Leading Your Life

Leading Your Life (LYL) is a seminar-based program designed to help adults in the mid and late-career transition to professional activities and roles for which there is deep meaning and purpose. (3rd Installment of the Life Mastery and Transformation Program) In the mid-career, there is often a reexamination of one’s life and career. From this examination, one is driven to find one’s calling and area of true leadership. This program continues the development toward clarifying one’s authentic purpose and promoting one’s ability to take on greater responsibility and leadership.

““Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” ~Howard Thurman

Agenda

Day 1 Morning: Authenticity (Leading Oneself)

  • Building your inner moral compass
  • Developing self-awareness and working on oneself
  • Managing thoughts, emotions, and perspectives towards equanimity
  • Practical Topics: Core values, personal principles, humility, stages of development, non-duality, perspective-taking, self-development, and decision-making.

Day 1 Afternoon: Community (Leading Others)

  • Cultivating your compassion towards others
  • Enhancing and exercising positive influence
  • Committing to one’s chosen communities and Life
  • Practical Topics: Influence, interpersonal dynamics, leadership communication, networking, developing community, managing relationships, and building support.

Day 2 Morning: Leadership (Leading Change)

  • Moving from a manager towards becoming a leader
  • Learning and adapting to challenging contexts
  • Transforming social systems
  • Practical Topics: Risk and vulnerability, defining mission, clarifying vision, adaptive leadership, maintaining resilience, mastering the context, and the process of transformation.

Day 2 Afternoon: Calling & Contribution

  • Answering your calling
  • Making your authentic contribution
  • Co-creating the future
  • Practical Topics: Personal narrative, leveraging talents and strengths, life calling, authentic expression, creating ‘flow’, diminishing the ego, and becoming a leader.

Career and Leadership Coaching (Optional)

  • Included in the program is 2 hours of leadership coaching
  • Topics are chosen by the learner and may include: career pivots, decision-making, leveraging strengths, developing one’s leadership, handling difficult relationships, building social support, developing a vision, life calling.
If you have any questions, please contact Tony Tsai tony.tsai@hsc.utah.edu.