Sensing Systems: Attune Your Leadership for Impact and Ease
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Sensing systems is a leading-edge set of skills that efficiently and wisely supports organizations and leaders to act with greater discernment, improve inclusion and alignment, and create change. In this introductory, interactive session we will share teachings that expand the range and depth of data available in organizations and systems, share models and explore skills for understanding a system’s behavior with greater ease, while helping individuals and teams to be more deeply understood.
Learning Objectives:
- Sense and respond to dynamically evolving conditions
- Understand the connection and importance self-awareness and system awareness and how the two influence each another
- Expand one’s capacity to perceive and interpret a range of data present in a system
- Incorporate the mind, body, heart, and intuition as instrumentsCultivate greater effectiveness through balancing reflection and action
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Sharon Newport
Sharon Newport is an organizational consultant, facilitator, speaker, and executive coach with clients in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors across the globe. Sharon also serves as adjunct faculty at Georgetown University's Institute of Transformational Leadership. Sharon spent over a decade as an association and nonprofit executive, successfully leading wide-scale strategic, operational, and cultural change, and her early career, she was a documentary television/film producer and actor. Sharon has earned the Certified Association Executive designation from American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), a certification in the Key Polarity Indicator™, a credential in the Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism, a certificate in the Neuroscience of Change, an Executive Certificate from Georgetown University in Organizational Consulting and Change Leadership, and her B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase College, graduating Magna Cum Laude. Sharon was awarded a Leader of Distinction by digitalNow and is a proud ASAE Diversity Executive Leadership Program alumnus.
Jessica Srikantia Field
Jessica Srikantia Field, Ph.D., PCC, ITCA, is Academic Director and Associate Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University's Institute for Transformational Leadership. Jessica has engaged in global solidarity work with extraordinary leaders and communities facing extreme conditions and structural violence. She is passionate about supporting people, teams and organizations to elevate and thrive through the currently unfolding shifts in consciousness and systems. Jessica's gifts include sensing into the emerging future, purpose-led transformation and alignment, collective trauma healing, and liberating the creative, synergistic potential in conflict. Her modalities range from organization development and coaching to energetics, and she is a trained coach supervisor and a professionally certified individual and team coach. A Rhodes Scholar, Jessica earned an A.B. in History & Literature from Harvard University, a BA in Philosophy & Psychology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. jointly in Psychology and in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science from the University of Chicago.