Intentional Leadership and the Art of Getting People Building Together
You can put talented, committed people around the same table, give them the same mission, and still watch them move in completely different directions. Different personalities, working styles, priorities, and responses to pressure can create frustration, misunderstanding, duplicated effort, disengagement, and plenty of activity without necessarily moving the organization closer to its vision.
In What Are We Building?, Dr. Michelle Ezugwu explores what she believes is one of the most important components of a successful business, nonprofit, ministry, board, or team: Intentional Leadership. What does it actually mean to lead intentionally, and what does your team need from you in order to bring their very different strengths, perspectives, and ways of working toward the same vision?
This engaging Thought Leader session will challenge participants to look differently at the people they lead, the conditions they have created for them to succeed, and their own responsibility as leaders. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of Intentional Leadership and practical insights for creating greater clarity, alignment, ownership, and purposeful action within the organizations they lead.
Bio
Dr. Michelle Ezugwu is a strategic thinking partner, nonprofit and board development specialist, Intentional Leadership consultant, author, and educator who helps individuals and organizations move from good intentions to intentional action.
With a background spanning education, business, nonprofit executive leadership, ministry, board service, entrepreneurship, and strategic consulting, Michelle brings a unique ability to see how the individual pieces of an organization connect to the larger picture. Her work helps leaders clarify what they are building, determine what matters most, create alignment around shared priorities, and develop practical structures that move vision into action.
She is the author and creator of the Intentional Planbook Series, a collection of practical planning tools designed to help individuals, leaders, and organizations become more intentional about what they want to create and how they will move toward it. Her upcoming book, What Are We Building? Intentional Leadership and the Art of Getting People Building Together, serves as a prequel to the series, exploring what must come before the plan: the Intentional Leadership needed to get different people aligned and building toward the same vision. Her work centers on a simple but important belief: Intentional Leaders do not leave how people build together to chance.
Dr. Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree in education, an MBA, a Doctorate in Consciousness Studies and is an ordained Religious Science minister. She lives in Arizona with her husband, two of her four children, and has a father-and-son pair of French Bulldogs, Ozzy and Inky.
