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All of my workshops are offered through in-person and interactive virtual formats. I also can customized training programs based on your needs.
The below workshops are ideal if you have more time to spend and typically range from two hours to full or multi-day retreats.
In these workshops, my goal is to move people from being inspired toward developing the new mindsets, behaviors, habits, and daily practices necessary to enable thriving.
Each workshop includes a customized interactive workbook with key exercises and supporting literature.
The Practice of Purposeful Leadership workshop is my most requested training workshop. It’s an exciting, immersive, and hands-on experience that equips leaders with the research-backed skills and practices to craft and deliver a purpose-first leadership philosophy.
This session is ideal for individual leaders as well as leadership, executive teams, and people who influence others.
-University of Colorado Health System
-Participant, Veterinary Medical Association
-The National Park Service
As a leader, you know that culture is the glue that bonds your organization and is the invisible force that determines how well you deliver your purpose.
But whether you lead an organization of 2 or 2,000, it can be difficult to put your current or desired culture into words, find the time and tools to diagnose deeper cultural issues, and strategically change and optimize culture.
That’s why I’ve developed the Activate a Positive Organizational and Team Culture program.
Based on vetted research, this demystifies team and organizational culture and provides you with proven, actionable tools to help you cultivate a positive culture that endures.
And as a leader, when you make culture a strategic priority, overwhelming research finds people are more fulfilled, collaborate better, and are more productive in delivering your important purpose.
The Working with Purpose session is designed to equip people with the research-backed skills and practices to craft work as purposeful and shift to a purposeful mindset. This workshop is highly hands-on and provides immediately applicable tools. Participants will leave with a plan to actively construct their approach to work from a perspective of purpose. This session is ideal for teams and individuals.
Psychological safety is the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. If present on a team, psychological safety facilitates organizational learning, innovation, and meaningfulness via the willing contribution of ideas and actions to a shared purpose.
Psychological safety is everyone’s responsibility. All individuals in the organization must know how to create a space for others to share their feedback, ideas, and perspectives free of fear.
However, while everyone is responsible for creating the space, positional team leaders have the most influence in maintaining the space because of their unique power. Cultivating psychological safety is a skill that can be learned and is a set of habits that must be consistently enacted.
In the Discover and Activate Your Purpose workshop, participants will learn what purpose is and how it works to produce more lasting fulfillment and performance. Through interactive exercises, participants will experience the power of purpose by engaging in the key research-backed practices to discovering, clarifying and activating the “why” in their academics, their current jobs and through their careers.
This workshop has the option to use PurposeMatch, a psychometrically-reliable assessment that helps users craft a personal purpose statement.
The Discover and Activate Your Purpose workshop is ideal for anyone at any stage in life or occupation.
Learn the research-based behaviors of purposeful leaders in turbulence, crisis, and change.
In times of turbulence, crisis, and change, the most effective leaders are those who create positivity and psychological safety for their team members. By leaning into their own natural strengths and focusing on a greater purpose, leaders can guide their organization through trying times and position themselves for a successful future.
This virtual workshop will teach you how to identify and focus on the three most important aspects of change leadership: the purposeful, the positive, and the possible.
You’ll also create a Positive and Purposeful Change Leadership Plan that includes specific steps and outcomes to implement at your organization in the months ahead.
Research shows that feeling like you matter at work isn’t a generational preference or “nice to have.” It’s a fundamental human need and is critical for motivation, fulfillment, and well-being. Enabling meaningful work is also a skillset that leaders can learn.
With changing modes of work, job insecurity, and heightened awareness of social injustice, enabling the experience of meaningfulness is a vital skill for next-generation leaders.
about Zach
“…a positive organizational and leadership development researcher, internationally-acclaimed speaker, and author who helps leaders and organizations thrive with the power of purpose and meaningfulness.”