Mobius Executive Leadership provides coaching, training, and leadership development services to senior executives. Their offerings include workshops focused on personal mastery and insight, as well as programs on leadership, negotiation skills, and integrating wisdom traditions into business practices. Their flagship program, Beyond Yes, explores how ancient wisdom and spiritual practices can improve leadership, negotiation, and performance.
1. MOBIUS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
LEADING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Mobius Executive Leadership is a premier coaching,
training and leadership development company. We bring
best in class offerings in executive development to
senior level audiences. Our multi-disciplinary network
of practitioners has expertise in organizational learning,
business, communication and the expressive arts.
2. Our focus on personal mastery derives
About Mobius Executive Leadership from our belief that true transformation
As a leading professional services firm comes when individuals across a
with global reach, we draw on a deep
academic and intellectual heritage system or an organization experience
and hands-on teaching approach to transformation first-hand at a deep
deliver customized capability building
and leadership development services. personal level. Our leadership programs
Accountable for cultivating results in
combine best practices in negotiation,
client organizations, Mobius professionals
work with top teams, middle managers communication, organizational learning
and front line supervisors to ensure that
and adaptive leadership with “next
performance transformation efforts are
embedded and sustainable. practices” in dreamwork, somatics, voice
dialogue, mindfulness and mediation,
and expressive arts such as theatre, pantomime, movement, psychodrama, poetry and other
experiential modalities for embedded adult learning. In our experience, teams that engage
in this kind of longer term learning journey are more likely to solidify the behavioral changes
required for high performance as well as passionately commit to a shared aspiration and vision
of the future. This brochure overviews our transformational offerings.
3. Personal Insight
Workshops
The Personal Insight Workshop is framed around a key distinction—significant change
must be seen not as simply a new way of doing things, but as a radical shift in root
perspective. A transformation is as much about alignment and accountability as it is
about strategy.
Personal Insight Workshops (PIW’s) are powerful interventions aimed at initiating
and accelerating significant mindset and behavior change within a team, group or
organization. These tailored workshops have been successfully rolled out across several
Fortune 500 corporations in the context of larger scale performance transformations.
The PIW is a high impact, two day intervention for up to thirty people delivered by
experienced transformational facilitators. Starting with the organizational context and
direction for change, the workshop moves into the personal domain. Thousands of
executives, managers and front-line workers have experienced the PIW over the past
few years, with remarkable organizational
and performance changing results. Most
change efforts focus on external drivers Summary of
of change: systems, policies, incentives, Mobius Offerings
training. However, humans react to • Personal Insight Workshop
external motivations with resistance and
• Beyond Yes: Leadership Mastery
defensiveness. The PIW encourages a more
and High Performance Workshop
expansive and adaptive outlook, one that
internalizes the locus of accountability for • Beyond Yes Keynote Speech
transformation within individuals. The PIW, • Beyond Yes Field and Forum
a two day foundational training, creates Learning Journeys
an enthusiastic critical mass of change • Personal Mastery Intensive
champions within an organization.
• Women’s Leadership Program
• Facilitator Development Program
4. Beyond Yes™
Leadership Mastery and High Performance
Our flagship personal mastery offering, Beyond Yes™ Leadership Mastery and High
Performance, presents the core content of a forthcoming book, Beyond Yes: Negotiation
Mastery from the Inside and Out, written by Mobius President Erica Ariel Fox. Erica is
a lecturer at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Global Negotiation Insight
Institute. This unique and in demand experiential training explores the meeting places
of timeless wisdom and spiritual practice on the one hand and the challenges of
modern business and leadership on the other.
Erica is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the integration of wisdom traditions
and spiritual practice into the negotiation and conflict resolution field. Erica is also
a business consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies as well as public sector
leaders to build consensus, facilitate change and transform crisis into opportunities for
growth. Beyond Yes™ Leadership Mastery and High Performance is based on a dozen
years of experience teaching negotiation at Harvard Law School and over a decade
training professionals around the world and providing strategic counseling and conflict
mediation to top teams.
Many people find themselves in positions of leadership based on outstanding technical
performance or subject matter expertise. Of course, early in one’s career success
depended on such technical competence and knowledge. At that stage high performance
is measured by the ability to deliver quality results in an efficient manner. Moving
ahead depends on execution skills such as concrete problem solving. At a certain point,
however, such competence is no longer enough. As one moves into management, and
ultimately positions of leadership, one needs to address different kinds of kinds of
problems—involving people, teams and the organization as a whole. From developing
people and leading teams to shaping an organizational culture, inspiring the workforce,
and managing complex change, leadership requires more advanced skills. At this
stage, one needs the internal strengths and external skills to lead in the most essential
dimension of any organization—the domain of human capital.
In this program one will learn the framework and tools one will need to lead people and
organizations. Unlike other models that focus on behaviors this course operates from the
inside out, building internal strengths and qualities one needs to serve as an effective
leader. Unlike other personal growth experiences, this course focuses on the business
applications of leadership skills, using “real time” coaching to ensure relevance and
embedding of the skills.
Blending century old wisdom with emerging leadership practices, this workshop offers
a unique and deep immersion into personal development leading to professional
mastery. Through mindfulness and heightened self-awareness, communication skills,
decision making, execution and problem solving are radically improved. Using a proven
methodology, “Archetypes and Autobiography,” this program will draw on life experiences
and current work challenges to foster insights and breakthroughs that lead to high
performance. At the end of this course one will return to work empowered, with new
executive skills and a greater capacity for impact and leadership.
5. A Brief History of Beyond Yes™
Leadership Mastery and High Performance
As a student at Harvard Law School in the early nineties, Erica was very involved in
the negotiation and mediation programs. These groups had launched the best-selling
Getting to Yes and the win-win approach that later spread around the world. After
practicing law for a year, Erica returned to Harvard Law School in 1996 as a Lecturer to
teach negotiation, which she continues to do today. Over the past dozen years Erica has
emerged as a global leader in the negotiation field.
After the events of September 11, 2001, Erica felt a strong pull to investigate
new, untapped perspectives on conflict and to respond to a need expressed by
many professionals for deeper meaning in their lives. In 2003, Erica drew on her
diverse experience to found the Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative (HNII) to
explore what ancient wisdom traditions and contemplative practices could offer
the contemporary negotiation and conflict field. HNII served as a living laboratory,
bringing professionals together from dozens of countries to explore the interface of
the world of action and the world of reflection. A broad range of professionals, from
lawyers and business leaders to engineers and educators, experienced a meeting
place between the demands of the outside world
and the depth of the inner life. After running that
program for several years at the Harvard Program
on Negotiation, Erica expanded the project to
form an independent non-profit called the Global
Negotiation Insight Institute (GNII, pronounced
genie) that seeks to build a wise, mature, and less
violent global community.
In her body of work, Erica focuses on helping
professionals to cultivate internal qualities such
as awareness, presence and balance, as well as
to master skills for interacting effectively with
others. This combination enables them to make
conscious and constructive choices in their lives
both at work and at home. Erica is recognized
internationally for her pioneering work that explores
the personal, spiritual and deeply human aspects
of negotiation, execution and leadership. Beyond
Yes™ unpacks the role that ancient insight and
contemplative practices play in the contemporary
life of successful professionals.
On the next page you can learn more about how to bring
Beyond Yes to your organization.
6. Beyond Yes™ Programs
Keynote Presentations The Beyond Yes™ Leadership Mastery and High Performance
content can be offered as a keynote presentation on the intersection of timeless wisdom,
ethics, philosophy and spirituality with leadership in the modern world of business and
international affairs.
Workshop: Introduction to Leadership Mastery and High Performance This
introductory exposure to the Beyond Yes™ methodology can be offered in half day,
one day or two day time frames. The introductory course offerings allow participants
to begin to understand a holistic model of leadership that draws on the power of
thinking, emotions, action and creativity. This four part framework for understanding
leadership allows them to strengthens the inner qualities that lead to improved outer
performance. The course further cultivates the ability to return to a place of “center” in
the midst of stress and difficulty.
Field and Forum Learning Journey The widest delivery of the Beyond Yes™
method takes groups of participants through two four day long forums with one
on one phone coaching during the interim between the in-person sessions. In this
program participants develop a nuanced
understanding of their own leadership
Interactive Theatre Team patterns and patterns of reactivity and
learn to develop moment to moment and
Mobius Executive Leadership enjoys an alliance constitutional self-awareness. Built for
high potential leaders or organizational
partnership with the London based leadership
executives, this deep leadership
company Just Add Water. Jeremy Sturt and experience offers techniques for fostering
change and managing organizational
Claire Sampson and their colleagues are
crisis, with participants enacting
experienced theatre and event producers with real-life leadership challenges and
discovering new possibilities for how to
a world wide reputation for creating once in a
engage these business dilemmas. One-
lifetime, extraordinary learning experiences. on-one coaching, with an action learning
methodology, is provided by Mobius
transformational coaches.
“The insights and theoretical approach in Beyond Yes have readily applicable opportunities to
transform the workplace from a situation fraught with tension to a place of productivity and
shared purpose.” – Mary Rotchford, HR Professional, Washington, DC
“This is the most profound learning experience I have undertaken in more than thirty years of
continuing legal education. For anyone interested in taking their technical competence to a
higher level than ever they imagined possible, I highly recommend Beyond Yes.”
– Ron Supancic, Lawyer, L.A., California
8. Transformational Leadership Intensives
The following programs are customized transformational leadership programs designed for
both the beginning seeker and the seasoned explorer of realms of consciousness. They touch
on mystical wisdom traditions and archetypal symbology and ritual to enable participants to
explore their unconscious and dream realms and unlock creativity, intimacy and expanding
awareness. These programs help unblock stuck patterns of holding and relationship and enable
us to foster joy, compassion and acceptance. Organizations wishing to take a group of leaders
on a journey of self-exploration and building group trust should consider arranging one of these
world class leadership programs and gearing it for your business needs and aspirations.
Personal Mastery Intensive
Mobius Executive Leadership invites you to live from a new perspective. Experience
a program that will enable you to create the impact you wish to have in your work
and in your life. This three and a half day workshop will help you unlock the mindsets
and behaviors that interfere with your ability to achieve your dreams and become the
architect of your own authentic life.
In this program you take time as a group to align your hearts and minds for creating a new
life dream or new organizational vision. Participants become skilled at living creatively and
intentionally instead of reactively. Using simple tools you will learn, practice and share the
life skills for making long-term, permanent changes one step at a time.
This program features a variety of formats including lecture, experiential, one on one, in
pairs and in small groups. We work extensively with foundational principles that create
consciousness—bringing the ability to break free of old patterns and revision your life.
Through the intensive workshop you will identify your innate strengths, abilities and
unique gifts. This program will help you develop the emotional and spiritual intelligence
for every area of your life to work well. We achieve true fulfillment through the integration
of inner knowledge and outer action. This Intensive takes you beyond awareness to
actionable skills for practical leadership—the conscious cultivation of inner wisdom and
values translated into daily practice.
Relationship Work One aspect of this program focuses on supporting participants
in their primary dyadic relationships (be it romantic, family or friend). These exercises
surface and manage breakdowns and withholds, build a shared set of norms for offering
and receiving feedback, and help couples develop a shared picture of the future they
would each like for themselves and for the relationship. The modules include verbal and
non-verbal experiential exercises, and work on trust, fear and intimacy.
Stage Work for Individuals or Couples In Stage Work participants self-select to work
one on one with lead faculty with the group support. Participants can choose the piece of
work they would like to focus on from the broad array of content supported by this workshop.
They can also use the group as a container for their own self-expression, transformation or
healing. This is a unique opportunity to work in real time with real issues.
9. Dream Work Participants are asked to bring dream fragments, images or whole dream
stories into the workshop. We then use these dreams to illuminate patterns and highlight
areas of capacity and resource within the dreamer. One of the primary gateways to the
unconscious, dreams can provide remarkable meaning and insight for the dreamer as well
as the group witnessing the process work. Dream symbolism has meaning at many levels
including personal, transpersonal and collective. Faculty work to extract the most potent
and useful teachings from the dreams while working with the dreamer and group.
High Intensity Sound and Movement Programs sometimes use the expressive arts
as a means for embodiment, exploration and enhanced freedom. High Intensity Sound is
a module where participants relax and listen to evocative music as a kind of meditative
journey into sounds, feelings and images from the unconscious. The programs also use
movement, meditation, art, and active imagination to widen self-expression and build
energy in the group process.
Projection and Shadow Work In Relationship This module has participants examine
the qualities in other people, be it partners or colleagues, that create strong emotional
reactions for them. These may be either positive or negative resulting in strong desire or
rejection. In either case, these reactions are mirrors for us of essential qualities and traits
that are valuable for us to examine. This module helps people learn how to identify and
take back their projections and thereby ease working relationships. Considered by many to
be the key capability in personal accountability, owning and claiming a projected aspect
of consciousness is a vital skill for any relationship to thrive and endure. Projection and
Shadow work can be accessed in a variety of methods, with varying intensity, including but
not limited to expressive arts, mask making, movement, active imagination, psychodrama
and self-reflection/dyadic discussions.
Meditation and Mindfulness Practice – DHMP The Personal Mastery Intensive will
teach the Dynamic Heart and Mind Meditation along with additional guided experiences. It
reviews the latest neuroscience findings on the benefits of mindfulness practice. Suitable
for both beginning and experienced meditators, this instruction should leave participants
with a practice they can integrate into an ongoing support for self-awareness, emotional
self-regulation and increasing insight.
Transformational Mindsets Our beliefs and expectations color every moment of our
experience. Recent brain studies, positive psychology and ancient teachings all reflect the
power each of us has to make our dreams and desires come true. Each individual has huge
reservoirs of untapped potential and ability to shape their lives, relationships, and destinies.
This program teaches participants to use new and ancient technology for sculpting and
shaping their lives.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making
the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung
“The imagination is capable of kindness that the mind often lacks. It searches for the
hidden worlds that wait at the edge of things.” – John O’Donohue
10. Mobius Women’s Leadership Programs:
A Deepening of the Feminine
We work with public sector leaders, social entrepreneurs and corporate executives
to find their own voices and embolden their vision. We have a strong conviction that
taking time to share our individual and collective experiences of being women in
today’s world allows us to learn and stretch together, while being encircled with the
spirit of women’s wisdom. These programs offer a setting in which participants feel
at liberty to explore themselves and step back from the day to day requirements of
their lives.
These leadership programs can serve as an integrating force in helping your authentic
vision and values surface and express themselves. These programs are integrative
of mind/body dynamics and allow participants to dive into how they understand
themselves, their work, and their purpose. The tools of our exploration will include
story telling, dream work, art, authentic movement, ritual and rites of passage, active
imagination, meditation, music and dance. This program takes place in beautiful,
pristine natural settings and includes extensive renewal modules including yoga and
movement, contemplative practices, wellness services and other informal time to heal
and rest.
The curriculum of the program includes:
• Leadership Presence • Innovation and Creativity
• Empathy and Assertiveness • Initiation rites intrinsic to women
• Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity • Study of the archetypal forces and power
• Voice Dialogue of the feminine
In this leadership program women learn to integrate the masculine and feminine
dimensions of their leadership style; find practices of ongoing reconnection
to themselves and spirit; and commit further to building a peaceful and more
sustainable world.
11. Initiatory Programs
Offered as Public Enrollment Courses
Initiating the Heart
This richly nourishing retreat explores the perennial spiritual traditions of the Heart
Center as a gateway to compassion and unconditional love. From this initiation comes
a life filled with meaning and full with feeling and wisdom. Participants most often say
that having their hearts initiated results in overcoming fear and replacing it with love
and openness, bringing power, creativity, and the deepest healing possible.
Reclaiming the Shadow
The term “Shadow” refers to Carl Jung’s concept, an archetype of personal and col-
lective unconscious. Each of us has unseen parts of our personality; anything from
isolated or wounded selves to rich, vital and creative aspects. Anything denied within
us drains our energy, and robs us of our greatest power and vitality. The Shadow
conference teaches us how to uncover these areas in us personally, recognize them
collectively and turn their destructive power into integrated components of ourselves.
Prerequisite: Initiating the Heart.
Awakening the Seer
This is a powerful initiation for the awakening of the throat center and the third eye.
This conference awakens “the Seer,” making intuition and psychic ability available.
A spiritual awakening occurs, engendering universal wisdom and insight. Learn to
bridge personal, unconscious, ordinary and heightened realms through centering,
meditation, ritual, dreamwork, myth and ancient tribal practices and traditions.
Prerequisite: Initiating the Heart.
Dream Voices: Dreams as the Gate to Creativity
Dreams are the portal to our most creative and empowered selves. This program
uses Voice Dialogue, dream drama and dream interpretation to discover the creative
potential in your dreams. Dreaming is universal. Even if you don’t recall your dreams
this workshop will help you discover startling insights, creative ideas and the unseen
resources held in the personal and collective unconscious. It will also enable you to
deepen and develop your ability to work with symbols and understand your ongoing
dream messages and meanings.
Carole Kammen, MA, is an innovator and leader in the field of
organizational and personal development. In 1986, Carole founded
Pathways Institute, a public spiritual growth organization and
Pathways Business Institute, a San Francisco based management
consulting firm. Both organizations have been dedicated to
the exploration of human consciousness leading to personal,
professional and spiritual fulfillment. In 2009, Pathways Business
Institute merged with Mobius Executive Leadership to create best in class offerings for business
leaders awakening to their inner lives. Carole serves as the lead faculty for this suite of personal
mastery programs and as a Principal of Mobius.
12. Mobius Facilitator Development Program™
Building In-House Capacity to Deliver Mobius
Personal Mastery Offerings
For companies wishing to build internal capacity to deliver Mobius Executive
Leadership trademarked personal mastery programs Mobius offers a thirty day
Facilitator Development certificate Program (“The FDP”). The FDP is a once in a
lifetime chance to study with leading spiritual faculty and our expressive arts team
and support exploration of the spiritual underpinnings of our lives. The FDP is a
wonderful blending of shared study, community gathering, individual and group
meditative practice, dream work and group exploration.
The curriculum of each FDP is ultimately determined by the group and each individual
discovers their own depth of study and practice. However, each FDP covers all of the
transformational content and educational pedagogy required to effectively deliver
either the Personal Insight Workshops or Beyond Yes: Leadership Mastery and High
Performance.
The FDP is a highly intensive program of advanced group work and self-exploration. The
FDP will familiarize future facilitators with the core models and practices of the Mobius
personal mastery suite of programs as well as enable the participants to have greater
access to their own practices for grounding, opening and in depth exploration. The focus
on the FDP is on how to build and support a transformational learning environment in
which others can safely explore their inner life and better understand themselves on both
the inner and outer levels.
Participation in an FDP requires an application and interview process to assure personal
readiness and maturity of the group. To enable one on one coaching and tutoring on
content modules throughout the field and forum training experience the FDP group size is
limited to twelve participants per program.
As prerequisites to attendance in an FDP participants must first have taken the personal
insight workshop and either the five day introduction to Beyond Yes: Leadership Mastery
and High Performance or the Personal Mastery Intensive.
The structure of the FDP includes pre-work, a first forum over nine days, a one week
tutoring in module delivery, a second forum over seven days, and a final week for module
certification. The forum programs are designed as experiential intensives for individual
and group development. Once certified to deliver the program, participants then teach
the program with an experienced lead facilitator from Mobius and receive ongoing
coaching until ready to serve as a lead trainer.
Mobius is proud of our flagship personal mastery programs
and happy to work with client organizations to build internal
capability to offer these tools and methodologies more
broadly to their teams, managers and executives.
13. I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big successes. I am for those
tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through
the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which, if
given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride.
William James
14. Personal Mastery Faculty
Senior Faculty
Erica Ariel Fox Robert Hanig Alex Kuilman Alex Trisoglio
Robert Gass Carole Kammen Scott Rutherford Julie Winter
Faculty
Shea Adelson James Gimian Paula Love Gabriella Salvatore
Nia and Movement Author, The Rules Somatic Leadership The Five Rhythms
of Victory: How to
Arjuna Ardagh Doug Noll Lama Surya Das
Transform Chaos
Author, Look Before Martial Arts Author, Awakening
and Conflict
You Leap and The Liz Owen the Buddha Within
Translucent Revolution Gwen Gordon
Yoga Mark Thornton
Innovation
& Creativity Marilyn Paul Author, Meditation in
Samuel Bartussek
Personal Effectiveness a New York Minute
Pantomime Artist Anne Gottlieb
Actress, Leadership Katie Pearl Jai Uttal
Jennifer Cohen Musician
Presence Theatre Director,
Somatic Leadership
Leadership Presence Tania Watson
Edith Greenblatt
Annette Duclos Author, Restore Scott Peppet Producer, Leadership
Yoga Yourself Business Ethics Presence
Daena Giardella Ruth Halpern Scott Rogers Claudine Wilder
Improvisation Presentation Skills Meditation & the Law Presentation Skills
Personal Insight Workshop Lead Facilitators
Jim Allen Matthew Levy
“Mobius Executive Leadership
helped us start our journey in a
Christian de la Huerta Lyse Merineau
respectful yet provocative way.
Carol Faull Tom O’Brien The team was flexible, gentle but
Virginia Fleming Jane Purchall firm in guiding us through our
Lorraine Gordon Lyn Travis resistance to change”
Jason Gore Andrea Borman Winter –Helena Light Hadley, VP,
Organization and Talent
Louise Hansell
Development, FINRA
15. Leadership Approach
In order to bring our leadership programs to life and engage participants in
dimensional and creative ways Mobius adds expressive arts faculty to many of our
training programs. Our faculty includes actors, theatre directors, improvisational
experts, pantomime and trapeze artists and production crews for creative set design
and experiential games. We also work with movement experts, martial artists, yoga
practitioners and other experts in somatics and embodied leadership. Finally, we
have faculty drawing from the fields of philosophy, ethics, world religions, psychology,
and spiritual teaching who bring expertise in inner transformation, mindfulness
and meditation, dream work, voice dialogue, family systems, values and character
development, leadership presence and other personal growth technologies and fields
of human consciousness work.
Next Steps
Interested parties are invited to contact:
Karyn Saganic, Director of Client Services
Email: Info@Mobiusleadership.com
Phone: (781) 237-1362
Fax: (781) 237-1873
www.mobiusleadership.com