DR. LANCE SECRETAN

Higher Ground Leadership & Author

 


Dr. Lance Secretan, one of the world's foremost strategists and leadership advisors, brings passion and courage to his Cause - to change the world by reawakening spirit and values in the workplace. Lance's brilliance as a teacher and storyteller is showcased in his work as an electrifying and unique thought-leader, public speaker, "coaches' coach", and best-selling author. In his breakthrough work on leadership and inspiration, Lance has the uncanny ability to foretell, discern, and translate concepts while holding the mega-view.
 


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Secretan's life is one of exceptional experiences and contribution. Wisdom drawn from years as a corporate executive, academic, humanitarian, coach, father, and husband, makes his perspectives invaluable. He holds an M.A. (cum laude) from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Secretan works with an exceptional worldwide faculty to guide the transformation of people and organizations. One in five of Industry Week's 100 Best-Managed Companies is among his clients. He was ranked by Leadership Excellence as one of the 100 Most Influential Thinkers on Leadership in the World. He is the international best-selling author of fourteen books that revolutionize leadership theories and an award-winning columnist. Voted one of the nation's top ten speakers, and one of the twenty-first century's most influential, Secretan loves to capture the attention and excitement of audiences around the world.

In his latest book ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership, Lance brilliantly reframes leadership theory showing how we have become detached from our innate sense of oneness, and have embraced the illusion of separateness, rooted in science and rational thought. He reveals how this illusion has created profound misunderstandings about leadership - in companies, communities, institutions and countries- and how, once again, we can become conscious leaders- through the practice of oneness.
 


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ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership
A breakthrough philosophy of leadership based on
"ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership"

Six thousand years ago we were one—we shared the same stories and myths, mysteries and magic. The classical Greek philosophers began the process of separate thinking. The great Renaissance thinkers picked up the pace and the genius of our modern scientific and technical era has unraveled this precious human asset. If we continue to separate ourselves—liberal/conservative, parent/child, Muslim/Christian, labor/management, black/white, young/old, rich/poor—we will wither as a society, perhaps as a species.

Conscious Leadership inspires self and others to reframe what we see by making the connections between all the parts—countries as kin, corporations as communities, employees as whole humans, religions as partners rather than competitors. In this knowing we gain a greater understanding of how all our actions touch and connect with everything else.

Dr. Lance Secretan shares the practice of Conscious Leadership through the transformative CASTLE principles for you to experience:
  • How to regain personal Courage
  • How to live and lead Authentically
  • The importance of Serving
  • The power of Truthfulness
  • Why we must live in Love
  • How to radically improve our Effectiveness.
 


Inspire! What Great Leaders Do
Defining your Destiny, Cause and Calling

The forward of Inspire was written by 13 CEOs who cannot speak highly enough about how these ideas changed their lives and organizations. The need to inspire has never been greater than it is today, when many people feel afraid, cynical, and resigned. Inspiring people in the 1990s was an entirely different proposition; people were lighter, more optimistic, filled with a sense of abundance. Yet people yearn to be inspired more than ever; the need for inspiration has never been greater, especially at work—but where can you find it? The best that most companies can do is try to motivate their people with traditional leadership models. In his international best-selling book, Inspire! What Great Leaders Do, Dr. Lance Secretan offers an inspiring alternative, a tested way to learn how to inspire from within one’s self and use this self-knowledge to inspire others. It starts with the individual and it does transform organizations. This transformational process is Higher Ground Leadership™.

The dictionary defines motivation as providing someone with a motive; to move, impel, induce, incite. By contrast, to inspire means to infuse with an encouraging or exalting influence, to animate, to stimulate by a divinity, a genius, an idea or a passion. The word is derived from the Latin root spirare, meaning to breathe, to give life, to express. Inspiring is other-focused while motivating is self-focused. Inspiring serves you where motivating serves me. The difference in organizations is palpable: inspired people arouse the hearts of others—employees and colleagues, customers and suppliers—and this translates directly into improved business performance.

Inspire! What Great Leaders Do teaches business leaders how to inspire superior performance by speaking to the inner lives and deeper needs of employees and anyone with whom you have a business relationship, and by aligning their desires with your organization’s cause—rather than seducing them with carrots that speak only to their outer lives and superficial selves. Secretan's goals are lofty, but the approach is practical. Inspire! is full of proven methods for connecting with the soul, the real self. It provides valuable guidance for awakening the passion of others and a host of stories that illustrate how inspiring leaders have transformed their business environment from places of fear and resignation to powerhouses of effective performance.
 


Reclaiming Higher Ground

Based on Lance Secretan’s worldwide bestseller, Reclaiming Higher Ground: Creating Organizations that Inspire the Soul, this presentation inspires a new way to think about leadership and work. The vast majority of people are deeply dissatisfied with their work lives and this affects the bottom line. Lance Secretan describes how leaders can serve the needs of their employees and how this improves performance.

Loyal, productive, creative employees inspire profits. Employees are eager to bring more than their bodies to work, and because work and the company represent such a huge commitment in a person’s life, they don’t want to bring stress and unhappiness home. There is a lot of productive common ground here—Higher Ground, Secretan calls it, when organizations answer this eagerness and desire with Higher Ground Leadership™.

He lays out a detailed and pragmatic process for organizational transformation that goes much deeper than compensation to address the hearts and minds of individuals, and their vision and goals for their organization. He talks about the inner life, trust, courage, values and community as indispensable to the health of a business. And he sets the record straight about competition, profit, teams and structure in ways that inspire leaders and employees alike.

Here are some examples:
  • New models for organizational culture and values
  • Guidelines for more effective communications, written and verbal
  • Methods for realigning relationships with associates, customers and suppliers
  • Ways to replace the negative energy of fear, competition and hostility with compassion, excellence and service
  • Ways to deepen a leader’s ability to romance outstanding performances from colleagues and loyalty from customers and suppliers
  • Innovative approaches to decision making, employee equity, learning and creativity, workplace design, and a host of other leadership issues

This is a collection of breakthrough ideas, delivered in Lance Secretan’s legendary storytelling style with one of the best multimedia presentations you will see anywhere.
 


The Keys to the Castle

C.A.S.T.L.E. is an acronym that embodies six key characteristics of the Higher Ground Leader: Courage, Authenticity, Service, Truthfulness, Love and Effectiveness. The presentation is filled with stories of how leaders have reawakened their inner values and spirit, and through their personal transformation, have built extraordinary, world-class organizations. "The Keys to the CASTLE" inspires listeners to become Higher Ground Leaders in every walk of life. The Higher Ground Leader is inspired to live and lead by six qualities:

Courage—The journey toward Higher Ground Leadership™ requires great courage, the willingness to reinvent ourselves and reframe what we know about leadership. We must resolve to be different, regardless of the inevitable criticism, the possibility of reduced performance early in the journey, and the other apparent dangers. The soul understands the need to do the right thing, but the ego often stands in the way. Courage gives us the strength to follow our soul.

Authenticity—When we are being authentic, we align our minds, our mouths, our hearts and our feet: we think, say, feel and do the same thing with complete congruence. Authenticity in leaders gives those around them the permission to be open, too. The authentic leader opens the work environment to truth, love and grace in ways that show up in the bottom line.

Service—Higher Ground Leadership™ is servant-leadership. The warrior model of old story leadership, based on fear and competition, leaves us exhausted and undermines profitability. The servant leader embodies sharing, cooperation, consideration and consciousness and asks, "How may I serve you"?

Truthfulness—The Higher Ground Leader tells—and lives—the truth. Her passion for and commitment to the Truth, the refusal to compromise integrity or to deny universal truths, builds strong teams, nurtures real community, enhances performance and customer service, and transforms persons and organizations.

Love—Love is the source of a Higher Ground Leader’s ability to inspire others because the experience of love is inspiring. It releases the body’s natural "uppers" it literally transforms those it touches, physically and psychically.

Effectiveness—All of these modes of "being" work together to make a leader more effective in all aspects of life. Effectiveness—Higher Ground leaders are effective because they treat others as sacred and inspire them with their courage, authenticity, service, truthfulness and love.
 


Values-centered Leadership™

The key to leadership lies in timeless values that help us to be of service to others. Think of your organization as though it were a bicycle with the back wheel providing the power and the front wheel providing the direction. From the back wheel, we derive the life skill Values that are the source of personal and organizational power. These Primary Values help us kick-start personal growth and change corporate culture:
  • Mastery: Undertaking whatever you do to the highest standards of which you are capable.
  • Chemistry: Relating so well with others that they actively seek to associate themselves with you.
  • Delivery: Identifying the needs of others and meeting them with respect and a passion for being of service.

To become proficient in Mastery, Chemistry and Delivery, we must adopt three Accelerators that drive these Primary Values:
  • Learning: Seeking and practicing knowledge and wisdom.
  • Empathizing: Considering the thoughts, feelings and perspectives of others.
  • Listening: Hearing and understanding the communications of others.

Powered by these Values and their Accelerators, our organizations then seek new Direction through Shifts from old values to new ones:
  • From me to you
  • From things to people
  • Kaizen—continual improvement
  • From weakness to strength
  • From hostility, competition and fear to love  

Values-centered Leadership™ is one of the most powerful coaching models in the world, and a leadership model used by thousands of organizations worldwide.
 


The New Story of Leadership

An established trend is gathering momentum: the hunger to experience spirit in the workplace is gaining the force of a movement. The old story of leadership will no longer satisfy this hunger. Followers—employees—are leaving their leaders behind as more and more of them come to work with a new set of expectations.

Fortunately, some leaders — like Lance Secretan — are answering this hunger with a New Story of Leadership that connects employee fulfillment to the bottom-line in concrete ways. In this presentation, Lance proves that the trend is, in fact, mounting, why it matters, and how you can become a New Story Leader.

Here are the harbingers of the New Story of Leadership in business:
  • Leadership. Many of us are yearning for an alternative to business-as-war and leaders-as-warriors. We yearn for spirit in the workplace and for servant-leaders—people who lead with their hearts as well as their heads and wills.
  • Values. Business has more opportunity to influence the future than any other institution in the world. New Story Leaders choose to make business an instrument for positive change.
  • The End of Competition. The root meaning of "compete" is to strive together—exactly the opposite of its usual meaning. The New Story Leader respects our interdependence—our oneness—and sees how it opens opportunities for growth, both within the organization and out in the marketplace.
  • The Cause. People want to work for a Cause that inspires the soul. A Cause acts as a magnet for passion. It articulates the higher purpose of an organization, it describes how we serve.
  • The New Customer. The New Story Leader devotes even greater attention to meeting the needs of employees as they do for customers. This goes beyond the usual incentive and reward systems —to practices that awaken passion and satisfy the soul. The result is a dramatic improvement in profitability.
  • Integration. The New Story Leader creates an environment in which “work” and “life” are not just “balanced,” but blended into an integrated, seamless whole.
  • The Calling. People are looking for more than a paycheck. They seek joy, meaning and fulfillment from their work. A Calling results in work that engages, nourishes and expresses our souls. The leader’s mission is to enable each follower to find, grow and excel in her or his Calling.
  • Soulspace. We ask people to contribute to the highest standards of which they are capable while putting them in the dreariest, most uncreative environments in their lives. Imagine the extraordinary work that could flow from sacred workspaces designed to inspire the soul.
  • Technology. The Internet, as an example—can be a medium for the web of human consciousness, described by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as the noosphere. New Story Leaders will reinvent their organizations within this context.
  • Learning. The most important ‘fringe benefit’ is no longer healthcare or a pension; it is the right to learn. Learning inoculates against irrelevance and positively feeds the soul.
  • Inspiration. The role of the New Story Leader is to inspire others. This ability grows organically from one’s own inspiration.
     


Client Testimonials >>>


"If I were to label Lance's contribution to our success, I would label it superlative. He has a skill at making people stretch themselves. I am grateful that he exceeded my expectations and transformed us. He is a man with a mission and a message, that people need to hear."
- Manulife Financial
 


"Lance presents his material in a most unique and dynamic way that lends itself to getting people's attention who may not have otherwise been interested, and specifically, as a result, tapping the potential of all involved. The lessons he shared, are and will continue to be, part of the reason Medtronic and each of us at Medtronic are successful in what we do."
- Medtronic of Canada Limited
 


"You're one hell of a speaker! Our hearts, minds and bottom lines are deeply indebted to you".
- Margot Franssen, President, The Body Shop International Ltd.
 


"Lance Secretan is a dynamic and innovative leadership expert and his fresh ideas and rigorous challenges excited and inspired our attendees. They will use his concepts in shaping future strategies. I only wish we had been able to spend more time with him at our Leadership Institute."
- President and CEO, The Center for Association Leadership
 


"How much I enjoyed your presentation - it was the hit of our conference. On a scale of zero to ten, you were an eleven."
- Vice President Marketing, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
 


"Our work with Lance and his associates was an enlightening process that has lead to remarkable results. Our senior team has matured to a high state of awareness of the needs of others and functions in a more cohesive and truthful manner. The journey mapped by Lance and his associates has been an honest, and inspiring one that is the beginning of an organizational cultural transformation that has served to awaken the entire organization to provide a higher level of service to all it touches."
- The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
 


"Secretan is prepared, professional and awesome."
- Vice President, Telemedia
 


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