The point is Joy.
For you, your organization, and the world.
The equation is simple.
You + Purpose = Joy.
Aligning around Purpose?
That's the art and science.
That's WHY we're here.
is founded on the idea that pursuing a world-benefiting purpose produces better results in business and life than any other pursuit. Purpose engages and energizes both employees and customers, maximizes creative, collaborative problem-solving, and increases joy, bottom line.
Contact us with questions, to explore how we can work together, or for a free initial consultation.
CONTACT♡, Inc.'s mission is to increase joy in the world and reduce suffering connected to fear-infected systems by helping leaders courageously embrace and live out of their hearts.
To get started, let's schedule a free consultation to explore your current challenges, goals, and needs and how ♡, Inc. might be able to serve you best.
+ LEADERSHIP ENGAGEMENT | + ALIGNMENT
Using the natural planning model as a framework, your leadership team is equipped to clarify and grow in alignment around your organization's (or current project's) core purpose and key principals, envision successful outcomes, brainstorm, organize ideas, and identify next actions. Strategic Planning Facilitation typically happens in the context of an off-site planning retreat or over a series of on-site meetings.
+ CLARITY | + ORGANIZATIONAL ENERGY
Purpose Consulting is a collaborative process beginning with discovery with key leadership team members and stakeholders to identify and clarify the true motivation at your organization's heart - its WHY - followed by a comprehensive Alignment Analysis of core values, structures, processes, and organizational habits, resulting in an Alignment Roadmap to help you chart a successful path forward.
+ MOTIVATION | + INSPIRATION
Leadership Workshops are dynamic opportunities to create shared understanding and build alignment for teams around the role of Purpose in your organization. Customized for your needs, workshops address topics such as employee engagement, motivational stages, the role of purpose in removing fear from organizational culture, collaborative conflict, empowerment marketing, and building customer & stakeholder loyalty.
Jesse worked with us to facilitate a year-long strategic planning process that helped us articulate our purpose, affirm our values, and identify our priorities for the upcoming year. Jesse was skilled at leading us through the process, giving us tools to succeed, and leaving space for us to lead the work ourselves.
Jesse helped our leadership team identify a strategic mission to shape our direction for the coming years, making our work much more efficient and focused on critical, meaningful goals. Throughout the process he made sure our team was comfortable and happy, which created not only better results and saved us all time and energy, but also created a more connected team that understands each other better and improved our abilities.
Jesse helped our team find our why: the purpose behind our work. His facilitation skills made the process fun while also supporting us as we sought the truth. Having language for our purpose and core values has unified our team and strengthened the work that we do.
Jesse Wilson is such a delight to work with, his professional insights are invaluable. He has been instrumental in shaping my professional worldview, defining my business objectives, and shaping how I communicate with clients, and most importantly “why” I communicate with clients.
Markell M.
Washtenaw County Food Policy Council
Jason F.
Local Food Summit, Washtenaw County
Amanda S.
The Farm at St. Joes, Trinity Health
Megan G.
New Growth Associates
♡, Inc. is founded on the idea that sustained and sustainable joy matters for every organization, and that if we thoughtfully and strategically organize around that kind of joy, everything else falls into place. The organization thrives at every level, and benefits multiply for everyone connected to the organization, within and without.
At the center of every joyful organization is an inspiring and compelling purpose, shared by every member of the organization. More and more research demonstrates that pursuing a meaningful purpose that benefits others produces better results in business and life than any other pursuit, including the pursuit of profit. Leaders who have the courage to let purpose be the driving motivation at the heart of their organizations find multiplying benefits for their business (in the form of consistently better decision making, more energized, collaborative, loyal employees, long-term profitability, and an organizational culture of joy), benefits for the world (in the form of more effectively and sustainably meeting the needs of stakeholders), and benefits for the bottom line (whatever your bottom line happens to be).
♡, Inc. is Jesse Wilson (that's me) and a team of supporters who believe in our mission to increase joy in the world by helping people courageously embrace and live out of their hearts & to help reduce suffering connected to fear-infected systems. As a pastor for nearly 20 years, followed by a transition to organizational consulting and executive coaching, Jesse has decades of life coaching and senior organizational leadership experience, helping leaders and teams thrive in pursuit of purpose.
Beginning with organizational and leadership discovery, together we will come to a deep understanding of your most important goals and current challenges. We will identify and clarify your organization's purpose, promise, and benefit (or, as Simon Sinek calls it, your WHY). We will do an alignment analysis to determine how your current people, processes, and tools are aligned to that purpose. We will develop an actionable, achievable plan to set you and your organization on a courageous path to fuller alignment with the things that matter most to you - what we call a roadmap to joy. Because joy has unparalleled business value.
♡, Inc. also provides personal and leadership/executive coaching for individuals looking to live, lead, and grow in greater alignment with the things that really drive and fuel them. (See below for a link to more information about the coaching side of ♡, Inc.)
Contact me today to begin exploring how we can help you experience the energizing joy of living and leading out of the best things in your heart that make you who you are.
Jesse Wilson
Founder
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In the beginning...
"I didn't choose the thug life. The thug life chose me." - Tupac Shakur
I'm not sure how much Tupac and I have in common (although I did have a brief and now-comical rapping stint in Northern Ireland when I was 19), but those lyrics capture something of how I came to be where I am now. Maybe even something of how all of us came to be where we are now.
Before launching ♡, Inc., I was a pastor for nearly 20 years, and loved it. I loved helping people get the most out of life. I loved helping people work together to make a difference. I loved spending every day doing something that mattered to me.
I had no idea THAT would lead to THIS.
But it did.
And I'm glad that it did.
The thing that changed everything, really, was an idea that showed up along the way. An idea the people with whom I worked - and lived, and loved - taught me and helped me get to know. It makes work joyful, relationships freer, life more connected to reality. If we have enough courage to take this idea as far as it wants to go, it could actually make the world better in all kinds of ways.
The idea is pretty simple, really. Instead of trying to distance ourselves from our vulnerability by chasing the appearance of strength (which is ultimately a futile, exhausting, fear-filled pursuit), we explore the courageous path of embracing vulnerability and living out of the truest things in our hearts.
It re-integrates us and leads to thriving, joyful, collaborative communities. It helps us recapture the best of what it means to be child-like. Wonder, courage, purpose, and joy paired with experience, maturity, and intelligence.
I have faith that if we can lead and live out of the best things in our hearts - the purpose we get the most joy from pursuing - we can change the world. Starting with our own lives, and the lives of the people who pursue a common purpose with us, and the lives of the people our organizations make a difference for. If we can make space in our organizations for people to work together without any manufactured fears in the system, the benefits of purpose multiply and together we can solve even the world's most difficult problems.
Our hearts tell us we might be on to something. All kinds of research agrees. Let's take a leap of faith and see what kind of incredible things might happen. Wouldn't that be worth waking up for every day?
So that's why I'm on this path. And maybe why you are too.
Maybe the thug life chose all of us, once.
But it's never too late to choose the child-like life.
I'm in. Let's help each other write the next chapter of our stories.
To be continued...
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