The IEP Method®
Helping Leaders and Organizations Create Intentional Impact
and Increase Performance Since 2002
Lead with Presence. Transform Your Impact. The IEP Method® starts with you.
When you lead with intentionality, the ripple effect transforms teams, organizations, and beyond.
INTENTION
Get clear on the outcomes and experience you want to create and the energy you want to show up with every day.
ENERGY
Create energetic awareness, authority, and sustainable self-care habits to set yourself up for success.
PRESENCE
Develop effective, authentic presence as a leader for yourself and for others to create intentional impact.
Discover The IEP Method® and Unlock the Power of Your Intentional Energetic Presence®
Want to see what’s possible?
Explore the IEP Method® self-study course, in-person training sessions, and community experiences to get started.
You want to be a great leader.
You want to make a bigger impact, support the people around you, and still have enough energy left at the end of the day to enjoy your life.
But right now, something feels off.
Maybe…
- You’re working hard but not seeing the results you want — and you’re not sure why.
- You’re exhausted, overwhelmed, or burning out.
- You’re caught in tension, competing priorities, and unproductive team dynamics.
- You’re questioning key relationships — at work, at home, or both.
- You’re wondering if it’s time to walk away from your job altogether.
We hear this all the time. And we also know that there’s another way.
When you start practicing with the IEP Method®, you’ll quickly gain tools, fresh perspectives, and a deeper level of ownership over how you show up in your life and work.
Most people don’t need to quit or burn everything down — they just need a new approach. You can learn how to manage stress differently, lead with intention, and shift the way you relate to yourself and others.
The best part? You don’t have to wait for anyone else to change first. You have more influence than you think. And when you start showing up differently, everything around you starts to shift.
When we practice and inspire accountability for how we show up individually,
it creates sustainable and collective culture change.
Looking to elevate your leadership team?
Learn about our IEP Method® membership programs, strategic support, and keynote experiences to bring IEP into your workplace.
It’s often said that people don’t leave companies. They leave managers.
In fact, 69% of employees report that their leader has as much impact on their mental health as their spouse or therapist.
Now, imagine the broader impact when leaders operate without intentionality — when chaotic, reactive, and unproductive energy becomes the norm.
The effects ripple across culture, performance, and retention. *And often at a significant cost.
But the opposite is also true. When leaders embody the principles of the IEP Method®, they create a powerful ripple effect — elevating collaboration, innovation, and performance across teams.
Leaders who show up with presence and clarity inspire trust, engagement, and genuine commitment — not just compliance. They become leaders who employees WANT to work with, versus HAVE to.
Through more than two decades of research and practice, we’ve found that when just 40% of your leadership team experiences core-level transformation, cultural change becomes not just possible but sustainable.
And here’s the good news: it only takes one person to start.
Could that be you?
*We’re happy to provide case studies and data relevant to your organization/industry in our exploration process.
MEASURABLE RESULTS WITH THE IEP METHOD®
More Effective Training, Less Time & Cost
Organizations that start with IEP Fundamentals reduce the time spent on other training programs by up to 75% — freeing up resources while improving impact.
Fewer, More Productive Meetings
Teams using the IEP Method® save up to 7 hours per week in meetings. For a team of eight, that’s 56 hours reclaimed for higher-impact leadership, deeper collaboration, and less wasted energy.
Stronger Financial
Performance
Clients consistently report measurable financial benefits: higher close rates, improved employee and customer retention, increased productivity, fewer inefficiencies, and more innovation.
Greater ROI on Training & Development
For over 20 years, nearly every client has shared that IEP enhances the effectiveness and ROI of their existing training programs — making every learning investment more valuable.
Shifts in Ownership and Performance
When people engage with IEP, they show up differently — taking more accountability, shifting perspectives, and leading with greater intention.
Shifts in Mental Health that Fuel Innovation
With increased self-awareness, resilience, and connection, employees communicate more effectively, collaborate more openly, and unlock new levels of creativity and performance.
Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP):
The Introductory Self-Study Course
Introduction to The IEP Method is an on-demand self-study course that can be completed in less than two hours — with additional bonus content to support employees with using the IEP Sheet and integrating the IEP Method into everyday life.
Why Leaders Choose the IEP Method
Personalized Development
Create a future-forward leadership culture that sets the stage for sustainable success, while transforming the energy of your workforce.
Accessible, Applicable,
Actionable
People can learn, apply, and shift their energy and, therefore, personal and professional results in real situations, in real-time.
The Force Multiplier and Missing Link
IEP is the missing link that makes other training investments and initiatives begin to produce even more useful results.
Immediate Positive Changes
An accessible and efficient framework that directly improves energy, presence, and skills on day one, for anyone, at any level.
Anese is a remarkable ‘force multiplier’ for business, and made a profound impact with our team using the IEP Method®. She has deep insight into herself and others, and brings that unique skill to bear in helping people unlock parts of themselves which may be holding themselves or the business back. I can say without a doubt that Anese was, and continues to be, a game changer for our business. She is one of the most credible, insightful, and transparent people I know, and her professional presence has truly elevated the art of the possible, enabling us to move into previously unimagined levels of high performance.
Before working with Active Choices, Inc. and learning the IEP Methodology, our global leadership team was experiencing dysfunction, including a lack of trust and poor communications. We really needed to be nimble, creative, and collaborative to innovate for the company — but this seemed impossible with the constant workforce turnover, exhaustion, and defensiveness that people were often feeling.
After our work with Anese and her team, one of the biggest impacts we’ve noticed is that we better understand each other’s intentions, have developed our ability to be empathetic and support each other, and are better able to manage our own energy and presence.
The IEP work has helped us maximize our investments in other training we’ve done in the organization. It’s proven to be the missing ingredient to the other training initiatives we’ve rolled out. Before IEP, we had people doing the training they received: they’d learn it, go back to work, ‘do it’ — but not fully embody or own it. After IEP we had people BEING the work, showing up better, and being more intentional about their impact and the way they practiced new leadership behavior and skills. There has been a new level of accountability for people owning their part in the environment we’re creating together. I was not sure how well the ideas like intentions, energy, and presence would do in our organization, however, this work has been the ‘intangible thing’ that’s making our people and our culture better. You can feel the difference!