Expand Your Presence. Elevate Your Impact.
Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience (ACLE) is a 3-day online immersion where you’ll learn the neuroscience and mindfulness of leading (and living) well from within.
Your Journey To Mindful Leadership
in Just Three Days
The Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience is designed for coaches, facilitators, consultants, and change-agents who are ready to explore what’s possible when they lead with deeper presence, resilience, and connection.
This isn’t just about learning new leadership techniques. It’s about experiencing transformation firsthand—so you can step more fully into the work you are meant to do.
Catalyze Your Growth and Up-level Your Influence
As someone who guides others through transformation, you know that the best leaders don’t just teach—they embody what they offer.
After ACLE, you will be able to:
program, you’ll:
Move From Reactivity To Presence
Experience powerful practices to calm the mind, regulate stress, and expand your leadership capacity.
Deepen Your Self-Awareness
Discover how your internal state shapes your influence and impact.
Expand Your Vision of What’s Possible
See how the principles of conscious leadership can shift the way you show up in all areas of life.
Connect with a Like-Minded Community
Engage with other growth-minded professionals who are committed to personal and collective transformation.
“We are living at a time where conscious leadership is needed from all of us. Never before have we needed the best of humanity to become accessible and available through trainings like Awakening Conscious Leadership.”
Meet Challenges with Equanimity and Creativity
In a world that demands more from leaders than ever before, the greatest transformation begins within.
Rapid evolution and uncertainty, especially with the rise of artificial intelligence, are heightening stress and affecting our well-being.
We’re navigating uncharted waters with limited tools, often defaulting to survival modes that keep us from being and doing our best.
Sustained change begins within and extends to others through our presence and influence. This is an opportunity to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters—so you can lead, live, and serve at your highest level.
ACLE is the first step. Where you take it from here is up to you.
Are you ready to step into a more powerful version of yourself?
Are you a...
Coach Or Consultant who wants to deepen their own transformation and explore new ways of supporting their clients.
Leader Or Entrepreneur committed to leading with greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and impact.
Facilitator Or Trainer looking to expand their ability to hold space for powerful learning and connection.
Ready to Explore the Power of Conscious Leadership in Their Own Life.
“ACLE has truly ‘awakened’ our leaders to being conscious of their own reactivity and their effect on others.”
“Leadership Is Not A Role But A Way Of Being, An Act Of Influence. You Cannot Not Have Influence.”
Your Breakthrough Is Waiting For You At ACLE
Gain powerful, actionable tools to elevate how you lead, think, and show up in every area of life.
Shift from Reactivity to Presence: Master simple methods to stay calm, clear, and in control under pressure.
Elevate Emotional Intelligence & Connection: Learn tools to build trust, strengthen relationships, and lead with authenticity.
Lead with Greater Confidence & Influence: Understand and expand your impact on yourself, others, and larger systems.
Reignite Your Purpose & Energy: Align your actions with what truly matters to fuel long-term growth and impact.
Strengthen Your Resilience & Decision-Making: Apply brain-based techniques to regulate stress, prevent burnout, and lead with clarity—even in uncertainty.
Connect with a Powerful Community: Engage in breakthrough conversations and leave with a high-value network of visionary leaders and change agents.
“Asking the right questions can take us from reactivity to creativity so quickly, and learning & practicing skills like this during this experience change my whole trajectory.”
Leading From Within: Are You Ready?
If you’re a change agent who chooses to…
- Live consciously and mindfully, and transform others as you transform yourself.
- Tap into your own inner wisdom and potential, and bring out the best in others.
- Infuse any group with life-giving possibility, creating a sense of safety, love, and belonging.
- Lead others from a place of peace, presence, and impact.
- Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Perhaps not if you…
- Resist personal change yet expect to drive it in others.
- Prioritize your own spotlight over the success of others.
- Lack the drive and care to nurture a genuine sense of community.
- Prefer inflexible methods over adaptive, responsive leadership.
Leadership Training Like No Other
What Is Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience?
Start within
- Have a strong desire for personal transformation.
- Cultivate a deep awareness of your reactivity under stress.
- Do the practices to rewire your inner world to enhance presence and influence
Explore the science
- Understand the neuroscience of reactivity and creativity
- Identify and shift unconscious reactions that undermine relationships and influence.
- Learn the importance of somatic leadership and why learning without practice does not sustain change.
Learn the practices
- Adopt a system of mindfulness to transform your inner world.
- Acquire over 15 practices for your conscious leadership toolkit.
- Utilize the power of breath to pause, notice, and choose.
Elevate Our Interactions
- Learn to ask generative questions that bring out the best in yourself and others.
- Understand the science and leadership behaviors that create Psychological Safety, the top quality of effective teamwork.
- Be a life-giving leader who maximizes others’ potential.
Influence at Scale
- Understand the ripple effect of your energy and influence.
- Step out of the ego-centric model of leadership and into the eco-centric approach
“This transformative program has not only changed my world but has equipped me with valuable tools to enhance the way I approach leadership and engage with others through appreciative inquiry.”
Meet Your Guides
These are your dedicated trainers, the guides by your side, leading
you on this transformative journey.
Jon Berghoff is the collective wisdom whisperer to global CEO summits, leadership conferences, and high-stakes gatherings for organizations. Over 15,000 coaches, consultants and change agents are now using xchange to redefine how we unlock potential at scale through transformational learning experiences.
Adair Cates is the heart and soul behind our Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience ("ACLE"). This groundbreaking program explores the nexus of neuroscience, mindfulness, and breathwork to elevate influential leadership.
Past & Present ACLE Faculty
Our faculty is a blend of leadership experts, mindfulness practitioners, and neuroscientists, all dedicated to your transformative journey into conscious leadership. They’re here to inspire, guide, and empower you every step of the way.
Daily High Level Agenda
11:00 a.m. — 11:45 p.m. ET
OPTIONAL Arrive & Align: Prepare your Presence for Profound Learning
12:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET
Training & Experience (several breaks provided throughout)
*Please note the schedule is subject to change.
Invest In The
Conscious Leader You’re Meant To Be
This isn’t just a training—it’s a reset, a breakthrough, and a launchpad for your next evolution.
Zero Risk Promise
If you participate in ACLE, and still don’t believe it was worth the investment, we’ll refund 100%.
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Save the dates for an immersive training experience that promises to redefine your facilitation skills and transform your career.
Zero Risk Promise
At the end of ACLE training, if you don’t believe we’ve overdelivered on our promises, we’ll refund 100%.
On the other hand, if we’ve gone beyond your expectations, we will channel additional donations toward scholarship opportunities for leaders in mental health, social justice, and other societal impact spaces.
The ACLE is a non-refundable investment. However, we offer a Zero Risk Promise per our Terms of Services.