Integer Leadership Consulting

Maintaining balance between our professional and personal lives is a difficult dance. Most of us are far more familiar with being out-of-balance toward the side of our professional lives. Work responsibilities and anxieties can easily dominate our thinking and, in the process, steal the joy and hope from our personal lives. If left unattended and unresolved, this imbalance has a profound impact on our sense of internal joy and hopefulness while also affecting almost every relationship we count as precious and valuable. The slow loss of this balance, usually explained away by the words “commitment,” “loyalty” as well as the expression “the price that must be paid for professional advancement and recognition” is in reality an insidious and stealthily-disguised disease that eats away at one’s sense of worth, esteem and hope. Furthermore this chronic imbalance can actually destroy, rather than enhance, morale in the work place.

It is a rare thing to encounter a colleague or friend who, if they are honest, will not resonate with this dilemma. Most of us have been there, are there and will be there again. The question is How do we commit to our work and success while maintaining solid boundaries with our personal lives?

Jeffrey Yergler, who has taught and led numerous presentations and discussions on the matter of Building and Preserving Professional and Personal Balance in Life and Work. If your staff, team, or department is seeking to explore creative ways to address this critical topic, you are encouraged to contact Jeffrey Yergler at ILC to explore ways that his expertise and experience can match the needs of your staff and the desired outcomes for your teams. Please contact Jeff at: jdy@integerleadership.com or call at: 253-230-1024 for more information.

“We Do Not Convince by Arguments…We Convince By Our Presence” Walt Whitman

Welcome to Integer Leadership Consulting! Our approach to people, leadership and the organizations they serve and lead is based on the deep wisdom of Whitman’s thinking: Leaders change people and organizations most effectively not by argument or power but rather through their PRESENCE. We at ILC are dedicated to helping organizations and leaders craft leadership practices and processes that are based on the understanding that the PRESENCE of the leader, rather than their exercise of power and knowledge (though important) is what brings sustainable health, growth, momentum and change.

At Integer, we believe that the leader’s “Presence” or outward impact is determined first and foremost, not by competency, but by the heart and sense of “call.” This is where our consulting begins: gaining clarity, courage and conviction about who we are and what we are called to do in our personal and professional lives. Once these two questions are answered, Integer then focuses on strengthening the leader’s professional and organizational competencies. We do this by offering our own particular expertise in the following areas:

*Strategic Planning: Developing your Vision, Mission and Core Values

*Leadership Development for Trustees and Boards: Cultivating Insight for those who are ultimately responsible for the healthy stewardship of the organization, its resources, programs, people and its future.

If you would like additional information about any of the above areas of Integer expertise, please contact Jeffrey Yergler at: jdy@integerleadership.com or call at: 253-230-1024. We look forward to exploring the possibilities with you!

Changing the organizational culture of a non-profit enterprise like the Church is a complex task. If changing the culture is the result of a new strategic planning initiative, the task of culture-change is especially critical. Congregations need to understand the reasons behind the change if they are to be champions. If the strategic change is to be successfully implemented, effective congregational culture-change must be thoughtfully discussed, planned and properly executed.

Jeffrey D. Yergler has over 20 years of experience working with the Church culture. He understands how to partner with internal leadership teams and boards through all the phases of strategic planning as well as vision, mission and core-values planning.

Congregational communities as organizations are unique precisely because they are driven by their vision and mission rather than the “bottom line” (though the bottom line is important). When a Church organization needs to recast their vision and mission which then informs their strategic planning processes, it is imperative that they spend the necessary time examining their passions and commitments, why they need to change and most importantly, their “willingness to change” This important work then lays the foundation for confident and momentum-building strategic and large culture change.

If your Church is ready to launch into strategic planning and you need the expertise of an experienced facilitator to successfully (and objectively) move through the process, please contact Jeffrey D. Yergler at jdy@integerleadership.com or call at 253-230-1024. Please contact Integer early in your discussion in order to avoid potential scheduling conflicts.

Providing leadership for a non-profit organization requires many unique competencies and perspectives. It is not the same as leadership in the for-profit arena. The primary motivation for effective leadership in the non-profit comes from within the person. There must be a powerful source of intrinsic motivation in the non-profit leader or board if the organization is to thrive and grow rather than merely survive. Non-profits are capable of expanding and increasing their influence if the leaders of those non-profits are committed, collaborative, collegial and entrepreneurially motivated.

If your non-profit board or leadership staff is planning a retreat to rethink how it trains and develops its leaders or reexamine what leadership philosophy or model it wishes to embed in the organization into the future, contact Jeffrey D. Yergler to facilitate your discussion.

If your board has dedicated a one- or two-day retreat to explore and develop it’s leadership philosophy and leadership practices in recruitment and development, please contact Jeffrey at Integer Leadership Consulting at jdy@integerleadership.com or call at 253-230-1024.

Clearly, we live in a culture where most of us attach little or if any meaning to the importance of our work. We have become bored with and weary of our work, see little meaning in it beyond the paycheck and, as a result, try to find ways to simply “get through the day” so that we can really do what we want “after we leave the office.”

As a leader, how do you create meaningful work? Is there a connection between the quality and significance of our work and our spiritual identity and connection? The answer is “yes”…there is a vital connection between the two. Within the last 10 years, a number of books have been written addressing the critical connection between our work and our spiritual grounding. Parker Palmer’s excellent work, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, is one of the very best. Palmer’s book, and many other’s like his, unashamedly address the fact that if we can see our work as a calling we will be able to discover new fulfillment and joy where once there was only boredom and monotony.

Jeffrey Yergler has been studying and speaking on the growth of this work-call connection over the last 15 years. There is an exponentially growing need, according to Jeff, for executives, managers, team leaders, trustees and boards to explore how this connection can change the work culture and the people within that culture. In a way that is non-threatening, inclusive and highly interactive, Jeff can provide your staff with a thoughtfully informed exploration of the work-call connection. Whether this is your first foray into a topic you feel has become vital to your work culture or if you want to go deeper into the understanding of how the work-call link can transform people, work cultures, products and services, you will want to contact Jeff and explore how his work with your leadership core can open the door to new levels of commitment and performance…the by-products of a heart that is connected to the mind and the hands.

For more information about an ILC symposium on Vocation as Call, please contact Jeff Yergler at: jdy@integerleadership.com or call at: 253-230-1024.

Clearly, we live in a culture where most of us attach little or if any meaning to the importance of our work. We have become bored with and weary of our work, see little meaning in it beyond the paycheck and, as a result, try to find ways to simply “get through the day” so that we can really do what we want “after we leave the office.”

As a leader, how do you create meaningful work? Is there a connection between the quality and significance of our work and our spiritual identity and connection? The answer is “yes”…there is a vital connection between the two. Within the last 10 years, a number of books have been written addressing the critical connection between our work and our spiritual grounding. Parker Palmer’s excellent work, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, is one of the very best. Palmer’s book, and many other’s like his, unashamedly address the fact that if we can see our work as a calling we will be able to discover new fulfillment and joy where once there was only boredom and monotony.

Jeffrey Yergler has been studying and speaking on the growth of this work-call connection over the last 15 years. There is an exponentially growing need, according to Jeff, for executives, managers, team leaders, trustees and boards to explore how this connection can change the work culture and the people within that culture. In a way that is non-threatening, inclusive and highly interactive, Jeff can provide your staff with a thoughtfully informed exploration of the work-call connection. Whether this is your first foray into a topic you feel has become vital to your work culture or if you want to go deeper into the understanding of how the work-call link can transform people, work cultures, products and services, you will want to contact Jeff and explore how his work with your leadership core can open the door to new levels of commitment and performance…the by-products of a heart that is connected to the mind and the hands.

For more information about an ILC symposium on Vocation as Call, please contact Jeff Yergler at: jdy@integerleadership.com or call at: 253-230-1024.

Why INTEGER Leadership Consulting?

The word INTEGER is the Latin word for WHOLE. The underlying philosophy of ILC is that Leadership that grows people and organizations begins from a place of inner wholeness. There are four dimensions to this inner wholeness:

Effective Leaders have a teleology (sense of ultimate purpose) that compels them to serve others.These leaders know “why they are here” and this sense of ultimate purpose is reflected in their passion for growing people, creating healthy organizations and contributing to the local and global community. They are less occupied about their own agenda and focus instead on an agenda that advances people, purpose, values and vision…all of which directly impact the culture and performance of the organization.

Effective Leaders lead from a place of competency and knowledge. Because they lead from an informed core…their center…these leaders are men and women who offer sound, solid and consistent leadership to those they lead and serve. Furthermore, they have the inner capacity and resources to restore and rebuild people and organizational synergy.

Effective Leaders lead from a place of inner moral soundness. Because they are clear on the soundness of their convictions, beliefs and values and the importance of living their convictions, Integer-based Leaders are consistent, balanced, unbiased and impartial in conversation and action. Their actions are not based on maintaining power or popularity but on what is needed and necessary to advance the welfare of people and the mission of the organization.

Effective Leaders continually seek and experience inner renewal. These leaders search-out ways to keep themselves restored, refreshed and spiritually focused. They understand that their ability to lead hinges on their ability to be continually and systematically renewed in their inner being. They are always learning…always enhancing and broadening their ability to contribute. They never “arrive.”

First Choice Selections:

# Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins
# Good to Great, Jim Collins
# Leadership On The Line, Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky
# Guiding Growth: How Vision Keeps Companies On Course, Mark Lipton
# Practicing Servant Leadership: Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery, and Forgiveness, Larry C. Spears
# Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossiday and Ram Charan
# Leadership and the New Science, Meg Wheatley
# Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power & Greatness, Robert K. Greenleaf
# Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline, Kim S. Cameron
# Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
# Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
# Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker Palmer
# Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time, Meg Wheatley
# Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life, Laura Nash
# A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in a Time of Anxiety, Edwin Freedman

Second Choice Selections:

# Clear Leadership: How Outstanding Leaders Make Themselves Understood, Cut Through the Mush, and Help Everyone Get Real at Work, Gervase R. Bushe
# Appreciative Inquiry: An Emerging Direction for Organization Development, David L. Cooperrider
# Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy & Commitment, Kenneth W. Thomas
# Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches
# How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
# Business As A Calling: Work and the Examined Life, Michael Novak
# Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Joseph Jaworski
# Ethics: The Heart of Leadership, Joanne Ciulla
# Leadership: Theory and Practice, Peter Northhouse
# To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, Parker Palmer
# Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, William Bridges
# Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar H. Schein
# Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World, Chris Lowney

Third Choice Selections:

# The Stirring of the Soul in the Workplace, Alan Briskin
# Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
# Leadership Without Easy Answers, Ronald Heifetz
# Maslow On Management, Abraham H. Maslow
# The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management, Jerry B. Harvey
# A Guide for the Perplexed, E.F. Schumacher
# The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
# Leading with Soul: An Uncommon Journey of Spirit, Lee G. Bolman
# First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, Marcus Buckingham
# The Wisdom of Teams, Jon R. Katzenbach
# The Congruent Life: Following the Inward Path to Fulfilling Work and Inspired Leadership, C. Michael Thompson
# The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas McGregor
# Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Robert E. Quinn
# Saving the Corporate Soul: Eight Principles for Creating and Preserving Integrity and Profitability without Selling Out, David Batstone

Fourth Choice Selections:

# Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, Lee G. Bolman
# Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership, Larry C. Spears, Edt.
# Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom, Chungliang Al and Jerry Lynch
# That Active Life: Wisdom for Work, Creativity and Caring, Parker Palmer
# The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Peter Senge
# Leadership Challenge, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
# Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham
# Presence, Peter Senge et al.
# The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Steven Covey
# Why Business People Speak Like Idots, Fugere, Hardaway & Warshawsky

Dr. Jeffrey D. Yergler

Jeffrey D. Yergler has served in the non-profit sector for over 20 years. He has provided leadership in three large non-profits in Texas, Florida and Washington. He has consulted for both non-profits and for-profits in areas such as leadership development, strategic planning, team building and performance, conflict resolution, MBTI and team development, governance and organizational performance.

Jeffrey received his BA in Psychology from Westmont College, his Masters from Fuller Theological Seminary (MDiv) and his Doctorate (DMin) from Columbia Theological Seminary. He is currently a PhD candidate in Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He received his certification in Organizational Development from the National Training Labs (NTL) for Applied Behavioral Science in 1997. Jeff has served as an adjunct instructor at Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA) in the Bachelor of General Studies Accelerated Program in Organizational Leadership, at Highline College in Nonprofit Leadership, Management and Supervision, at the Command University at the Puget Sound Navel Shipyard, and at Seattle University (Seattle, WA) in the MBA program of Albers School of Business and Economics. Jeffrey is a faculty member at Olympic College (Bremerton, WA) where he serves as professor and lead faculty for Organizational Leadership and Resource Managment.

Jeffrey’s areas of specialization include: Leadership Development, Conflict Resolution, Servant-Leadership, The Myers-Briggs and Team Performance, Strategic Planning, Vision and Mission Development, Nonprofit Organizational Leadership, and Nonprofit Board Development. He has published articles relating to Leadership and Resilience, Executive Leadership and Posttraumatic Growth, Volunteering and Executive Leadership, Spirituality and Leadership, Forgiveness and Leadership, Leadership and Resilience, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Jeffrey has three incredible amazing sons: Jason who is a senior in college, Jordan who is a junior in college and Jamie who is a senior in high school.

Integer Leadership Provides Servant-Leadership Coaching for Boards, Executives and Management

Coaching leaders is a critical process for two primary reasons. First, the character, style and beliefs of the coach are crucial…a point easily missed by those responsible for choosing executive and management coaches. Coaching is not only about content and philosophy that underlies the coaching. It has everything to do with who the coach is, what she believes about people, potential and value. Second, the philosophy of the model for coaching is equally important. An executive coach might be a persuasive and charismatic personality but the model the coaching is based upon makes the critical difference.

Jeffrey Yergler is an exceptional coach and trainer who works with Trustees, Boards, Executive Leadership, Managers and Teams using Greenleaf’s leadership philosophy of Servant-Leadership. Three one-day retreat formats are available:

*The Essential Characteristics of Servant-Leadership

*Choosing the Servant-Leader model for your Organization’s Leadership Development Philosophy: Why and How Servant-leadership changes people and the organizations in which they serve

*Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness in the Organization

For more information about any of these three offerings or, if you are interested in having Jeffrey Yergler lead and facilitate your leadership retreat, please contact him at: jdy@integerleadership.com
or by calling: 253-565-3039