The Personal Alignment Workshop 

This is not a passive presentation.  It's a hands-on, strategic working session.  Together, you will step out of day-to-day noise to diagnose your current standing and lay the groundwork for proactive execution of thoughtful roadmap you create.

What You Will Experience in 3 Hours:

• Clarify Where You Are & What You Have: Evaluate your levels of clarity and confidence across the 10 Dimensions of the Personal Assessment & Development (PAD) Framework.

• Practice Talking About Yourself: Using loosely structured conversation prompts mirroring real-life interactions, listen to yourself talk about your skills, experiences, intentions, etc.

• Practice Staying in Compassionate Curiosity: Actively listen to others without judgement or frustration, but with kindness and curiosity through what we call OQIs (see below).

• Immediate Clarity & Elevated Confidence: Not knowing sucks. Having a thoughtful plan is better.  Having a process and partners to help execute the plan is event better.  This is what this experience will do: put you on the path to creating the plan and building community and resources to make it happen.

This is what more than three decades of framework development and facilitation experience makes possible. It is the work that no Ai coaching tool, content library, or online learning can fully replicate.

HOW TO LEVERAGE Ai

Ai coaching can be helpful.
Here's what helps make it so.

Ai coaching tools are a genuine and growing part of the personal and professional development. Many aspects of it are incredible.  You can now learn about emerging job families in a certain geography, get coached on resume building, interview practice, and much more.  That said, most untrained Ai technologies are very encouraging without having broader context, particularly about you.

This is where the Personal Alignment Workshop and, should you so choose, the Development Collaborative come in.  Your insights and ideas that emerge through your intentional work, self-reflection, and ongoing iteration with peers refines both the questions you ask Ai as well as how you interpret what comes back.  You are more grounded and in a position to say "No, I don't need to go down that path at this time." and more apt to say "Yes, tell me more about that." as that aligned with your intentions, skills, the contributions you'd like to make, etc.

To reenforce the importance of such grounding, a recent Microsoft study found that Ai use was associated with worse judgment and critical thinking skills – what researchers call cognitive offloading, where reliance on digital tools reduces the mental effort required and, over time, the critical thinking capacity itself.

In the end, the Personal Alignment Workshop and what can come after for you will help you use Ai in efficient and effective ways, ways that serve you, first and foremost, and not the machine.