The Work Before The Work — Grow Yourself First

(Focus: Expanding individual leadership capacity. Can be interactive)

You can’t create in the world what you haven’t created in yourself. And in a world of relentless change, challenge and uncertainty, it’s more important than ever to proactively develop those inner capacities that allow you to respond, adapt, evolve, and create. When you develop your agency, your emotional dexterity, your intellectual flexibility, and your creativity, you make yourself durable, rugged, buoyant, and capable enough to handle anything. Organizations that deliberately develop those capacities in every individual shore up their own resilience. In other words, “adult development” doesn’t just promote individual growth, it’s a cornerstone of organizational flourishing. This is an inspiring and powerfully practical session where Polly LaBarre offers up a short course in the work before the work: how to stoke the grown-up capacities that sustain creativity, resilience, and growth.

Key Takeaways:

• Accelerate your growth and strengthen your respond-ability with self-experiments.
• Learn to change your mind— cognitive capacities and practices to uplevel your creativity, collegiality, and adaptability.
• Think for yourself— how to tune into and trust your inner knowing.
• Learn, as fast as the world is changing, where to find the future, and how to generate a whole new map of possibility.
• Train like an artist, a monk, and an athlete