Claiming your leadership gift
How? By understanding and applying The Responsibility Process® to consistently deliver results that matter in work and life.
Every day I see smart, ambitious professionals who feel trapped living lives they don’t want and feel powerless to change.
When you can shift your mind to the resourceful state of Responsibility, you open up and allow yourself to see new solutions to problems where you previously felt totally stuck.
By owning your power and ability to create, choose, and attract, you’ll become a better leader personally and professionally.
It seems so simple, doesn’t it? Then why isn’t everyone doing it? It turns out that studying Responsibility on your own is like trying to quit smoking in a house full of smokers. It’s like trying to lose 400 lbs., by yourself, with no support.
You and I are deeply entrenched in cultures (and mindsets) of Blame, Justify, Shame, and Obligation. It surrounds us. We breathe it everyday.
Tens of thousands of people have learned about The Responsibility Process. But when they try to apply it by themselves, they become disillusioned and quit. Trying to master Responsibility by yourself is too steep a climb for most people.
Smart, ambitious professionals are addicted to unhealthy coping patterns that prolong problems and produce unhappiness. We’ve been conditioned our whole lives to cope. Yes, you probably have a coping habit — along with most people in the world. And you are very good at it. I know. I was there too.
After spending 8 years partying and wasting my life away in college, I DID actually graduate with a speech degree … I was headed nowhere. I realized I wasn’t happy with my life but I didn’t know how to change it. So I set out to find something to help me reach my potential.
Now, I hold a PhD in Organizational Science. I’ve written two 5-star books, collected 28 years of applied research on responsibility from the front lines of corporate leadership. I’ve shared The Responsibility Process on 4 continents through Corporate Leadership Seminars with high-powered CEOs and VPs, keynotes at major conferences, master classes, coaching, books, and my websites and blog. The Responsibility Process poster has been translated into 28 languages.
Christopher Avery, PhD
However, what’s much more important is that I’m living exactly the life I want, doing the most important work I know, and enjoying amazing relationships. Thanks to my Responsibility practice, I’m living with exceptional levels of freedom, power, and choice.
Immerse yourself in a Responsibility culture to counteract the coping culture you live in now. That’s what I did. Just like learning any new practice (such as meditation, or even agile development), it is invaluable to have the structure and support of a guide and fellow travelers to help you go deeper, faster.
I don’t want to see you coping with the same “just okay” life and work a year from now, when, with a little investment on your part, it could be “Great!”
I developed a proven solution for this—Responsibility Immersion. We employ the best addiction-breaking, habit-changing tools available to break and change old habits of mind, change your behavior and—most importantly—change your results.
I’ve invested more than 28 years not just understanding The Responsibility Process and tools, but developing the best way for high-performing professionals to rapidly build a Responsibility practice and change their lives.
Responsibility Immersion is a 20-week semester that you can integrate into your life. Nothing will have more impact on your future.
Each module takes you deeper into how your mind works and shows you how to take charge of yourself and your relationship to the world around you.
I’ve created an environment where we can all learn from and help each other make breakthroughs. We meet together at least 4 times every month on group coaching calls for 20 weeks. And we interact every day in our private forums.
If you are ready to take charge of your life and feel what it means to have real FREEDOM, POWER, and CHOICE every day… you’ll want to become a Certified Responsibility Immersion Graduate. No other program even comes close to delivering the same results.
In fact, I’m so confident that you’ll see life-changing results, I guarantee it. If you participate fully in the 20-week Immersion and you still don’t know how to claim your Leadership Gift, I’ll refund 100% of your investment.
If you’re truly committed to making a change in your life… If you’re committed to reaching your full potential, register for the next Responsibility Immersion today. You’ll thank me.
For Responsibility Immersion
The First Module
Within Weeks of Practice
8 Core Modules, 90 minutes each, every other Wednesday for 16 weeks, plus 4 bonus weeks to practice the methods, use the tools, and review, while staying connected with your cohort and the practice community. Learn all of the precision tools, practices, models, and leadership truths required to navigate The Responsibility Process and lead yourself and others to Freedom, Power, and Choice. Core Modules (and Q&A Dialogs, below) are delivered live via Zoom web-conference so they are interactive. You’ll be face to face with other students and faculty. All Core Modules and Q&A Dialogs are recorded for your convenience in case you have to miss a live session.
Participate in question-driven Q&A Dialog web-conferences on alternate Wednesdays. You set the agenda for these meetings with your questions. Why? The psychology of Responsibility is relatively straightforward, but applying it to your specific situation is a skill you’ll develop only with practice There are thousands of distinctions for you to make. Q&A Dialog calls allow you to get direct coaching just-in-time, exactly when you need it.
The Responsibility practice community conducts Application Mastery calls that are not recorded. We dive deep into real-life situations and apply the tools to solve actual problems. Your Immersion course includes up to 7 Application Mastery calls. You won’t want to miss these — you’ll learn so much from listening to others get coached, and will have the opportunity to be on the “hot seat” yourself.
The worldwide practice community shares progress, takeaways and asks and answers questions 24/7 in the Forums. You’ll have access to the Forums through your Immersion registration for the full 20 weeks.
When you register, we’ll send you a link to subscribe to our shared calendar so you can plan your semester.
All meeting times are 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. USA Central Time (usually 18:00-19:30 Central European Time depending on time changes in the USA and Europe). Calendar changes are rare, yet they do happen. You will be notified well in advance so you can plan.
| WEEK | DATE | DAY | EVENT |
| 1 | 29 Jan 2020 | Wed | Kick-off with Core Module 1: Lead Yourself First |
| 2 | 5 Feb 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 1 |
| 3 | 12 Feb 2020 | Wed | Core Module 2: Committing to Own It |
| 4 | 19 Feb 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 2 |
| 5 | 26 Feb 2020 | Wed | Core Module 3: The Will to Win |
| 6 | 4 Mar 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 3 |
| 7 | 11 Mar 2020 | Wed | Core Module 4: Changing the Game |
| 8 | 16 Mar 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 1 |
| 18 Mar 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 4 | |
| 9 | 25 Mar 2020 | Wed | Core Module 5: Facing Reality |
| 10 | 30 Mar 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 2 |
| 1 Apr 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 5 | |
| 11 | 8 Apr 2020 | Wed | Core Module 6: Addressing the Real Problem |
| 12 | 13 Apr 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 3 |
| 15 Apr 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 6 | |
| 13 | 22 Apr 2020 | Wed | Core Module 7: Evolving Your Responsibility Practice for Life I |
| 14 | 27 Apr 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 4 |
| 29 Apr 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 7 | |
| 15 | 6 May 2020 | Wed | Core Module 8: Evolving Your Responsibility Practice for Life II |
| 16 | 11 May 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 5 |
| 13 May 2020 | Wed | Q&A Dialog 8 | |
| 17 | Catch up and Review and Practice | ||
| 18 | 25 May 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 6 |
| 19 | Catch up and Review | ||
| 20 | 8 Jun 2020 | Mon | Application Mastery 7 |
USD $2,500 payable by credit card at once or in four equal monthly installments
(American Express, Visa, Master Card, Discover)
To register 5 or more from the same company, contact us for discount pricing and invoicing.
Immersion is a 20-week guided study via live Zoom Conference so you can meet up with other members of the community and benefit from multiple points of view, dialog, learning, blending strengths, and a shared sense of ownership. This community is changing the world.
You will also be invited to four or more calls each month, two for Core Modules, two for Q&A, and (in the final 10 weeks) two for Application Mastery (where the real work happens). In Application Mastery, members take turns in the “hot seat.” The host — a Responsibility master — helps members break through their current biggest issue to newfound freedom, choice, and power. This is how we turn coping into growing.
As part of our community, you also get access to our private group forums and regular calls hosted by other group leaders who are Coaches, Mentors, and Masters of The Responsibility Process.
You can complete it in 16 weeks. We allow you a 25% buffer, i.e., 4 more weeks. So you have 20 weeks to complete Immersion and apply for your Certification.
We promise hiring managers that this Certification stands for proven results and demonstrated abilities, and we will deliver on that. You’ve got this -- if you are willing to do the work.
To earn recognition as a Certified Responsibility Immersion Graduate, you will:
Paying the registration fee DOES NOT ensure that you will be certified. Participating full-on in good faith, doing the work, and claiming your very own innate Leadership Gift (by demonstrating profound changes in your life) DOES ensure certification.
We’ve got you covered. As a registered participant in Immersion you will be offered an exclusive limited-time opportunity to upgrade your participation to full membership in The Leadership Gift Program. You will then be able to complete the requirements for Certification on your own schedule as well as accelerate your mastery in a group of like-minded amazing peers from all over the world.
Responsibility Immersion (aka “Immersion”) is a new offering that spun out from The Leadership Gift Program (aka “Mastery”). Immersion is an immersive 20-week growth experience designed for you to claim your Leadership Gift and become a Certified Responsibility Immersion Graduate so you can produce results that matter for yourself and others. Mastery is an invitation-only membership community designed for graduates of Immersion who want to take advantage of the upside in their life mastery that is still available to them.
You are in for a treat. Yes, Christopher Avery, Ph.D., your host and Master Teacher (and CEO & Founder of The Responsibility Company), will be one of your many amazing guides. And, Christopher hand-picked an international faculty for you comprised of accredited Coaches and Practitioners in The Leadership Gift.
Because they are real people with real Responsibility practices who have made profound changes in their lives. Consider the value of being immersed with a diverse international faculty. You get to study with leaders and coaches who have been studying and practicing Responsibility for various lengths of time. They aren’t all professional Responsibility teachers like Christopher. You might find it difficult to relate to Christopher’s 28-year practice, yet you can completely relate to Craig Dial’s 3-year practice.
No. Another semester will start soon. Join our notification list below to be the first to know when registration opens.
Your situation describes most of our members -- the busiest people in the world. That's why we require no expensive and time-consuming travel to courses, and we offer flexible eLearning options for most of the Immersion requirements, including online self-paced resources, downloadable resources for use offline, forums available 24/7 wherever you are, and frequent live calls for checking in, getting expert support, and breaking through stuck points.
We recognize this limitation. That's why all web-meetings except the Application Mastery web-meetings are recorded and posted in the Immersion library for 24/7 access.
Participation is about convenient access when you want it. No one attends every call.
We choose a consistent schedule convenient to the Americas and Europe. As we grow, we will add more calls at different times.
The bottom line is that you will have to show up live to 4 of 7 Application Mastery calls. See the schedule above for those dates.
Responsibility Immersion is brand new. You will be in the first cohort. So we can’t tell you who else will be in your cohort, but we can tell you who is likely to be in your cohort. They will be similar to the members in The Leadership Gift Program (aka, Mastery).
Membership in Mastery is 2/3 Male and 1/3 Female.
We range from age 23 to 60 with most between 30-50.
The majority of members are in the USA, Canada and Europe (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK) with a few in Australia, India, Thailand, South Africa, and South America.
Titles include:
The program earns a 9.4 (out of 10) net promoter score measured at 16 weeks after joining.
Yes. That's why we are organized as an eLearning community. It is highly interactive through live calls and forums. We surround you with others who are changing the same habits of mind.
Discuss with your employer the benefits to your business:
Remind them there will be no travel costs, travel time, or time away from work. Negotiate whether you participate on your own time or on your employer’s time. Either way, make the web-calls a high priority.
As you grow and make progress, keep your employer informed of the new value you are adding to the business.
Also consider this: Given that it activates your Leadership Gift which you will use to transform your life over and over until -- well, until! -- Immersion is incredibly affordable and accessible to individuals who want to invest in their own development. We suggest that you make the investment in yourself so you have full ownership of the benefits.
Employers find Responsibility Immersion to be an effective leadership development investment for their employees. Here is what we've learned from 10 years of The Leadership Gift Program:
In a word, yes.
Many managers have sponsored employees in The Leadership gift Program and will do so in Immersion. They report that it is exceptional personal & leadership development. The results are clear in terms of the employee exhibiting:
Mostly what we hear is that the employee just starts showing up differently. They are:
Yes. Two unique guarantees:
First, if in the first 30 days of participating in Responsibility Immersion you discover that it is not what we represent it to be, tell us where we misled you and we will refund 100% of your investment.
Second, if you participate fully in the 20-week Immersion and you still don’t know how to claim your Leadership Gift, we’ll refund 100% of your investment.
Yes! The Project Management Institute (PMI) awards Immersion graduates 30 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) — that's half of the the 3-year requirement to maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP) or all of the required CEUs to maintain your Agile Certified Professional (PMP-ACP) designation.
Graduates have successfully claimed Professional Development Units (PDUs) with several other professional organizations. And don't forget to add your participation and certification to your LinkedIn profile to stand out among other professionals and candidates.
Developing a Responsibility practice is the single most important step you can take to further your career, leadership ability, and ability to operate from freedom, power and choice in all aspects of your life.
Our mission is to empower the world with these transformational Responsibility tools.
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