Are you a nonprofit/NGO leader who is struggling with overwhelm, burnout and work-life balance?

Do you struggle with managing your organization under the pressures of political and economic volatility?

Do you feel isolated and often feel misunderstood by those you lead?

Read on if you want to learn what you can do about these challenges…

The Balanced Leader Coaching Program

The Balanced Leader Coaching Program provides a transformational and empowering support structure for leaders who want to learn how to tap into their true power and inner wisdom. Through this program you will learn transformative concepts, tools and practices that will allow you to thrive and realize your highest potential as a leader. You will also learn how to create and maintain a balanced lifestyle so you can support your well-being in a sustained way while creating the highest level of impact through your work. This coaching program consists of the following components:

Creating and pursuing a clear vision for personal well-being, professional impact and leadership growth will provide you with your North Star. You will always know where your path for greater well-being and impact is pointing you. And we will help you to identify concrete steps that will lead you to the full realization of your vision. As a result, you will enjoy greater confidence, optimism and joy in your daily work.

Identifying new and more powerful ways to express your strengths, gifts and talents will help you to show up from a place of abundance, authenticity and possibility instead of lack, fear and limitation. This will allow you to realize your highest potential as a leader and visionary. As a result, you will feel more fulfilled in your work. And those you lead will be inspired by your leadership and feel inspired to bring their best selves to work.

Developing a strong and positive mindset will allow you to respond to challenges in your work from a place of confidence and optimism. You’ll also be able show up from a place of greater presence, awareness and groundedness. And you’ll learn to tune into your higher wisdom so you can benefit from its guidance and always know which steps to take regardless of circumstances and what’s showing up for you.

Removing the inner barriers that have been holding you back will help you to become aware of your true potential and allow you to fully realize it. After removing your barriers you will have so much more energy that you can channel toward the areas of your work that are most important to you. You’ll enjoy greater expansion and comfort in your leadership role. You’ll also enjoy a greater sense of authenticity.

Embodying new behaviors and practices will allow you to shape your overall work experience. By learning how to bring your actions, thought patterns, beliefs, emotional patterns and narratives into full alignment, you’ll be able to remove all friction. This will allow you to enjoy greater flow and ease in your work. You’ll also enjoy a greater sense of control over your circumstances and feel more inspired to pursue your bigger vision.

The coaching program can be set up as a 3-, 6- or 12-month format

A 3-month program will provide you with a foundational framework for creating greater balance and well-being. This format includes six 90-minute personalized one-on-one coaching sessions; detailed write-ups after each session with summarized main concepts and insights; in between session support via email and text messaging to provide additional assistance and accountability; and emergency support for special situations, such as important meetings, decisions, and unforeseen challenges.

A 6-month program will provide you with a foundational framework and additional support to help you embody new practices and behavioral patterns so you can enjoy greater balance and well-being. This format includes twelve 90-minute personalized one-on-one coaching sessions; detailed write-ups after each session with summarized main concepts and insights; in between session support via email and text messaging to provide additional assistance and accountability; and emergency support for special situations, such as important meetings, decisions, and unforeseen challenges.

A 12-month program will provide you with a foundational framework, additional support to help you embody new practices and behavioral patterns so you can enjoy greater balance and well-being, and full integration of all areas you want to take to the next level in your professional and leadership development. This format includes twenty-four 90-minute personalized one-on-one coaching sessions; detailed write-ups after each session with summarized main concepts and insights; in between session support via email and text messaging to provide additional assistance and accountability; and emergency support for special situations, such as important meetings, decisions, and unforeseen challenges.

The Balanced Leader Coaching Program can be completely customized to your specific needs. If this is something you’d like to further explore, please feel free to contact me (the link leads to my contact page). Or you can schedule a free strategy session:

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The Organizational Health Blueprint for Teams

I’ve created a program to help organizations create greater organizational health and well-being. If you’d like to learn more about this program, check out The Organizational Health Blueprint (click on the link). This program can complement The Balanced Leader Coaching Program to provide additional support for your team.

In this video I share the number one reason that prevents leaders from maintaining greater balance and well-being, and from realizing their highest potential:

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My name is Alex Poeter and I’ve been working in nonprofit/NGO organizational development for over thirty years. I’ve worked in many capacities at organizations, including founding and co-founding organizations, management, program development, board development, staff development, campaign development, and much more.

I’ve also been working as a professional coach with organizations for over ten years — which means I’m familiar with the common causes and conditioned patterns that prevent leaders from creating the balance that allows them to maintain their well-being. I’ve learned that if we want to remove deeply embodies patterns that are holding us back, we have to create deep inner transformation. We have to become the change we want to experience in our life and work.

I’ve found that it’s not enough to just participate in leadership development trainings. Creating sustainable well-being and balance comes from the embodiment of a new mindset and new belief systems — but also from embodying new behaviors that are rooted in the values of well-being, balance, possibility and abundance. Creating greater balance, well-being, joy and fulfillment comes from daily practice. This means that well-being and balance isn’t something to be attained at a certain point in the future. It’s something that has to be lived from and embodied every day.

Testimonials

  • “Alex is smart, committed, supportive and has decades of leadership experience. When I am working with him on a project, his contributions make that project better. He has helped me grow both personally and professionally. I can’t imagine a better person to help organizations and individuals build on their strengths.”

    – Tara Mack, Executive Director, Education for Liberation Network

  • “Alex Poeter was one of the wisest and most strategic not for profit leaders in Chicago for over twenty years. He was a leader in Chicago’s community organizing community, and he built a strong organization with numerous high quality programs and services for both youth and adults. Alex has a leadership style that is centered on focused listening and clear analysis, and he is skilled at collaborating with diverse groups of individuals and organizations. Alex is rooted in social justice values and empathetic of the many challenges not for profits and their leaders face. He is also a very creative problem solver who anticipates trends and understands how to marry big ideas to clear action plans.”

    – Brian Brady, Executive Director, Mikva Challenge

  • ”I started working with Alex at a time when I realized that I had outgrown my job but was unfocused about what I wanted to do next. It was important to me to find a coach who could mentor me from a place of experience. Alex is an expert listener and skilled coach. He helped me create my career vision and clarify my values. Alex helped me identify my strengths and replace obstacles with new ways of thinking. Working with Alex gave me the courage to develop my own path in order to fill a community need that is not being addressed by anyone else. It was a privilege to talk with Alex on a weekly basis and I consider my time with him to be one of the best investments I have made.”

    – Nicole Jurek, Founder, Local Circles

  • “Having worked with Alex for years, I remain steadily impressed with his abilities to perceive and articulate short and long-term needs in a deeply caring manner. If you are looking for a loud superstar, keep looking. If you are looking for a caring and thoroughly competent coach to help you break out of what’s holding you or your organization in harmful patterns, you’ve found him.”

    – Leigh Patel, PhD, Writer, Sociologist, Educator

  • “Alex is a truly transformational coach. In working with him you will have an unconditionally supportive mentor who, through deep compassion and wisdom, will help you channel the best version of yourself based on your own terms. Alex provides a nonjudgemental space for you to work through situations that you’re currently facing as well as beliefs and patterns that may be holding you back. In the detailed notes you receive after each session you will find amazing insights filled with guidance as well as thought-provoking questions and resources that leave room for continued self-exploration and growth. Working with Alex has enriched my daily life, relationships, and career in too many ways to name; I cannot recommend him highly enough.”

    — Will Weiss, Founder at More Human Internet, Chief Operating Officer at Dream Sports Africa

  • “Alex is an outstanding coach. I continue to work with him as I build my business and career, and our sessions are the highlight of my week. What sets Alex apart from other coaches is his ability to deeply listen and connect with the underlying thoughts and issues holding a client back. He is also one of the most skilled note takers I have ever seen in action! After each session, I receive a detailed email summing up what I shared and we discussed, with additional thoughts, insights and recommendations. These are incredibly helpful to implement the next steps and I have been keeping all of them, since the very first one. Alex has a gift for coaching and consulting, and combined with his extensive learning and knowledge, he can help anyone move past inner and outer barriers and start the life they intend to live.”

    – Aurora Meneghello, Founder, Repurpose Your Purpose

  • “I've gained so much from my sessions with Alex, particularly from his emphasis on finding a way to lean into my authentic self. This led me to a whole new way of seeing the world and my place in it. By listening and reflecting back what he heard from me, Alex supported me to identify my work values, my unique strengths, and how I can best use them to make an impact and create the experiences I want to have in life doing what I love.”

    – Joanna Welborn, Communications Arts Director, Student Action with Farmworkers

How The Balanced Leader Coaching Program can help you create more balance & well-being

While many external factors can impact the well-being of an organizational leader, some of the main ones include the leader’s emotional state and mindset.

Because organizational environments within nonprofits/NGOs are often high paced, and impacted by political and economic volatility, leaders tend to show up from a place of being reactive. This means they’re more likely to show up from a place of survival and scarcity instead of presence, clarity and abundance. What’s more is that those dynamics are often projected onto the organization’s staff members, creating organizational instability and insecurity.

That’s why learning to manage your inner emotional state more effectively and developing a strong mindset will allow you to automatically create more organizational stability and confidence.

I’ve found that one of the biggest barriers that prevents leaders from realizing their highest potential is their conditioning. Conditioned patterns include limiting thought patterns, limiting belief systems, fear patterns, and limiting narratives about what’s truly possible.

However, our mindset and emotions drive our actions and decisions, which in turn impact our results and experiences. If we allow our fear-driven conditioning and survival patterns to control our actions and decisions, we continue to project those limiting qualities through the way we show up in the world. That’s why it’s important to uncover and remove our inner barriers that have been holding us back while learning to tap into our true power and potential. This allows us to create a reality that’s in alignment with our higher vision and goals.

The more we can bring our thought patterns, beliefs, emotions and narratives into alignment with our higher vision and goals, the more our inner alignment will be reflected in our "outer” experiences, including our professional relationships.

This is not to suggest that we should judge, avoid or suppress lower emotions. The key is to learn not to allow the emotions that come from our conditioned patterns to be in the driver’s seat, and to put our “higher self” or “wise self” in the driver's seat instead.

Another important step in this process is the embodiment of new behaviors and practices that foster greater balance and well-being. This will allow you to create visible improvements so you can gather tangible evidence that your efforts are paying off. This will help you to continue to build your confidence and strengthen your belief that you can achieve your ultimate vision for the type of leader you want to be and the day-to-day work experience you want to have.

The stronger your belief grows in your own abilities to create greater balance and well-being as a result of your continued progress, the more you’ll feel inspired to keep embodying behaviors and practices that align with your higher vision.  This creates a cycle of positive reinforcement so that daily practices to foster greater balance and well-being can become an integral part of your identity.

No more burnout!

Imagine the following scenario. You keep showing up as your best self. And you’re able to keep delivering high-quality work, which allows you to create the impact you want to have. You love doing your work. You truly thrive. While there are still challenges to respond to, they no longer derail you or prevent you from protecting your own well-being. Instead, you can welcome challenges as opportunities to keep building your strengths and developing your talents. You respond to them from a place of confidence, vision and clarity.

You’re able to tap into your inner wisdom, which allows you to bring creativity, resourcefulness and possibility to your work. And you have the knowledge and skills to transform and release any limiting patterns that used to prevent you from realizing your highest potential.

What’s more is that you’re able to develop and maintain thriving relationships with peers and co-workers. You’re an inspiring example for others. And because you project inner alignment, vision and possibility, others feel empowered to do the same. You’re able to summon feelings of optimism and excitement. And you trust yourself to contribute in whatever way best serves the situation in front of you, or the person or group of people you’re with. You feel good about yourself. And feel truly fulfilled.

I believe that this is absolutely possible for you. I’ve seen this with many people I’ve worked with. So, imagine:

You have a clear vision for becoming a more balanced leader, and which keeps serving as your North Star.

You have the knowledge and skills to show up from a place of balance, well-being and confidence in your daily work.

You have a strong and positive mindset that allows you to manage your emotions and behaviors.

You have the ability to remove any limiting conditioned patterns that have been holding you back.

You love doing your work, and because of that, you keep feeling inspired to show up as your best self.

You have tremendous power as a leader and visionary to create the impact you want to have.

If this rings true for you, I can help you harness this power so you can realize your highest potential. Contact me if you have any questions or if you would like additional information. Or feel free to schedule a free strategy session. The Balanced Leader Coaching Program is for you if:

You’re ready to create the highest level of balance and well-being for yourself.

You’re ready to create a work experience that allows you to truly thrive.

You’re ready to show up from a place of confidence, clarity and joy in your daily work.

Don’t wait to create the balance, well-being and impact you know is possible.

Truly caring about your success,

Alex