Preparing to Lead - Leadership Toolkit

Leadership brings greater responsibility, increased visibility, more consequential decisions, and deeper commitment to the people and work entrusted to you. The Preparing to Lead Toolkit gives you space to consider how you want to meet the moment before urgency takes over. Through guided reflection, practical tools, and insight from experienced coaches and leaders, you can prepare for what leadership is asking of you now with greater clarity, awareness, and intention.

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Prepare for What Leadership Requires

Clarify How You Want to Lead

Step into greater responsibility with a clearer understanding of what matters, what deserves your attention, and the kind of leader you want to become.

Recognize What May Get in the Way

Notice the stories, resistance, and patterns that can surface as your responsibility, influence, and visibility grow.

Protect What Makes Leadership Possible

Consider how trust, capacity, care, and discernment shape the way you support people while carrying out the work that needs to be done.

Guidance From Four Experienced Coaches & Leaders

The toolkit brings together four distinct perspectives on preparing for leadership: Nicole Venner, PCC - Set the Intention Gail Tucker Whipple, ACC - Tell a Story Rachel Karu, MS, PCC, CPQC - Release Resistance Laila Keith, ACC, CPC, CECC - Protect Your People Hosted by Tiffany A. Dedeaux, MCC, MCS of Sacred Time.

Inside the Preparing to Lead Toolkit

Begin with Intention

Use Set the Intention to identify what deserves your attention and establish a clear foundation for the leadership choices ahead.

Understand What You Carry Forward

Through Tell a Story and Release Resistance, explore how lived experience, personal narratives, and familiar patterns shape how you show up as responsibility grows.

Lead With Care and Discernment

Use Protect Your People to consider the conditions you create for others, including trust, capacity, ownership, and responsibility.

A Sacred Approach

This event is connected to The Way Maker book series, written for leaders, change-makers, and people preparing to guide others through uncertainty. Separate from this toolkit, these books are for those who want a deeper exploration of each leadership pillar. If this calls to you, you are welcome to get your copy here (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/4e0tWqV

Prepare for the Leader You Are Becoming

The Preparing to Lead Toolkit gives you a place to reflect, notice what is changing, and consider how you want to meet the responsibility ahead.

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What People Are Saying

Leaders just like you are using Preparing to Lead to step confidently into their next chapter. They're gaining clarity on their leadership vision, building stronger connections with their teams, and navigating transitions with greater confidence. Join them in discovering how intentional leadership transforms not just your role—but your impact.

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Each speaker had a mastery of their topic, and a clear takeaway was left. Great job to each speaker! You made me think and rethink my leadership style to ensure I am building new leaders.

Velia M.

Thank you for being part of Preparing to Lead — Debra B.

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Thank you, Nicole! I loved hearing you and learning with you; it's opened my mind as a future leader.

H. P.

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This has been awesome!!!!

Kerri S.

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Tiffany thank you a million times for being the LEADER of this summit. I have learned so much and feel so good in this space.

Gail W.

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Amazing content so far, and hate to leave.

Nicola W.

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