• Transformational Leadership Coaching and Consulting

  Enlignment is a business leadership coaching and consulting company specializing in leadership development, systems thinking and organizational change. We consult with executives and their teams and coach entrepreneurial individuals, couples and families to cultivate thriving partnerships and businesses based on resilient relationships, clear communication, integrity and accountability. We are passionate about collaborating with our clients to significantly advance their leadership capacity and performance.

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• Relationships, Leadership, Results

  • “In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” ~Margaret Wheatley

  Everything that occurs in life occurs within the context of relationship. Everything we learn in life we learn through relationship. Everything that works in life works because of our relationships. Relationship is the ground upon which we stand – at home, at work and in the world.

  Our interconnectedness is expanding by degrees every day, whether in personal communications or in global business transactions. When we discover and cultivate our ability to create successful relationships, we experience relationship as a gift to ourselves and others. We depend on our relationships to nourish and sustain us through times both good and bad.

  Even though the underlying truth is that we are all interconnected, experiencing connection consistently takes skill and practice. In order to have satisfying relationships, each of us must learn what it takes to make our relationships work. Recognizing this, we can master being in right relationship with others in the moment and over time, whether an intimate partner, a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a member of our community, a business colleague, or a stranger.

  In order to build relationships that support our leadership and generate lasting results, we need to be willing to ask and answer challenging questions that stimulate us to explore new perspectives and practices in our quest for learning, growth and transformation. Here are a few questions to consider as we begin the conversation:

  • What do you most appreciate about your current relationships?
  • What do you find most challenging?
  • Where do you want to be more fully engaged?
  • What opportunities for learning do you see?
  • What is the next step on your leadership path?

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• Systems Coaching and Consulting

  We live our lives and run our businesses as part of multiple, diverse human systems. Each of us is a human system we call an individual, and we are simultaneously part of larger human systems that comprise our families, communities, organizations, cultures, nations and world.

  As leaders, we need to be aware of the quality and impact of our interactions with the wide range of human and organizational systems that influence us and are influenced by us. Systems Coaching will allow you to significantly increase the power and flexibility of your practical and creative leadership, whether as a business owner, family member, community member or global citizen.

  Our communities, our states, and our nation need to preserve and practice the core values of learning and growth in an atmosphere of respect, collegiality, and the ability to disagree while retaining mutual respect. We must be able to do this at all levels. Individuals want, to an overwhelming degree, to come to work and be able to make the greatest contribution they are able to make, in an atmosphere of support, trust, and dignity.

  Systems Coaching and Consulting believes that every individual, family, partnership and organization can walk this path.

• Emergent Systems: The Butterfly Model

  The overarching framework that we use to orient ourselves to the client’s external, relational, and internal systems is the Butterfly Model of Complex Human Systems. The metaphor of the butterfly’s metamorphosis captures the work that occurs within the coaching relationship.

  Our lives and organizations are often interrupted by transformational events which bring the accumulated resources of the past into creative tension with the potential for the future. We understand these events to be the natural process of metamorphosis, which every thriving system undergoes.

  The butterfly model helps us understand:

  • Systemic forces influencing our ability to achieve our goals
  • How more and less visible forces impact our awareness and actions
  • Which forces need the most attention or the least attention
  • How to broaden and deepen your focus
  • How to harness transformational power for personal and organizational change
• Systems Perspectives

  A leader’s effectiveness depends on their ability to continuously adapt and align the complex systems they are to the complex systems they are in.

  We define systems thinking as “a way of thinking about, and a language for describing and understanding, the forces and interrelationships that shape the behavior of systems.” As coaches, we help clients examine the forces and interrelationships that shape their own behaviors and the behaviors of the environments in which they operate.

  The Systems Perspectives approach enables optimum performance by developing greater awareness, clarity and knowledge of systems – illuminating the less visible aspects of the systemic environment, both internal and external – and increasing responsiveness. Our programs are designed to enhance our clients’ ability to operate efficiently within systems and interface effectively with systems.

  We invite you to partner with us in taking the next step on your leadership path to profitability, sustainability and contribution. Contact us to continue the conversation.

  Miriam is a Founding Partner of Systems Perspectives LLC. To learn more about Systems Coaching and Consulting, please visit:

   

  

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• Executive Leadership Coaching and Consulting

  We work with our clients to optimize their business results by fostering a learning environment. Master the disciplines that allow you to know your learning style and expand your proficiency. We focus on core learning capabilities based upon Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines:

  • personal mastery
  • shared vision
  • mental models
  • dialogue
  • systems thinking

  Transform failures into opportunities for learning, accountability and renewed action. Ensure the sustainability of your business or organization and the relationships that allow your business to flourish.

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• Business Leadership Coaching and Consulting

  We work with business leaders to create the results they want with the strategic use of intentions to guide actions, communication to maintain perspective, and collaboration to reach goals.

  Our coaching will support you to be an effective leader who is both integrative and visionary, embodying the The Seven Intelligences of Leadership – emotional, relational, organizational, technological, financial, social/civic, and creative/spiritual intelligence.

• Business Leaders

  We coach corporate executives, business owners, professionals, entrepreneurs and high-potential leaders to increase their leadership excellence and transform their organizations with clarity and courage.

  Our coaching will allow you to appreciate the values you currently practice and develop new practices to support your relationships and grow your business.

• Couples in Business

  We coach entrepreneurial couples to design effective strategies and systems for creating and sustaining successful relationships and profitable businesses.

  Our coaching is based on systems thinking and the research and discoveries found in our book You and Your Partner, Inc.: Entrepreneurial Couples Succeeding in Business, Life and Love.

  A Note about the book: Shortly after You and Your Partner, Inc. was published, Jeffrey received his diagnosis, and the work of sharing the book was set aside. After walking with Jeffrey through his departure from the world, and grieving his absence, Miriam is returning to share the wisdom they gained from their long life together as a couple in business, and from the many couples they had the privilege of interviewing as a basis for the book. “I want to honor the creative process we engaged in fully, the vision we shared, the work we developed, and the learning we did as a couple – all that is captured in the book. Ultimately, it’s about what makes a relationship, a family, a business, work well and bring the ultimate reward – joy.”

• Women in Business

  We coach women leaders to listen deeply to their desires, recognize their power and be a force for innovation and change in their businesses, organizations and communities.

  Our coaching will support you to unleash your leadership with confidence and courage. Commit to actions that will reveal surprising and creative possibilities for igniting your organizational and community leadership to make the difference you want to make in the world.

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• Executive Team and Group Coaching

  We coach executive teams to generate conversations and agreements that result in creative planning, consistent implementation and sustainable outcomes. We assist you and your team to build robust relationships which drive your strategic plan and organizational results. We work with your leadership team to connect each person’s skills and strengths to their capacity to create remarkable results for themselves, the team and the organization as a whole.

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• Beyond Success

  Miriam Hawley guides her clients to explore out-of-the box possibilities, gain clarity and perspective, claim the power of personal responsibility and develop practical strategies to accelerate growth and accomplishment. Miriam has a depth and breadth of experience in the creative process and knows what it takes to developing a project or an organization from idea to realization.

  Beyond Success is a creative and flexible group coaching program designed to empower leaders to create a future aligned with their vision, values, goals and actions. Miriam provides skillful guidance and coaching that is equally effective for entrepreneurs, professionals, and leaders in business and academia.

  Keep your vision, dreams and goals in the forefront with the support and partnership of powerful, dedicated peer-level professionals in a confidential environment. Experience the collaborative power of a group working with you to integrate your personal and professional success to live a deeply satisfying and courageous life full of passion, possibility and purpose.

• Beyond Success: Vision in Action for Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs

  Create your desired business results. Identify and break through obstacles to having the success you want. Renew your focus, gather your resources and receive the support to pursue what is most important to you. Discover ways to sustain your vision and increase your business profitability. Learn new strategies for integrating your business to enhance the health and well-being of your personal and family life.

  As part of a facilitated group of high-powered business individuals, you will:

  • Share your learning from successes and failures
  • Benefit from the experiences and challenges of others
  • Discover abundant sources of business and personal support
  • Implement creative strategies and develop new practices
  • Engage in a dynamic dialogue that inspires ongoing reflection and action
• Beyond Success: Vision in Action for Executive and Professional Women

  Create an extraordinary life by going beyond your professional success and expanding your success into every dimension of your life. Engage in a powerful conversation that supports you in being your highest and best self as a woman and as a leader.

  As part of a facilitated group of highly engaged women leaders, you will:

  • Create a vision for your personal and professional life
  • Address obstacles to achieving your goals
  • Organize your days for joy and satisfaction
  • Develop practices that support your health and well-being
  • Achieve consistently positive results that matter
  • Celebrate accomplishments as a habit
• Beyond Success: A Leaders’ Learning Forum for Academic Leaders

  Discover what is needed to be an effective leader who is both integrative and visionary using our systems thinking method and template for leadership. Identify the dynamics of inspired teams, assess your current team’s functioning, develop strategies for navigating the gaps, and create a collaborative environment that excels in performance.

  Administrators, Deans, and Chairs are trained to excel as individuals, but don’t receive the equivalent training in collaborative leadership. They often lack the organizational and interpersonal tools to guide departments through their issues, leading to an escalation of problems over time which result in crisis, and increasing reports of physical, emotional, interpersonal and psychological stress in faculty and administrative leaders.

  As part of a facilitated group of academic leaders (Administrators, Deans or Chairs), you will:

  • Cultivate your leadership in group process and collaboration
  • Address breakdowns in civil discourse and accountability
  • Create norms for personal and collective responsibility
  • Heighten sensitivity to generational, gender, and cultural differences
  • Reinforce and sustain collegiality to enhance individual and collective performance
  • Create organizational and interpersonal health, effectiveness, and sense of well-being in departments, divisions, and areas

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• About Miriam

  Miriam Hawley is a visionary leader who has created and led organizations and inspired others to expand their vision, initiate new ventures and take committed action to realize their potential.

  Miriam is an author and activist who was instrumental in shaping the women’s movement and transforming the global conversation about women’s health and sexuality.

  Miriam is a leader who helped to build the Sufficiency movement, working with individuals and groups to define “what is enough” in order to design a sustainable, just and fulfilling life.

  Contact us to schedule a conference, seminar or workshop keynote address or lecture presentation.

• Living Passion and Purpose: The Leadership Journey

  As one of the founders of Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), Miriam presented the original Women and their Bodies workshop at first women’s conference in Boston in 1969. She has played an integral part in building and sustaining an organization that has influenced the lives of millions.

  Miriam’s work with OBOS for nearly 50 years is central to her leadership journey. In addition to sharing her own story, in that spirit she is able to help women recognize their own leadership journeys and continue to expand them, one person, one family, one organization, one step at a time.

  A catalyst for global transformation, Miriam’s experience encompasses the broad spectrum of social activism, community organizing, writing, speaking, teaching, family and group therapy, counseling, coaching and consulting.

  Living Passion and Purpose will open the door for you to:

  • Identify and embrace the key aspects of your leadership journey
  • Discover what you desire to achieve
  • Determine the internal and external resources you need
  • Initiate the first next step that will move you forward
  • Gather support to sustain you on your path
• Vision, Voice and Victory: The Changing Face of Women’s Leadership

  The ground-breaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves shifted the national and international dialogue about women’s health, sexuality and power. As a founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Inc., the organization responsible for writing this best-seller, Miriam played an instrumental role in shaping the women’s movement and transforming the global conversation.

  The vision and voice of female leadership has evolved significantly since that time. The challenges in the current work environment have increased women’s passion and determination to make a difference while being personally fulfilled. These aspirations are critical for creating a sustainable future for our children, grandchildren and future generations. Now more than ever, women need insights about the timeless and essential ingredients for leadership development and success, Miriam’s experience inspires women leaders to increase their impact by building networks that align with their voices and values and support their actions.
  Vision, Voice and Victory is a unique opportunity to:

  • Immerse yourself in thought-provoking and cutting edge conversations about women’s leadership.
  • Be inspired with new ideas and find the courage to take the next steps in your personal and professional life.
  • Build relationships and become part of a powerful network of women leaders.
• Living Gratitude: Meeting Challenges with Grace

  Miriam and her son, Noah McIntyre, offer talks on embracing the challenge of Parkinson’s disease. Miriam and Noah were enormously grateful for the time they had with Jeffrey, their beloved husband and father. Motivated by Jeffrey’s diagnosis, they found ways to be grateful for their partnership, and for the friends and communities that supported them on this journey.

  Gratitude allowed them to thrive in the midst of the most difficult experience of being with a loved one throughout the journey of diagnosis, death and dying. Jeffrey and Parkinson’s were both teachers that allowed them to live gracefully and joyfully even as Jeffrey was ending his life. They share experiences that can benefit families who are facing health or other life-ending challenges. Miriam and Noah share the possibilities, practices and wisdom gained from using the challenge as an opportunity to grow and learn in their own lives, as well as powerful lessons they received from Jeffrey himself.

  Miriam and Noah also have much to offer people walking similar challenging paths about creating and enjoying a powerful, healthy and inspiring mother-son partnership with gratitude as the basis of love and connection.

  Topics covered/addressed:

  • Gratitude as an ongoing practice and way of life
  • Living in the moment – embodied practice
  • Self-care, caretaker fatigue, community support
  • Sharing challenges and celebrating joys

  

  • The science of gratitude and quality of life
  • What now? Before, during and after grief…

   

• Speaking Engagements and Media

  Keynote Speaker and Lecturer

  National Organization of Women (NOW), Boston, MA – National Convention
  Acceptance Speech, Health Award Ceremony for Founders of Our Bodies, Ourselves

  Boston Women’s Network, Boston, MA
  It Takes a Community to Create a Life: The Journey of One Founder of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Inc. and original co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves

  Home Care Association of New York State (HCA), Saratoga Springs, NY – Women in Healthcare First Leadership Summit
  Vision, Voice and Victory: The Changing Face of Women’s Leadership

  International Coach Federation (ICF) New England Annual Conference, Waltham MA
  The Seven Intelligences of Leadership

  MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA – Sloan Innovation Period (SIP)
  Making Powerful Choices: Skills, Tools and Practices for Observing, Acting and Reflecting on the MBA Journey

  MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA – Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  Leadership and Vision

  Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ – Green Business Ventures Conference
  Opening a Sufficiency Conversation: the Foundation for Sustainability

  Enough Already! A Sufficiency Dialogue for Creating a Sustainable World

  Media

  Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art YES! 10th Anniversary Gala, Brooklyn, NY
  Our Bodies Ourselves 2017 First Award for “extraordinary women first in their field.”

  PBS Documentary Film Series
  Makers: Women Who Make America (2013)

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