The workplace has fundamentally changed, and leadership practices must evolve with it. Employee expectations have shifted beyond compensation alone. For the first time in 22 years, work–life balance outranked pay as the top motivator for workers globally (Randstad, 2025). Employees increasingly expect autonomy, flexibility, respect, and supportive leadership—not simply higher wages.
Employee well-being has also become a critical workplace issue. More than 76% of U.S. workers report at least one mental health condition, and 84% attribute at least one symptom to workplace factors (U.S. Surgeon General, 2022). Today, 81% of employees actively seek employers that offer mental health support (APA, 2022). Managers also play a critical role: Gallup estimates leaders influence up to 70% of the variance in employee engagement.
Despite this evidence, many organizations still rely on leadership models that treat people as resources rather than relational human beings within complex systems.
This session introduces a Human-Centered Leadership approach that prioritizes relationships, emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and well-being as strategic drivers of performance. Participants will explore a Workplace Health Continuum—from toxic to thriving cultures—and learn practical tools to assess organizational climate, identify early warning signs, and build environments that strengthen trust, engagement, and retention.
Learning Objectives:
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Explore the continuum of organizational health and indicators of toxic to thriving workplaces.
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Assess where their organization currently falls on the Healthy Workplace Continuum—from toxic to thriving—and identify early indicators of workplace distress or flourishing.
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Identify practical, relational strategies to build Human-Centered Cultures, resulting in increased leadership effectiveness, trust, psychological safety, employee well-being, engagement, and retention.
About our speaker:
Lacy brings over 20 years of government and organizational consulting and 10 years of leadership development experience across industries, offering an insightful combination of tried and true, research-based leadership development practices and innovative approaches to transformational and healing-centered leadership. Lacy has three master's degrees, is a Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator, an ICF Trained Coach, SHRM-SCP, and is currently finishing her dissertation in Leadership and Human Resource Development at LSU.
As a member of executive teams in startup businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies, Lacy brings with her lived experience of running organizations as well as coaching other executives to improve performance of leaders, teams, and organizations.
In her current role as the Executive Director of the Leadership Development Institute at LSU, Lacy leads the direction and implementation of strategies; including operations, business development, strategic partnerships, and client delivery.
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ATDBR strives to align our programming with the ATD Capability Model. This workshop supports the "Impacting Organizational" Capability.
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