Welcome to The Shared Leadership Journey™

Get Started with The Foundations of Shared Leadership

We each contribute to our collective experience with our actions and with the quality of our relationships, every day and everywhere we show up. So how do we intentionally transform workplace culture together?

It starts with The Foundations of Shared Leadership. Is your team ready?

“Our Shared Leadership Journey™ allows us to create more in-depth experiences so that the true magic of everyone's gifts evolves through this process. We've discovered that shared leadership is about personal empowerment, distributed responsibility, & team accountability.”

Chris Masiello, President & CEO of The Masiello Group

Our Shared Leadership Journey™ allows us to create more in-depth experiences so that the true magic of everyone's gifts evolves through this process. We've discovered that shared leadership is about personal empowerment, distributed responsibility, & team accountability.

Chris Masiello, President & CEO of The Masiello Group

The Shared Leadership Journey™ calls us to lead with our humanity, before leading through our roles, status or expertise – which also means leading with the value of building quality relationships and sharing power as equals before leading transactionally. This is the foundation for the group culture we create together. We offer accessible, practical strategies for your team to develop new mindsets and ways of being.

Many of our clients start their The Shared Leadership Journey™ because they’re committed to a new way of working. Others begin because of an internal challenge they’re facing: weak internal communications or ongoing conflict, disconnected departments, or a lack of safety or inclusion.

The Shared Leadership Framework™

Leadership Team Development

Designed to cultivate healthy relationships, The Shared Leadership Journey™ is the root of our Foundations in Shared Leadership online learning journey, our newest leadership development training.

The Shared Leadership Journey™ is a set of principles and practices that influence individual and team behaviors, operations, strategies, and systems. They can be practiced alone or together, across all sectors at work, and in all corners of your life. Anywhere teams or groups function, The Shared Leadership Journey™ can be practiced.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Global Round Table Leadership offers this definition:

    Shared leadership is the practice of bringing out the greatest capacity in everyone by empowering us all to be responsible for and engaged in the well-being & vibrancy of the whole. This is a fundamental shift in understanding and applying wise power and effective leadership.

    When we practice working this way, it helps us break out of the power-over and power-under mode and move toward sharing leadership and power with each other.

  • Sharing leadership and sharing power is truly for everyone! Whether at work, at school, or at home, shared leadership can be practiced wherever you are in a team or in a community with others. Our key focus is on executive leadership teams, because change has to start with where power is predominantly held. Our leadership training program and executive coaching services are designed to guide you and your entire organization towards building a positive, impactful, and inclusive culture together.

  • The Shared Leadership Journey™ is the practice of our guided curriculum in leadership team development. You can think of The Shared Leadership Journey™ as The Shared Leadership Framework™ in action: it's how we apply theory and get right into practicing in the real world.

    Just as a jazz pianist must press the keys to make beautiful music (and maybe even hit a few "wrong" notes!), we must also practice culture-building, team development, and working as ensembles to build healthy, vibrant and effective work environments.

  • You've probably already heard that teamwork makes the dream work – but ensembles take us even further into creating (and sustaining) a more positive, innovative, and impactful workplace. Work ensembles, like music ensembles, evolve our experience of teams and teaming in the workplace.

    Ensembles take collaboration and team development one step further by sharing leadership: relating first as an intentional group, instead of individuals exclusively playing specific roles. In an ensemble, every voice is heard and every contribution is recognized as equally important.

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