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Contributing to the Mess: How Your Own Leadership Shapes the Transformation You're Trying to Move

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

10:00 to 11:30am EDT / 16:00 to 17:30 CEST / 17:00 to 18:30 IDT

Virtual. Capped at 30.

You are inside the system you are trying to change. Your behavior may be helping reproduce the thing you find most frustrating about it.

That is uncomfortable. It is also leverage you can use.

When a transformation stalls, attention often goes outward. Adoption is slower than what gets reported up. The same decision keeps getting reopened. People have quietly gone back to the old way of working.

This session turns the lens around: how is the way you are leading this transformation shaping both its progress and what is keeping it stuck?

How the ninety minutes works

You bring a real transformation you are responsible for moving forward. Not a case study, and not a tidy one.

You name the movement you want in the next 30 days. A decision that needs to happen, a stakeholder who needs to engage, a behavior that needs to start shifting.

You use your Leadership Circle Profile results as a lens. Which patterns does this transformation need more of, and which ones stop working under pressure. What it may be asking you to give up: control, certainty, harmony, being the expert in the room.

You design one experiment to run in the next 30 days, and name what you would see in other people if it were working.

You'll leave with

  • One piece of movement you want to create in the next 30 days

  • A hypothesis about how your leadership patterns are affecting it

  • A strength to use more deliberately, and a pattern worth interrupting

  • One experiment, and the evidence that tells you whether it is helping

This is for you if

  • You are accountable for a change that involves other people

  • It is stuck, and the usual explanations have stopped being useful

  • You are willing to examine your own contribution in front of people who don't know your organization

This is not an introduction to the Leadership Circle Profile, and it is not general leadership development. Without a live transformation to work on, this session is not worth your time.

Facilitated by Judit Teichert and Carrie O'Neil. Both are certified Leadership Circle practitioners who help change agents improve the odds of success in their transformations.

Before you come

At registration: three short questions about the transformation you're bringing. Your answers go to Judit and Carrie and help shape the session. Nothing appears in the room with your name or organization on it.

After registration: the free Leadership Circle self-assessment. Complete it by Friday, October 2 and watch a brief orientation video we’ll provide. Fifteen minutes, and it is what lets us spend the session on your transformation instead of on the instrument.

Practical

$119, payment link emailed after registration. Non-refundable, transferable to a colleague.

Capped at 30 participants. Registration closes Wednesday, September 30.


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