i guide teams to get clear and aligned on a vision, build strong relationships, lead great teams, ignite new ways of being together, take risks, and trust themselves and each other. find your unique leadership style. have bold kind conversations. lead with integrity.

who I guide.

I teach leadership to social impact teams and leaders who are here to make a difference in the world. These are organizations where values are more than words on a wall. Where the care of people meets care for the work. And where there is commitment to create a work environment where everyone can thrive.

After 15,000 hours of facilitation, I’ve learned that the efficacy of leadership training happens when these 3 things are present:

Leaders 100% support it — for the team and themselves. They show up for the learning too.
The team wants to grow.
The organization makes space for growth to happen.

Is this you? Reach out.

I facilitate:

Senior leadership retreats and dream team building offsites
New and reforming teams wanting to build individual and collective leadership competencies
Teams who need help working better together — building trust, conflict resolution and communication
Strategic visioning, planning, and goal setting

9 core capabilities

Leadership is a gathering of unique strengths, lived experiences, personality types, individual and organizational goals, and the dynamics between people that are changing moment by moment. There is no one right way to lead. Leaders build capacity in 3 areas: leading self, leading people, and leading organization. This program provides the foundational skills, knowledge, tools, and practices to lead better together. At the center of the program is the comprehensive iEQ9 Enneagram leadership assessment profile that provides a map to individual and collective growth.

The primary goal of a great leader is to create the conditions for people to shine. This means people have:

Agency over their choices and actions.
A sense of Purpose in what they do.
Safety to be their whole selves.
Respect to thrive.

my style

I apply teachings from multi-faceted frameworks and perspectives to challenge you to see beyond the box so you can create the conditions for yourself and your team to shine. Expect a coach approach, leading methodologies, and relevant practices you can use immediately. I use a decolonizing, equity lens that prioritizes creating safer, inclusive spaces.

“Always a joy to work with you.”

— Tracy Hutton, VP of People and Team Development, lululemon

“Thank you Ursz! You are incredible. Much appreciation and gratitude.”

— August Bergdahl, Principal Business Development & Operations, Crescent Builds

sessions

be and do better together

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Explore your Individual Enneagram Style and Report
- Identify your and your teams’ strengths, blindspots and triggers
- Create bridges of understanding to appreciate each other’s motivations, choices, needs and actions
- Discover your individual and collective ways of leading through conflict and change
- Build trust in yourself and your team

leadership strengths & styles

Laerning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Explore your unique Team Enneagram Style and Report
- Identify pathways to strengthen your unique team’s dynamics through conflict and change
- Discover ways to effectively and compassionately work with different Types
- Define simple actions your team can take today to optimize team success

team dynamics

self awareness & regulation

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Develop your capacity to observe yourself, others, and your environment with curiosity, not judgment
- Develop mindful leadership rhythms to support self-regulation
- Build a growth mindset
- Transforms triggers into aligned action

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Identify your conflict style and your default approach
- Understand your team’s conflict style using the Enneagram as a guide
- Gain strategies to clearly and effectively communicate in heated situations
- Gain tools to meet conflict with care and courage

conflict evolution

growing leaders

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Learn how to build impactful growth plans and set goals for your team
- Use the spectrum of coaching to give effective support and direction
- Use a framework to have empowering check-ins
- Learn how to delegates
- Define simple actions your team can take today to optimize team success

strategy

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Learn how to complete an effective SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
- Gain a framework to create a clear and inspired vision
- Identify strategic priorities and key initiatives
- Practice building a strategy plan with Objectives, Key Results (OKR’s)

responsive decision making

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Effectively assess situations to identify what’s needed and the true priority
- Gain a simple and impactful decision-making process
- Use the risk and reward matrix to understand what’s at stake

time & task management

Learning Outcomes + Key Results:
- Apply a growth mindset to time and task management
- Identify strategies to manage requests
- Employ a simple and effective framework to prioritize your to-do list

delivery

format

Sessions can be delivered in person, online, and blended. Design the format you need, be it in segments or through multi-day offsites.

total hours

Each module is 5-10 hours of contact learning time. This includes the tactical learning and practice sessions to build competencies.

coaching

Combine with individual or team coaching for sustainable integration into your organization’s culture and operations.

become the great leader you’re here to be

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the iEQ9 ennneagram

I use a comprehensive assessment tool called the iEQ9 Enneagram that identifies your core Enneagram type: personality, motivation, self-limiting beliefs, blindspots and opportunities. I find this test to be the most accurate and effective of all the leadership assessment tools.

I use professional individual reports and team reports.

individual report

Indentifies individual’s core type and covers Enneagram specific constructs that support self-awareness and personal transformation. Includes specific leadership competencies that influence effectiveness and development like decision-making and strategic thinking.

View a sample professional report.

Included in the report:

team report

Teams are fundamental to performance and yet remain difficult to understand, align and develop. Teamwork and collaboration challenge our organizations and individuals, requiring greater awareness of themselves and how they engage with others in teams.

View a sample team report.

Included in the report: