The Inner Work of Effective Leadership

Service Description

Much of what determines whether a workplace thrives or struggles happens beneath visible problems, in the unspoken patterns, tensions, and assumptions shaping how people work together. A 12-Week Zoom Course with Anne Altvater and Patricia Pfost Running a business or leading a team can be meaningful—but also demanding. If you are dealing with repeated tensions, unclear communication, employee-manager friction, or the feeling that too much depends on you, this course offers a practical and uncommon approach. Using the framework from their recent book, Evolutionary Groups: A New Frontier in Human Connection, long-time trainers and group facilitators Anne Altvater and Patricia Pfost help business owners, managers, and team leaders recognize what is really happening beneath workplace problems. Participants learn how to identify hidden assumptions, outdated patterns, and reactive responses that interfere with clarity, responsibility, creativity, productivity, and trust. Using Campbell’s Lane Farm in Preston, MD as a real-world business example, the course explores how these principles can be applied in daily leadership, staffing, communication, and decision-making. Participants are also invited to bring their own challenging work situations to be examined through this transformational lens. What participants will gain: • Increased emotional intelligence and self-regulation under pressure • Greater ease in complex human interactions • Practical ways to work with tension, trust, and shared responsibility • A framework for identifying where a group is and what can shift it in the moment • More room for people’s real talents to come forward 12 Wednesdays on Zoom 11:00 AM–12:30 PM ET Beginning April 8, 2026