Does this sound like you?
You're contemplating your leadership, life, or legacy...
You're successful in one area yet craving more in another...
You're not lonely, but feeling alone or uninspired...
Don't fight the existing reality at work.
Reveal the outdated model making the existing one obsolete.
So compellingly disruptive, you can't un-see it!
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Living Systems Leadership is based on this premise:
"We can't make the outer transformations we seek without making inner transformations
in our thinking, doing, and being."
We steward development in several arenas...
Which sounds like you?
Meet Janet Macaluso, Ed.M., MSOD, CPC
I help Leaders, Teams and Change Makers build new practices and routines. My anti-hero methodology creates a space to ...
... break automatic, outdated habits
... design new patterns and new worlds
... eliminate energy-draining waste
... design transformational change
... diagnose challenges, conflicts, mysteries, messes
... deliver exceptional systemic results
As a previous executive of leadership, learning, and organization design functions, I've equipped thousands of global leaders to grow their leadership, businesses, and causes.
Yet I've reinvented my traditional follow-the-guru, textbook approach and replaced it with a unique technology that combines modern science and ancient wisdom.
It's a conscious-building methodology because there's no playbook or textbook to navigate constant change and flux.
I'm keenly interested in replacing the ghost of mediocrity with a thriving future for all living, social and planetary systems.
Janet's experience includes:
▫️ Masters in Education, Harvard
▫️ Master of Science, Pepperdine
▫️ Advanced Certificate in Organization Design, USC
▫️ BRAINZ Top 500 in 2021 and 2022
▫️ Certified Professional Coach, IPEC
▫️ Certified High-Performance Coach
▫️ Certified Tiny Habits Coach
▫️ Certified Immunity2CHANGE Facilitator
▫️ Certified Professional Retirement Coach
▫️ Certified Search Inside Yourself Facilitator
▫️ Certified HeartMath Coach and Facilitator
I've invested decades learning what works
- and what doesn't - so you won't have to.
I share what I'm learning,
un-learning, and occasional invitations, free webinars, and early-bird notices.
Uplevel your
communications - even
undiscussables
you'd rather avoid
Uplevel your communications
- even those undiscussables
you'd rather avoid
We're almost through January.
Does your calendar reflect your 2023 aspirations?
Or, are you living your one-precious-life based on automated calendar software, outdated assumptions, or others' agendas?
REGENERATE YOUR CALENDAR TO REFLECT WHO YOU'RE BECOMING...
Free your energy to focus on what's important now - to you and your stakeholders with this audit:
Do meetings have specific goals that align with your purpose and strategic direction? Will the meeting build your stakeholders' capability to achieve their aspirations? (either directly or indirectly).
In a world of complexity and change, we need more exploratory dialogues. Are meeting conversations a free-for-all? Do you use an underlying structure or Thinking Frameworks to manage ambiguity? Or does the loudest voice prevail?
Do you talk for 30 or 60 minutes because that's what the computer automatically scheduled? Do you need more/less time? Or are you living your life based on an automated calendar tool?
Consider holding a "stand up" meeting. Notice if the conversation is more focused on what's core when you're on your feet vs. bums. Could you schedule a walk and talk?
Ask yourself if you'd lose any personal goodwill, connection, or nuance if you wrote an email or picked up the phone vs. calling a meeting.
Identify the calendar items that someone else invited you to. Do you know the Desired Outcomes and the relevance of your being there? Don't outsource control of your time - understand others' rationale for inviting you.
What percentage of your week/month is unscheduled? Have you blocked important "Thinking Time" to process, plan and strategize?
Look at your regularly-scheduled meetings. Do you need to be there? Could you send someone else on your behalf (so they grow from the experience)?
As you scan your calendar, sense your gut and upper torso (where emotions hang out). Identify the calendar items you look forward to. How can you schedule more of that work?
If you had to remove one calendar item, which would it be? Your answer can inform you if you need to take action.
Now, a challenge. Consider sharing this with your team - ask them to add to or edit the list.
Then test this for one month: Take 30 seconds every morning to review the list and commit to doing the one thing that:
you've avoided
scares you
will build your next-stage potential
This calendar audit is just a snippet of the practical work inside the Third Line Mastermind. (Yet we go much deeper on underlying patterns, hidden paradigms, building new capabilities...) Learn more here.
Articles
Here are the articles I wrote for BRAINZ.
01
Time For A Pronoun Paradigm Shift?
During a recent large online meeting, I felt different. Like I didn’t get the memo saying: “Post pronouns beside your name.” If all those talented Harvard alumni women posted their pronouns, I should too, right? Me2.
02
Top Ways Leaders Manage Conflict And Reduce the Stress Response
Nested within a wide circle of family, colleagues, and community systems, we humans find health, happiness, and meaningful purpose. And sometimes, friction.
03
It's All In Your Head – Cultivating Conscious Conversations
When you inaccurately imagine something, “It’s all in your head.” It’s also what the car mechanic thinks when you complain about that clicking sound that mysteriously disappears during the inspection.
04
What’s Worse? Scary Movie 3 Or “We Have To Talk”?
Does “We Have to Talk” trigger an inner primal scream? Perhaps you’ve heard these ominous 4-words from...
The Boss: “I have some feedback”
A Partner: “It’s me, not you”
Garage Mechanic: “It’s the transmission”
Child's teacher: “About their behavior”
05
Do You Have A Clearing Disorder?
Have you ever complained about busy work distracting you from strategic, high-impact projects and planning? You’re not alone!
06
Silence Your Perfectionista
Did you get all that? If English is your native language, most likely you understood it, errors and all. Spelling mistakes did not materially impact the outcome.