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These four R’s — Relationship, Reflection, Renewal, Resonance — are not a linear path. They move through us like a spiral, calling us again and again to deepen, to listen, to tend.

In this final Conversation, we’ll consider how the R’s can offer a living rhythm for developing and growing the leader in you — one that evolves, that honors the fullness of your personhood, and that fosters awareness and authenticity in how you lead.

Over our time together so far, we’ve looked at Relationship, Reflection, Renewal, and Resonance as Leader rhythms, each of which offers a window into leadership that is more human, more connected, more whole.

But leadership is not a linear practice. These R’s do not sit in tidy corners.
They move, fold, and interweave like strands of a living tapestry.

A moment of Renewal may deepen the Relationship to self and others.
Resonance may serve as a call to Reflect in new ways.

Our inner landscape shifts constantly, and so does how we show up in the world.

Leadership is a weaving — of presence, of patterns, of meaning. And no two weavings are the same.

At the heart of this weaving, there are often inner Echoes — subtle resonances that shape how we move through leadership spaces. You may already sense some of them: a preference for close collaboration, or for wide-view systems thinking; a draw toward courageous challenge, or toward quiet restoration.

We touched on how the patterns of presence move within the leader’s self, which are the Echoes. The R’s and the Echoes work in tandem.

Each R invites us to notice different facets of our presence, as people and as leaders. Echoes emerge through this noticing — they reflect which patterns are most alive in us at a given season. Just as Renewal is cyclical, so too are the Echoes we embody.

Our Center Echoes give voice to these inner patterns.
They are not prescriptive types or roles — they are companions to notice and honor.

As you continue your own leadership journey, you’re invited to explore what Echoes might be present in your Center right now.

How Do We Explore Our Echoes?

As you continue your own journey along the cReative Leadership path, you’re invited to explore what Echoes might be present in your Center right now.

Let’s start with the introductory Echo Center Exploration.

To be clear, it is not a test or a label.

It is a reflective doorway — an invitation to notice what is resonant now, and to explore how that resonance moves through your leadership.

Step through the door of Exploration by clicking here.

The weaving of leadership is lifelong. Let’s begin another thread.

Your Journey Sentinel, Andree

There was a brief mention in the last conversation about Echoes: We each carry Echoes — patterns of energy, instinct, and presence that move through how we live and lead.

In this Conversation, I’ll share how Echoes are part of cReative Leadership — and invite you to notice which may be most alive in you right now.

Why Look for Echoes in Leadership?

Because as we mentioned earlier, leadership is a journey and rarely a fixed thing. Becoming a leader of any kind is a journey shaped by experience, memory, instinct, reflection — and by the ways we absorb and amplify the energies around us.

An Echo is not a static type. It’s a sense of what patterns are strong in us right now, and how we are moving through the world as a leader, collaborator, human.

• Echoes shift. You may find one calls most strongly now, and another rises at a different season of your life or leadership.

In this journey, you are invited to listen for your Echo (or Echoes!) — not to define yourself, but to notice where you are most at home, most Centered, and where you might want to explore next.

How to Look for Echoes?

There are all sorts of ways to look for your echo(es). You might have felt the pull to take a particular assessment, like the StrengthsFinder, Meyers-Briggs, DiSC, EQi, or the myriad other tools and typologies out there. You might have explored astrology. Or faith.

And maybe you’ve gotten some answers. That’s great!

But maybe it feels like something’s missing or that the assessments and typologies, no matter how many you take, are not a full picture of who you are.

Part of the challenge with those assessments is that they often lead us to an exploration of where we are lacking or how we’ve fallen short of some standard measurement.

And that shouldn’t be.

We should have a way to follow a path that both shines a bright light on where we excel as well as how to use the skills we might never have realized we had for this work — for any work.

We shouldn’t need to look at comparisons to other people because we are all unique. But, you might wonder, if we don’t look to others, how can we know ourselves?

And this is where the cReative Leadership differs. The cReative Leadership path encourages us to look at the world differently, to see our connection to the world around us. If we think about Resonance, we must think about where and how we exist. We are surrounded by people, yes, but more. We are connected to it all.

In our next Conversation, let’s consider how the R’s connect to our Echoes. I hope to see you at that point along the path …

Your Journey Sentinel, Andree

• Inner self: Recognizing what makes us vibrate with truth or alignment
• Authentic self: Choosing ways of being that ring true in the world
• Leadership: Leading in a way that others feel (and can attune to), not just observe

The most powerful leaders are not always those with the loudest voices or the largest followings. They are those whose presence resonates — whose way of being rings true in ways others can feel and trust. Resonance is not performance. It is alignment — between inner truth and outer expression. It is the deep echo others experience when we lead from that place.

In this Conversation, we’ll reflect on Resonance: how we notice it, how we cultivate it, and how we invite others to attune to it in their own leadership journeys.

In music and in physics, the idea of resonance is about vibration. We could think of the phrase “that resonates with me”, where what someone tells us gives us a certain feeling, a certain shiver, a vibration of meaning. When a feeling resonates within us, we feel aligned, whole, and satisfied. We “vibrate” or “resonate” with truth, with alignment. If we are walking our journey with intention, taking necessary pauses to check in with ourselves, we know when we’ve hit alignment.

There was a series on Netflix called The Residence and one of the characters talked about this sort of discovery and knowing like this:

We may not know when our self is in alignment but when we do, we just … know.

And once we know, it’s hard to ignore. A leader who ignores their Center, their resonance, their alignment is one who doesn’t ring true in their engagement with others. Such a leader struggles to bring teams together.

The Resonant Leader:

Each of us carries resonances — patterns and energies that echo through the ways we speak, lead, and create.

These Echoes are not static labels; they shift with us, reflect our inner rhythms, and invite us to notice which aspects of our leadership presence are currently most alive.

People notice when we are being real and when we are faking it. Sure, everyone has bad days, or days when we aren’t being as true to our selves as we can (or should). But if we have reached a point at which we are living as close to our Center, our authentic self, in all areas of our experience, our leadership will survive that one-off bad day. No one who has an opportunity to know us will be thrown off-kilter by it but instead, will attribute it to the right source — just a bad day, rather than thinking we’ve been fake all along!

In the next Conversation, we’ll turn toward these patterns more directly — the Echoes we each carry, and how they shape our presence in the world.

Your Journey Sentinel, Andree