
Implement Immediately
Dive into practical tools and techniques, empowering you to implement transformative practices from day one.

Receive Accountability
Meet weekly with peers committed to growth, providing accountability, encouragement, and shared learning experiences throughout your journey.

Feel Happier
Cultivate emotional intelligence and heart coherence, leading to a deeper sense of happiness, fulfillment, and well-being .

Witness Integration
Explore core elements of conscious leadership, integrating newfound insights and practices into your daily life, relationships, and professional endeavors.

Be Your Best Self
Embrace conscious leadership principles and practices to becoming the authentic, resilient leader you aspire to be.

Undergo Transformation
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and growth, experiencing transformative shifts in mindset, behavior, and leadership approach over the course of the program.
- Dr. Danny Friedland
Discover how you can spend less time mired in stress and self-doubt, and more time performing at your peak.
Develop a strong foundation in neuroscience and mindfulness to enhance understanding, decision-making, and resilience, fueling your journey toward impactful conscious leadership.
Enhanced Understanding: Gain a deep understanding of neuroscience and mindfulness, providing a solid foundation for conscious leadership practices.
Improved Decision-Making: Develop mindfulness skills to sharpen focus, increase concentration, and make more informed decisions in both personal and professional settings.
Increased Resilience: Learn techniques to manage stress and maintain coherence, empowering you to navigate challenges with resilience and adaptability.


Feel ALIVE again...connected inspired, energized, effective, and in the flow!
Dive into practices that nurture emotional balance, genuine connections, and joyful presence, enriching your life with fulfillment and deeper meaning.
Inner Harmony: Harness the power of the heart and breath to cultivate emotional balance, fostering a sense of inner harmony and well-being.
Connection and Empathy: Develop relational dynamics of the heart to foster genuine connections, empathy, and understanding in your interactions with others.
Joyful Presence: Embrace mindfulness practices to experience a deeper sense of presence and joy in everyday moments, leading to a more fulfilling and meaningful life journey.
Your investment isn't just for 6 weeks; it grants you access to a comprehensive array of resources.
Review & go deeper with Awakening Conscious Leadership content
10 +/- min videos organized into weekly, self-paced content
Includes interactive worksheets
Daily Themes:
Monday - Science
Tuesday - Mindfulness
Wednesday - Heart
Thursday - Breath
Friday - Inquiry

Downloadable worksheets
xchange-designed active learning questions
Bonus
Recordings of three, 10 minute, done-for-you Guided Practices with Adair Cates
30 or 60 Minutes
Example Weekly Flow – Fully Customizable for Your Team
Here’s one way we might structure your Accelerator experience. We’ll work together to design the exact schedule and cadence that best supports your team’s goals and availability:
Mondays: Conscious Visioning & Practice Planning
Wednesday: Space Holding for Practice & Journaling | Exclusive Hot-Seat Group Coaching
Fridays: Active Learning & Appreciative Inquiry
Your satisfaction matters to us. Experience ACLA risk-free and discover the value we're committed to delivering.

Adair Cates is the heart and soul behind the Awakening Conscious Leadership Experience and this 6-week Accelerator — where neuroscience, mindfulness, and breathwork don't just meet leadership theory, they transform how you actually lead.
Her work has attracted a remarkable faculty of pioneers: Rollin McCraty, PhD and Dr. Deborah Rozman (HeartMath®), Raj Sisodia (Conscious Capitalism), Margaret Wheatley (Berkana Institute), Dr. Becky Acabchuk (Roundglass), Dr. Dan Diamond (NogginStorm), Lee Mallis (Pranic Soul), and Julianna Raye (Unified Mindfulness). These aren't just names on a page — their research and wisdom are woven into every week of this program.
As a bonus, Adair invites xchange Co-Founder and CEO Jon Berghoff into a recorded Q&A session, bringing even more depth to what's already a profoundly rich experience.
You'll feel her energy in every training video and guided practice. She's the voice that gets into your body and stays there long after the six weeks are done.
Deb doesn't come in with answers. She comes in with questions — and somehow, that's what changes everything.
With nearly 30 years across agribusiness, operations, and executive coaching, she has spent her career at the place where business performance and human beings actually meet. She's the one you call when the room is stuck, the team is fractured, the decision feels impossible, or the culture quietly stopped working and nobody wants to say it out loud.
A visual thinker and systems problem-solver, Deb has a gift for cutting through noise and naming what's actually true — then helping you do something about it. She works with executives and entrepreneurs alike, and her approach is the same with both: collective wisdom, fierce accountability, and zero tolerance for staying stuck when the next step is right there.
As facilitator of ACLA, she brings the same thing she brings everywhere — clarity, energy, and a bone-deep belief that the wisdom is already in the room. Her job is simply to unlock it.

"In business and in life sometimes we are most perplexed by the things we believe to be true. Deb enabled a change of perspective and extracted the raw building materials that were inside me that I could not access on my own."
"Debra is the most authentic, accepting and genuine person I know. Her ability to hold everyone whole, well and resourceful inspires trust and motivates people to reach beyond their comfort zones." - Kristin Schneider, Business Owner, Dame Ranch Designs, Kalispell, MT

Sara is 21, studying psychology and neuroscience at Naropa University — and she never planned to go to college at all. She was going to write poetry and publish a book. She still might. SageSoul, LLC is the container she built to hold her creative work and writing while the rest of her path unfolds.
Somewhere along the way she fell in love with understanding the mind, the emotions, the invisible forces that move people — and Naropa found her the way her rescue dog and cat found each other. Like they were always supposed to.
In ACLA, Sara holds the container. She's the reason the music feels right when you walk in, your question gets seen in the chat when everyone else is talking, and the breakout rooms open exactly when they should. Quiet, grounded, observant — she notices everything without needing to announce it.
Everyone feels her presence. She holds space the way people wish someone had held it for them. One day she'll be the guide in her own right. Right now, she's here — and that turns out to be exactly enough.
Your investment isn't just for 6 weeks; it grants you life-time access to over 30 self-paced micro-training videos, undated journaling pages for online reflection, bonus recordings and all the weekly live visioning and learning group experiences. Your satisfaction matters to us. Experience ACLA risk-free and discover the value we're committed to delivering.
Develop the habit of self-reflection and track your evolution as a conscious leader
Build an internal toolbox of practices to regulate your nervous system and alchemize stress
Learn to leverage your own neuro-plasticity to establish new practices to increase inner peace
Tap into the intelligence and wisdom of your heart to access dormant wisdom and intuition
Diminish the power of triggers and/or challenging people through mindful awareness and presence
Live more into your desired future instead of the programs of your limited past
Tap into your creative power and potential to bring your desires to life
Co-regulate and Co-create with like-minded/hearted humans
6-Week Course
The foundation. Everything you need to begin.
30+ self-paced videos with Adair
Daily journaling pages
Weekly live sessions Monday & Friday with Deb & Sara
Course with Group Coaching
For those who want to go deeper with the group.
Everything in Tier 1
Add-on: A dedicated weekly group coaching call — 60 min, hot-seat format, cohort only.
Course with 1:1 Coaching
For those ready to go all in.
Everything in Tier 1
Add-on: 6 hours of private 1:1 transformational coaching with Deb

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 positive energy and 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

Resist personal change yet expect to drive it in others
Prioritize your own spotlight over the success of your team
Lack the drive and care to nurture a genuine sense of community
Prefer inflexible methods over adaptive, responsive leadership
Out of all the workshops I've taken over the last 10+ years, this has been the most practical and the one that has impacted me, my family and my clients the most.
This 6-week Conscious Leadership Accelerator program really is life-changing. I wanted to have an 'ease and flow' way of being regardless of what is happening around me. The more I ‘resource myself’ to keep my physical energy, mental focus, and mood elevated… the more I experience greater challenges as ‘blips.' And the quality of my presence is so important in every conversation I have. (Including the conversations I have with myself!)
Having access to the proven tools of ACLA and supportive coaching has been instrumental in integrating new practices into my life. I value the frequency and convenience of the online platform, along with the insightful community conversations. My commitment to being fully present is the foundation to being the best version of myself, and benefiting not only myself but also everyone around me.
The CLA is a container that creates the pause that I need to be my best version of myself! Learning and implementing together with others doing ME-search helps me grow. I am more present and a better listener because of my practice. I love the accountability and connection that CLA creates.

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Thanks to the CLA experience, I find myself noticing when I’m trigged more timely and pausing more often, increasing my ability to respond more appropriately. The presencing and mindfulness practices taught throughout the course are tools you can use. Some of my favorites are box breathing, the perfect breath, and see-hear-feel. This work has also helped me help my adult daughters overcome periods of stress and self-doubt and strengthened my relationship with them. The journey was truly a heart-opening experience, filled with a beautiful exchange of support and camaraderie among fellow participants.
I have noticed that my mind and heart have felt disconnected due to a prolonged period of stress for the past 4 years (probably longer). My nervous system has been on alert for a really long time. Conscious Leadership Accelerator brought awareness to the parts of me that need to be tended to. My heart is asking for more attention, compassion, and acceptance and I get to apply the resources shared in our Conscious Leadership Accelerator to expand my heart capacity.
In a world where we have a million opportunities to DO things that may or may not matter, I appreciated the opportunity and continual encouragement to BE myself and BE present, and ask myself 'What matters most?'... for it oftentimes is not what is on the to do list.