Navigating Uncertainty Begins with Conscious Leadership Today
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As we navigate uncharted waters, leaders are being called to do more and be more. The onus is on them to position their organizations and their people for success in the workplace during such a transformative period and beyond. Bringing a holistic perspective from inside some of the world’s leading organizations, Ginny Clarke shares her sought-after insights and wisdom on the ways conscious, effective leaders can get the best out of their people and, in turn, create high-performing teams for the future. In this talk, she outlines the importance of beginning with organizational health when guiding your workforce into the future — paying special attention to how to assess, attract, and hire the best talent, and establish a culture rooted in accountability, trust, integrity, and inclusion. Ginny goes beyond ideas and instead offers leaders practical tactics and processes for optimizing talent, resources, productivity, and profitability to create a disruption-proof workplace that is equipped for the long run.
Learning Objectives:
- Release fear of uncertainty to make room for people to become curious and innovative.Learn responsibility for achieving success.
- It is not just those in leadership roles, but all workers who can strive for success in the face of uncertainty.
- Understand organizational health when guiding your workforce into the future. This includes paying special attention to how to assess, attract, and hire the best talent, and establish a culture rooted in accountability, trust, integrity, and inclusion.Optimize resources, productivity, and profitability of talent to create a disruption-proof workplace that is equipped for the long run.
- Integrate consciousness or awareness. This means we must have leaders who are self-aware, humble, have high EQ (Emotional Intelligence) and low ego - in addition to being functional domain experts.
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Ginny Clarke

Virginia "Ginny" Clarke is a world-renowned conscious leadership expert, sought-after speaker, author, instructor and advisor who helps individuals and organizations based on conscious choices and personal accountability.
She has over 30 years of experience in executive recruiting, talent management and commercial real estate. She has held leadership roles at Google and Spencer Stuart where she recruited senior leaders across sectors and functions, and specialized in diversity and internal mobility.
Ginny's focus on personal accountability and self-awareness empowers people to become radically accountable, creating a space for healthy, authentic leadership that inspires and transforms individuals and organizations.
Her approach to leadership is rooted in the Five Dimensions Of Conscious Leadership, which encourages leaders to deepen their self-awareness, speak their truth, inspire love, expand their consciousness and activate their mastery.
Ginny is the author of Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work and hosts the Fifth Dimensional Leadership podcast. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis. Ginny is the single mother of an adult son, Julian, who works in the entertainment industry.
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