Conscious Leadership
Learn how to lead with more awareness, alignment, and intention.
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What Is Conscious Leadership?
Many of us are taught that “leadership” means a combination of making smart choices, inspiring others to act, and having a vision for change.
While all those things are important, conscious leadership is based on a different way of thinking about leadership.
What if leadership is less about knowing what to do and more about deciding how to be?
Conscious leadership centers around becoming aware and honest about who you really are so you can align your work and life with your passions, strengths and dreams. If you aren’t clear on what is important to you and why, how can you help anyone else?
Conscious leadership isn't a set of unrealistic expectations that are impossible to achieve. And it isn't a laundry list of a dozen principles you can't remember.
Conscious leadership is about being, not doing. It has three core components:
The call to be aware;
The choice to be aligned; and
The invitation to be intentional.
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Aware
How Present Are You?
Become more conscious of your inner and outer landscape – what you notice and experience in each moment.
Tap into the power of your presence by asking, "What do I see, sense, and feel right now?"
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Alligned
What Do You Want?
Alignment is living in accordance with what expands you. It means acting on your awareness—choosing what works for you and what doesn’t.
Ask yourself, "What is working for me and what isn't?"
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Intentional
How Do You Want To Feel?
Intention is choosing how you want to feel as you live and lead. It is your ongoing commitment to make choices with greater awareness and alignment.
Empower your day and way by asking, "What do I want to experience?"
Lead Your Most Fulfilling Life
Do you feel like you're meant for more?
Leading with Light will help you become more aware of what works for you, more aligned with your soul’s deepest calling, and more intentional in how you live and lead in work and life.
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Our Conscious Leadership Services
When you're ready for more, our conscious leadership retreats, coaching, books, assessments, and meditations will help you lead and live with more awareness, alignment, and intention.
Lantern Leadership Retreat
Lantern is a four-day experiential retreat for conscious leaders. For nearly ten years, Lantern has equipped executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals like you with mindful leadership strategies, elevated consciousness, and increased confidence. Experienced leaders from all over the world choose Lantern to align their work, their worth, and their way.
Lantern is a retreat unlike any you've experienced. Whether you need to recharge, reinvigorate, retool, or reinvent, we're ready for you – and you're ready for Lantern!
Pandora Coaching
Pandora is personalized executive coaching for conscious leaders who are ready for more. It’s a sacred space to slow down, reconnect to what matters most, and remember who you truly are. In a series of one-on-one sessions, you'll work with a Plenty coach to explore your purpose, clarify your vision, and align your life and leadership with your inner wisdom. Whether you're at a crossroads or simply feeling called to grow, Pandora offers the reflection, insight, and support to help you lead with more awareness, alignment, and intention—in work and in life.
The Leadership Assessment
Now more than ever, the world needs conscious leaders—people who are aware, aligned, and intentional in how they show up.
The Lantern Leadership Assessment is a powerful, free tool designed to help you do just that. Grounded in Plenty’s unique model of conscious leadership, the assessment helps you explore who you are as a leader and how you want to grow.
Thousands of leaders from every walk of life have used the assessment to clarify their purpose, reconnect to their path, and lead with light.
Why Choose Plenty
Jennifer Mulholland and Jeff Shuck, the co-leaders of Plenty, have dedicated their lives to using human potential to make this world a better place. With extensive training, education, and experience in leadership, personal growth, performance, strategy, and wellbeing, Jennifer and Jeff will help you confidently make the changes your soul yearns for.
Our coaching is tailored to what is present to you, in real time. We blend curriculum with deep listening to personalize our guidance to your current challenges as they change. We believe in you - in your wisdom, your skills, your experience, and dreams. Our goal is to help you actualize those areas and live an awakened, authentic, and fulfilling life.
Topics can range from business decision-making, changing careers, and creating thriving relationships to acting on your insights, achieving a new level of calm and mindfulness, and deep listening.
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Focused on Alignment
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Executive-Level Service
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Change From the Inside Out
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Conscious Approach • Focused on Alignment • Head and Heart • Executive-Level Service • Process and Product • Change From the Inside Out •
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First and foremost, conscious leadership is about shining and sharing your unique light for yourself and those you lead. At the most basic level, leaders recognize that everyone, including themselves, has a light within them that is unique, bright, and purposeful.
Every human being has a light. Some call this the soul or spirit. Others might call it innate talent or the inner spark. Whatever you name it to be, your light has a unique quality to it—as unique as your thumbprint. Your light is the life force that brings vitality, purpose, wisdom, and direction to your path. It is your truest essence. Do you have a relationship with it? Do you look outside of yourself for answers first? Or do you turn within to listen?
Your light is beyond your physical form, and it can be the beacon that shines the way for you and others. It leaves an indelible impression on everything you interact with. How we shine it and where we shine it is up to us to choose.
To do so, you must become aware of who you are. As a conscious leader, you can always choose to become more awake and aware of your light, noticing the quality of its presence—noticing when your light feels strong and vibrant, when it feels dim, what environments support its illumination, and which ones don’t. When you become more aware of your own light, you can more intentionally choose where and how to show it and shine it.
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Even in our darkest, most insecure, and fearful moments, we still have everything we need to be leaders.
Your light may sometimes feel dim, but it can never go out. No matter how you feel, you can trust that your light is always on, no matter what. When you feel worried or fearful, you can consciously look for the light within and all around.
What if our lowest moments have something to teach us? What if our experiences of stress and worry are there to remind us of our humanness?
Beyond a healthy level of humility, negative self-talk and harsh self-criticism don't serve us well. Leadership, at its core, starts with self-love. Are we ready to embrace the weakest parts of ourselves, knowing that they help the strongest parts of us grow?
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Conscious leaders don’t need to know all the answers and seldom do. Instead, leaders learn to navigate the unknown, step by step, moment by moment, with presence and alignment to their beliefs, values, and purpose.
Imagine for a moment that you are walking alone through the woods at dusk. You’ve been walking at a pretty good pace, but as the sun dips beneath the horizon, it’s getting harder and harder to see the path. You slowly go further until you reach a fork in the trail.
You squint around in the dim light and realize you aren’t sure where you are. You’re lost. You put your backpack down and find the lantern you had packed before you left. Time to shine some light on the subject! As you turn on the lantern, it begins illuminating the darkness around you. You stand there in gratitude for the glow and lift the lantern slowly over your head. The lantern only illuminates a space of about ten feet around you—not one hundred feet, not one thousand feet, and certainly not miles and miles. Bringing your full attention to the present moment illuminates the next step you need to take. And, when you take that next step, the light comes with you, illuminating what to do next. This takes the pressure off of needing to figure it all out.
In moments of uncertainty, we only have to know the next step. Life will illuminate the right next step.
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We are connected to something greater than ourselves. Call it God, Goddess, Spirit, the Universe, Divine Intelligence, or Jesus Christ. Call it Christ Consciousness, Buddha, Nature, Fate, or Source. Call it Evolution, Math, or Science. Whatever you name it, we believe there is a larger light guiding the world around us in a way that brings order and structure out of entropy. We believe this light is intelligent, benevolent, and good.
Whatever you name it, conscious leaders realize there are larger forces at work. The sun rises without us having to set an alarm on our cell phones. The seasons change without needing a calendar appointment to do it. There is a grand set of forces working all around us. Those forces sometimes communicate to us via insight, intuition, and synchronicity.
Conscious leaders polish their intellectual skills but are just as willing to follow their instincts, feelings, and hearts as they walk in awareness.
The Four Lights of Conscious Leadership
To help you practice conscious leadership, we have developed the Four Lights of Conscious Leadership. Whereas most leadership models consider what leaders should do, the Four Lights help you reflect on how you could be.
This subtle difference is the open invitation to reconsider not only what leadership is but what life has to offer us.
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