Conscious Business Women’s Circle
For executive women and business owners looking for bold growth, peer support, and idea-incubating.
Beginning mid-October 2024 for 6 months
What: A supportive group of thinking partners who are doing big things in the world.
Aim: Grow professionally and personally as you apply conscious business practices in your daily life. Experience the powerful effects of belonging to a trusted tribe willing to be vulnerable, challenged, and co-invested in each others’ progress. Express your braintrust of experience, seasoned intelligence, and inspiration for the good of others.
Included in program:
* Monthly Peer Advisory Circles
* Plus, powerful Business Cafes on relevant topics by subject matter experts
* And, opportunities to incubate your IP/business idea/case study TEDx-style to a live audience for feedback.
Hosts: Expertly facilitated by Sue Brightman and Jessica Hartung – seasoned Conscious Business coaches, researchers and authors on high-achieving women and leadership, and themselves lifelong learners.
When:
* Monthly Peer Advisory: Thursday eve or Friday afternoon. 90 minutes.
* Optional Business Cafes: Dates TBA monthly. 45 minutes.
* TEDx-style presentations: By application on date determined by you!
We would love to receive your application!
We all need places where we’re seen and heard. This is especially true for women who are in the business arena. Not only do we have the crush of a changing workforce and shifting economic conditions, but we often live with the immense challenge of balancing our families with work while operating within leftover standards of the patriarchal culture. In short, we need smart, non-competitive colleagues who are co-invested in our progress and exude the trustworthiness of friends.
Research shows that supportive relationships are a #1 priority for women. But not just any relationships. Relationships that are exothermic — enlarging and elevating us while providing loving challenge and support.
In Japan these are called “moais.” They’re a leading contributor to long and happy lives in what author Daniel Buettner discovered in his research in Blue Zones.
We are dedicated to the importance of these relationships for women. With our decades in business, facilitation of executive women’s groups for Chief – the largest executive women’s network in the country – and our own client work with individual leaders and groups, we’re thrilled to host these Conscious Business Women’s Circles. We know they will give you confidence, courage, and a path forward in your professional and personal development.
Your expert facilitators
Sue Brightman
Executive Coach and Conscious Business Consultant
Author & Researcher on Women over 50
Sue Brightman is author of the #1 best-selling book A Call to Further Becoming: The New Declaration from Women Over 50. Its groundbreaking themes emerged from interviewing 100 women with a wide range of backgrounds from around the world. After 30 years as a Conscious Business consultant and leadership coach, she pivoted her work in 2016 to focus exclusively on women on their leadership journeys. In addition to working with some of the largest companies in the world as a leadership coach and organizational change advisor, Sue has served as an Executive Facilitator for C-suite leaders at Chief – the largest professional women’s organization in the US. She has designed over 50 facilitated learning workshops including Further Becoming for Women: Exploring Paths and Possibilities for Your Promising Next Stage of Life based on the themes in her book. Sue’s workshop for women has been a sellout at University of Denver’s Lifelong Learning Program and a favorite of Brene Brown certified trainers, women business owners, coaches, and therapists. Sue brings three streams of expertise to her professional endeavors: Conscious Business practices after years of mentoring by Fred Kofman (world-renowned author of Conscious Business), a unique understanding of the role of women in today’s shifting environment, and experience as an interfaith chaplain whose volunteer efforts have brought exposure to and deepened compassion for a wide range of human conditions, including mental illness. Her former roles include Global OD consultant at Shell Oil, Director of Management Development at Pulitzer Newspapers, Senior Consultant at Covey Leadership Center Houston, and founder of Brightman Glover International in 2000 delivering programs across industries in the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Brazil, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia. A certified spiritual intelligence (SQ21) coach through Deep Change and master trainer of Conscious Business, Sue builds on her BA in Corrections and Masters work in Human Resource Administration. Based in Boulder, Colorado, Sue has two loved adult children and a new life partner.
Jessica Hartung
Founder, Author, Mentor
Facilitator of Peer Learning Groups
Jessica Hartung is the founder of Integrated Work, an innovative leadership consulting firm. After serving as CEO for 22 years, she authored The Conscious Professional: Transform Your Life at Work, a how-to guide for turning your work into a learning laboratory for the skills you want to build for your future. She is a member of the Forbes Coaching Council, the International Association of Women and Entrepreneurs. Jessica focuses her work on supporting mission-driven organizations, executives, and individual change-makers. Her goal is to equip leaders with the tools they need to accelerate their positive impact by growing from real world work. Jessica’s 25 years of professional experiences with a variety of organizations – government, non-profit, Fortune 500, small businesses, and entrepreneurial ventures – have provided strength and flexibility to her skills as a coach and facilitator. She is known for her straightforward and compelling style that moves individuals and teams to develop the skills necessary to meet and exceed their goals. She is frequently called upon as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and group mentor. Jessica has been involved in supporting community organizations through pro-bono services and volunteer work. She has published numerous articles on business learning and leadership in places such as Conscious Company magazine, Training Industry, and Leader to Leader Journal. Holding a Master’s degree in management from Regis University and a Bachelor’s in Sociology from University of Michigan, she is certified in numerous assessment methodologies including the ECHO Listening profile.
Praise for Sue and Jessica
“Sue is an exceptional coach and consultant. She has been teaching Conscious Business all over the world and every one of her clients has been absolutely delighted. I am very proud to have her as my colleague in this effort to bring wisdom and compassion to the business world.”
~ Fred Kofman, author Conscious Business: Building Value Through Values; former VP Google, VP LinkedIn
“Fellow travelers on the journey of serving a big mission can learn to use everyday events to immediately and deeply practice the skill sets and mindsets to become better leaders. Hartung’s book The Conscious Professional provides a practical path to building one’s leadership capabilities.”
~ Frances Hesselbein, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA; Presidential Medal Recipient
“Sue, you are an ally and clear and powerful presence in our course and in our work. Your capacity to be clear and centered, open and allowing, wise and effective, productive and inclusive are all qualities that serve everyone and serve the world.”
~ Lynne Twist, Global visionary, Founder The Hunger Project and Pachamama Alliance, author The Soul of Money, United Nations Woman of Distinction
“I have worked with literally hundreds of facilitators over the years, and I have never seen anyone handle a group as well as Jessica did.”
~ Leslye Orloff, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women
“I loved the incubation that happened in the middle of this circle of women. Sue and the group led me to the glorious mix of a successful business idea that built on several of my visions. And connecting regularly was a huge huge gift. It has changed my life.”
~ Mary Ewen, CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder
“Jessica I loved the peer advising. The boundaries discussion I didn’t think I had anything really to learn. I ultimately found a blind spot that made me take action that night to decline a meeting the next day that set me up for success for a more important initiative. I mean, Wow!…
~ CHIEF 2023 Core Group member
Because many of us have not been witnessed and championed as much as men in our culture, it’s powerful to experience spaces that welcome our emerging feminine insights, deep reflection, and birthing new ideas into form. Ideas that we articulate to wise experienced ears have a far better chance of taking form in new behaviors and plans when incubated within the context of a supportive sisterhood.
~ from chapter “Create A Moai”
One of our two happy 2024 Women’s Groups already in progress. These CEOs, authors, international speakers and university professors have mined the topics of career transitions, marketing savvy, international business, delivering keynotes with power and presence, and much more. If you’d like a first-hand recommendation about our groups from them, let us know!
Our optional Business Cafes deliver a 45-minute espresso shot of business savvy!
Get an edgy education on each topic and apply it immediately. Optional to join, the first three topics are:
- Navigating Your Career: A Women’s Guide to Navigating the S-Curve of Development
- Intelligent Communication: Conscious Listening and Speaking
- Women’s Intuition as a Leadership Tool
Group members will help determine priority topics for the remaining three Cafes, with SMEs already in queue for Communicating with Power and Presence; Vertical and Horizontal Development; Conscious Business Key Practices; and So You Want to Host a Retreat?