Coaching leaders and teams to ignite the power of gender parity
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Striving and thriving together
The UN cites gender inequality as one of the biggest impediments to human success. This should come as no surprise: when we deny half of us the chance to achieve our full potential, we diminish our ability to strive and thrive together.
That’s why creating gender parity is so much more than just a tick-box exercise. It’s a sure fire way to throw fuel on the fire of your organisation’s growth and ongoing success.
“Dannie has been instrumental in guiding us through various leadership challenges.”
Michaela Krause, Founder and CEO, Laika Communications GmbH
Lighting the match for robust leadership and growth
Of course, tackling gender parity can be a big, complex and daunting issue – especially if we’re to be mindful of how gender intersects with other human characteristics, and how we can ensure we are inclusive allies in those struggles against inequality too. But all this doesn’t mean it has to be difficult – that’s where we come in. Partnering with us to design and deliver the training and coaching your organisation needs to deepen its emotional intelligence and awareness, will ensure that you ignite the flame for robust leadership and growth across your business.
“Very eloquent, informative and engaging. There was a lot we can now put into practice, and we have begun many important conversations.”
Sebastian Lesch, Head of People and Culture, tado°
The impact of leadership that burns bright
Communication becomes more clear and effective between people; teams, clients and stakeholders.
Difficult or sensitive issues can be addressed healthily as trust flourishes.
Productivity increases as awareness and empathy deepens between your people.
Problem-solving and innovation accelerates as teams operate more intuitively and dynamically.
Everyone becomes better listeners, allowing compassion and understanding to take root.
As everyone’s mental and physical health outcomes improve, productivity goes up, and absenteeism comes down.
“I just wanted to thank you for leading this training during these months. It has been one of the gifts that this 2024 has brought me.”
Attendee, McCann WorldGroup Women in Leadership Programme
Igniting the power of gender parity
Our programmes are designed to help your business ignite the power of all of your people. They interrogate every perspective of the gender conversation because we believe the fire burns brightest when every spark can become a flame:
The complete programme is tailored to each client’s needs and can include the following individually available modules:
Women in Leadership
Men in Leadership
Trans & Non-binary in Leadership
“The truth is that it has been a very good opportunity to grow personally and professionally and to take time (how difficult!) to reflect on how to improve at leadership level and play a better defined role.”
Attendee, McCann WorldGroup Women in Leadership Programme
The Path to Flaming Leadership
The path to flaming leadership can be complex, but it’s always an exciting, enlightening and inspiring journey. The coaching and training we offer maps the way, digging deep into each of the following key areas:
Unconscious bias and behaviour
Helping everyone to truly see themselves – and each other
These are the things we can all do and say, without even realising, that minimise or other those we interact with every day. The impact can be both immediate and incremental, but ultimately always leads to the same place: disempowerment, distress and disconnection.
Our programmes help make everyone aware of the often unintentional impact of what we say and do. It helps people become more attentive and consciously inclusive of each other. All of this accelerates team cohesion, collaboration, productivity and innovation.
Inclusive communication
Making sure the things we say and do make everyone feel valued
Developing the skill of inclusive communication enables us to proactively build authentic dialogue and communication across a diverse workplace, and gives us the tools to put into practice everything we’ve learnt whilst exploring unconscious bias and behaviour.
It means we can have sensitive and difficult conversations confident that we know where things have broken down in the first place. Inclusive communication teaches us to be continually mindful of our own assumptions, blind spots and biases, meaning resentments and standoffs can be resolved quickly and there is no more walking on eggshells, judgement or blaming of others.
Emotional intelligence
Injecting empathy and attentiveness to alleviate tension and conflict
An emotionally intelligent response to a situation is one that’s informed by our ability to take a pause and consider potential emotional responses – allowing us to avoid knee-jerk reactions and respond intelligently.
It’s about learning how to pay attention and listen, whilst resisting the urge to jump to judgements or interpretations. It’s also about recognising, accessing, and accepting our own emotional role in any interaction.
Building trust and respect
Creating a workplace where everyone can bring their best selves to work
True organisational resilience needs interpersonal trust and respect. This in turn needs us all to feel able to be authentic – so creating a psychologically safe environment that doesn’t force anyone to wear a mask is fundamental.
Respect for self and others needs to be nurtured so that the right conversations are happening between the right people, in the right way.
Leadership strategies
Building pathways to success by empowering everyone to play their part
Any leadership strategy that aspires to bring people together in a shared objective must first reckon with the diversity of truths and values that everyone brings. A strong and decisive strategy doesn’t need to be single-minded or inflexible.
Being able to cross-reference your values with those of your team allows a mastering of strategy powered by the art of collaboration, conversation, and cooperation – so that we remain open and receptive whilst leading confidently.
Overall conscious inclusivity
Making a safe space for the mistakes we all make, because ‘best’ is never perfect
The big thing to understand around conscious inclusivity is that it doesn’t look like perfection! You won’t get it right all the time. You will make mistakes. We all do, and that’s OK. It’s about nurturing a workplace that values real, complicated human beings doing the best they can, cheering their successes, and helping them up when they fall.
Organisational resilience
Nurturing a workplace where problems aren’t a problem, solutions are free to ignite
When all of your people are valued, encouraged and feel that they belong then your organisation becomes significantly more resilient. You will start to see cohesion and collaboration – where before you might have observed division and tension – as passion and commitment take hold across your business and people start to work together to focus on solutions rather than problems.
Meet the Team
Meet the Flaming Leadership team. We haven’t just learnt this stuff, we’ve lived it – and passing the torch on is what we live for:
Dannie-Lu Carr
Founder and CEO of Flaming Leadership
A singer-songwriter, actor, writer, & award-winning theatre director, Dannie-Lu also works in the creative and performance worlds and brings this experience into her training and coaching work.
Known for creating honest, empathic and challenging coaching conversations, Dannie-Lu galvanises positive transformation for individuals and organisations, helping create mindset changes that allow people to seriously step up.
Robert Stephenson
A razor-sharp coach with a background in performance, theatre, and education, (as well as the most infectious laugh you’ve ever heard!) Robert also has a long track record of developing and delivering training.
Dynamic, empathic and compassionate, Robert’s boundless curiosity and fierce intelligence drives his understanding of how people work, and work together.
Indra A. Books
With 25 years of award-winning global coaching and leadership experience across private and public sectors – and an extensive background working in tech and consultancy – Indra helps organisations shift their focus from process to people to create working environments of higher retention, engagement, and performance.
Based just outside Barcelona, Indra partners closely with Dannie to deliver our European offsite programmes.
Laura Kean
A passionate advocate for women and DEI in the workplace with over 20 years of international consulting experience, Laura excels at delivering meaningful change in HR and people’s rights.
Having worked for a range of public and private clients across the finance, telecoms and media sectors, Laura specialises in Diversity and Inclusion, supporting women and people with disabilities to overcome barriers to progression – with a particular focus on topics such as assertiveness, communication, emotional intelligence and negotiation skills.
Rebecca Howard
Rebecca is a multi-award winning entrepreneur, Leadership Psychotherapist and behavioural change expert specialising in mindset, resilience, authenticity and performance who helps CEO’s, senior leaders and management teams influence and shape mindsets to be more resilient, enhancing their performance in all areas of their lives.
Rebecca has worked closely with Dannie for years in the development of Leadership content design and delivery.
Isobel Camier
With 15 years experience as a senior PR and Comms practitioner across large and small agencies – including a stint as Head of Comms & Partnerships at Williams Formula One team – Isobel understands the distinct, but complimentary, nuances of the issues for all genders around delivering gender parity.
Isobel helps leaders support, nurture and retain top talent by deftly illuminating how the Women in Leadership and Men in Leadership narratives sit together to create a single, holistic framework for effective leadership.
Perry Seymour
With over a decade of international experience in organisational development, training and programme implementation on behalf of aid and development organisations, Perry is an expert in managing multiple, complex programmes and projects with a recognised ability to effectively confront issues and implement change.
His knowledge and experience spans the breadth of humanitarian practice, codes and accountability, including HAP and SPHERE. He works with all genders in the leadership space with a particular focus on the LGBTQ+ space.
Childlessness Microaggessions video
Many professionals without children face subtle discrimination in their workplace culture. From assumptions about schedule flexibility to dismissive comments about life experiences, these micro-aggressions can leave childless employees feeling devalued, misunderstood and demotivated. This video highlights common yet overlooked interactions that can significantly impact workplace dynamics and individuals.
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