Develop leaders and culture champions
We help your people model and integrate transformational leadership, social-emotional intelligence, well-being, efficiency, and ease.
Engagement, productivity, and profit are directly related to the culture you create. Learn how to weave well-being into the way you work to build a culture of kindness, connection, creativity, and meaning.
In the midst of mental health crises and the wake of the great resignation, the data is clear. The top reasons that people underperform and/or leave their jobs boil down to feeling uncared for by management, tense relationships with colleagues, lack of meaningful work, and challenges with mental and physical health.
It is neither profitable nor principled to ignore the need to bring well-being into the way we work.
We help you and your leaders
- Increase retention, engagement, and agency
- Improve challenging communication dynamics
- Support belonging, connection, and purpose
- Manage stress, burnout, and mental health
- Cultivate emotional agility, self-care, and well-being
- Build the inner capacities for transformational leadership and well-being
We help your leaders develop skills and tools that can be easily integrated in the way people work using an experiential approach that includes:
- Whole Person Coaching
- Mindfulness, Breathwork, and Body Awareness
- Guided Self-Reflection
- Communication Skill- Building
- Team Building Exercises
- Facilitated Conversations
- Improvisational role play
- Dialogue and reflection circles
AIM Offerings
that support the individuals, the teams, and the system.
It Starts with You
Build self awareness, move out of the fight, flight,
or freeze response, and reconnect to purpose
and meaning.
Walk the Talk
Learn to communicate with care and effectiveness,
listen well, share openly, give and receive feedback,
and engage in healthy conflict.
Create a Ripple Effect
Bring your capacity to care and connect to the culture
you work in, and build a culture of healing, kindness,
and creativity within and beyond the school building.
Develop transformational leadership with a 9-month coaching engagement that targets your leadership team or a selected group of influential leaders within your organization.
the outcome
The organization gains an internal team of culture change champions who are equipped with the skills and tools to model, coach, and design new ways of working within their domain.
An immersive learning process and opportunity for learning and healing through an experience of connection and creativity with your staff.
the outcome
The staff gain a sense of renewal, inspiration, belonging, insight, courage, confidence, a greater willingness to explore new ideas, a refreshed sense of meaning and purpose, and a commitment to using new skills.
Coaching
So often leaders don’t get the support they need. They are in the middle, at the top, isolated, or under fire. Pause the action and take time to reflect, reconnect to your sense of purpose, clarify vision, and strategize on reaching your goals.
the outcome
- Improve well-being and mental health in both your role as leaders and as an individual.
- Develop the capacity to sustain transformative over transactional leadership.
- Develop the capacity for self-care and recovery from challenging experiences.
- Develop a map for transforming challenges into opportunities.
- Connect to your integrity, vision, and purpose.
- Gain proficiency in your capacity for self-awareness, mindset awareness, relational awareness, and systems awareness.
We are experts in communication. We help teams connect, communicate and collaborate in ways that promote meaning, purpose, and innovation. Skill-build, problem solve, and improve interpersonal dynamics by addressing real-time challenges using a suite of repeatable, practical coaching tools.
the outcome
Each team member learns to say what they mean with clarity and kindness, offer effective feedback, and use productive conflict to broaden their thinking. The outcome is increased engagement, inclusion, collaboration, sense of purpose, and better innovation.
Support the sustainability of adult and leadership development by using tools that support practice and spread knowledge throughout the organization. The tangibles include workbooks, recorded guided practices, card sets, models, and tip books.
the outcome
Leaders become culture coaches within their own domain using tangible tools that help them share their learning and weave well-being and conscious communication into everyday operations at work.
AIM Experiences
Business Unit Leader at a Global Bank
Your work just went from being a nice-to-have to a must-have for all businesses. Now, we really need to understand how to care for each other and ourselves while we meet a mountain of challenges.
Business Unit Leader at a Global Bank
This training is a super tool for creating a team, a sense of true support between participants, and a sense of commonly shared values.
Sales Leader at a Technology Company
My coaching reminded me why I do this job and gave me the tools to have a more honest, in-depth conversion with my team. Now, we actually collaborate and I can focus on empowering people instead of doing their job for them.
Chief People Officer at a Financial Technology Company
This training resonated with everyone on my leadership team. The facilitators provided a great foundation for collaboration and connection, sprinkled with humor, movement, and fun. This work will have a lasting impression on my team.
Business Unit Leader at a Global Bank
The program pushed personal growth and leadership skills up to the community thinking level.
Manager at Financial Services Company
The single thing I learned the most from this was the practice and importance of asking powerful questions, particularly during conflict or when someone I was working with didn’t meet expectations. It could then be about growth and learning.
Manager at Financial Services Company
This program is needed even more in today’s environment where emotions, stress, and overwhelm are exacerbated. I found a renewed openness and commitment to taking on board the practices to have a more calmer and impactful existence.
Manager at Global Bank
This program is a good way to help the speaker move beyond their frustration, unhappiness, stalemate, powerlessness, feeling like they are cornered or trapped, into a more constructive thinking mode, realizing they have a measure of control, they can affect the situation, they have the power to be part of the solution.
Director at Global Bank
I have read a lot of books on leadership and taken other programs, but this program’s approach is practical and is grounded in the values that our organization believes are important. The approaches in this program can keep us grounded on that mission through these practices.
Director at Financial Services Company
I learned a lot about myself, my feelings, my colleagues, things that will help me be a better leader. This program tested my mental models, challenged why I think what I think and really helped me grow. I would recommend this program to anyone seeking to learn more about themselves while improving their leadership and communication skills.
Director at Global Bank
This program has the sustained effect of building skills and giving me tools to live positively and happily within the organizational ocean.
Business Unit Leader at an Intergovernmental Organization
This program is focusing on key strategies for success: effective communication, empowerment and focusing on the positives of a situation and emotional intelligence. There are many useful tools and techniques that can be used immediately in the workplace to build more collaborative, trusting, and happy teams.
Business Unit Leader at an Intergovernmental Organization
This program is a powerful vehicle for the personal development and alignment of personal resources for application within the business context. It helps to cultivate happiness and win-win solutions within a complex and constantly changing business environment.
Business Unit Leader at an Intergovernmental Organization
What I found most positive was the creation of shared practice, language, and experiences helps to create receptivity and engagement with team members
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The communication tools that I learned, the mindful awakening I gained, were life-changing.
Manager at Global Bank
My biggest takeaway from the program is that I do need to outgrow my cultural norm or comfort zone to be a more effective communicator and leader. For example, I learned that I should not react or formulate thoughts without validating my own assumptions. I also learned that expressing my own feelings to others could be a powerful communication tool to apply at work.
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The positive thing about the program is connecting to my body and understanding my internal weather and addressing my vulnerability with others. This was a tremendous challenge, but it has had a hugely positive impact. By showing my vulnerability, I was better at addressing my needs.
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I think this program addresses the interpersonal challenges that dominate the day-to-day. The angle of interacting with adults in a manner where we maintain integrity is really powerful.
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What I really found that was different was a clear focus on embracing the differences and perspectives of those around us.
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The fact that many of these practices go beyond the work environment can make work more effective.
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I think this whole training was awesome. I learned a lot about myself and feel a lot more confident in working with others. In every module, even the ones I struggled with, I walked away with something new I learned, relevant to the work I do with others. Super powerful!
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This program opens up more effective options to communicate and be effective in a way that cares for our relationship, ourselves, and the task at hand. The skills explored benefit us at work and in our personal lives. Being aware of these approaches opens the opportunity to make lasting changes for the better in the way we interact with each other.
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As a leader, difficult conversations with staff is something I must constantly do and the tools I learned will really help me have those conversations.
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I would really recommend the program to a colleague or a friend as it helped me reflect on my own being, what type of assumptions I have about people, what type of skills I am lacking to be an effective communicator, etc. The skills can be applied both at work and at home and it helps me collect some thoughts around my professional as well as personal development.