cUSTOM PROGRAMS

Today’s problems arise from disconnected and extractive consciousness; they cannot be solved at the same level.
We develop leaders who are connected and whole, who can reimagine and realize a better world.
Any of our programs can be taught online or in person and customized using the mind-body instrument, FEBI, the powerful flips of Zen Leadership, and the nature-inspired cycle of Perma Leadership.
Choose the best starting point for your custom program.

perma leadership programs
Inspiring webinars, programs, and action learning in care of people, planet, and the future.

ZL-based programs
Transformative programs that flip thinking and develop whole leaders and thriving teams.

heal-based programs
Healthy, embodied, agile leadership for leaders, practitioners and teams in healthcare.

febi-based programs
Powerful 1 day or ½-day programs for energizing individuals or teams using the embodied personality tool, FEBI.

perma leadership programs
Climate events, collapsing biodiversity, war, mass shootings, pandemic loss and exhaustion, racial injustice, political unrest, food and energy insecurity:
Business as usual and ordinary leadership are not up to the challenges of this time.
A new quality of leadership is needed
that starts from connectedness,
and the ethics and principles of thriving, living systems
to create thriving relationships, businesses, and organizations.
Fortunately, it’s learnable.
We offer 2.5-4-day concentrated programs (online or in-person) or serialized over 6 weeks (online only) to take leaders through the perma leadership cycle, applying it to a key matter they face individually or collectively. We also offer a 1/2-day webinar to introduce the perma leadership cycle–connect, reimagine, energize and realize–and give leaders a visceral experience of leading from their whole, connected self.
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“The work IZL does is both life changing and world changing.”
-Tom Gruenwald, Physicist, former CEO
Learn More about Perma Leadership
The next leap in leadership development: What Globalization Taught Leaders And What They Need To Learn Now, by Dr. Ginny Whitelaw (originally published on forbes.com).

Zen Leadership-Based programs
Leaders who are bigger than the challenges they face,
Take ownership,
Co-create, rather than cope.
This bigness calls for the full power of hara, the interpersonal skills and positivity of heart, and the wisdom of connectedness, which is the head at its best.
This whole leader approach is nowhere more skillfully brought together than in our programs. Which is why 9 out of 10 leaders give us their highest rating and continue to use what they’ve learned in our programs.
Through the reframing flips of Zen Leadership, leaders discover how to shift problems to opportunities, from controlling to connecting, from driving results to attracting a future and more.
Help your leaders be bigger than the challenges facing them.
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“Ginny Whitelaw facilitates Zen Leadership workshops with humor, compassion, emotional intelligence, and deep wisdom. I can think of no other person who so completely melds business acumen with Zen practices to create transformative workplaces.”
Rhonda Morton, Savannah Consulting
“This is BIG STUFF! And Ginny Whitelaw presents it in a clear, concise, and practical way that makes it readily applicable.”
Christina A Geithner, Program Participant

HEAL-Based programs
Your organization is dedicated to healing
In a healthcare system that often isn’t up to the task.
The stresses of intersecting crises weigh heavily on practitioners and administrators alike.
The call for action is getting louder.
How do you make a healing difference for your people, as well as the patients and community they serve?
Let a HEAL-based program resource your leaders – both practitioners and administrators – with clarity about the work to be done, and the wisdom and inexhaustible energy with which to do it.
We can design a custom program for your leaders that helps them clarify purpose, apply the best-fit energy to teams and processes, and be a healing presence in the face of suffering.
Help your people to greater well-being and being a greater force for healing.
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“A life-changing experience. HEAL will change the way you respond to challenges, and offer tools unlike any other program I’ve experienced so far.”
–Jackie Koski, D.O., Family Physician
“A completely different way of learning to lead for yourself and for others with integration of mind, body, and spirit.”
–Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD, Montana State University

FEBI-Based Programs
Leadership and teams are never fully success operating only from the head, without connection to emotional intelligence (heart) and the intuition of the body.
Neither are they fully successful operating only from their comfort zone, without accessing their full energetic capacity.
Which is why leaders and teams flourish with FEBI-based programs, increasing their mind-body awareness, understanding of themselves and others, and skill in applying the 4 energetic patterns in the nervous system.
We offer two 1/2-day programs (online or in person) that can be done in sequence or separately. Targeting Your Leadership Energy is the starting program for individual insight and practices. Harnessing Your Team’s energy is the subsequent program for intact teams to build collective insight and skill in using the energy patterns.
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“[The] workshop on the 4 patterns became the most talked about in the conference, as one that had most contributed to people’s deeper understanding of self.”
Agnes Mura
Director Professional Coaches and Mentors Association
“The workshop changed the social meaning of energy in the workplace. Now I have four lenses on all the time and am valuing all of them.”
FEBI-program participant

“Ginny is a secret weapon for any leadership team that is ready and willing to up its game.”
-Ken Meyers, President Ken Meyers Associates, former CHRO Hillrom