We guide your team and assist you in reaching your most important business objectives.  We achieve dramatic results in expanding trust, communication and  improving  processes to accelerate high performance, focus, prioritization and deliver strong financial results.

We begin by understanding your business and the culture that exists today.  We collect both qualitative and quantitative data by interviewing and surveying your team. Using the Denison Culture Model, we measure the important traits of Mission, Consistency, Involvement, and Adaptability and link them back to your business objectives to create a strategic approach to building your culture.

Live Bright Now guides your leaders and employees through an alignment process identifying new possibilities for your organization and your team. We help you identify the gaps between where you are and what is possible for your organization.

Ignite Action

We help uncover underutilized strengths within your organization. Live Bright Now will develop an implementation plan to close the cultural gap and create an internal nomenclature, shared objectives, behaviors and outcomes to improve individual and team performance.

Involve and Personalize

We involve employees in decisions, learning and innovation. Our humanistic approach to business builds trust and engages hearts as well as minds. By involving everyone we optimize results, engagement and results. We create a bridge from possibility to execution which becomes a dynamic plan that responds and delivers to the business environment, your people and your vision.

What can we learn from our messes?

A quote from Robin Roberts yesterday at the Women’s Conference in LA.  She said that is what her mother told her as a child and that is the reason that she went public with her whole breast cancer story. Her honest sharing during the struggle endeared us and helped so many people heal along with her. This is a great reminder that sometimes sharing our messes and frailties is so much more authentic than having things all buttoned up.  I’m going to reflect today on the messes that I have created, the lessons that I have learned and enjoy the freedom of the truth.  How about you?

We begin by understanding your business and the culture that exists today. We collect both qualitative and quantitative data by interviewing and surveying your team. Using the Denison Model, we measure the important traits of Mission, Consistency, Involvement, and Adaptability to expand our vision of what is possible and to accelerate the achievement of measurable business objectives.

Live Bright Now guides your leaders and employees through a process of self-discovery, identifying new possibilities both for your organization and in their own lives. We help you identify the gaps between where you are and what is possible for your organization.

Ignite Action

We help uncover untapped or underutilized strengths within your organization. By connecting and aligning your people to your vision and mission, igniting productivity, satisfaction and purpose.

Live Bright Now will develop a plan to close the cultural gap and create an internal nomenclature, shared objectives and outcomes for the team to work toward.

Involve and Personalize

We involve employees in decisions, learning and exploration. Our humanistic approach to business builds trust and engages hearts as well as minds.

By involving everyone we optimize engagement and results. We create a bridge from possibility to implementation which becomes a dynamic plan that responds to the business environment, your people, and your vision.

Why It Matters

Involved employees deliver excellence and results. They innovate, they collaborate, they initiate and they stay with the company. Leading brands and businesses begin by creating a great place to work and inspiring their teams to live into their brightest futures.

Our partnership with Live Bright Now on culture development including mission and vision creation has been invaluable. Through the use of very easy and practical tools, Live Bright Now has helped our organization create a culture of open dialogue and also lay the foundation and direction for where we want to go in the future.
– J.L, VP of Marketing & eCommerce, 2-2010

In a day and a half we accomplished what would have taken us months to do… we emotionally, physically and intellectually came together to have multiple “ah ha” moments which were critical for understanding where we are so that we could finally start to move in a unified direction toward accomplishing results. It enabled us to have self insight in a group setting. Both Candra’s spirited and focused energy, and her facilitation, was impressive and highly valued by myself and my team.
– C.S., VP General Manager, Major Boutique Hotel Company, 2-2010

After a devastating layoff, Candra helped me to believe that the opportunity would arise for me to do exactly what I had been missing in my life. Within a month of being laid off I was on my path to a new and exciting career – the one that is right for me. Within 3 months I landed in a new position, and the layoff seems to have been a gift.
– Executive Coaching Client, 12-2009

Working with Candra gave me the tools and motivation to track my progress and move my company ahead. Since that time, my business has doubled and I am exactly where I want to be.
– D.M., CEO of Software Startup, 1-2010

1. Listening is at the source of customer and associate interactions. More listening and less talking!

2. People are played to their strengths, rather than working on their weaknesses.

3. The mission and vision of the company genuinely inspires the team.

4. Everyone from the executive suites to the janitor Walk the Talk. There is not a separate set of rules for executives!

5. Social and environmental responsibility are the point of entry, not the latest program.

6. Investing in and developing people never gets cut from the budget.

7. Associates are involved in decisions that effect their work.

8. Innovation and creativity are encouraged from all levels of the organization.

9. Transparency: There are no internal corporate secrets.

10. Loyalty is earned by how people are treated at all levels of the organization.

Live Bright Now is certified to utilize the following tools
and certifications in creating lasting cultural shifts in organizations:

Denison Culture Model is a set of diagnostic surveys, rooted in research linking organizational culture and leadership to performance outcomes.  The assessments measure the traits of Mission, Consistency, Involvement, and Adaptability.  The Denison model and diagnostic surveys help organizations align culture and leadership to accelerate the achievement of goals. Accurately diagnosing specific areas of strengths and weaknesses is the first step in the change process and directs the individual, group or organization towards specific targets of action. The Denison approach helps build accountability into the change process by enabling you to track and monitor your progress towards desired improvement goals over times. Certified Facilitator.

Leading The Speed of Trust, written and developed by Stephen M.R. Covey.  A comprehensive program to improve trust in all levels of an organization, leveraging the key leadership competency of the new global economy. Certified Facilitator.

Martha Beck Certified Life Coach. Certified by one of the world’s leading life coaches and authors! At the heart of Martha Beck’s coaching philosophy is the idea that clients have the keys to their right lives and our job as coaches  is to help. As Martha says, “If you’ve spent more than ten minutes talking to a client and you haven’t changed that client’s life for the better, you’re not a Martha Beck coach.”

I was lucky enough to help the amazing team at Ingram Barge to ignite their teams at four Leadership Retreats early this year.   I’ve never met a company who did more to walk their talk. They have values, integrity, heart and true family values.  I shared a climbing story which they used as an analogy for achieving their own objectives.  They launched Sustainability Summits for 2009 and are  looking honestly at their business and reducing their environmental impact.  They are exploring what it means to be green in the transportation business.   Who knew that the quiet giant in Nashville, Tennessee would be so darn serious about doing the right thing.  The best companies take the time to step away from their business and establish big summits for the team to achieve.  But companies like Ingram Barge take the time, effort and money to involve the hearts and minds of their teams and to show them what it means to everyone on the team.  Involvement and true commitment….yes even in these times.  Now , more than ever.  Kudos to Ingram Marine Group and to the entire leadership team.  They are a company to watch.  www.ingrambarge.com.