E14 | The InSight Elevation Ladder: Building Capacity for Conscious Leadership

Part of this season's exploration into next-generation leadership, this solo episode continues the journey from inner transformation to systemic impact through the InSight Elevation Ladder. Renelle unpacks how Core Wellness, Emotional Intelligence, Conscious Leadership, and Transformed Cultures build the capacity leaders need to navigate complexity and raise the frequency of the systems they lead.

Work with Renelle & InSight:
With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Conscious Leadership

01:29 Navigating Complexity in Leadership

02:55 The Insight Elevation Ladder

10:02 Core Wellness: The Foundation of Leadership

12:50 Emotional Intelligence: Key to Self and Relationship Management

15:22 Conscious Leadership: From Reactive to Creative

18:44 Transforming Cultures: The Collective Shift

This episode maps what next-generation leadership looks like—from inner transformation to systemic impact—through the origins and future of The Leadership Circle (TLC).

What we cover

• The roots & future of TLC: Bob Anderson's 20-year integration that led to the Leadership Circle Profile (2001), and why the work is moving toward Unity-informed Integral leadership.
  
  

• How leaders shift organizations: Using the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) to see reactivity, choose Creative presence, raise the quality of senior-team conversation, and turn insight into activation.
  
  

• Inner development → system change: Presence as the lever, shadow ownership, whole-system sight, dialogos, and intuition—so the pregnant unknown becomes the next right move.
  
  

• Why this matters now: Systems are dismantling and re-forming; leaders bring the weather and you are your primary asset—presence becomes strategy.
  
  

Our Guest
Bob Anderson — Founder, The Leadership Circle; co-author of Mastering Leadership and Scaling Leadership.

Work with Renelle & InSight:
With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

Chapters
00:00 Why now
02:25 Origins of TLC & LCP (2001)
07:50 Presence built the movement
12:20 Deploying self in complexity
15:47 Reactive → Creative map
27:00 2008 client insight & results
29:57 Authoring the future
36:53 Unity-informed Integral
40:36 Owning shadow

What if the future of leadership isn't about climbing—but about connection?

In this season finale, Renelle sits down with Bea Sonnendecker, founder of SuiteC, and Chelle Johnson, executive coach and talent strategist, to explore the shifting inner and outer landscapes of the C-Suite. Both have lived the corporate grind, led executive searches, and now stand at the edge of something new—offering spaces where leaders can be real, resourced, and in relationship.

Episode Takeaways:
Together, they unpack what today's executives actually need:

➤ Why traditional executive search and networking models no longer serve the evolving needs of today's leaders

➤ How trauma, grief, and burnout shape leadership journeys—and why acknowledging them creates more resilient leaders

➤ Why the next evolution of leadership depends on connection to self and others

➤ What makes someone truly "trustworthy" at the top

This episode marks the close of Season 1—a season about exploring the shift. In Season 2, we transition to teaching it.

Resources & Connect:
➤ Learn more about Bea and her work: SuiteC

➤ Learn more about Chelle and her work: Best You Talent Advisors

Engage with InSight:
➤ With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

🎧 Tune in to explore what today's leaders are really looking for—and why trust, connection, and community are the new cornerstones of the C-Suite.