(Probably both.)
(Likely all of the above.)
(Without burning out.)
My friend, the change you want to see is possible. The problem is that we’ve been doing change all wrong. We’ve been treating change like a transaction.
Transactional management tends to command and control. It stays on the surface, makes rigid plans and insists on compliance. It doesn’t account for complexity or resistance, which is why it fails at high rates. Meanwhile, it takes a toll on the team. Transactional management erodes trust, hinders progress and yields change fatigue. You’ve seen it happen, right?
Transformational leadership is radically different. It sets a purposeful vision and cultivates the conditions for others to embrace and achieve it. It takes a systems approach and prizes inclusive co-creation. It allows us to build healthy, high-performing teams, shape sustainable change, and have profound impact… without the burnout.
My career has always focused on change—social change, organizational transformations and leadership development—and work has always been core to my identity.
For years I threw myself into my career with drive and ambition, working constantly and pushing hard. I told myself it was for a noble cause. I was rewarded and promoted for my efforts. Until I practically pushed myself off a cliff.
As I entered my 30s, I was struck by the sudden and alarming awareness that I’d been living my life on autopilot. That all of my choices were actually non-choices. And most disturbing of all for this overachiever, that my effort far exceeded my impact.
I realized that my ability to lead change required me to change first.
Fortunately for me, I knew a few wise and loving people who taught me simple practices for living my life more fully and working smarter. I stopped pushing myself and others, and started to see my work as play. I stopped struggling with change and learned to dance with it.
You might assume that my career slowed down as a result, but it had the opposite effect. If you listen to my full story (above), I’ll share how three fundamental shifts changed my life and work for the better:
1. Reorienting my personal navigation system from outward-focused ambition to a clear and actionable intention—and how this led me directly to the C-Suite
2. Cultivating a practice of being, not just doing—which I resisted until I had no choice
3. Stumbling into transformational leadership—and how this unlocked impact I could never have imagined
Today, I teach and coach transformational leaders all over the world, and I’ve created Radiant Leader as a place for us to practice these shifts and strategies together, but with less stumbling, more structure and more support.
You’ve found your way here because you know that leading (especially leading change) can be as frustrating as it is fulfilling, as isolating as it is inspiring. But we can learn faster, grow deeper and achieve more in relationship with other leaders. That's the power of community.
And Radiant Leader is not just any community. It’s a community of practice. We come together to do the inner work of releasing old patterns that have kept us (and our organizations) stuck for so long. With each practice, we step more fully into our potential as authentic, aligned, powerfully transformational leaders.
None of us can do this alone. In Radiant Leader, you’ll never have to.
Join Radiant Leader to be supported and challenged in the practice of transformational leadership. For just $50/month or $500/year*, you’ll gain instant access to:
*Other currencies are available at checkout, let us know if you'd like to see membership offered in your local currency. Corporate cohorts are available. Every year, a portion of all annual subscriptions will be donated to a cause of the community’s choosing.
We've designed the Radiant Leader experience to be as light-touch as it is life-changing.
And when you're ready to dig deeper and do more to accelerate your growth, you can sign up for one of our cohort courses, which are currently only available to our members:
Momentum | Mindful Leader Intensive gathers an intimate cohort of 15 leaders and leverages brain-based mindfulness practice as a transformational technology, building new neural connections that support a more balanced perspective, deeper insights, more creative ideas, smarter decisions, stronger relationships and more strategic impact. In only 12 weeks.
Agents of Radiant Change (ARC) is a 6-week immersion in sparking and sustaining real change in increasingly complex conditions. In a supportive cohort of your fellow change-makers, we’ll apply the 10 Truths of Radiant Change to a specific shift you’re looking to make in your work or in your world. In the process, we'll challenge old patterns and paradigms that are no longer serving us, and unlock our individual and collective potential for transformation.
We hone the core competencies of transformational leadership all year long: