ALIVE
LEADERSHIP LAB
What if extraordinary results didn’t have to cost you your aliveness?
A one-day immersive leadership experience for CEOs, founders, executives, and People + HR leaders navigating the real complexity of leading people, teams, and organizations.
Healthy organizations. Alive leaders.
ALIVE
Leadership Lab
Where ALIVE Leadership came from
This came out of the work I’m already doing inside organizations & within my own business.
I spend a lot of my work sitting with leaders in the moments that don’t fit neatly into a leadership framework.
A team isn’t communicating.
Everyone is waiting for the founder to make the decision.
Someone needs to be held accountable.
The culture has fallen out of alignment with the original vision/mission, has become muddy, or is no longer keeping up with your companies growth rate.
People become managers without ever really being taught how to lead.
Again and again, I see how much the state we lead from shapes what happens next.
ALIVE Leadership Lab grew from that intersection: serious organizational work and the internal state from which we’re trying to do it.
Your Leadership shouldn’t have to cost you your ALIVENESS
TRUTH TALK:
YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL THROUGH BURN OUT, AVOIDANCE, PUSHING THROUGH & TRAUMA RESPONSE PATTERNS. YOU CAN BE WILDLY SUCCESSFUL THROUGH ALIVE LEADERSHIP.
TEASER: ONE WAY IS JUST WAY MORE FUN AND ALIVE!
It's easy, especially in seasons of growth, change, or pressure, to fall into patterns of moving faster, producing more, solving the next problem, and pushing through.
The ALIVE Leadership Lab explores what becomes possible when we SLOW DOWN enough to move from clarity rather than reactivity, while creating greater momentum, stronger decisions, deeper connection, and more expansive possibilities for ourselves and our organizations.
So many of the executives and leaders I work with rarely take real chunks of time for themselves — to do something they enjoy, reflect, step out of constant doing, and simply be. This has become a huge part of the work we do together.
The decisions you make, the culture you create, and the tone you set all come from the state of your nervous system. We work on shifting out of stress, urgency, and burnout — and into a more regulated, connected place where you can create momentum and lead from a place that feels fully ALIVE.
Business + aliveness
We’re going to work. And we’re going to play.
We’ll bring real leadership and organizational challenges into the room — and we’ll also use movement, nervous system regulation, nature, reflection, play, and embodied experiences to interrupt the way you usually think and respond under pressure.
The point isn’t to step away from the work. It’s to come back to it with more access to yourself.
Notice → regulate → expand → choose → move.
Bring the thing
Bring the thing that’s taking up space in your head right now.
This isn't leadership work in theory. Leaders will bring what they are actually navigating inside their organizations into the room.
We'll work with real-time challenges and opportunities around communication, decision-making and decision flow, accountability,
delegation, role clarity, feedback, conflict, manager development, leadership bottlenecks, burnout, organizational systems, culture,
vision, and growth.
01 The decision you keep circling.
02 The person you don’t know how to manage.
03 The conversation you know you need to have.
04 The team that isn’t functioning the way you want it to.
05 The structure that worked when the company was smaller but doesn’t anymore.
06 The place where you keep stepping in because no one else will.
07 The vision you can feel but haven’t figured out how to create.
Rather than separating the human side of leadership from the business side, the Lab brings them together. We'll look beneath the surface at the habits, patterns, and ways of operating that can keep leaders and organizations stuck, slow decisions, cloud communication, or limit momentum.
Through a combination of strategic work and embodied experiences, leaders will have opportunities to step outside the way they would normally approach a challenge, access a different perspective, and return to it with greater clarity.
From there, we translate those insights into practical actions, solutions, and healthier ways of leading and operating.
We will work with communication, accountability, decision flow, role clarity, leadership dynamics, culture, conflict, manager development, and organizational systems.
We’ll explore how you have been approaching it and find the solutions + momentum you have been searching for.
Hi, I’m Christa.
I’m an Executive Leadership Advisor, Organizational Performance Consultant, coach, and facilitator.
For more than a decade, I’ve advised founders, CEOs, executives, and leadership teams operating at the highest levels of responsibility, growth, and complexity.
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with some of the most successful founders, executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders from around the world — people running major companies, building influential brands, carrying enormous responsibility, and navigating the kinds of decisions that shape entire organizations.
I’ve worked with leaders in moments of growth, pressure, transition, burnout, conflict, reinvention, and change. And what I’ve seen again and again is that extraordinary success does not make the human side of leadership disappear.
You can be brilliant at building a company and still struggle with the conversation you need to have.
You can be incredibly accomplished and still lead from urgency, perfectionism, over-functioning, fear, or depletion.
You can know where the organization needs to go and still find yourself becoming the bottleneck.
My work has always lived in both places — the organization and the person leading it.
I work with the structures, communication, accountability, decision flow, leadership teams, culture, and performance of an organization. And I work with the nervous system, mindset, identity, and patterns of the human being making all of those decisions.
That intersection is where ALIVE Leadership was born.
Because extraordinary leadership shouldn’t require you to become less human.
And extraordinary results shouldn’t have to cost you your ALIVENESS.
WHO THIS IS FOR
TRUTH TALK:
You can be successful through burnout.
You can be successful through avoidance, over-functioning, pushing through, perfectionism, and old survival patterns.
You can build something impressive from urgency, pressure, and constantly overriding yourself.
And you can also be wildly successful through ALIVE Leadership.
The difference isn’t whether you can get there.
You can.
The question is:
How do you want it to feel to be you while you’re building it?
What kind of leader do you want to be?
What kind of company do you want to create?
What kind of culture do you want people to experience because of the way you lead?
ALIVE Leadership is for the leaders, teams, and organizations who want extraordinary results without making depletion the price of admission.
It’s for people who want to create from clarity instead of reactivity.
Connection instead of disconnection.
Courage instead of avoidance.
Regulation instead of constant urgency.
Aliveness instead of just endurance.
THE TEASER?
You can arrive at success through both.
One way is just a hell of a lot more fun to be ALIVE Inside of.
FLOW OF THE DAY
This isn’t a day of sitting in a room talking about leadership in theory.
You’ll bring the real things you’re navigating right now — the decision you can’t make, the team dynamic that isn’t working, the conversation you’re avoiding, the bottleneck you keep becoming, the structure that needs to change, the person you don’t know what to do with.
And we’ll work from there.
BRING THE REAL THING
We’ll start with what’s actually happening inside your organization.
Through group think tanks, coaching hot seats, facilitated conversation, and real-time problem solving, we’ll work through the challenges leaders are carrying every day:
Decision flow.
Accountability.
Communication pathways.
Role clarity.
Feedback.
Delegation + trust.
Leadership bottlenecks.
Conflict navigation.
Burnout.
Scaling.
Hiring an aligned team.
Manager development.
Organizational structure + re-orgs.
Culture.
Vision.
People + HR challenges.
Not hypotheticals.
Your company. Your team. Your leadership.
NOTICE HOW YOU’RE LEADING IT
We’ll look underneath the problem at the state and patterns shaping how you’re responding to it.
Where are you pushing?
Avoiding?
Over-functioning?
Holding too much?
Reacting from urgency?
Trying to control the outcome?
Where are you trusting yourself — and where aren’t you?
Because sometimes the challenge isn’t just the decision in front of you.
It’s the place you’re making the decision from.
MOVE. PLAY. GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD.
Then we change the state.
Movement.
Play.
Nervous-system regulation.
Breath.
Nature.
Discomfort.
Experiences that take you outside of your normal way of operating.
You’ll be invited to step outside your comfort zone — not for the sake of doing something extreme, but to notice what happens when control, certainty, and your usual problem-solving strategies aren’t available.
RETURN TO THE PROBLEM DIFFERENTLY
Then we come back.
Back to the decision.
Back to the conflict.
Back to the team.
Back to the problem you walked in with.
And we ask:
What can you see now that you couldn’t see before?
What feels clear?
What conversation becomes available?
What decision feels different?
What are you willing to let go of?
What needs to move?
This is where strategy, nervous-system regulation, intuition, and real leadership work come together.
BUILD THE ORGANIZATION THAT CAN HOLD THE VISION
From there, we zoom back out.
What does the organization actually need in order to grow?
What structure supports the vision?
Where does accountability live?
Who owns what?
Where are decisions getting stuck?
Do you have the right leaders and managers in the right seats?
What needs to be delegated, developed, hired, restructured, or released?
And what kind of culture are your leadership behaviors creating — intentionally or unintentionally?
THE LEADER UNDERNEATH ALL OF IT
We’ll close by bringing the work back to you.
Not just:
What does the organization need from me?
But:
Who do I want to be while I lead it?
What does an intuitively aligned, regulated, courageous, fully ALIVE leader look like for you?
Because ALIVE leaders can build extraordinary organizations.
And extraordinary organizations can still become toxic when the way people lead inside them goes unchecked.
The work is both.
Healthy organizations. ALIVE leaders.
ALIVE does not mean less ambitious.
It means discovering what becomes possible when your energy, clarity, and way of leading become a source of momentum rather than the cost of it.
We can create through urgency, pressure, perfectionism, and constantly pushing. Or we can learn to create from a place that is regulated, clear, connected, courageous, inspired, and fully alive.
The Lab is an invitation to experience the difference — and to begin translating it into how you lead when you return to the work.
First, notice where you’re leading from.
Urgency can feel like clarity.
Control can feel like leadership.
Over-functioning can feel like responsibility.
Pushing can feel like momentum.
We slow down long enough to notice the difference.
This is where the somatic work matters: breath, regulation, movement, discomfort, reflection, and learning to come back to a more grounded state before choosing what comes next.
Then we go back to the decision. Back to the conflict. Back to the organization. Back to what needs to happen next. But you’re meeting it differently.