Mindful Leadership for a Changing World
Mindful Leadership for a Changing World
Cut through the noise and reconnect with what matters. Sustainable practices that drive retention, efficiency, and trust.
Cut through the noise and reconnect with what matters. Sustainable practices that drive retention, efficiency, and trust.
Introducing The Zen
Leader Journey
Introducing The Zen
Leader Journey
The Zen Leader journey is for anyone who self identifies as a leader. This includes supervisors, managers, directors, executives, and individuals who have interest in developing leadership skills.
Modern leadership challenges include AI disruption, the attention economy, shifts in workforce expectations, and as organizations de-layer, resulting in fewer managers, there's a greater need for leadership skills at every level, regardless of title.
The Zen Leader philosophy is made up of three domains, the Inner Foundation, Relational Elements, and Guiding Principles. It is designed to take seemingly intangible qualities of trustworthy, effective leaders and make them attainable through sustainable, behavior driven practices in the modern work world.
The Zen Leader journey is for anyone who self identifies as a leader. This includes supervisors, managers, directors, executives, and individuals who have interest in developing leadership skills.
Modern leadership challenges include AI disruption, the attention economy, shifts in workforce expectations, and as organizations de-layer, resulting in fewer managers, there's a greater need for leadership skills at every level, regardless of title.
The Zen Leader philosophy is made up of three domains, the Inner Foundation, Relational Elements, and Guiding Principles. It is designed to take seemingly intangible qualities of trustworthy, effective leaders and make them attainable through sustainable, behavior driven practices in the modern work world.
Mindful Leadership for Modern Business
Transform from overwhelm to clarity. Reclaim your purpose in
8-week segments that energize rather than exhaust.
What Makes The Zen Leader Coaching Journey Different?
Diverse Perspective
Sessions are designed for leaders spanning the full spectrum of experience and organizational position, highlighting the value of multiple perspectives and the principle that each person has valuable experiential wisdom to contribute and the opportunity to grow through the insights of others.
Diverse Perspective
Sessions are designed for leaders spanning the full spectrum of experience and organizational position, highlighting the value of multiple perspectives and the principle that each person has valuable experiential wisdom to contribute and the opportunity to grow through the insights of others.
Diverse Perspective
Sessions are designed for leaders spanning the full spectrum of experience and organizational position, highlighting the value of multiple perspectives and the principle that each person has valuable experiential wisdom to contribute and the opportunity to grow through the insights of others.
AI - Ready Leadership
AI adoption is outpacing strategic leadership direction in most organizations. This program equips leaders to thoughtfully integrate AI into their work and guide their teams through AI transformation, rather than simply reacting to it.
AI - Ready Leadership
AI adoption is outpacing strategic leadership direction in most organizations. This program equips leaders to thoughtfully integrate AI into their work and guide their teams through AI transformation, rather than simply reacting to it.
AI - Ready Leadership
AI adoption is outpacing strategic leadership direction in most organizations. This program equips leaders to thoughtfully integrate AI into their work and guide their teams through AI transformation, rather than simply reacting to it.
Cross - Company
Benefit from networking and building strong relationships across industry lines to gain new perspectives and even potential customers or partners. Multi-company cohorts allow attendees the freedom to share authentic, productive insights in a neutral, confidential space.
Cross - Company
Benefit from networking and building strong relationships across industry lines to gain new perspectives and even potential customers or partners. Multi-company cohorts allow attendees the freedom to share authentic, productive insights in a neutral, confidential space.
Cross - Company
Benefit from networking and building strong relationships across industry lines to gain new perspectives and even potential customers or partners. Multi-company cohorts allow attendees the freedom to share authentic, productive insights in a neutral, confidential space.
Accessible Scheduling
Time is always a constraint, and this program is designed to respect that reality. Sessions are delivered in manageable increments that fit into busy schedules, allowing participants to engage without being pulled away from their teams for days or weeks at a time.
Accessible Scheduling
Time is always a constraint, and this program is designed to respect that reality. Sessions are delivered in manageable increments that fit into busy schedules, allowing participants to engage without being pulled away from their teams for days or weeks at a time.
Accessible Scheduling
Time is always a constraint, and this program is designed to respect that reality. Sessions are delivered in manageable increments that fit into busy schedules, allowing participants to engage without being pulled away from their teams for days or weeks at a time.
Immediate Practice Integration
Within each lesson and program experience, participants recieve an actionable practice to implement, share, and integrate in their workplace immediately.
Immediate Practice Integration
Within each lesson and program experience, participants recieve an actionable practice to implement, share, and integrate in their workplace immediately.
Immediate Practice Integration
Within each lesson and program experience, participants recieve an actionable practice to implement, share, and integrate in their workplace immediately.
Evidence-Based Learning
The Zen Leader program integrates proven adult learning principles, including peer-to-peer learning, spaced repetition, and practical application. The result: lasting behavior change that translates to stronger leadership presence, better team dynamics, and measurable workplace impact.
Evidence-Based Learning
The Zen Leader program integrates proven adult learning principles, including peer-to-peer learning, spaced repetition, and practical application. The result: lasting behavior change that translates to stronger leadership presence, better team dynamics, and measurable workplace impact.
Evidence-Based Learning
The Zen Leader program integrates proven adult learning principles, including peer-to-peer learning, spaced repetition, and practical application. The result: lasting behavior change that translates to stronger leadership presence, better team dynamics, and measurable workplace impact.
Trusted by mindful leaders
Hear what our incredible clients and powerful leaders are saying
“Cara is such a charismatic and effective instructor. from a manager’s perspective it’s a no brainer”
“Cara is such a charismatic and effective instructor. from a manager’s perspective it’s a no brainer”
Andrei Chakrine
Alaska Health Fair Excutive Director
Customized Learning Experience
The Zen Leader program blends cohort learning with individual personalization. Using VIA Character Strengths and DiSC assessments, AI-powered simulations, group coaching, and self-directed application, participants engage in experiential learning tailored to their unique leadership profile. Live in-person and virtual sessions provide space for real-world practice, reflection, and discussion that bridge personal strengths with organizational realities.
Transformational Coaching - Not Just Another Training
Transformational Coaching - Not Just Another Training
Conscious Communication
Transform reactive conversations into intentional dialogue. Learn to listen with full presence, speak with clarity, and navigate tension with calm—turning conflict into connection.
Conscious Communication
Transform reactive conversations into intentional dialogue. Learn to listen with full presence, speak with clarity, and navigate tension with calm—turning conflict into connection.
Conscious Communication
Transform reactive conversations into intentional dialogue. Learn to listen with full presence, speak with clarity, and navigate tension with calm—turning conflict into connection.
Conscious Communication
Transform reactive conversations into intentional dialogue. Learn to listen with full presence, speak with clarity, and navigate tension with calm—turning conflict into connection.
Clarity & Presence
Using ancient Zen principles adapted for modern challenges, cultivate the focused attention and calm presence that transforms leadership from exhausting to energizing.
Clarity & Presence
Using ancient Zen principles adapted for modern challenges, cultivate the focused attention and calm presence that transforms leadership from exhausting to energizing.
Clarity & Presence
Using ancient Zen principles adapted for modern challenges, cultivate the focused attention and calm presence that transforms leadership from exhausting to energizing.
Clarity & Presence
Using ancient Zen principles adapted for modern challenges, cultivate the focused attention and calm presence that transforms leadership from exhausting to energizing.
Emotional Intelligence
Move from autopilot reactions to conscious choice. Develop the inner awareness to recognize emotional patterns, create space between stimulus and response, and lead with both strength and compassion.
Emotional Intelligence
Move from autopilot reactions to conscious choice. Develop the inner awareness to recognize emotional patterns, create space between stimulus and response, and lead with both strength and compassion.
Emotional Intelligence
Move from autopilot reactions to conscious choice. Develop the inner awareness to recognize emotional patterns, create space between stimulus and response, and lead with both strength and compassion.
Emotional Intelligence
Move from autopilot reactions to conscious choice. Develop the inner awareness to recognize emotional patterns, create space between stimulus and response, and lead with both strength and compassion.
Sustainable Systems
Small groups create big impact. Participants learn to see organizational patterns, design lasting interventions, and model new behaviors—creating ripple effects that shift culture far beyond the initial cohort.
Sustainable Systems
Small groups create big impact. Participants learn to see organizational patterns, design lasting interventions, and model new behaviors—creating ripple effects that shift culture far beyond the initial cohort.
Sustainable Systems
Small groups create big impact. Participants learn to see organizational patterns, design lasting interventions, and model new behaviors—creating ripple effects that shift culture far beyond the initial cohort.
Sustainable Systems
Small groups create big impact. Participants learn to see organizational patterns, design lasting interventions, and model new behaviors—creating ripple effects that shift culture far beyond the initial cohort.
About Your Guide
About Your Guide
I landed my first corporate role out of college at a market research firm in Seattle and was promoted into management quickly due to high turnover. While it looked impressive on paper, I was overwhelmed, unsupported, and learning leadership the hard way.
A few years later at the small, "mom-and-pop" company Hawaiian Vacations, I experienced the opposite. The culture was strong, people were developed from within, and leadership truly cared. When the HR manager stepped away, I asked for the opportunity to step in and prove I could do the work. That moment launched my HR career.
Over the next seven years, I grew from sales agent to a director-level role, helping run the company as part of the senior leadership team. That experience showed me how investing in people transforms organizations far more effectively than outsourcing ever could.
Today, I bring that philosophy to leaders across industries, helping them build cultures where people grow, lead with confidence, and thrive.
I landed my first corporate role out of college at a market research firm in Seattle and was promoted into management quickly due to high turnover. While it looked impressive on paper, I was overwhelmed, unsupported, and learning leadership the hard way.
A few years later at the small, "mom-and-pop" company Hawaiian Vacations, I experienced the opposite. The culture was strong, people were developed from within, and leadership truly cared. When the HR manager stepped away, I asked for the opportunity to step in and prove I could do the work. That moment launched my HR career.
Over the next seven years, I grew from sales agent to a director-level role, helping run the company as part of the senior leadership team. That experience showed me how investing in people transforms organizations far more effectively than outsourcing ever could.
Today, I bring that philosophy to leaders across industries, helping them build cultures where people grow, lead with confidence, and thrive.
