Inner Lead: Resiliency and Emotional Intelligence Through the Way of the Horse Join 2010 RFL graduate Sheri Gaynor, for an exciting live broadcast in the field with horses. Learn what these sentient creatures have to teach us about leading from the heart. You will leave with tools that will support you in accessing a deeper sense of creativity, intuition and authentic leadership, which can be used both personally and professionally, to enhance your sense of resilience and emotional wellbeing. Sheri Gaynor is an Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Advanced Eponaquest Instructor. She is an author of Creative Awakenings: Envisioning the Life [...]

Everyday Leadership RFL Live: Resiliency Experience program will be a discussion on how to be a leader without doing something amazing or being asked to manage/lead people in the business you work or own business. Talk about how to impact lives of everyone around you in positive way and the effect that will have on our community. Bob McNutt (presenter) spent the last 26 years on an entrepreneurial journey starting several companies. He founded an IT products and services company in 1992. Success came after years of tough lessons, sleepless nights and relentless stress. These challenges led him to join a [...]

The “First” of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and What to Do Beth Wolfson is certified to teach and facilitate the groundbreaking work of Dr. Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. His course teaches teams the behaviors to overcome these dysfunctions. Beth will focus on the first dysfunction—lack of trust. This will be an interactive session. Presenter: Beth Wolfson, MA, is the president and founder of Beth Wolfson—Leadership Consulting Services. She is Master Certified in Crucial Conversations and Influencer: The Power to Change Anything. She has taught both these courses for the RFL Academy. Beth works [...]

Spark Purpose: How do we create an environment where employees want to come to work and do their best every day? How do we go beyond engagement to create a team of passionate employees? A passionate employee is focused, engaged and committed to consistently performing at their best. They feel strongly about the work they do, knowing that they are making a difference. This results in exceptional value to both internal and external customers. Come learn more about Spark Purpose. Spark Purpose started with the story captured in the film, Peak 6198. A documentary about Steve Furman's journey to attempt an [...]

In the RFL Live: Resiliency Experience, Jessica Travis will bring a conversation about how we live in a world of comfort and convenience beyond anything experienced by anyone before us. Yet, we suffer more pain (emotional and physical) than ever before. We are less emotionally equipped to “handle” challenge and adversity than our parents and grandparents, despite the fact that we have every technological and seemingly, biological advantage over them. Why are we so soft? What will it take to toughen us up, and why is it imperative that we get stronger in order to truly enjoy our lives? Register in [...]

Laura Bartels will share skills to recognize empathic distress to move into compassion that results in resilience. Laura Bartels is the Executive Director of the Mindful Life Program and is dedicated to helping people to live meaningful lives with attention and intention through practical, accessible and universal skills. Laura’s path has been one of navigating what it means to live consciously and meaningfully in the world. A background of 20 years in the field of sustainable building and community development offered a valuable foundation and perspective on the importance of inner sustainability. In 2001, after a serious car accident, and many [...]

As a National Security Fellow at Harvard, Pierre took an executive class around effective and in-effective leadership activity associated with the government’s 9-11 response. From this session, a team of fellows and I decided to study, research and write a thesis on “Leading in Crisis.” Through this research, his team discovered that crisis is neither unpredictable nor unexpected. And surprisingly, there are extensive signals and tremors that warn us of impending crises. Most leaders (typical of human nature in general) ignore, resist, or simply deny these warnings and focus on optimizing the status quo or “what they’ve always done.” Similarly, his [...]