Ciara Ungar

As Future Focused leaders, we’re always thinking about a Strategic Direction that directly ties to how we create and build Culture. Building a culture that creates a sustainable workforce and business growth, however, starts and ends with cultivating purpose. Although a trending discussion among leadership circles in today’s landscape, cultivating purpose is vastly misunderstood in both its potential lasting impact and deep rooted activities. Cultivating purpose within your organization and among your leaders is a critical foundation to create for any business looking to grow. This presentation discusses the core components of cultivating purpose to contribute to your bottom line, across three layers: Behavior, Culture, and Accountability. We will explore the different attributes and impact of traditional leadership compared with purpose-based leadership and how we can employ effective approaches to cultivating culture.

How we interact in the day-to-day is a reflection of internal biases, motivators, beliefs, and values that create our behavior. As leaders, we often quiet these internal elements and interact with our teams through best practices and tools we’re given. While we can activate various tools and methods, this approach alone is not sustainable. To be effective empathy-based leaders, we must deconstruct the different dimensions of what makes us a leader and reprogram from the inside out. This presentation is an introduction to a three-part training of the same name and will explore each layer of a leader: Attributes, Behaviors and Skills. Based on the book, Leadership Lessons from a Team Captain, we explore the belief that effective leadership is more than learning how to successfully resolve conflict, delegate, organize or communicate. It’s about understanding our biases, motivations, and cultural differences that impact team dynamics.