A great team is much more than just a collection of talented individuals. It is a melding of actions, intentions, thoughts, and feelings. An expansion from individual to collective consciousness. A higher form of life with more intelligence and adaptability than any individual who is part of it.

And yet, we are all painfully familiar with the challenge of getting executives with conflicting personalities, agendas, viewpoints, and perceptions to collaborate and create winning outcomes. Even organizations with strong talent struggle to get these high-performing individuals to function effectively as a team – a team of winners is often not a winning team.

In this keynote talk, I draw from the latest science of human nature and studies of high-performing teams and leaders to show you how to maximize your team’s potential from the inside-out. You will learn about the power of building a strong inner core for your team, and how this inner core is the foundation for alignment, commitment, dialog, learning, collaboration, and trust among team members.

I will describe the Five Energies that underlie a strong inner core – Purpose, Wisdom, Love, Growth, and Self-Realization – and introduce you to practical ways in which these Energies can be activated in your team.

The audience will walk away with three key learnings:

1. What a “great” team looks like in a rapidly-evolving world
2. The Five Energies that constitute the inner core of a team and how these pillars help to optimize team performance
3. Practical tools for building the Five Core Energies in your team