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There’s a consciousness revolution going on.
Last week I attended the Responsible Business Summit in NY hosted by Ethical Corporation. I also attended last year. Both years were impeccable with a host of senior corporate, governmental and international NGO leaders at the helm of unfolding a corporate sustainability and responsible business revolution. Disruption is underway. My key take away this year is- there’s a consciousness revolution going on. Twenty plus years ago I was on the front lines of environmental and social activism which led me to become and attorney- where I focused on international human rights and and then corporate law. What felt like a constant fight for common sense is finally making its way to the norm- at least a movement in the right direction. While things have changed dramatically and we now have the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Climate related disclosures and a host of other principled frameworks and standards to guide companies in the right direction, this conversation is still siloed in its own universe. Agenda 21 coming out of Rio in 1992 was a lofty UN Declaration of environmental and social factors to consider while developing the undeveloped world. This skeptic’s playground showed just where the collective consciousness was some 26 years ago. Agenda 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) agreed to by 193 UN member nations in 2015 offers a totally different opportunity to feed a new wave of consciousness mainstreaming sustainable, ethical and responsible business. Many have worked tirelessly internationally and locally for decades to prepare the groundwork for this swell. More partnerships and collaborative efforts than ever are being inspired by Goal # 17 Partnerships for the Goals (UNSDGs) Hearing Abby Maxman, CEO of Oxfam speak with Mars Global VP of Procurement, Pascal Baltussen was a highlight as they discussed their work together toward Goal #1, No Poverty.
“Sustainability targets and procurement targets must be aligned or CSR is an illusion.” Pascal Baltussen, Global Vice President Procurement, Mars The fact that ESG is now a ‘thing’ is quite remarkable considering a year ago most people in finance I asked never heard of it or said, “I heard of it but don’t know what it is.” This year many more know what ESG is and enthusiastically embrace its positive impact. Private equity institutions and investors are taking a hard stand on corporate disclosures where public policy and reporting requirements fall short. These bodies understand that risks pertaining to the environment and climate change, social justice, human rights, and poor corporate governance from the board to senior management, could pose material risks to their investments -long and short term-and infringe on their fiduciary duty to their clients, -not to mention an evolved stance on "doing the right thing." ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance factors. Companies and investor relations teams are being asked to report on non-financial data including ESG factors. The epic collective consciousness shift here is in what’s around the corner. In a few short years ESG, broadscale responsible and impact investing will be mainstream. What does this mean for the economy? How much more innovation is possible? How far are companies willing to go to comply with their own values let alone global standards carrying more weight than law? At the Responsible Business Summit New York we heard from a panel on moving toward a global standard for reporting and how these current frameworks (and others) are collaborating. Tim Mohin, CEO of (GRI) Global Reporting Standard, Richard Howitt, CEO of (IIRC) International Integrated Reporting Council, Matthew Welch, President of SASB and Sinom Messenger, Managing Director of CDSB shared on the collaborative intent of these frameworks, the mission they serve and the outcomes they desire, namely a unified global reporting standard. SASB serves a slightly different function as its focus is on operational risk with respect to financial disclosures. My overall take away from two days packed with panels and keynotes on topics from supply chain transparency, to climate finance, implementing the UNSDGs, diversity and inclusion, communicating CSR, artificial intelligence’s role in the transition, and how partnerships for the global goals are actualizing collaborative win wins for NGOs and corporate stakeholders, --- there is a consciousness revolution going on. The fact that a growing number of corporate boards are now peppered with climate scientists and integrating core ESG factors into their business strategies, is a moonshot from ten years ago. What used to be the domain of general counsel and compliance (or activist shareholders) where law, policy or materiality mandated due diligence, is shifting to a fundamental transformation in business norms and a new economy. These include:
There’s no silver bullet and thousands have been working for decades to arrive at this moment. Many millions will have to continue to unfold a new leadership paradigm of corporate responsibility and regulatory mechanics with respect to environmental, social and economic well-being. What was once a watchdog activist mission is now a lucrative opportunity. This is the collective mindset shift we’ve been waiting for. There is so much more work to do and the good news is, more and more frameworks and standards are coming into place and will ultimately mainstream, streamline and speed up this transition to a better world. And while the good is slowly being anchored, still human rights, environmental justice and economic well-being are grave issues that plague many who are part of supply chains that form our stuff. We must be vigilant and more than anything believe we can create prosperity and financial wins through better service to humanity. This is leadership for a new world. It starts with a mindset shift. If you’re organization is in this shift, and strategy, communications, leadership, mindset, compliance, or deeply embedded corporate responsibility is on the agenda, my firm is ready, able and willing to help accelerate the shift. Please reach out personally at s@intentionalparadigms.com Intentionally Stephanie Trager 
Stephanie Trager, Esq.
Chief Catalyst at Intentional Paradigms Business & Sustainability Strategist Legal Advisor, Executive Coach - ESG - CSR s@intentionalparadigms.com www.intentionalparadigms.com 541-633-7810 Leadership for a Better World *Founder Trager Law PLLC - Growing, scaling, and protecting small businesses and thought leaders as they ripple their impact.
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Are you a thought leader?
If yes keep reading... If you answered no or maybe, then let me ask you this- do you feel inside that you could be if you were just READY? If yes then keep reading... On this International Women's Day I'm honoring the women out there who are waiting to be READY. (men too) Ready is a state of mind. It's a thing we believe we have to be to be who we are. How ridiculous!!! Yet I know it all too well... I know, because I've circled through this conversation with myself a lot. For the past nine years I've been coaching entrepreneurs and executives in mindset, transitions, peak performance and wellness, leadership, communications and business. I'm super passionate about helping others live and express a meaningful life of purpose and fulfillment... AND... that's NOT my thought leadership! My thought leadership combines ALL of that AND my passion for a sustainable and economically, socially and environmentally just world. I'm building my thought leadership in this now AND notice where I'm bumping up against my edges. Thought leadership is scary because we have to be courageous to take a stand for what hasn't necessarily been done or said. When I speak to many of my clients I hear the same thing, "What I have to say is a bit unique but it's not totally new." When we dig in the truth is that positioning yourself as an expert in your field is a great first step to unfolding your thought leadership. I especially love helping thought leaders and experts combine their compartmentalized sections of brilliance to propel their impact, influence and income in a way that feels lucrative and fulfilling. You're likely highly intelligent, (I have many lawyers, executives, engineers, consultants, senior marketing folks, international change agents, evolved healers, sustainability professionals and successful entrepreneurs in my tribe) and you may be working on a book or initiative, new business or venture and you're busy. Busy breeds compartmentalizing - which is a useful skill and is also a blindspot. Blindspots hold us back from seeing what's right under our nose. We all have them. While I'm forging my path, combining my legal mojo and sustainability mission, I still --like the back of my hand-- have this knack for helping other visionary entrepreneurs and executive leaders unlock their purpose, pull out their thought leadership and create their method for delivery and scale and I keep attracting folks wanting this type of support. Soooo... We have to listen to the signs of the universe and I know there are many more out there who feel stuck in the areas I'm going to share below... HOW TO POSITION YOURSELF AS a THOUGHT LEADER OR the GO-to EXPERT in YOUR FIELD Yes you need media, yes you need a marketing strategy - AND first you need the following: When it comes to leveraging your thought leadership, methods or expertise, there are several parts, phases and stages from the vision to execution to scale.... Let me know if this inspires you - speaks to you or entices you to get clear, be ready, and take action. Take note of the 3 different words: POSITION, DELIVER & LEVERAGE -all different and all necessary. How do You DELIVER Your Expertise and LEVERAGE Your Thought Leadership? ==> ☘ YOU have brilliant ideas, a method, a system, a process or special way you deliver your expertise - the results you bring to your clients (individuals and organizations) and the world. ==> You're READY to take it to a whole new level and scale ? ==> ☘ The problem (and opportunity) I see is that so many people are waiting for some moment in the future to be ready to assert their thought leadership -when ready is merely a state of mind. --- I know what if feels like to be bursting at the seems wanting to impact the world! --- ==>? When I help people pull out their thought leadership, they realize they were ready a long time ago. It just needed structure, order and a wizard to help organize it all. ==> ☘ When we create a program or delivery method for their brilliance --to create the result intended, the next level of aha ha becomes available- ==> ? When the program or delivery becomes obvious, (or it's already there) and we create the lucrative business model to reverse engineer the outcome they want, WOW they come alive And another...ah ha! ==> ☘ Then we do some pricing mojo and bam the HOW is real. ⚡⚡ OR let's just say all of this has been done - what's next? ⚡⚡ ==> It's time to ripple the IMPACT. ==>☘ Train others to deliver your thought leadership, your method, your formula, your system - and license them - in other words - CERTIFY OTHERS in your method. Teach them how and spread your thought leadership - your message- and ripple your impact across the world? Why not you? ==> ☘ If you need clarity, strategy, visioning, or a conversation about how you can leverage your talent and scale your impact, let's have a conversation. Whether you're starting or stuck in one of these stages. ==> ☘ We help thought leaders like you, develop each stage and LEVERAGE THEIR TALENT. We go deep and wide and help with every aspect including mindset, creating your method or system, the biz model, pricing strategy, programs and offerings, business development, and even put on our LEGAL HATS to create your contracts, licensing and legal docs... ☄☄ WHERE ARE YOU ON THE SPECTRUM? ==> WHERE DO YOU WANT TO BE? ==> BOOK a COMPLIMENTARY 30 min STRATEGY SESSION <== Just Click this Link ==> Mindset ==> Thought leadership ==> Methodology ==> Your Solution ==> Your Way to Deliver it ==> Results Your Method, System or Formula Provides ==> Ripple Impact by Certifying and Teaching Others Your Method and How to Use it ==> Positioning ==> Scaling for Rapid Growth in Impact, Influence and Income *CAVEAT: If this all sounds like a lot just ignore all the details and just think: Do I want a clear and precise plan, strategy and path toward a six or seven figure revenue stream that allows me to have a GIANT impact in the world? If the money isn't part of this mission for you - then think- do I want a partner (wizard) to accelerate this journey and help me step into this power with grace and ease? AM I READY for my thought leadership to take form and fulfill my purpose driven mission and feel lucrative and aligned with my expertise? Let's have a conversation (on me) where you'll:
If that all sounds good at no cost to you and only a gain, click this link to request a complimentary 30 minute strategy session. I hope this inspires you or reminds you to think a little different about how you're going about your business, sharing your ideas, delivering your expertise, talking a bout your mission, passion or cause... I'd love to support you in this offering of a complimentary conversation. Please reach out asap! Spaces are limited.... HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE CAN YOU IMPACT? Intentionally, 
Stephanie Trager Esq.
CATALYTIC COACHING (rapid quantum growth) Intentional Paradigms BUSINESS STRATEGIST | PERSONAL BREAKTHROUGH COACH SPEAKER | ATTORNEY | MEDICINE WOMAN s@intentionalparadigms.com www.intentionalparadigms.com *Dubbed "The Shaman Lawyer Business Coach" Founder of Trager Law PLLC www.tragerlaw.net 
Would you agree much has changed in the world of personal development over the past ten years? How about five years? Rapid quantum growth infiltrates every sector including tech, sustainable development, medicine, finance and ESG, corporate social responsibility, dentistry and even sneakers! The world is speeding up-- and so is our personal evolution.
One key ingredient to manifesting and speeding up your own personal evolution when it comes to your purpose driven mission, the social impact you are destined to make, and the financial success that's possible to go with it all- with ease and grace -is BELIEF. Another key ingredient is understanding your emotional currency. Feeling stuck feels more uncomfortable than ever by the sheer gap in speed as the world moves forward. Ten years ago I wonder if you heard of Kale or paid much attention to the art of manifestation or miracles. Ten years ago I was a student of A Course in Miracles. It was 2008 that I finally understood what I started reading in 2001. Have you ever read this text? It's a non-denominational - non religious -scripture. It spells truth in complexity and love. When you read this text, if you BELIEVE it- it is hard to refute how perfectly true it is. Then again, if you BELIEVE anything it's hard to refute how perfectly true it is- unless you're willing to be open to believing even more. So what is it about? A Course in Miracles is about our power as Souls having this human experience. It's about our power as we collectively create an illusion of fear in every aspect of life. Fear of birth, fear of death, fear of standing in the truth of our value, fear of teaching what we have to learn... and the list goes on-. including the astronomical stupidity of this one, "fear of being yourself." (I've suffered from this dis-ease too) This is a sign of the level of disconnect we as a collective have bought into -all of us. And A Course in Miracles is about the truth of love and abundance that is available to us all at all times. This is the miracle. When we don't come from fear (make decisions based on) fear we experience more ease as beautiful humans sharing this beautiful Earth from a place of love and kindness. In this space, nothing is wrong with you or anyone. We're merely attached to our BELIEF that there is something wrong with us and our minds have gotten a bit out of control building fortresses that produce evidence to support this belief. A Course in Miracles sure helped me make sense of a crazy world. I started studying the text and practicing the lessons when I was in law school in Tribeca New York, when it became Ground Zero. I witnessed the entirety of 911 from 4 blocks away and ran for my life as the second tower crumbled in front of me. I had just moved back to New York City from living off the grid in Northern California, in a stunning paradise for six years and here I was in the most chaotic place I could choose. I was in shock. I needed guidance and I needed it 24/7. Using A Course In Miracles I transformed my inner world. How on earth did I write the entire narrative of 911 in my journal that August of 2001, before I left my land in California? How did I know it would happen? How could I learn how to hold the energy of my highly empathic nature and know how to discern, use, understand and leverage this gift (which at many times has felt like a curse I will be honest)? I've spend decades on this journey learning, studying with masters, shamans, medicine men and women from many different cultures to support me on this path. Many events unfolded the week leading up to 911 including that morning on my way downtown at 8:30 am that were undeniably linked to a new level of my awakening and my understanding of this world. We call these things synchronicities or flukes to keep them simple and unattended to. What if you knew you had the power to access different realms of knowing all the time and use this information for your life, your healing, your loved ones, your work and of course your strategic advantage. Our world is not just a linear plane where we experience joy and tragedy, build stuff and create our lives. It's a complex ecosystem of invisible planes waiting for us to awaken to their existence and learn how to work with them. Manipulating energy in these other planes is a gift I've learned to work with (and continue to learn as a student for life) because these other layers have made themselves visible to me and I could no longer deny them their light of day. They are there for you too. So what I"m leading to here is the strategic advantage you have when you learn how to access OTHER perceptual states to manifest miracles. This is not to say our wish is always our command. There are always many forces at play including free will of others and what's truly in our best and highest good. If we need to learn more before we can attain this thing we're working to manifest, our prayers for the thing or experience, will call in opportunities to heal, transform and breakthrough the stuff still in the way. These other experiences or opportunities can feel like roadblocks or failures. They can feel like confusion and totally defeating dead ends. Believe me I know! And it's easy to forget that it's all happening for a reason and so much more is happening in the invisible. It's not always easy. It is always beautiful if you're willing to feel what needs to be felt, see what needs to be seen and hear what needs to be heard. If you're feeling ready to access more of this invisible perceptive power to breakthrough blocks and align with even greater potential, please contact me here for a 30 minute complimentary strategy session where we'll do a laser dive and uncover some of your next best steps to moving FORWARD with BELIEF, POWER and a deeper understanding of your gifts. You see, this realm of vision - you have and can hone- helps turn problems into opportunities. A skill required for the best life ever...because perceived problems are a certainty. Your gifts? Your unique gifts are your joysticks to navigate this invisible world of information, insight, intuitive knowing and perceptive power. We all have different gifts. Some may seem the same, yet our personal experience has given us different formulas to decode our gifts and therefore they take on a different flavor. Gifts coupled with your experience and your unique purpose plus your talent and uniquely honed skills create a unique and special formula for the impact you're here to have. Miracles large and small are available to us all the time. We need to see them, look for them, receive them, and at times ask for them. We need to understand and decode them, be grateful for them and gift them upon others...the more energy and focus we give to miracles the more frequent and potent they become for us as we live a life respecting the profound miracle it all is. Now... let me introduce to you a dear friend and colleague who to me is a miracle. Meriflor Toneatto published a book called, "Money, Manifestations & Miracles: A Guide to Transforming Women's Relationships with Money" and it's launching this week (March 6, 2018). I'm so thrilled for this book to get into the hands of all women who feel the power that resides in transforming their relationship with money. Our relationship with the currency of miracles may be good and solid. And then there is money. Money is a whole OTHER currency -and one of the most -if not THE most- prevalent forms of currency in our lives. I love cultivating a life where miracles are my currency...and no matter what I do, I can't deny that Money is a more prevalent currency and it's here to stay -in paper or bitcoin, it's still money. This powerful book explains how money is an “emotional currency” and it prescribes eight Holistic Principles that help you overcome deep-seated blocks, “pay forward” your own successes, and live the life of your dreams. http://a.co/8HytaHf Here's to Miracles, Money and Manifesting - and here's to Meriflor's amazing new book, Money Manifestations & Miracles. I highly recommend grabbing your copy now... http://a.co/8HytaHf Reach out for your private free 30 minute strategy session today by clicking this link, sharing what's up for you and your contact info and we'll be in touch right away to schedule your call. Intentionally, 
Stephanie Trager Esq.
CATALYTIC COACHING (rapid quantum growth) Intentional Paradigms BUSINESS STRATEGIST | PERSONAL BREAKTHROUGH COACH SPEAKER | ATTORNEY | MEDICINE WOMAN s@intentionalparadigms.com www.intentionalparadigms.com *Dubbed "The Shaman Lawyer Business Coach" Founder of Trager Law PLLC www.tragerlaw.net
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