Leadership Breakthroughs
Free Interactive Training & Networking Workshops for Business Leaders
Transform how you lead, communicate, and connect with others.
Join us for a series of free, highly interactive, one-hour Zoom workshops designed to help you grow personally and professionally.
Through experiential exercises, meaningful conversations, and authentic networking with other business leaders, you'll gain practical insights and skills you can immediately apply in your work and life.
Upcoming Free Workshops
Join us for a series of free, highly interactive, one-hour Zoom workshops designed to help you develop practical leadership skills, gain new insights, and connect authentically with other business leaders.
Explore our upcoming workshops below, with additional topics and sessions coming throughout 2027!
The Coaching Breakthrough: Bringing Out the Best in Your Employees
Thursday, January 21, 2027 | 8:30–9:30 AM Hawaii Time | 10:30–11:30 AM PST | 1:30–2:30 PM EST
Free • Live on Zoom
Great leaders don't just tell employees what to do—they help them discover how to succeed. Effective coaching can transform how employees respond to challenges, take ownership of their performance, and develop their potential. In this highly interactive, one-hour session, you'll explore how to: •Coach rather than direct: Help employees discover solutions instead of simply telling them what to do. •Give constructive, encouraging feedback: Address performance challenges while building confidence and motivation. •Build trust and accountability: Create relationships that empower employees to take ownership of their growth and performance. Discover practical coaching approaches that bring out the best in your employees while making you a more effective leader.
Executive Presence Breakthrough: Transform Your Thinking, Transform Your Results
Thursday, February 18, 2027 | 8:30–9:30 AM Hawaii Time | 10:30–11:30 AM PST | 1:30–2:30 PM EST
Free • Live on Zoom
What if the greatest opportunity to transform your executive presence isn't changing how you act, but becoming conscious of the thoughts and beliefs that drive your actions? Often, it's not the situation itself, but our unconscious thoughts and beliefs about it that determine how we feel, behave, and respond. In this highly interactive, one-hour session, you'll learn a powerful method for becoming conscious of—and transforming—the thoughts and beliefs that shape your executive presence. Discover how to: Recognize unconscious patterns: Identify the thoughts and beliefs about yourself, others, and situations that influence your emotions, behaviors, and results. Transform limiting beliefs: Learn how to challenge and change old patterns of thinking that no longer serve you. Choose more empowering responses: Discover how changing your thinking can transform how you feel, communicate, and act—leading to greater confidence, authenticity, and effectiveness. When you transform your thinking, you transform your executive presence—and your results.
The Feedback Breakthrough: The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
Thursday, March 18, 2027 | 8:30–9:30 AM Hawaii Time | 11:30–12:30 PM PST | 2:30–3:30 PM EST
Free • Live on Zoom
What if giving and receiving feedback could become an opportunity to strengthen relationships, build trust, and inspire growth—rather than create discomfort, defensiveness, or conflict? Feedback is one of the most powerful tools we have for personal and professional development. Yet many of us find it challenging to give feedback honestly and constructively—or to receive it without becoming defensive, discouraged, or reactive. When we become more conscious of how we give and receive feedback, we can transform these conversations into experiences that foster greater understanding, connection, and empowerment. In this highly interactive, one-hour session, you'll discover how to: Give feedback that empowers: Learn how to communicate honestly, clearly, and constructively in ways that encourage growth, strengthen relationships, and inspire positive change. Receive feedback with openness and confidence: Become aware of unconscious reactions that may limit your ability to hear and benefit from others' perspectives. Transform feedback into connection and growth: Discover practical approaches that build trust, encourage authentic communication, and create opportunities for mutual learning and development. When we transform how we give and receive feedback, we transform ourselves and those around us.
The Accountability Breakthrough: How to Build—or Lose—Trust and Credibility
Thursday, April 15, 2027 | 8:30–9:30 AM Hawaii Time | 11:30–12:30 PM PST | 2:30–3:30 PM EST
Free • Live on Zoom
What if becoming more conscious of how you show up in your relationships could dramatically increase the trust, credibility, and effectiveness you experience as a leader? Every day, through our words, actions, and interactions, we influence how others experience us. Sometimes we strengthen trust and credibility, and sometimes we unknowingly diminish them. The exciting opportunity is that when we become aware of these patterns, we gain the freedom to make new choices that strengthen our relationships and leadership effectiveness. In this highly interactive, one-hour session, you'll discover how to: Recognize what builds or diminishes credibility: Explore how everyday behaviors and interactions influence the trust others place in you. Experience the power of personal accountability: Discover how taking ownership of your choices and actions can create greater freedom, authenticity, and empowerment. Strengthen trust and relationships: Learn practical ways to build credibility, deepen connections, and become a more effective leader. The more conscious we become of our choices and actions, the more freedom we have to create the trust, relationships, and results we want.
More Leadership Breakthroughs Coming in 2027
More exciting workshops are on the way! Explore the topics below and check back as new dates are announced.
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The Executive Presence Breakthrough: Speak with Clarity, Presence, and Heart
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The Listening Breakthrough: The Secret to Being Heard Is to Listen First
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The Leadership Breakthrough: How to Support Your Team AND Senior Leadership—Without Choosing Sides
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The Conflict Resolution Breakthrough: How to Bring Up Concerns So Others Will Listen—and Change
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Executive Presence & Authenticity: The Power of Being Real
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Executive Presence & Connection: How to Connect Authentically with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
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The Interviewing Breakthrough: How to Hire for Values Without Getting into Legal Hot Water
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Understanding Yourself and Others: Discover the Power of DiSC Behavioral Styles
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Communicating with Different Personalities: The Power of Understanding DiSC Styles
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The Self-Compassion Breakthrough: Why Self-Care Isn't Enough
What Makes Leadership Breakthroughs Different?
These aren't traditional webinars where you sit and listen for an hour!
Each Leadership Breakthroughs session is a highly interactive, experiential training designed to help you become a more conscious, authentic, and effective leader.
You'll experience:
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Personal discoveries: Gain insights into unconscious patterns of thinking and behaving that influence how you lead, communicate, and relate to others.
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Practical leadership skills: Learn approaches you can immediately apply to workplace challenges, relationships, and everyday leadership situations.
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Meaningful networking: Connect authentically with other business leaders through engaging conversations, shared experiences, and interactive Zoom breakout groups.
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Real transformation: Experience a taste of the deeper personal and professional growth available through my half-day and two-day leadership programs.
Think of it as leadership development, meaningful networking, and personal growth—all in one hour!
Meet Your Facilitator
Dan Messinger
Founder, Transforming Executive Presence
For more than 30 years, Dan Messinger has helped leaders, teams, and organizations become more conscious, authentic, empowered, and effective.
Through his transformational leadership workshops, conflict resolution programs, and executive coaching, Dan helps people recognize unconscious patterns of thinking and behavior so they can make conscious choices about how they communicate, lead, and relate to others.
His clients have included Google, Facebook, HP, IMAX, Caterpillar, and Sargento.
Known for his highly interactive and experiential approach, Dan creates environments where people feel safe to explore, discover, grow, and connect authentically with others.
His passion is helping people transform themselves—and, in doing so, transform their relationships, leadership, and organizations.
Join Us for a Leadership Breakthrough!
Whether you're looking to strengthen your leadership skills, navigate workplace challenges, or connect meaningfully with other business leaders, there's something here for you.
Each workshop is free, highly interactive, and designed to help you make discoveries you can immediately apply in your work and life.
Join us for one workshop, several, or the entire series. We'd love to have you!