Are you leading with courage? Compassion?
Do you know what’s possible …
For you? Your team? Your organization?
Are you finding joy in your work?
“When faced with adversity, leaders have three choices: avoid it, endure it, or transform it. We facilitate transformation.”
– Andrea Chilcote
We Listen. We Guide.
We Enable Transformation.
What leaders need now is not a statement, but a key dialogue at a critical time. What began as questions leaders asked as the world entered one of the most significant crises of modern times became Morningstar Ventures’ founder Andrea Chilcote’s core work. She and her colleagues answered the call.
Introducing the Two 3s Program
Based on compelling and sound leadership qualities as well as core development practices introduced in Andrea Chilcote’s new book, What Leaders Need Now, the Two 3sSM Program creates an opportunity for transformational growth and change in an accessible and affordable format. This highly individualized, virtual or in-person coaching experience helps leaders begin, resume, or enrich their development journey, in partnership with a skilled coach and a small group of peers or team members.
See the video and brochure for more information on the Two 3sSM program.
Having watched this team evolve and grow over the last few months has been so rewarding. The safe space that was created during the time we spent with Andrea has been the best team coaching and development process I have been a part of."
What Leaders Need NowSM
Inner Qualities and Essential Practices
Drawing upon thirty years of experience as a leadership development expert and executive coach, as well as three years of immersion into the effects of a global pandemic on organizational culture and employee well-being, author Andrea Chilcote envisions What Leaders Need Now: compassion, courage, and humility. She presents these three qualities as internal capabilities that can be grown, honed, and nurtured through the essential practices of development, reflection, and acknowledgment. It is then, she says, that you can “begin to embody the leader at the heart of your being.”
Leaders with a strong sense of purpose, or those seeking one, will find this work simultaneously provocative and reassuring as we seek to unearth the potential in all for compassion, courage, and humility. The essential practices of development, reflection, and acknowledgment allow us to begin to examine beliefs, behaviors, and values and commit to being leaders who are most needed now in the workplace and in our communities.
We’re Here to Help You
"Andrea is courageous, empathetic, and completely focused. She has challenged me to do the deeper work and explore beliefs that sometimes hold me back. It has been a transforming journey for me and has shaped my perspective and the way I work with my clients.”
Executive Coaching
If leaders are to take on the daunting task of transformation – of a team or an entire organization – (indeed, the work of leaders), this requires an inward look toward their own transformation. An executive coach acts as a guide, a mirror to gain awareness, a thinking partner, and a safe place for testing ideas.
Team Transformation
Cohesive, high-functioning teams make better, faster decisions and tap into the skills and opinions of all members. They don’t waste time on the wrong issues, revisiting the same topics repeatedly because of conflict avoidance or a lack of shared commitment. Cohesive teams are a competitive advantage – and a lot more fun!
Thought Leadership
Three Leadership Qualities the World Desperately Needs | The Leadership Foundry Podcast
I had the opportunity to sit down with my longtime colleague and friend, Randy Hain, and his business partner, Brandon Smith, to discuss leadership courage and findings in my What Leaders Need
The Courage to be Powerful
By Andrea Chilcote
A lifelong commitment I have made to my clients and my work in general is to practice what I teach. It is the way of integrity. This does not mean I aim to be perfect, or that I am at any given time masterful, or “better than”—it means that I continuously work to behave in the ways I hope to inspire others. Often, conditions conspire to offer me tests of my resolve.
Of late, I have been working with the quality of courage and its many complex behaviors.
One such behavior, “speaking truth to power,” seems to be at the heart of many development dilemmas.
What Leaders Need Now: Leadership Courage & Acknowledging Reality | Episode 18
What do grief and rumination have to do with leadership courage? More than you may think. Recently I had the opportunity to discuss these and other topics as they pertain to acknowledging reality, which I posit is a behavior of leadership courage, with my long-time colleagues, Laura Roccaforte and Sheppard Lake. With so much change in almost every organization, acknowledgment is a process that you, as a leader, must not only go through personally, but lead through. Laura and Sheppard have sage advice on recognizing your “present” state and beginning the process of courageously helping those you lead accept change.
“The Times They Are A-Changin’ ”
– Bob Dylan
Leaders need support now more than ever before. So much is at stake. Andrea and our contributors can help you and your team on a journey of transformation through executive coaching and team development.
