Cultivating a High-performing Team: A Powerful Framework to Enhance Engagement, Build Resilience, and Drive Results

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The pace and scale of change, loom of uncertainty, and layers of stress people are experiencing both in their workplaces and in their lives can feel overwhelming.  So how do leaders, managers, HR professionals, and culture champions (all of us!) make a positive difference to help both people and results thrive?

During this half-day workshop, we’ll explore:

• How to ignite (or reignite) a sense of meaning, fulfillment, and belonging by co-creating a culture people want to be part of.
• Meaningful ways to improve the manager-employee relationship, which accounts for a whopping 70% of the massive employee engagement gap.
• The key drivers of a cohesive team and the personal behaviors that ensure positive engagement, authentic collaboration, and lasting organizational health.

The session will include an overview of global thought leader Patrick Lencioni’s Five Behaviors® model (based on his best-selling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team). Attendees will leave with practical, actionable tips for building skills and understanding in the areas of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results.

Cost

FOCUS Members – $50 (log-in to take advantage of member pricing)
Nonmembers – $75 (join/renew to receive discounted member pricing)

About the Presenter

Lisa Gruenloh, MPAP, CPC (Experience STL 2025)
Founder & President, Purpose Journey, Inc.

Lisa Gruenloh is a seasoned organizational development consultant, strategic communication expert, and International Coaching Federation (ICF)-certified executive and emotional intelligence coach. Over a 30-year career, Lisa has served in leadership roles in a wide variety of corporate, government, non-profit, and consulting organizations throughout the country. She brings her diverse expertise together as the founder of Purpose Journey, Inc., a consulting, training, and coaching firm.

Purpose Journey® specializes in culture development that builds and sustains high-performing and high-functioning teams and implementing processes, systems, and tools that embed “emotionally intelligent execution discipline” to drive lasting positive impact. Lisa’s purpose-grounded and human-centric approach to organizational success supports people at all levels with the behavioral and mindset skills necessary to build trust, navigate change and uncertainty, enhance well-being, and find meaning, connection, and joy in their work.

Career Highlights.  Prior to starting Purpose Journey®, Lisa served as Director of Communications and Leadership Development trainer at InfiLaw Corporation. Before moving to Naples, Lisa worked on Capitol Hill, as director of communications and a spokesperson to a U.S. Senator, U.S. Representative and federal agency board member. She held management roles at top PR firms where she focused on strategic messaging and stakeholder engagement, as well as crisis, reputation, and issues management. Early on, she worked as a reporter/producer at a major market National Public Radio affiliate.

The breadth and depth of Lisa’s career experience drives her holistic, systems thinking and a unique ability to integrate an organization’s “what, why and how” throughout its strategic and cultural initiatives. Her authentic, collaborative leadership style fosters trust, accountability, and shared commitment with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders. She has a passion for cultivating connection, finding common ground among diverse stakeholders and creating positive change, being especially energized by achieving results in challenging, complex environments where the opportunity for transformation and impact is often the greatest.

Community Impact. She shares her expertise in leadership, communication, change management, relationship and coalition-building, and well-being for the benefit of numerous local, national, and international organizations. Some of her volunteer activities include servin on the board of the Red Cross Board in South Florida. Red Cross Tiffany Circle and Foundation Director of SHRM Naples. For three years she has provided training and coaching support to participants of Collier County’s nationally-recognized drug court program. A native of St. Louis who recently returned, Lisa is looking for meaningful ways to contribute in her hometown.

Recognition. In 2023, Lisa was one of eight coaches globally appointed to the ICF Foundation Council of Ambassadors where she helped promote structured coaching collaborations between ICF-credentialed coaches and non-profit organizations to drive social impact. A 2023 graduate of Leadership Collier, she received the James V. Mudd Award from the Leadership Collier Foundation, which recognizes an outstanding community leader who models integrity, inclusive results-orientation, and selfless community service. In 2020, Lisa was selected to serve as the Graduate Student Commencement Speaker by the School of Public Affairs at American University (AU). During her first experience as an AU graduate student in 1999, Lisa was selected as a Bryce Harlow Fellow, recognizing young professionals in the field of government relations.

Education and Credentials. Lisa holds two graduate degrees from American University in Washington, DC – a Master of Public Administration and Policy and a Master of Public Communication, along with many professional certifications in organizational, leadership, and team development. She’s an Authorized Partner of The Five Behaviors® and Everything DiSC® on Catalyst with Wiley and is certified in the EQi 2.0 Emotional intelligence Inventory, Conflict Dynamics Profile, and Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile.  Learn more at https://www.purposejourney.com/