June 1, 2025
With Lori Pace
Description
“Changing Your Pace as a Leader” is a concept designed to help leaders adapt their leadership style to the evolving demands of a globalized world. By deliberately altering the pace at which they approach challenges, decision-making, and relationship-building, leaders can create an environment of innovation that resonates on a global scale. This concept encourages leaders to step out of their comfort zones, embrace Dd perspectives, and connect their work to a broader, more interconnected global community.
Changing your pace as a leader is not just about altering speed; it’s about adjusting your leadership rhythm to better connect with and inspire others, both locally and globally. By doing so, leaders can create a culture of innovation that is inclusive, sustainable, and globally relevant. This approach helps leaders and their organizations stay ahead of global trends, build stronger international relationships, and contribute to changes that make a difference on a global scale.
Core Principles:
1. Adaptability and Agility: Leaders who change their pace are more adaptable and agile in responding to the rapid changes in global markets and cultures. This flexibility enables them to better anticipate and respond to new opportunities, challenges, and trends.
2. Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity: By slowing down to listen and learn from different cultural contexts, leaders can deepen their understanding of global issues and perspectives. This awareness enhances their ability to connect with and lead teams from different backgrounds, creating a more inclusive and innovative environment.
3. Mindful Decision-Making: Leaders who adjust their pace to include moments of reflection and deliberation make more thoughtful and informed decisions. This mindfulness can lead to more sustainable and impactful innovations that resonate globally.
4. Collaborative Momentum: By consciously varying their pace—sometimes accelerating to seize opportunities, other times decelerating to build consensus—leaders can better align their teams and stakeholders, driving collective action toward innovative solutions that have a global impact.
5. Resilience and Sustainability: Changing pace allows leaders to build resilience, both in themselves and their organizations. By balancing periods of intense focus with moments of rest and reflection, leaders can sustain long-term innovation and prevent burnout, ensuring that their contributions to global challenges are both impactful and enduring.
Instructor: Lori Pace
Lori Pace is a seasoned business leader, with over 20 years of experience in real estate, economic development where she leans into her background in architecture, urban planning, and leadership consulting. She is also a renowned business strategist, keynote speaker, and workshop facilitator who helps organizations navigate the complexities and opportunities of a rapidly changing work culture.
Lori delivers powerful and inspiring programs that challenge audiences to think differently about the role of strategic partnerships,collaboration and global relationships and expansion opportunities.
Lori is a leader in developing inclusive and innovative workplace environments. She is known as the Architect of Building Multicultural Mindset and Multigenerational Momentum, intentionally to develop their next generation of leaders, sales teams, clients and expand into international markets.
Lori’s mission is to create strategies that result in better relationships, more revenue, and opportunities to serve through philanthropy. Her programs create influential and unforgettable experiences that leave lasting impressions with anyone anywhere at any time, regardless of their perspective or position. She is the ultimate relationship builder.
Learning Objectives:
- Pacing Your Innovation Process: Leaders can introduce cycles of rapid prototyping followed by reflective evaluation. This pacing allows for quick iterations and learning from failures while ensuring that innovations are thoughtful and culturally attuned to global markets.
- Global Perspective Breaks: Integrate scheduled breaks where leaders and teams step back from day-to-day operations to engage with global trends, cultural exchanges, or new market insights. These breaks can inspire fresh ideas and approaches that align with global needs.
- Collaborative Slow-Downs: During critical decision-making moments, intentionally slow down to involve different voices, ensuring that the innovation process is inclusive and reflective of global perspectives.
- Accelerated Action Periods: Identify key moments where quick, decisive action is needed to capitalize on global opportunities. During these periods, leaders should increase the pace, driving their teams to innovate swiftly and effectively.
- Global Networking: Encourage leaders to connect with global peers, participate in international forums, and learn from other cultures. This global networking not only broadens their perspective but also enhances their ability to innovate in ways that resonate across different regions.
Competencies and Target Audience
Competencies Covered
Group Communication
Relationship Building
Teamwork/Collaboration
Level of Leaders
MOST appropriate = Level 3 (Leader of Self) = High potentials, emerging leaders, 1st time managers
NEXT appropriate = Level 2 (Leader of Others) = Middle managers, people leaders, frontline supervisors