LEAP Connect
LEAP Connect aims to bring both needed and inspirational leadership dialogues to the community. Through a series of accessible monthly leadership conversations, trainings, networking opportunities and more, participants will build the tools and resources needed to inspire change within their personal and professional communities.
Upcoming Session
Leading from Values
Honoring Culture and Defining Your Own Path
We are shaped by a combination of values inherited from our culture and values we consciously redefine for ourselves as we navigate life and professional worlds. The cultural values we inherit can be powerful sources of strength, identity, and belonging as we move through complex environments. At the same time, they can quietly shape how we define success, make decisions, and measure our own well-being—sometimes in ways that may need to be examined to see whether they are still serving us, rather than contributing to burnout.
In this LEAP Connect session, we’ll explore what it means to lead with values that come from our cultural roots while also intentionally defining our own path as leaders in a way that is truly aligned with who we are. Through reflection and guided exercises, participants will examine which inherited values continue to support them, which may feel misaligned, and how to make conscious choices about what to carry forward.
This session is designed for leaders and professionals navigating questions of identity, growth, and sustainability—especially those balancing their personal values with the demands of life and professional work.
Participants will leave with:
• Greater clarity on how inherited values shape their leadership and well-being
• Practical reflection tools to identify values that feel aligned today
• A framework for integrating cultural roots with intentional, self-defined leadership
LEAP Connect leadership workshops are free, accessible to the public, and are intended to bring a safe space to the community. Participants can walk away from the sessions with the tools and resources necessary to increase their leadership skills and inspire change.
About Amy Mok
Amy Mok (she/her) is the Founder and Leadership & Executive Coach at Recode Leadership. She helps quiet, high-achieving leaders lead with confidence so they can be recognized and valued without changing who they are.
Drawing from more than two decades of leadership experience across engineering, public service, and coaching, Amy’s work explores how culture, identity, and values shape the way people lead and define success. Through both leadership experience and lived experience across cultures, she brings practical frameworks and personal insight to conversations about leadership, belonging, and well-being.
Amy is an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and a certified Trauma-Informed Coach. She creates reflective spaces that help people reconnect with their values, redefine leadership on their own terms, and lead in a way that is both authentic and sustainable.
2026 LEAP Connect Season
2026 LEAP Connect Season
Upcoming Sessions
September
Leadership and Longevity | Playing the Long Game
with Patti Dayleg
What does it mean to build leadership that lasts? In many mission-driven organizations, leaders carry significant responsibility for long periods of time while also supporting the development of others around them. Leadership longevity includes caring for the people doing the work and strengthening the leadership that surrounds them.
In this interactive workshop, Patricia Dayleg invites participants to explore leadership as a long game that includes personal sustainability, shared responsibility, and the cultivation of emerging leaders. Through reflection and facilitated conversation, participants will consider how leadership can be practiced as collective stewardship that evolves across time.
Participants will leave with practical ways to sustain themselves in leadership, insights on how to distribute leadership more effectively within their teams, and a broader perspective on how the work they care about can continue to grow across seasons of leadership.
October
Closing the Circle | A Journaling Practice for Reflection, Renewal, and
Intentional Leadership
with Shar Banerjee
As the year comes to a close, it can be tempting to rush toward new goals without making space to understand what the past year has taught us. In this practical, reflective session, participants will experience journaling as a leadership tool: a way to slow down, notice patterns, reconnect with what matters, and make more intentional choices about what comes next.
Through guided prompts and simple reflection practices, participants will explore what they want to carry forward, what they are ready to release, and how to turn insight into a meaningful intention for the year ahead. No previous journaling experience is needed; participants are simply encouraged to bring a notebook or something to write with.
November
Leading with Gratitude: Creating Ripples of Healing and Connection
with Jennifer Nielsen
Gratitude is often viewed as a personal practice, but it can also be a powerful leadership tool. In this engaging and conversation-centered session, participants will explore how gratitude can strengthen resilience, deepen relationships, build inclusive workplace cultures, and inspire community impact. Together, we'll reflect on the experiences that have shaped us, identify the values that guide us, and discover practical ways to extend gratitude beyond ourselves to create lasting ripple effects in our personal and professional lives.
December
Power of Pause | Setting Wellness Intentions with Purpose
with Jean Trujillo
How are you, in this moment?
This session invites you to come as you are: whether you feel called to pause or to plan, there's space for you here. Together, we'll practice mindful reflection on the experiences that shaped this past year, and explore practical intention-setting to support well-being in the year ahead. In mindfulness, cultivating awareness of the present moment, with an attitude of nonjudgment, is the practice. You're welcome to join on or off camera, sharing or simply listening, in whatever way supports what you’re needing right now.
Thank you to our LEAP Connect sponsors
