Build Cultures People Never Want to Leave
Leaders today are overwhelmed, teams are disengaged, and organizations are struggling to adapt.
The Sixth Level helps leaders and companies build trust, connection, and performance through human-centered leadership.
Coaching • Consulting • Team Transformation
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WHAT WE DO
Transforming Leaders and Organizations Through Human Connection
The Sixth Level provides research-backed, psychologically grounded leadership development for individuals, teams, and organizations.
Our work turns disengagement into accountability, conflict into collaboration, and chaos into clarity.
We deliver transformation through three core service paths:
Individual Leaders
Executive Coaching & Leadership Development
For leaders who want to master adaptive leadership, elevate human connection, and sustain high engagement while eliminating burnout and quiet quitting.
You’ll learn how to:
- Build trust and psychological safety
- Improve emotional intelligence
- Navigate conflict with clarity
- Lead teams through change
- Develop a sustainable leadership mindset
Perfect for:
New leaders, seasoned executives, founders, and high-potential rising talent.
For Teams & Organizations
Consulting, Culture Work & Organizational Alignment
When your culture is strained, your team is stuck, or your strategy needs alignment, we help you reset, rebuild, and move forward.
We help teams:
- Reduce turnover and burnout
- Build healthy communication and accountability
- Break down silos and increase collaboration
- Strengthen leadership alignment
- Create a culture where people want to stay
Engagements are custom-designed for organizations of all sizes.
For Events & Groups
Keynotes, Workshops & Retreats
Bring the principles of The Sixth Level to your conference, leadership meeting, or organizational retreat.
Experiences include:
- Leadership keynotes
- Team-building workshops
- Multi-day retreats for executive teams
- Custom training programs
Inspiration and practical tools leaders can use immediately.
HOW WE WORK
The Sixth Level Framework
The future of leadership is about people – not power. It’s connection, trust, growth and shared purpose.
Sixth Level leadership creates the conditions where people feel seen, valued, and motivated to contribute.
Our model keeps pace with YOU as your leadership responsibilities expand.
Our approach blends:
- Organizational social-psychology
- Neuroscience of motivation
- Relational theory
- Decades of executive experience
- Real-world business results
This is leadership where humans thrive — and organizations grow.
Real Stories. Real Results
Third Federal: From Layoffs to Loyalty
How a values-first bank built a culture no one wanted to leave.
Before: In an industry known for restructuring and layoffs, Third Federal was no different until leadership chose a radical shift.
After: Eliminating layoffs entirely, keeping turnover under 5%, and prioritizing internal growth based on alignment with core values, even during massive disruptions, they found ways to protect both people and purpose.
The Sixth Level in Action
This is leadership grounded in justness, mutuality, and ingenuity. It works.
Vitamix: Blending Purpose Into Performance
How a legacy brand grew 400% by putting people first.
Before: Vitamix was a small, family-owned business in a market dominated by corporate giants.
After: CEO Jodi Berg led a cultural reinvention — driven by purpose alignment, shared vision, and deep trust. Employee engagement soared. The company quadrupled in size. And even during COVID, the culture held strong.
The Sixth Level in Action
This is intrinsic motivation at scale — and the blueprint for resilient growth.
Karen Grasso: Rebuilding Trust. Reclaiming Potential.
One public service leader’s transformation of a struggling division.
Before: Karen inherited a low-performing team with low morale and high turnover.
After: She rewired her leadership using the Sixth Level principles: creating development plans, listening deeply, and building mutual accountability. The result? A high-functioning, collaborative team that consistently won new work — and trusted one another to deliver.
The Sixth Level in Action
Leadership rooted in equity and empathy changed everything.
The Book That Started the Movement
- A historical perspective, practical leadership examples, and reflective questions that improve your leadership approach and prompt you to grow personally and professionally as a leader.
- A new model of leadership firmly based in social psychology and history that provides an understanding of the social forces from which leaders emerge.
- Strategies and techniques that can be learned by all leaders to support sustainable and profitable organizations.
- A how-to guide for ambitious leaders hungry to shape a better
The Sixth Level
The Sixth Level is more than a book. It’s a leadership roadmap that drives innovation, trust and sustainable success.
The Collaborative
Our team blends deep psychological expertise with real-world business leadership. We understand how humans work — and how organizations succeed.
Meet the Team
The Sixth Level Collaborative is more than a service—it’s a transformative partnership. Grounded in the core principles of mutuality, justness, ingenuity, and intrinsic motivation, the Collaborative is where leaders, teams, and organizations come together to do the real work. Through coaching, consulting, keynotes, retreats, and workshops, we challenge the status quo and guide you into deeper alignment—with your purpose, your people, and your potential. This isn’t about surface-level fixes; it’s about shifting culture, amplifying leadership, and unlocking the kind of sustainable change that ripples across systems. Whether we’re in the room for one hour or walking alongside you for six months, the Sixth Level Collaborative meets you where you are—and moves with you toward what’s next.
