Give Us Two Days and We’ll Completely Transform Your Leadership Presence
Develop your Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) and sustainably up-level your leadership, resiliency, and performance in our 2-Day IEP Method® Immersion.
The IEP Method® Immersion is a live, in-person two-day training experience designed to boost your performance, presence, and leadership impact efficiently and effectively.
With more than 23 years of working with leaders and organizations, at Active Choices, Inc. we’ve found that business growth and cultural health are only at their best — and sustainably improved — when leaders first focus on their own:
- Performance & Mindset
- Energetic & Operational Efficiency
- Productivity & Collaboration
- Innovation & Impact
- Influence & Leadership Credibility
- Peace & Ease in Professional and Personal Life
- Intentional Energetic Presence®, the key anchor and amplifier for all of the above
This session is for Executive and Senior Leaders responsible for Business Performance, Culture, L&D, Innovation, Tech, Sales, and Future-of-Work Initiatives.
IEP Method® Immersion
October 22nd and 23rd | Washington, D.C.- REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30TH
- October 22-23, 2024, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET, both days.
- In-person session in Washington, D.C. Venue to be announced.
- Enrollment includes optional live virtual pre- and post-sessions (to be recorded) and three months complimentary All-Access Membership in the IEP Leadership Community, which provides access to continuing education, connection, integration support, and the option to earn a verifiable credential as an IEP Method® Certified Positive Energy Leader: Level 1.
- We intentionally keep space limited to ensure an intimate and personalized experience so we invite you to secure your seat ASAP. Please ensure you can attend both training days to maintain the integrity of the experience for yourself and the entire group.
- UPDATE: 15 SEATS REMAINING AS OF AUGUST 22, 2024
Learn, experience, and embody the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) through this immersion session specifically designed for leaders who are passionate about driving growth, showing up well, and improving their overall organizational health.
BEST FOR
Leaders and Teams
FORMAT
Live, In-Person Session
DURATION
2-Day Training +
Optional Pre- and Post-Sessions
MODEL
Instructor Led by Anese Cavanaugh and ACI Team
SUPPORT
3 Months of Leadership Community All-Access Membership
About the Session
In this highly experiential session, you’ll dive into deeper awareness and intentional action by exploring your personal, team, and organizational energy and impact. Our goal is to support you in growing your Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) so you can lead effectively and show up as your best for yourself and others. Core focus areas include:
- Your performance, presence, and mindset as a leader, which are all interconnected and can amplify — or detract from — your energy, impact, and results.
- Your ability to remain resilient, clear, and focused in any situation, how to minimize the impact of disruptive energy from others, and channel a service mindset even in the midst of chaos, conflict, and change.
- Your ability to lead, command your energy, and attract/maintain the attention and presence of others to authentically connect and create a positive influence.
- How to develop your “Energetic Equity & Accountability” to support you in confidently navigating disruptive situations, circumstances, and dynamics that are often out of your control.
- How to develop your most essential power and leadership skills to command your energy effectively and expansively and accelerate your personal and professional goals.
- Your ability to identify and shift limiting behaviors and mindsets that may be damaging and detracting from your credibility, success, and impact as a leader.
PLUS, you’ll learn how to strengthen your organization’s cultural health and performance by leveraging all of these skills and ways of being so your people feel seen, heard, inspired, and energized to go above and beyond in their own performance.
Session Overview & Focus Areas
Day 1: Your Personal Intentional Energetic Presence®
On the first day, we focus on your personal IEP and current level of self-care, resilience, and impact as a leader. You’ll experience the nuance of your leadership presence, how it impacts a room, and how you can adjust and refine it as necessary to achieve your intended outcomes.
With the core components of the IEP and a deep dive into the “Essential You” to explore how your values, intentions, and presence impact each other, we’ll have a strong foundation for day two, when we look at interactional, collaborative, and performance IEP.
Day 1 Key Focus Areas:
- The IEP Method®
- Building a Strong Energetic Field
- Your Leadership Intentions, Presence, & Performance
- Commanding (and Directing) Your Energy
- Leadership Congruence & Authenticity
- Resiliency, Adaptability, & Aloneness in Leadership
- Your Personal (and Realistic) Plan & Integration
Day 2: IEP and Your Culture, Collaboration, and Performance
On the second day, we focus on using IEP to create results via your leadership, relationships, and performance. We’ll dig into core skills necessary to build healthy dynamics, focused work, effective conflict navigation, clean agreements, and a culture that has psychological safety and joy, while also being able to navigate grit, stay committed, and focused on the right things that create impact.
Day two unites your personal IEP (which you can control) with others’ IEP (which you cannot control), providing you with energetic and actionable skills to influence and lead your teams, people, and clients.
Day 2 Key Focus Areas:
- Collaborative IEP
- Shifting State in Service of
- Holding Your Space with the “Lowest Vibration”
- The Energetics — and Skills — for Feedback, Conflict Navigation, and Relationship Design
- Team & Cultural IEP: Engagement, Performance, & Ownership Mindsets
- Putting It All Together for Integration
Pre- and Post-Sessions (Optional)
To support your growth, action, and integration throughout the experience, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in optional virtual sessions before and after our time together in person.
The pre-session is designed to get your IEP wheels turning and your intentions clear for how you’ll create optimal value within these two days. The post-session will support your integration, ensuring you embody the work and get what you need.
These sessions are conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who cannot attend live.
Contact us to receive more details regarding the full syllabus and breakdown of daily session content.
Session Logistics
One month prior to the session, you will receive light pre-work and access to the Community Platform, as well as all details and logistics for the session, allowing ample time to maximize the ROI and impact of our time together.
Please note: As you will learn when we are together, your presence is your impact. This is an experience that leverages your intentions, energy, and presence for optimal performance and results. Your presence will impact the room and your experience.
We ask you to create the space to be fully present for both days of the in-person session.
The virtual pre- and post-sessions are optional, and will be recorded for future viewing.
IEP Method® Immersion
October 22nd and 23rd | Washington, D.C.- October 22-23, 2024; 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET both days.
- In-person session in Washington, D.C. Venue to be announced.
- Enrollment includes optional live virtual pre- and post-sessions (to be recorded) and 3 months complimentary All-Access Membership in the IEP Leadership Community to provide access to continuing education, connection, integration support, and option to earn verifiable credential as an IEP Method® Certified Positive Energy Leader: Level 1.
- Space is limited for this training, so we invite you to secure your seat ASAP. Please ensure you can attend both days of training to maintain the integrity of the experience for yourself and the entire group.
IEP Method® Immersion Training Outcomes:
- Learn, experience, and embody the three components of the IEP Method® so you can ground yourself in the process and utilize it in your day-to-day life and leadership.
- Identify and strengthen your “Essential You” so that you experience more congruence in your presence and leadership.
- Learn how to assess and develop your Energetic Presence and shift it authentically to meet the needs of each moment.
- Learn how to create intentional impact and outcomes in any conversation, deal, or project in your personal or professional life.
- Build your resilience and adaptability to navigate complexity and chaos when things are not going to plan.
- Develop your foundational relationship with yourself so that you feel authentically aligned, accountable, and solid in your ability to lead yourself and others.
- Learn how to create productive healthy agreements with yourself and others.
- Learn how to apply the concepts of Intentional Energetic Presence® to increase connectivity and reduce isolation and aloneness with in-person and remote teams.
- Learn how to read the energy/dynamics of the room and how to shift it in a way that creates responsiveness and less resistance.
- Learn how to model and inspire energetic accountability in a way that builds trust and connection (both remotely or in-person), and navigate complex dynamics on your team and in your relationships.
- Learn how to give and receive productive feedback, design productive relationships proactively, and navigate conflict when disruption occurs.
- Learn an accessible language to use with others and develop your energetic presence to address common challenging leadership conversations and scenarios (i.e., accountability, feedback when someone’s energy feels “off,” etc.).
The IEP Method® Community Platform
The IEP Method Immersion Training includes 3 months of All-Access Membership in the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative® (PEW-i) Community, a private membership platform by Active Choices, Inc. for leaders and organizations devoted to developing leadership presence and positive workplace change.
In this space, you can easily access IEP Method resources, view your pre- and post-session details, and receive training reminders. Plus, you will also receive access in the platform to complete your IEP Method Credential as a Certified Positive Energy Leader and connect with your fellow training cohort members and other individuals in the community!
PEW-i Community Memberships provide you and your organization with access to the IEP Method tools, resources, ACI Team support, and a network of peer organizations.
Hear More about the IEP Method® Training Experience
Hear how the in-person IEP Method® training experience creates immediate action for leaders who are ready for transformation:
Hear from program participants as they share about the personal and organizational impact of Intentional Energetic Presence® in their lives:
Two things today that are really going to stick with me beyond the anchoring of presence in my body, is that presence is impact. Everything that we bring to the world is impact through our conscious presence.
Day 1 — Your Personal Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP): Optimizing YOU. (Example.)
Please Note: This curriculum is from our last IEP Immersion, which focused on Leadership and Culture. Each two-day session is customized to the group, so this overview is an example of what will be in the two-day event. (The high-level areas of focus and outcomes above, along with participant pre-work surveys, will create the specifics of the D.C. event’s two-day agenda.) The first day is usually consistent for all sessions as IEP is at the core of everything and lays the foundation for day two.
On the first day of the training, we’ll focus on your current level of self-care, impact, and resilience as a leader. You’ll learn how your current level of leadership presence is making an impact (or not!), and create space for you to dive deep into your own strengths and areas for growth as a leader.
Day one highlights include (prioritized as fits the needs of the group):
- Learn about Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) and the IEP Method®
- Complete an IEP Individual and Cultural Assessment to identify the gaps in your own IEP and how they’re impacting your leadership, your culture, your business results, and your life. (Done before the session.)
- Contagious Costs: Determine your contagiousness factor with the new “Contagion Factor Formula™” and also the cost of negative energy in your life and organization/team with the new IEP/ROI/Culture Cost Indicator.
- Identify the gaps in your leadership, relationships, and internal satisfaction that are being impacted by your IEP (and how you’re contributing positively or negatively to them).
- Learn and embody the basic Tenets of IEP and dive into the 4 core quadrants of the model so that you can “get in front of it” and integrate in real-time.
- Learn how to adjust your energy and presence instantaneously, so that you can tap into deeper wisdom and intuition, address what’s happening in the moment, create impact independent of your external environment, and intentionally influence others – no matter the circumstances.
- Work with your body and presence from the inside out so that you can create more intentional impact and feel good doing so.
- Build your “Energetic Equity”: Learn tools, practices and strategies for building a strong IEP “bank” that will allow you to navigate “busy”, “overwhelm”, and “discombobulation” more effectively setting a proactive vs. reactive tone.
- Unlock access to greater creativity, purpose, intuition, empathy, and intention. (The person with the strongest intention, purpose, and vibe “wins” – BE that person.)
- Learn how to hold your space, not match the “lowest vibration in the room,” and even shift your state and presence so they step up to “match” YOU.
- Identify and make decisions (or non-decisions) that are currently hindering your leadership (you likely don’t even know what these are yet) that will shift the way you relate, create impact, and experience internal peace in your decision-making, work, and relationships.
Fieldwork Guide — Distributed during the training
The IEP Method Immersion Fieldwork Guide includes a summary of the IEP Method tools you’ll learn during the training, plus resources to use and reference during and after the training session.
Day 2 — Your Organization’s IEP: Optimizing Your Team and Culture. (Example.)
This overview provides an example of a previous public session focused on Leadership & Culture. The October Session in D.C. will focus on Leadership & Performance (while addressing Culture in new ways that are essential to leadership and performance).
On day 2 of training, we’ll focus on your organization’s current health and potential growth areas. We’ll talk about the hard stuff, too — including issues that may or may not be talked about yet in your company and the impact it could be creating. You’ll also learn what it takes to create an authentically Positive Energy Workplace, and how to create psychological safety for your workforce and navigate difficult conversations (such as direct engagement and feedback).
Highlights for day two often include (depending on the needs of the group):
- Capture any remaining core learnings for you and your organization from day one that will support the foundation you will need for the true leadership and cultural development work that will be happening on day two.
- Review the IEP Model through the lens of your team or organization and how you’re set up for activating the energy of your workforce in the right direction (or not). Create three solid next steps to implement on Monday.
- Explore the updated “Culture Change List” which is the list of TO-DO’s to support a healthy team and culture. These to-do’s are only as good as the IEP under them, so that’s why we set the foundation here on day one.
- Learn 3-4 new leadership and collaboration skills based on what will serve you and your group most to support your needs. (These are determined at the end of day one and designed for in day two. Examples of these skills are: conflict navigation and resolution, productive feedback, relationship and agreement design, accountability and drama management, team meeting optimization, effective performance reviews, design session debriefing, shifting the energy in a room, optimizing hiring practices, creative collaboration, toxicity purging, energetic hygiene optimization, and others.)
- Create structures to make this all real when you go back (these may include how to introduce this work and principles to your team, how to set up guardrails and structures to support cultural IEP, follow-up practices to keep the content alive, and more).
Pre-Training Executive Session
Virtual | Bonus — Optional to Attend
Prior to our in-person experience, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in an intention-setting group pre-work session (1 hour) to help set a solid foundation for your training so we can dive deep during our in-person time together. This session is conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who are unable to attend live.
Post-Training Executive Session
Virtual | Bonus — Optional to Attend
After our in-person training, you’ll have the opportunity to join us for an integration post-training group session (1 hour) to support your impact, accountability, and action after the training. This session is conducted via Zoom and recorded for those who are unable to attend live.
Access to the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative® (PEW-i) Community Platform
You will receive 3-month complimentary access to the All-Access Membership in the PEW-i Community, a private leadership community by Active Choices, Inc. for organizations devoted to creating positive workplaces. In this space, you can easily access IEP Method® resources, view your pre- and post-session details, and receive training reminders. Plus, you will also receive access in the platform to complete your IEP Method Credential as a Certified Positive Energy Leader and connect with your fellow training cohort members and other individuals in the community!
Session Logistics
One month prior to the session, you will receive light pre-work and access to the Community Platform, as well as all details and logistics for the session, allowing ample time to maximize the ROI and impact of our time together.
Please note: As you will learn when we are together, your presence is your impact. This is an experience that leverages your intentions, energy, and presence for optimal performance and results. Your presence will impact the room and your experience.
We ask you to create the space to be fully present for both days of the in-person session.
The virtual pre- and post-sessions are optional, and will be recorded for future viewing.
IEP Method® Immersion
October 22nd and 23rd | Washington, D.C.- October 22-23, 2024; 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET both days.
- In-person session in Washington, D.C. Venue to be announced.
- Enrollment includes optional live virtual pre- and post-sessions (to be recorded) and 3 months complimentary All-Access Membership in the IEP Leadership Community to provide access to continuing education, connection, integration support, and option to earn verifiable credential as an IEP Method® Certified Positive Energy Leader: Level 1.
- Space is limited for this training, so we invite you to secure your seat ASAP. Please ensure you can attend both days of training to maintain the integrity of the experience for yourself and the entire group.
Session Training Team
ANESE CAVANAUGH
CEO + Strategic Advisor + Futurist
Founder of The IEP Method® and The Positive Energy Workplace Initiative®
Anese Cavanaugh is the CEO of Active Choices, Inc., creator of the IEP Method® (Intentional Energetic Presence®) and the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative® and a strategist and advisor to leaders and organizations around the world. She is devoted to helping organizations support their people so they are able to show up and bring their best selves to the table, create significant impact in their lives, and create (authentic) positive energy workplaces and cultures. Anese is a keynote speaker and author of CONTAGIOUS CULTURE: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization That Thrives (McGraw-Hill, 2015), CONTAGIOUS YOU: Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want (McGraw-Hill, 2019), and THE LEADER YOU WILL BE: An Invitation (a leadership storybook).
As a leading voice on intention, energy, and presence in leadership and culture, she helps people unlock greater leadership potential, collaborate more inspiringly, create more openly, intuit more bravely, and lead more joyfully and effectively. She holds a degree in Kinesiology as well as multiple credentials in coaching, training, facilitation, and relationship systems that support her in bringing a breadth of knowledge to clients in order to meet them where they’re at and best pair the team with the optimally-fit engagements.
Top innovators and executives in companies including Ford Motor Company, IDEO, Zingerman’s, Cooper, GM Financial, Vistaprint, 15Five, Fitbit, Vivayic, Kaiser Permanente, BNY Mellon, and others have engaged with Active Choices to strengthen team health, maximize leadership impact, and optimize company culture. In addition to appearing in publications like Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, CEO.com, Forbes, the NY Times, and others, Anese has a column, “Showing Up” on Inc.com, blogs regularly for subscribers of ActiveChoices.com, and speaks on stages (in person and virtually) around the world.
JENNY WILEY
Certified Professional Coach
ACI Director of Programming & Community Growth
Jenny Wiley is a Certified Professional Coach and Facilitator, specializing in group coaching, culture & teams development. She is the former director of community at iPEC Coaching, and has served as a trailblazing community lead and consultant for organizations. Her unique expertise also includes a focus on Integrated Marketing Communications, and she is driven by a passion for inclusive, clear, direct, and kind communications.
In addition to facilitating and managing programming experiences for ACI clients, Jenny leads communications, design, and programming for the Positive Energy Workplace Initiative Platform — a private community by Active Choices, Inc. for organizations devoted to creating positive workplaces). In the ACI classroom, you will find her leading and training on the various IEP Methodology tools and holding the logistics clipboard.
Optimize Your Company Culture
The ACI Team can provide the IEP Method Immersion Session — in addition to other training tracks — virtually or in-person to support your organizational needs. Reach out for more information and to discuss opportunities for your company.