Meg Manke

Meg Manke has years of experience in leading through transition. From major changes in highly-regulated industries to managing through $100M acquisition, Meg has refined skills in understanding people through change. Her studies in organizational psychology and mastery in leadership concepts ensure that your people are taken care of. Period.

Meg has a passion for helping others realize their full potential - breaking down social and personal barriers - changing their story. Her innate ability to recognize opportunity in weakness and present a strategic solution is unprecedented in today's business world.

Meg is a ranch kid from western South Dakota, where she still puts in a hard day's work on the family place. Ranch life gave her sticktoittiveness, passion for family and outdoors, and maybe a touch of stubbornness. Meg is an avid runner, an advocate of the well-rounded education of youth, and a major supporter of finding humor in all things.

Partnering with Dr. Rachel MK Headley at the Rose Group Int'l, they developed the critical, new (and practical) iX leadership framework which allows you to actually solve problems in your team, address generational issues, guide people through big changes, and accomplish your most ambitious goals.

iX Leadership: Design an Exceptional Internal Experience

It’s time for the next powerful new leadership style: iX Leadership. iX Leadership is a style that focuses on developing the Internal Experience of the staff in an organization. By designing an exceptional iX, leaders will solve a host of other challenges, such as revenue, customer satisfaction, retention, on-time delivery, and others.

iX Leadership begins with the identification of Culture Types in the organization. Using this knowledge, innovation, change, and transformation can be implemented more quickly and effectively.

An understanding of Culture Types and how they deal with change provide leaders with insightful solutions on how to implement change, resolve issues, and win in business.

Paired with iX Leadership: Create High-Five Cultures and Guide Transformation.

Culture Types: Overcoming the Barrier of Generational Differences

A lot of attention has been focused on differences in how different generations like to work. But, if you really look at it, we all know diligent young people and techie retirees – despite generational “norms” that tell us they shouldn’t exist.

In our experience, we see barriers between the senior leadership and younger staff – but it rarely is simply because of generations. It’s often because of the processes in place that we have to get things done that are different, too.

Culture Types is a intuitive and powerful tool to use to break people out of their he said/she said mentality and refocus on shared goals and find ways to get things done in new and exciting ways.

The #1 Killer of High-Performing Teams: Unspoken Conversations

Unspoken conversations are the root of misunderstands, hurt feelings, a sense of unfairness. When there aren’t needed conversations, people just make stuff up. And, the made-up stuff is often incorrect.

It’s shocking how fast things turn around once you have the Conversation. People don’t want to feel awkward and unhappy, so once we have the conversations that need having, everyone pivots very quickly to working together. Long-lived misunderstandings have been resolved in a single session.

Training to watch out for and address Unspoken Conversations will support your team, your mission, and your business and make you stand out as an exceptional leader.

Innovation from Within: Don’t Throw Away Your Best Opportunity for Innovation.

When we think about our own actions, we, as C-Suite leaders, are comfortable (even eager) for change. We love to disrupt an industry or bring a new technology to bear on an old problem or find a new group of people to support. It’s dynamic and interesting and attention getting (and money making).

Keeping your people in that intellectually creative space is what will serve your organization the best. Your team will be willing to take on new things much easier, and they will have more fun, and be more excited to keep pushing. These tools are the most powerful tools that you can have in our ever-changing world.