Summary:
This week on The UpLevel Podcast, we’re celebrating the multifaceted roles of women who lead with heart, courage, and connection as we approach International Women’s Day. Join us for a transformative conversation with Carey Baker, CEO of the Co-Active Training Institute, and a visionary leader redefining leadership through right and responsible relationships. We’ll explore the art of balancing leadership, family, and self in a world that often pulls us in a million directions. This International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the brilliance of women who inspire us to lead with responsibility, wholeness, and love. Listen now!
In this Episode:
Redefining Leadership: Why traditional paradigms no longer serve us and how women are reimagining leadership for a more connected world.
Right Relationship: Discover the dynamic process of staying in alignment with yourself and your responsibilities as a leader, mother, and partner.
Love in the Workplace: How care, connection, and responsibility can transform leadership and create meaningful change.
The Co-Active Framework: A powerful tool for fostering balance and wholeness in your life, relationships, and leadership practices.
Navigating the Roles: Insights into the unique challenges and opportunities women face in balancing family, career, and community.
Order of Topics:
Understanding Right Relationship
The Crisis of Disconnection
Self-Awareness and Self-Leadership
Co-Active Coaching Framework
Balancing Roles as Leaders & Individuals
Action Items:
Embrace Self-Awareness:
Engage in constant self-examination and personal growth.
Embrace all parts of yourself, including shadow aspects, to nurture integrity.
Prioritize Connection:
Re-establish deep connections on personal, professional, and systemic levels.
Recognize the interconnected nature of life to foster understanding over division.
Practice Active Listening:
Focus on mutual understanding as a pathway to resolving larger issues.
Use active listening as a tool for transformation in relationships.
Cultivate Co-Leadership:
Root leadership in service and wisdom rather than power.
Encourage generosity and maintain relationships during times of change.
Integrate Love into Workplaces:
Challenge the notion that love is separate from professional environments.
Foster respect, responsibility, and truth-telling for creating a coaching culture.
Balance Speed with Relationship Nurturing:
Move at the speed of relationships while balancing quick business decisions with nurturing connections.
Engage in Purposeful Actions Daily:
Cultivate joyful relationships with oneself through action and reflection.
See purpose beyond occupational roles; it exists in every interaction.
Facilitate Transformational Journeys Through Coaching Frameworks: Build relational frameworks that support ongoing personal growth against societal disconnects.
Handle Transitions Transparently: Approach staff transitions or organizational changes with ceremony and transparency to support those affected by change intentionally.
Explore Right Relationship Continuously: Invite ongoing inquiry into what right relationship means personally and collectively for continuous evolution.
About Carey:
CEO, Certified Co-Active Coach, and Organizational Alchemist
As CEO of The Co-Active Training Institute and a lifelong systems innovator, Carey stands at the intersection of transformative experiences and business leadership. With over 15 years in executive roles spanning sales, marketing, and organizational development, she is dedicated to reimagining how we engage with ourselves, each other, and the living systems we’re part of to quite literally change the world. From corporate leader to life and leadership coach to systems design, Carey brings diverse worlds and cultures together to create profound and measurable impact. She has accelerated change across organizations and communities through a unique blend of vision, strategy, and human connection, helping individuals and teams unlock their full potential. Carey is focused on leading growth at The Co-Active Training Institute by shaping a culture that integrates business excellence with human wholeness. She and her leadership team are committed to designing innovative coach training and leadership development programs centered on relationship and responsibility while also writing and speaking about the evolution of conscious leadership. In her role, she is also forging partnerships to accelerate systemic transformation and facilitating high-impact organizational change initiatives that inspire creativity and growth. Carey envisions a profound reimagining of human potential in a world increasingly fracturing under the weight of disconnection. She believes the leadership paradigms that brought us here cannot guide us toward the future and are overdue for change. She leads a global movement toward wholeness, responsibility, and love through Co-Active Training Institute, transforming how humans communicate, lead, and create change.
Carey has a vision for the world where relationships catalyze systemic transformation,
redefining success to include the flourishing of all life. She creates spaces for leader
to shed outdated paradigms and embrace their full creativity. This is the sacred dream she is weaving, one in which the power of love transcends the love of power.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/careybbaker/
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