“Your calling is not just what you do—it’s the impact of what you do and how you lead.”
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What does it mean to live your calling?
Destiny
Duty
Disposition
Model adapted from: Conversations About Calling: Advancing Management Perspectives p153. Valerie L. Myers, Ph.D. Copyright © 2013 All Rights Reserved
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​​Many people think of a calling as their career, purpose, or passion—but a true calling is deeper. It's the ongoing work of creating value by how you live, lead, and serve.
Living your calling means meeting challenges and complexity while honoring your duty to standards, fulfilling your destiny to make a difference, and cultivating a disposition that sustains you along the way.
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At its best, a calling becomes a positive force that benefits not just yourself, but others. It elevates leadership from merely producing results to creating meaningful, lasting impact—guided by wisdom, care, and fairness.
"Your calling is work that positively transforms you, your work, and the world around you."
But in the rush of daily demands, many leaders and organizations lose their connection to calling. However, that connection can be renewed.
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Through coaching, retreats, and leadership programs, I help individuals and organizations reconnect with their duty, clarify their destiny, and strengthen the disposition needed to build cultures where virtue and value thrive together.
Why calling matters to organizations​​
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Employee Engagement is the fruit of a calling, which sustains motivation, enhances performance, and improves the quality of goods and services.
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​​Ethical Leaders & Followers foster trust and collaboration, essential elements for innovation, problem solving and growth.​​​
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Economic Competitiveness flourishes when people in all professions live their calling.
Reconnect to your calling ​​
When individuals and organizations pursue work as a calling, they create value with virtue. Leadership becomes more than achieving results—it becomes the sacred work of achieving with wisdom, care, and fairness.
Yet, many leaders lose connection to their calling—distracted by competing demands, burnout, or shifting priorities. But that connection can be renewed.
Through coaching, retreats, and customized leadership programs, I help individuals and organizations reconnect with their duty, clarify their destiny, and strengthen their disposition and culture so that virtue and value thrive together.
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If you’re ready to explore what it means to live—and lead—your calling, let’s start a conversation.
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Each seminar or coaching session is designed to move you from insight to action, with concrete steps to help you create value with virtue.
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Understand how duty, disposition and destiny interact to influence your journey.
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Learn research-based tools to assess the alignment of your personal calling with organizational goals.
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Create a more humane and sustainable culture of capitalism.
Your Calling to
LEADERSHIP
Live Your
CALLING
Fulfill Your Calling to Leadership
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Your calling transcends ambition and status; it's a sacred responsibility to create a culture of care, collaboration and flourishing. Learn how exemplary leaders use their gifts to have a positive impact on followers, the organization and society.
What you will learn & do
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Learn frameworks for ethical decision-making
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Apply strategies to create a caring culture of excellence.
Live Your Calling
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The world needs you to live your calling! Wherever you are on your journey, you can discover steps to become more fruitful and experience the joys of full engagement. Learn skills to live your calling with vigor.
What you will learn & do
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Identify obstacles & overcome limiting beliefs.
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Revitalize your approach to work.
Who this is for. . .
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Mission-driven Organizations
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Established Leaders
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Emerging Leaders
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High Potential Talent
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Secular / Not Religious
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Interfaith
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Christian
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Professional Groups & Teams
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Early & Mid-Career Workers
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People in Transition
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Young Adults
Why I do this work...
I became intrigued by the idea of calling while working in the corporate world. I had a great career that was aligned with my interests, valued my skills, enabled me to use them, and provided amazing growth opportunities amidst good colleagues and plentiful rewards. I felt fortunate to be paid to do my work even with "thorns and thistles" of work. But I realized that something was missing.
That ennui led me to research what it truly means to have and live a calling. Surprisingly, that quest has taken me to graduate school, across disciplines, and around the world.
"In the process, I've discovered ancient wisdom that speaks to the challenges our times."
I hope that sharing those insights will encourage and equip you with tools for your journey, wherever it may lead. That is part of my calling!
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I invite you to read my academic book, "Conversations About Calling", business case, and to contact me to discover ways that you can fulfill your calling and elevate your life's work.
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Valerie
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