ANCHOR: A Human-Centered
Professional Development Program
What is ANCHOR?
For most of us, career reflection and development often get pushed aside by daily demands. But meaningful growth—whether it’s stepping into leadership, redefining your work, or recovering from burnout—requires time, intention, and support.
That’s why we’re opening up ANCHOR to individuals. Previously available only to organizational clients, ANCHOR is now accessible to professionals who are ready to invest in their growth. This is more than a course; it’s a guided journey to clarify your values, strengthen your voice, and take strategic action in your work and life.
Whether you’re navigating career uncertainty, preparing for a new role, feeling misaligned with your current organization, or seeking to lead with more clarity and purpose, ANCHOR equips you with the tools, language, and reflection space to move forward, with intentionality.
What ANCHOR Offers You
ANCHOR is a professional development program designed to support career resilience and direction. You’ll develop a deeper understanding of your work patterns, navigate organizational challenges, and build the emotional and strategic tools necessary for sustainable growth.
This program is ideal for individuals who are:
- Facing transitions in their professional life—voluntary or otherwise
- Reassessing their role, values, or leadership style
- Struggling with boundaries, burnout, or unclear expectations
- Seeking to speak up, lead more effectively, or better align their career with personal values
By the end of the program you will:
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Reconnect with what truly motivates and sustains you in your career
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Build stronger, more effective relationships at work
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Strengthen your leadership voice—whether you’re an emerging leader or a seasoned executive
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Shift from urgency and burnout to clarity and alignment
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Feel more confident navigating interpersonal and organizational power dynamics
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Develop greater emotional resilience in times of change and uncertainty
“Human-Centered Practices are profound, taking people on a deep journey of exploring change, emotions, and their human experiences. Everyone–leaders, employees, and organizations–needs help managing change and navigating everything we are facing today. We need all the tools we can get. Human-Centered Practices are a set of life-altering skills that elevate your thinking so you can grow, expand your mindfulness, relinquish your ego, and embrace vulnerability.
Chief People Officer, Retail Company
Program Highlights: What to Expect
- Four 90-minute interactive and facilitated virtual sessions designed to help you dig deep, reflect, plan, and implement.
- A small cohort of learners to build relationships, share and practice together, all with individualized support.
- Workbook, handouts, and other tangible takeaways to document your ongoing development.
- The option to further personalize your experience with one-on-one coaching* with MJ Mathis following each session for individualized processing, targeted strategizing and planning.
Each session builds your capacity, with practical tools and reflective exercises that support real-time application in your work and career path.
“I used to believe that you couldn’t do much about conflicts at work, but my belief system has changed. I believe now that we can absolutely make things work together, even when we don’t see eye to eye.”
Ready to invest in your future?
Enroll before August 15th for Early Bird Pricing!
Schedule and Program Structure
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Upcoming: September 11, 2025 11am PT – 12:30pm PT
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Session 1: Identity & Deep Listening
Establishing meaningful professional relationships starts with understanding yourself and others. This session helps you examine how your identity shapes your experiences, in and out of work. The Tools for Deep Listening equip you to listen with greater awareness, especially in disagreement, which is key to effective collaboration and leadership. You’ll gain:
This session lays the foundation for deeper self-awareness and relationship-building, preparing us to examine the power dynamics that shape our relationships in the next session.
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Upcoming: September 25, 2025 11am PT – 12:30pm PT |
Session 2: Power Dynamics & RelationshipsPower dynamics shape every workplace relationship. This session explores our beliefs about power, how power dynamics are shaped by role and identity, and how you can use your agency to build relationships grounded in respect and fairness. Understanding power helps you lead and influence with intention. You’ll gain:
This session prepares you to work with your own emotional responses to power and conflict in the next two sessions.
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Upcoming: October 9, 2025 11am PT – 12:30pm PT |
Session 3: Exploring EmotionsEmotions impact performance, relationships, and decision-making at work (even though we’re told to leave them at the door). In this session, you’ll learn to use emotional insight to guide your actions, using it as supportive data to signal what you need. You’ll gain:
With a clearer understanding of power dynamics, this session helps us recognize how external systems and internalized beliefs shape our emotional responses. This emotional awareness is essential as we move into Inner Agility, where we learn to act on our emotions with purpose rather than reactivity.
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Upcoming: October 23, 2025 11am PT – 12:30pm PT |
Session 4: Inner AgilityLeadership today demands adaptability. This final session integrates everything—identity, emotion, power, and purpose—so you can move through your career with clarity and conviction, even in uncertain environments. You’ll gain:
This session builds on the last by shifting from awareness to action—helping us harness emotional insights to make values-aligned decisions.
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“As a Black woman leader, I’ve been socialized to make others comfortable, but my team is actually trying to make me comfortable too. But I want to live in my own integrity, not be made comfortable. I learned to be very conscious of the space I created for disagreement, and for myself to do an internal check. I needed to ask myself, Am I doing this as a leader now? Am I listening or not listening because I’m feeling uncomfortable? Is someone afraid to make me uncomfortable? Am I not giving honest feedback because I’m afraid of discomfort?
Chief Executive, Global Nonprofit
Is ANCHOR for you?
Early Bird Pricing ends August 15th!
(25% off!)
Why ANCHOR? Why Now?
Because professional growth doesn’t happen on autopilot. With the foundation of Human-Centered Practices, you’ll be better prepared to navigate complex conversations and relationships, and build the safety and stability you need in the face of increasing uncertainty.
ANCHOR is your opportunity to stop, reflect, and chart a course toward a more fulfilling, values-aligned career—with tools that last well beyond the final session.
Our ANCHOR curriculum is research-based, piloted and refined in-house and in work with clients across 20 industries in corporate and non-profit settings over the past 15 years.
Enroll Now
Early Bird Pricing (25% off!) ends August 15th!
Inquire here about employer sponsorship and group rates. Please include your contact information in your message.
*One-on-One Coaching Add-on
- 4 virtual 60-minute strategy sessions, scheduled after each group session
- Individualized goal-setting and progress-monitoring (ex: develop your career narrative, hone your leadership vision, plan for an upcoming important conversation, strategize your next career move, etc.)
- Additional “Reach Out” coaching calls for in-the-moment questions or advice to keep you moving toward your goals
Inquire about One-on-One Coaching to support a more personalized experience.
Please include your contact information in your message.
“I loved one-on-one processing sessions with MJ. We started every conversation acknowledging that this is long-term work and that we wouldn’t solve everything in one session. But by the end of the hour, she had taken some very complex issues and helped me move forward. She challenged me to see where I did and didn’t have the power to make a change, and to be vulnerable in expressing what I need. Going forward, I plan to be an example of what I’ve learned, to be the change myself, and to share with others that if you see the human side first, we can do great work together.
Senior Paralegal, Law Firm
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