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About Michele Lisenbury Christensen
About Sara Harvey Yao
About the 12 Elements of Power
Company Origins
About the Company
Working with Power is an international consulting, training, and coaching firm dedicated to helping people and organizations leverage the 12 Elements of Power™. Our programs help clients ranging from Fortune 100 executive teams to start-up entrepreneurs get mindblowing results with surprising ease and less stress.
We elevate company cultures by transforming individual cultures: we teach individuals to work in a way that doesn’t deplete them but gets the results they most want. Our work with thousands of leaders and their teams have taught us that using all 12 Elements of Power™ effectively is the key to creating better results at work AND more fulfilling lives.
About the 12 Elements of Power
The 12 Elements of Power are the framework that explains how people work… or don’t. It spells out the innate skills and capacities each person possesses. The Elements are both descriptive and prescriptive – they offer explanation and guidance for a dazzling range of problems our clients face, from leadership challenges to relationship stress to chronic depletion, and more. Elements are helpful on a tactical level. In a larger sense, they reveal the longstanding patterns that keep us re-creating the same situations. And at their most profound level, each Element is an archetype for the themes that run through our lives and relationships. Because they work on all these levels, the 12 Elements have rocked the worlds of thousands of people since 2005. You can learn more about them here.
Company Origins
Our company was formed through the merger of Sara Harvey Yao & Company and Lisenbury, Inc., which had been the professional service firms owned, respectively, by Sara Harvey Yao and Michele Lisenbury Christensen. Working with Power encompasses the capabilities of both firms and has allowed the principals to both continue their distinct individual work with clients and develop trainings and consulting offerings that are now delivered by a licensed facilitators across the U.S. and in the UK.
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