated Sentence Completion Exercise
  • Video feedback to take you through your Stage of evolution.

The VIP Executive Leadership Program

  • 30 Online Modules including Videos, Notes, and Assignments across the 6 Leadership Dimensions
  • 40 *90-min Group Discovery Dialogues or 15 Private Individual *90-min Transformative Coaching Sessions
  • Explicit customized feedback on Individual Assignments
  • Responsive Transformative Coaching on any situations you face.
BOOK A STRATEGY CALL WITH US TO FIND OUT MORE

I was immediately absorbed by her practical material and philosophy on vertical leadership development.

I feel and believe strongly that this is “the real deal” in executive leadership development. Its peer-reviewed research platform is impeccable, as is the degree of integrity and integration that pervades the whole approach and its proven outcomes.

As a humble attempt, I would say that it is unrivalled in its blend of science and applied wisdom, and in the inner more conscious self that evolves in embodied leadership presence, leading directly into culture change.

- Paul Smith, Transformative Executive Coach Ireland

 

Working with Antoinette was an enriching learning experience, and the outcomes were fantastic!

She impressed as an expert in leadership and the development of personal power. Her style is thought provoking and challenging, yet informal, adaptable, encouraging and fun!

Whilst I thought some of her ideas were outside the box, Antoinette's guiding questions and insights helped me find my "voice". The fluidity of our conversations sparked off many new ideas and paths to follow. It was a truly fulfilling experienceI

- Executive Director, Global Investment Bank

My time with Antoinette will forever have a positive impact on my approach to leadership.

I found her perspectives to be thoughtful and insightful, and her connection with mind, body, spirit revolutionised my thinking and, most importantly, my actions.

Antoinette has a unique ability to recognize, understand, and explain complex leadership issues.

Attuning my inner self and harnessing my authenticity to be more innovative and strategic awoke the inner warrior in me as the leader of my organization.

- CEO, Social Services Sector