The Lifting Up Leadership Series

A transformative training experience rooted in the frameworks from Lifting Up: The Transformative Power of Supportive Leadership.

A New Era of Leadership Starts Here.

The strength of any workplace is revealed in how it responds when life gets hard.

And life right now is full of disruption, uncertainty, and personal hardship. People don’t just need policies—they need people. They need leaders who know how to show up with clarity, empathy, and purpose, developing relationships in the limited time available.

  • A Proven Framework for Real Impact

    Through a quarterly or customized workshop series, leaders are trained in high-impact relational skills and given tools to apply these skills between sessions. The structure builds momentum, accountability, and confidence. Each session introduces practical concepts and language that deepen over time, moving participants from awareness to action.

    Our work with leading organizations over the past decade has shown how quickly trust, collaboration, and performance improve when leaders are equipped to support their teams—clearly, consistently, and confidently.

  • Foundational Frameworks

    • The New Paradigm

    • Generational Differences

    • The Core Four Organizational Challenges

    • The Lifting Up Five Traits of a Supportive Leader

    • The Culture Pyramid

    • The Awkward Zone

    Core Skills Trained

    • Fast & Frequent 1:1s: A new approach to check-ins that build trust and save time

    • Capacity & Demand Conversations: A practical tool to reduce burnout and realign priorities

    • Support Profiles: A personalized way for leaders to understand and meet individual needs

    • The Supportive Conversation™: A repeatable 5-step method to show up effectively during someone’s struggle

    • The Support Seeking Conversation: A framework for requesting support when you need it yourself

    • The Stay Interview: A proactive tool to boost engagement and retention

    • What You Should Know About Each Employee: Humanizing the workplace with key relational insights

    • The CONNECT Communication Framework: Enhancing clarity, trust, and collaboration

    • The Two 10’s: Strengthening your team’s ability to speak up and support one another

    • Navigating the Awkward Zone: Understanding what stops you from supporting people who are struggling, including personal insights assessment

    • Organizations of any size dealing with high turnover, burnout and uncertainty

    • Law firms navigating high pressure and retention issues

    • Corporate teams working across silos and geographies

    • Healthcare systems, sports organizations, and professional services

    • Any organization ready to lead with humanity, not hierarchy

This series shifts the environment in which people work so that they feel valued, heard and understood. Leaders are equipped with tangible tools, real-time practice, and peer accountability. Between sessions, participants are invited to apply the skills, share what worked, and keep growing.

Across law firms, sports teams, college campuses, hospitals, and business units, this series has led to:

  • Higher engagement and trust

  • Stronger communication between teams

  • A noticeable drop in burnout signals

  • Increased retention and psychological safety

  • A more human-centered, unified culture

Why It Works

Whether you’re ready to launch a full-year leadership series or explore a single workshop to get started, we’ll help you build a training plan that fits your goals and your people.

Because when you lift up your leaders, they lift up your organization.

Let’s Build the Leadership Culture You’ve Been Looking For.