You care deeply about doing good work but feel pulled between burnout and big ambition.
You're leading, supporting, or influencing change in your team, organization, or community.
You want your work to reflect your values, to feel energizing, not depleting.
You sense the need to reset and recommit without throwing everything away and starting from scratch.
Maybe you’re similar to me-- MBA, worked in 14 countries, multilingual & multicultural, 25 years experience, and have gone through the above thinking process a few times.
Get an honest, 2-minute read on where you are right now and what it means for your next step.
The Leadership Reset is a small-group, guided experience designed to help you step back, re-orient, and move forward with clarity in a complex world.
Drawing on 20 years of work with leaders across sectors and the Alphabet Soup of Corporate Citizenship™ framework this program helps you make sense of competing demands, reconnect with what matters most, and lead with purpose, integrity, and resilience.
You'll be part of an intimate, cross-sector circle of professionals committed to doing meaningful work without burning out or checking out.
This is not a step by step formula. It's a structured, thoughtful approach to navigating complexity with clarity and intention.
Guided reflection grounded in real world leadership challenges
Practical insight drawn from research, lived experience, and cross-sector work
Honest conversation in a trusted, confidential space
Simple, meaningful actions you can apply immediately
Inspiration, Incentives, and What's Coming Up
Purpose, Power & the Alphabet Soup. Reconnect with what matters most, personally and organizationally
Integrity in a Complex World. Act with integrity even when the path isn't obvious
Resilience, Renewal & Your Next Bold Step. Leave with a practical, personal direction for your next chapter.
A clearer sense of what matters most and how to act on it
Stronger values-based decision making in complex, real world situations
Language and confidence to navigate the "alphabet soup" of expectations in modern leadership
A grounded, actionable direction for your next chapter
A circle of thoughtful peers you can continue learning from
We are leading in a time of overlapping pressures, rapid shifts in technology and roles, increasing demands for purpose and transparency, burnout and cultural strain within organizations.
Through the lens of the Alphabet Soup of Corporate Citizenship™, these aren't separate challenges. They are interconnected. Leaders who can make sense of this complexity and act with clarity are the ones who build organizations that are not only successful, but resilient and respected.
| Dates | Thursdays August 13, 20, 27, September 3 |
| Time | 1:00-2:30pm ET / 10:00-11:30am PT / 19:00-20:30 CET |
| Format | Live via Zoom |
| Group size | Maximum 12 participants |
| Investment | $395 (beta pricing -- scholarships available) |
| Includes | Weekly reflection prompts, workbook with curated readings, optional peer connection, access to Rachel between sessions, one-month check-in |
July 21, July 23, July 28, or August 12 at 1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT / 7:00pm CET
Register on Eventbrite. Donation based, all are welcome, choose your preferred date in “tickets”.
Rachel E. Patterson is the creator of the Alphabet Soup of Corporate Citizenship™ framework and an international executive and team coach on resilience and values-based leadership.
She has an MBA from the University of Chicago, is a Certified Business Coach, and has worked with start-ups to multinational corporates, NGOs, and their leaders across the Middle East, USA, Italy, and Central America. She has lived and/or worked in 14 countries, traveled to 50+ more, speaks four languages, and has studied leadership across national and organizational cultures for 20+years.
She loves animals, good listening, music, singing, dancing, bringing play into work, hiking, and cooking with family and friends.
Her book Swim in the Alphabet Soup of Corporate Citizenship™: Building Resilient Organizations for a Fast-Changing World is coming in February 2027.
Rachel E. Patterson
Founder, Glocal Consultants
The world of work and the world in general can feel a little chaotic right now.
It's easy to feel like we're giving short shrift to everything.
But when we choose what we say yes and no to...
When we lead with purpose instead of pressure...
We create trust, focus, meaning and real momentum.
You don't need to start over.
Just breathe. Sift. Re-orient. And move forward with clarity.
That's what this circle is for. Let's do that, together.
-- Rachel