Strategy can be sound. Talent can be strong. Resources can be available.
The leadership problem may be costing more
than you think.
Executive Coaching | Leadership Development | Executive Team Alignment | Culture Transformation | Board Leadership | Leadership Assessments
for leaders & organizations ready to move forward.
And an organization can still stall because of the behaviors, mindsets, communication patterns, and leadership dynamics operating underneath the business.
Authentic Encounters helps organizations and individual leaders strengthen executive leadership, improve culture, increase alignment, and address the behaviors standing between strategy and results.
What brought you here?
Our executive team is not aligned.
Decisions stall. Priorities compete. Conflict stays underground. Accountability varies depending on the leader.
Our culture is getting in the way.
Communication, trust, engagement, silos, turnover, or change fatigue are affecting performance.
We need stronger leaders.
Your organization may have capable managers who understand the work but need greater skill leading people, communicating expectations, navigating conflict, and creating accountability.
One of our executives needs focused development.
A capable leader may need stronger self-awareness, influence, emotional intelligence, communication, or behavioral change.
Our board and CEO
need stronger
alignment.
I want to strengthen my own leadership.
Governance, expectations, strategic clarity, CEO evaluation, or board effectiveness may need focused attention.
Choose an executive coaching session, leadership assessment, DISC leadership assessment, or emotional intelligence assessment and begin now.
Not sure what you need? Take the Executive Leadership Diagnostic ad get clarity on your next right step.
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You do not have to know which service you need. Start with what is happening.
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They bring us in because something is not moving.
Organizations rarely bring Authentic Encounters in because leaders need more information.
When the strategy is right, but leadership behavior keeps getting in the way.
Executive Leadership & Culture Transformation
for enterprise & complex organizations
You may be seeing:
Executive misalignment
Low trust
Defensive leadership
Poor accountability
Conflict Avoidance
Communication breakdowns
Change resistance
High-performing leaders whose behavior is limiting their impact
Authentic Encounters provides executive team alignment, organizational development, leadership development, and culture transformation designed around what is actually happening inside the organization.
We gather the truth before prescribing the solution.
That may include executive interviews, leadership assessments, stakeholder input, employee engagement surveys, workplace culture surveys, facilitated conversations, and leadership-pattern analysis.
Our Transformation Process
01- Diagnose
02 - Expose
03 - Transform
04 - Sustain
We surface the conversations organizations often avoid.
Patterns become visible. Leadership gaps become clearer. The real issue becomes harder to work around.
We build the intervention around the actual need.
That may include executive coaching, leadership-team facilitation, leadership development cohorts, culture transformation, emotional intelligence development, accountability work, manager development, and board leadership support.
Transformation cannot depend on one good workshop.
We help reinforce commitments, measure progress, strengthen accountability, and support leaders as new behaviors become part of the organization.
For CEOs and senior leadership teams that need stronger trust, clarity,
decision-making, accountability, communication, and shared ownership
of results.
Executive Team Alignment
LEADERSHIP SOLUTIONS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Culture Transformation
& Organizational Development
Culture is not simply what is written in your values statement. It is what leaders reinforce, reward, tolerate, confront, and model.
Authentic Encounters helps organizations address workplace culture, employee engagement, trust, accountability, communication, change, and leadership behavior.of results.
Leadership Development
& Manager Effectiveness
Strong individual contributors do not automatically become strong people leaders.
Our leadership development programs help managers strengthen communication, conflict management, emotional intelligence, influence, accountability, resilience, and adaptive leadership.
Authentic Encounters helps organizations address workplace culture, employee engagement, trust, accountability, communication, change, and leadership behavior.of results.
Executive Coaching & Leadership Advisory
Confidential executive coaching for CEOs, C-suite executives, senior leaders, and high-performing professionals navigating greater responsibility, transition, influence, conflict, or organizational complexity.
EXPLORE EXECUTIVE COACHING →
BOOK AN EXECUTIVE ADVISORY SESSION →
BUILD A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE →
DISCUSS OUR CULTURE →
STRENGTHEN OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM →
Board Leadership & CEO Advisory
Authentic Encounters supports boards and CEOs through board leadership development, governance education, CEO performance evaluation, board and CEO alignment, strategic facilitation, succession conversations, and leadership accountability.
DISCUSS BOARD LEADERSHIP & ADVISORY →
Bring the conversation your leaders actually need into the room.
Lena Morris delivers leadership keynotes and facilitated experiences designed to move leaders beyond inspiration and into reflection, practical application, and meaningful action.
Available for:
Leadership Keynotes & Executive Facilitation
EXPERIENCE AUTHENTIC ENCOUNTERS LIVE
Keynotes
Executive retreats
Leadership conferences
Board retreats
Leadership graduations
Organization-wide events
Custom facilitated
leadership sessions
Working Genius
Team Assessment
+
Facilitated
Debrief
Working Genius
Assessment
+
Private Debrief
CliftonStrengths®
(StrengthsFinder)
+
Private
Debrief
Hardiness
Resilience
Gauge
HGR®
EQ-i 2.0®
Emotional
Intelligence
+
Executive
Debrief
DISC
+
Private
Debrief
FOR INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
You do not need organizational sponsorship to begin developing how you lead.
Choose the leadership assessment or coaching experience that fits where you are now.
Understand your behavioral style, communication tendencies, leadership preferences, and how others may experience you.
Includes a DISC leadership assessment, personalized report, private debrief, and leadership-development action plan.
Leadership Assessments
&
Executive Coaching
Purchase DISC $397
This emotional intelligence assessment helps leaders understand the competencies influencing decision-making, relationships, communication, stress management, and influence.
Includes the EQ-i 2.0 assessment, personalized results, executive debrief, and leadership-development plan.
Includes a DISC leadership assessment, personalized report, private debrief, and leadership-development action plan.
Understand how you respond when leadership becomes difficult, uncertain, pressured, or demanding.
Understand how your natural talents shape the way you
lead, communicate, solve problems, make decisions,
and contribute.
Discover the types of work that give you energy, where you contribute most naturally, and where frustration may be affecting your performance.
Your Working Genius assessment identifies your areas of Genius, Competency, and Frustration and helps you better understand how you approach work, collaboration, problem-solving, and execution.
Includes the Working Genius assessment, personalized results, private debrief, and practical leadership-development recommendations.
Help your team understand how each person naturally contributes to work, and where gaps, frustrations,
handoffs, and unnecessary tension may be slowing the team down.
The Working Genius team experience helps leaders and teams identify how the six types of work: Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity, show up across the team.
The facilitated debrief helps teams strengthen collaboration, clarify roles, improve handoffs, reduce frustration, and better align people with the work they are naturally wired to do.
Available as a virtual team debrief, half-day facilitated experience, or full-day leadership session.
Includes the Working Genius assessment, personalized results, private debrief, and practical leadership-development recommendations.
Purchase EQ.I 2.0
$497
Purchase HGR
$347
Purchase SF
$247
Purchase WG
$247
Discuss bringing WG to
My Team
Gain focused clarity around one leadership challenge,
decision, transition, relationship, or opportunity that needs your attention now.
This 60-minute private Executive Advisory Session
is designed for CEOs, executives, senior leaders, and high-performing professionals who do not necessarily need a full coaching engagement but want an experienced, objective thought partner to help them think through what is happening, identify what may be getting in the way, and determine the strongest next move.
This is not a generic coaching conversation. The session is focused, practical, and grounded in the real leadership dynamics you are navigating.
Executive
Advisory
Session
Purchase Executive
Advisory
Session
$495
The Leadership Alignment Diagnostic helps leaders examine the key areas influencing executive team alignment and organizational execution.
Why does your leadership team keep getting stuck?
Leadership Alignment Diagnostic
assess:
start small. learn something useful.
Strategic alignment
Communication
Trust
Accountability
Decision-making
Leadership behavior
