Level-Up Leadership Lab FORM

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Level-Up Leadership Lab

Next Online Workshop:
Artfully Awkwardly Forward - Tuesday, January 13, 10am PST

Next On-Site Workshop:

Artfully Awkwardly Forward - Thursday, January 29; 3pm

Location: Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce

Upcoming Workshops, See Below

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Level-Up Leadership Lab Workshops

Making Soft Skills Less Hard - soft skills are some of the most discussed professional talents from year to year. The reason is, these “soft skills” are actually difficult. They are less difficult when examined from a factual standpoint. Soft skills are known, predictable, and able to be utilized in problem solving as much or more than numeric-based hard skills.

Artfully Awkwardly Forward - confrontations and accountability are not easy discussions to hold. No matter how skilled a person is, no such conversation is perfect. Learn how to prepare, engage, and follow-up after stressful chats

Dr. What or: How to be a Genuinely Curious Boss - reporters are taught to ask who, what, where, when, why, and how. Curios Boss’s focus on what. What do we know, What actually occurred, What if we change one thing, What is keeping us from being awesome? Leaders will more deeply develop curiosity and inquiry without seeming accusatory or like a Captain Smartypants.

Adequate Boss to Purposeful Leader - most people in leadership roles were promoted from a nearly unrelated position. This means most leaders are doing what they’ve seen as around 85% have no formal training. Leaders can move from where they are to where they want to be with purpose.

He truly leads by example and is a great educator. One of Sam’s strengths is that he can take theoretical knowledge from the classroom and demonstrate practical application of those theories in the real-world setting.

~ Monica, Project Coordinator

You may choose to attend the entire series or single workshops. These professional development opportunities will help you improve and possibly open up possibilities to areas for some more thorough work. Regardless of your purpose for attending, all participants will need to prepare to be engaged, discuss, and challenge themselves. If you want a sit-and-get, we’ll provide that series during the 2nd November of 2026.

The series will be held both in-person and online.

For those in the Greater Spokane area, workshops will take place in person at the Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce.

The dates and times are as follows:

Making Soft Skills Less Hard - Thursday, October 23; 3pm
Artfully Awkwardly Forward - Thursday, January 29; 3pm
Dr. What or: How to Be a Genuinely Curious Boss - Thursday, April 30; 3pm
Adequate Boss to Purposeful Leader - Thursday, July 23; 3pm

The webinar workshop series will take place via Zoom at the following dates and times:

Making Soft Skills Less Hard - Tuesday, October 14, 10am PST
Artfully Awkwardly Forward - Tuesday, January 13, 10am PST
Dr. What or: How to Be a Genuinely Curious Boss - Tuesday, April 14, 10am PST
Adequate Boss to Purposeful Leader - Tuesday, July 14, 10am PST

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Your time and attention. No financial investment is required.

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Series Facilitator: Dr. Sam Jennings

My story starts with you.

The single most important contribution I’ve made throughout my career is helping people like you see the strengths within themselves which enabled them to get clear on their values and options to make better decisions, hold difficult conversations, and motivate themselves and their teams to great outcomes.

I've taught courses in leadership, research, history, and systems administration. I also helped create a master's degree program.

The Level-Up Leadership Lab came to me when I was thinking about how leaders get to the position they're in. One boss might be a joy outside of work and an absolute mess at work. Two questions:

1) How can that be?
2) Isn't that exhausting?

Supported with my research in job satisfaction and burnout, I started a kind of root-cause analysis. The question is not "How did you get here," rather, "From where did you start and how was the journey?"

Yep, I've earned degrees, including the doctorate. I'm aware that some folks who get the PhD think they know everything about everything. I know a lot about my topic. More importantly, I learned how to ask better questions due to my natural curiosity and my desire for each person to work in a space that they can succeed without disregarding who they are.

This is how we get to work. This is my program, my presentation style. No script, no polished videos. Just me, you, and the exploration of your journey from today to becoming your version of a Leveled-Up Leader.

More to the story is on the About page.

Certifications

Amongst my background, I have a variety of certifications including: