Christine FreelandI completed a 32-year interdisciplinary career with the National Park Service. The last 6 years of my career, I became interested in leadership and employee engagement, feeling there was something missing in the way work and workers were "managed". Vry top down, bureaucratic, and hierarchical, siloed and transactional. I had an aha moment after taking an unusual leadership course involving connecting with your personal and work passions. Something clicked, and I thought, this is the necessary ingredient, conscious leadership with heart! Helping to lift employees up in an organization and support their talents and passions to accomplish amazing and creative ways of working together. I co-lead a national grassroots innovative leadership employee group for several years, focusing on employee engagement, organizational network structures, and new ways of leadership. I coordinated the the certification of a cadres of employees to conduct values assessments and implemented a pilot project conducting values assessments for leaders and work groups, to build on current strengths and identify blind spots holding them back. I am now fully focusing on my passion to raise awareness of new ways of leadership, connecting people to their innate talents and values, and assisting Leaders create the conditions for workplaces to thrive. Read More Read Less