Presence isn't something you perform. It's something you transmit. In this episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr invites Soul Speaks creator Paula Friedland into a conversation that goes beyond performance and into pure presence. Together, they explore how true voice emerges when we stop trying to say the right thing and start being the real thing.

Together, they explore what happens when leaders stop searching for the right words and start trusting the frequency of presence—the felt resonance that shifts rooms, relationships, and results.

Renelle and Paula reveal:

• Why finding your voice matters more than finding your words

• How presence lives in the body, not just the mind

• Why intuition activates when leaders slow down and truly arrive

• How vulnerability becomes strength when it's rooted in essence

• What "executive presence" looks like when it's embodied, not performed

This episode invites you to slow down, listen deeper, and discover the voice beneath the words — the one that can change how you lead, speak, and connect.

OUR GUEST
Paula Friedland — Licensed counselor, certified life coach, speaker, and creator of Soul Speaks. With over two decades of experience working with individuals, groups, and leaders, Paula helps people shed the fear of being seen and heard so they can speak and lead from their authentic essence. Her work bridges embodiment, relational presence, and voice as a whole-body expression.

WORK WITH RENELLE & INSIGHT
With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges intellect and heart to help leaders, teams, and organizations evolve for the new era of work.
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CHAPTERS

00:00 From frameworks to frequency

03:10 Presence over performance

06:40 Finding your voice beneath the words

10:25 Presence in the body

14:45 Speaking without a script

18:30 Vulnerability, power, and being seen

23:40 Executive presence, reimagined

28:15 Intuition and collective intelligence

33:20 Presence as a leadership lever

36:20 Why this work matters now

In this solo episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr builds on Episodes 13 and 14 to reveal where transformation actually occurs, through the Four Quadrants of Change.

Building on Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, Renelle translates this timeless model into a powerful, practical framework for conscious leadership and systemic evolution. She explores how transformation takes root across four essential dimensions—the inner and outer, the individual and the collective, and how leaders can use this lens to catalyze real change in themselves and the systems they lead.

You'll also be guided through a reflective plus/minus exercise to illuminate where you invest or neglect energy in your own growth and within your organization.

"Transformation doesn't happen in one quadrant, it happens in the integration of all four."

WORK WITH RENELLE & INSIGHT

With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges intellect and heart to help leaders, teams, and organizations evolve for the new era of work.

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Connect with Renelle on LinkedIn
Watch the video series on YouTube

CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome Back to Conscious InSights

00:35 Building from Episodes 13 & 14

02:15 Introducing the Four Quadrants of Change

04:20 Inner–Individual: Mindset, Beliefs, and Awareness

06:50 Outer–Individual: Behaviors, Skills, and Actions

08:40 Inner–Collective: Culture, Values, and Relationship Experience

10:30 Outer–Collective: Structures, Systems, and Strategy

11:45 Why Change Efforts Fail When Only One Quadrant Is Addressed

12:50 The Plus/Minus Exercise: Seeing Where You Invest or Neglect

14:40 Linking the Quadrants to the InSight Elevation Ladder

15:45 Integrating All Four: Where Transformation Truly Happens

16:50 Closing Reflections and Next Episode Preview

E14 | The InSight Elevation Ladder: Building Capacity for Conscious Leadership

Part of this season's exploration into next-generation leadership, this solo episode continues the journey from inner transformation to systemic impact through the InSight Elevation Ladder. Renelle unpacks how Core Wellness, Emotional Intelligence, Conscious Leadership, and Transformed Cultures build the capacity leaders need to navigate complexity and raise the frequency of the systems they lead.

Work with Renelle & InSight:
With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Conscious Leadership

01:29 Navigating Complexity in Leadership

02:55 The Insight Elevation Ladder

10:02 Core Wellness: The Foundation of Leadership

12:50 Emotional Intelligence: Key to Self and Relationship Management

15:22 Conscious Leadership: From Reactive to Creative

18:44 Transforming Cultures: The Collective Shift

This episode maps what next-generation leadership looks like—from inner transformation to systemic impact—through the origins and future of The Leadership Circle (TLC).

What we cover

• The roots & future of TLC: Bob Anderson's 20-year integration that led to the Leadership Circle Profile (2001), and why the work is moving toward Unity-informed Integral leadership.
  
  

• How leaders shift organizations: Using the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) to see reactivity, choose Creative presence, raise the quality of senior-team conversation, and turn insight into activation.
  
  

• Inner development → system change: Presence as the lever, shadow ownership, whole-system sight, dialogos, and intuition—so the pregnant unknown becomes the next right move.
  
  

• Why this matters now: Systems are dismantling and re-forming; leaders bring the weather and you are your primary asset—presence becomes strategy.
  
  

Our Guest
Bob Anderson — Founder, The Leadership Circle; co-author of Mastering Leadership and Scaling Leadership.

Work with Renelle & InSight:
With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

Chapters
00:00 Why now
02:25 Origins of TLC & LCP (2001)
07:50 Presence built the movement
12:20 Deploying self in complexity
15:47 Reactive → Creative map
27:00 2008 client insight & results
29:57 Authoring the future
36:53 Unity-informed Integral
40:36 Owning shadow

What if the future of leadership isn't about climbing—but about connection?

In this season finale, Renelle sits down with Bea Sonnendecker, founder of SuiteC, and Chelle Johnson, executive coach and talent strategist, to explore the shifting inner and outer landscapes of the C-Suite. Both have lived the corporate grind, led executive searches, and now stand at the edge of something new—offering spaces where leaders can be real, resourced, and in relationship.

Episode Takeaways:
Together, they unpack what today's executives actually need:

➤ Why traditional executive search and networking models no longer serve the evolving needs of today's leaders

➤ How trauma, grief, and burnout shape leadership journeys—and why acknowledging them creates more resilient leaders

➤ Why the next evolution of leadership depends on connection to self and others

➤ What makes someone truly "trustworthy" at the top

This episode marks the close of Season 1—a season about exploring the shift. In Season 2, we transition to teaching it.

Resources & Connect:
➤ Learn more about Bea and her work: SuiteC

➤ Learn more about Chelle and her work: Best You Talent Advisors

Engage with InSight:
➤ With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

🎧 Tune in to explore what today's leaders are really looking for—and why trust, connection, and community are the new cornerstones of the C-Suite.

In this episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr sits down with Scott Tibbitts and Scott Christiansen, co-founders of Starsys Research—an extraordinary company that built spacecraft hardware used on missions to Mars and beyond. From an invention crafted with $7 in hardware store parts to a global space company with 99% employee retention and a 100% mission success rate, their journey reveals what's possible when purpose and culture come first.

Together, they unpack how values like fun, family, and personal responsibility shaped their company's DNA, what it takes to lead without hierarchy, and why culture might just be the most powerful innovation of all.

Episode Takeaways:
➤ How a paraffin-filled copper tube sparked a Mars-bound company
➤ Why they rejected hierarchy and embraced mentorship models
➤ The radical way Starsys co-created values—with full company consensus
➤ How culture sustained them through financial crisis and near collapse
➤ Practices like "Efforts & Blunders" that built psychological safety and trust
➤ Why fun, family, and trust were just as critical as engineering precision
➤ What today's leaders can learn from this story of purpose-led innovation

Resources & Connect:
➤ Book: From the Garage to Mars by Scott Tibbitts – Memoir of a Space Entrepreneur
➤ Learn more about Renelle and InSight's work: www.insight-cc.com

Engage with InSight:
At InSight, we believe purpose fuels performance. Through transformational coaching, immersive retreats, and system-wide culture change, we help leaders build organizations as powerful on the inside as they are on paper.

🎧 Tune in to discover what building for Mars can teach us about building for what matters most—on Earth.

In this episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr delves into the Enneagram with experts Claire Williams and Pastor Stephanie Williams O'Brien to explore how this ancient tool can revolutionize modern leadership. Discover how the Enneagram's deep insights into personality and behavior patterns can transform leadership effectiveness across generations.

Episode Takeaways:
➤ Understand the Enneagram's foundational role in personal and leadership transformation.
➤ Learn how leaders can use the Enneagram to identify and transcend personal limitations, enhancing their influence and effectiveness.
➤ Discover practical applications of the Enneagram in both personal development and team dynamics.

Resources & Connect:
➤ Claire Williams -> An executive coach who specializes in making transformational concepts actionable for leaders and teams. https://www.clairewilliamsindepth.com/
➤ Pastor Stephanie Williams O'Brien -> A lead pastor and professor who integrates the Enneagram in her leadership and pastoral teachings. @pastorsteph
➤ Books -> The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up by Beatrice Chestnut and The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
➤ Assessments -> IEQ9, CPS Enneagram Compass, RHETI Enneagram

Engage with InSight:
➤ With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

🎧 Tune in for Enneagram insights that redefine modern leadership and personal growth.

The world is shifting fast, and traditional leadership strategies aren't built for this level of complexity. In Part 1, we explored how change follows cycles and how leaders can find stability in uncertainty. In Part 2 of The Future of Flourishing, Renelle and futurist Cecily Sommers explore why leaders must evolve alongside their strategies to successfully navigate uncertainty.

The conversation connects inner leadership growth with external strategic adaptation, highlighting why leadership today requires change fluency—the ability to track patterns, anticipate shifts, and lead with confidence. Cecily introduces the four forces shaping all societal change—Resources, Technology, Demographics, and Governance—and explains how leaders can use these forces to craft adaptive strategies that align with the realities of a changing world.

• Leaders cannot separate their own evolution from their organization's strategy—they must grow together.

• Change fluency is essential—leaders must continuously track external shifts while developing internal adaptability.

• The most effective strategies today are adaptive, iterative, and rooted in a leader's ability to sense and respond.

• Organizations that do not integrate change literacy into their strategy will find themselves constantly disrupted by external forces.

• Cecily Sommers-> https://www.cecilysommers.com/

• Engage with InSight-> With decades of experience in both large scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams and organizations for the new era of work. https://insight-cc.com/

• Missed Part 1? The Future of Flourishing: Finding Order in a Disordered World

🔊 Listen now to learn how personal and strategic evolution must go hand in hand.