
Introducing The Stewardship Table
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Introducing The Stewardship Table. It's Time I Put My Money Where My Mouth Is
For four years, this podcast has been about a better way to do business, climate and leadership. In this solo episode, Charlene stops talking about it and builds it.
Most of the tools that help people speak honestly, listen well and handle stress never reach business leaders. That's because most leaders would never walk into a therapist's office to fix a problem at work. Charlene shares the performance review where she stumbled onto one of those tools without knowing it, and the conversation with psychologist Deborah Borys, after their moral injury series on the show, that turned into a collaboration.
The result is The Stewardship Table: a small, private group of senior leaders who meet online twice a month to solve real business problems together. One session each month is all business. The second goes deeper, using tools from psychology and neuroscience adapted for business. There are no recordings. It's a place to experiment in private, so you can win in public.
Charlene also makes the case for something most leaders rarely get: time to think. Using a simple picture of a flat world that only ever sees slices, she explains why running a business on a share price or a quarterly target means mistaking the slice for the whole, and why sustainable business leadership starts with seeing differently.
Three things you'll take away:
- Why tools from other fields, including therapy, may be the missing piece in your leadership toolkit
- How The Stewardship Table works, who it's for, and what it is not
- Why the answer to a hard problem is sometimes not pushing harder, but seeing differently
Join the free introductory session: Monday, November 16, 3:00 to 5:00 pm ET, on Zoom. No cost. Membership begins December 3. Save your seat
The 5Cs Podcast connects forward-thinking executives who are building sustainable competitive advantages while driving positive impact. Think of it as an exclusive network of leaders who understand that stewardship isn't just good ethics - it's good business. Becausing addressing business stewardship climate risk and leadership together is in the highest good for all.
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