Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™

$295.00

How Leaders Challenge Weak Systems Without Becoming Reckless, Hostile, or Performative

A live online leadership seminar for executives, managers, HR leaders, People and Culture leaders, and emerging leaders who need to challenge avoidance, strengthen accountability, and lead with disciplined authority.

Many organizations do not fail because they lack values, strategy, or leadership language.

They fail because leaders learn how to protect comfort when the organization most needs truth.

A difficult conversation is delayed. A standard is softened. A manager avoids correction. A high performer absorbs the cost of weak accountability. An executive makes an exception that weakens trust. HR is asked to clean up what leadership did not confront earlier.

Over time, the organization learns the real operating rule.

The stated values matter until they become uncomfortable.

This live seminar applies the Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ model developed by Jim Woods. Participants learn how to challenge weak systems responsibly, strengthen accountability, and act from principle without becoming reckless, hostile, or performative.

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How Leaders Challenge Weak Systems Without Becoming Reckless, Hostile, or Performative

A live online leadership seminar for executives, managers, HR leaders, People and Culture leaders, and emerging leaders who need to challenge avoidance, strengthen accountability, and lead with disciplined authority.

Many organizations do not fail because they lack values, strategy, or leadership language.

They fail because leaders learn how to protect comfort when the organization most needs truth.

A difficult conversation is delayed. A standard is softened. A manager avoids correction. A high performer absorbs the cost of weak accountability. An executive makes an exception that weakens trust. HR is asked to clean up what leadership did not confront earlier.

Over time, the organization learns the real operating rule.

The stated values matter until they become uncomfortable.

This live seminar applies the Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ model developed by Jim Woods. Participants learn how to challenge weak systems responsibly, strengthen accountability, and act from principle without becoming reckless, hostile, or performative.

Why This Seminar Matters

Leadership credibility is not built when everything is comfortable.

It is built when leaders can name reality, protect standards, challenge avoidance, and act with discipline when silence would be easier.

Too many organizations normalize avoidant leadership. Managers delay correction. Executives tolerate exceptions. Teams work around unresolved behavior. HR becomes the cleanup function. Culture becomes shaped less by stated values and more by what leaders repeatedly allow.

Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ gives leaders a practical way to challenge those patterns without becoming combative, impulsive, or politically careless.

This is not leadership rebellion.

It is disciplined challenge in service of stronger accountability, better standards, greater trust, and more credible execution.

What Participants Will Learn

Participants will learn how to recognize when leadership alignment is protecting the wrong thing.

They will learn how to challenge weak patterns without becoming reckless, hostile, or performative.

They will learn how to separate principle from preference, truth from harmony, and accountability from vague encouragement.

They will learn how to apply pressure constructively when managers delay correction, executives tolerate exceptions, or teams normalize avoidant behavior.

They will learn how to protect standards while still preserving dignity, fairness, and professional judgment.

They will leave with a practical structure for identifying one leadership pattern that needs to be challenged and one disciplined action they can take after the seminar.

Who Should Attend

This seminar is designed for leaders who are expected to strengthen trust, performance, standards, accountability, and culture.

It is especially relevant for:

Executives who need to strengthen leadership discipline across the organization.
Managers who are responsible for performance, conduct, standards, and team credibility.
HR leaders who need language for challenging permission-based accountability and leadership avoidance.
People and Culture leaders who need to connect values, behavior, and consequence.
Organizational development leaders who work on culture, leadership systems, and execution.
Emerging leaders who want to build principled authority before they inherit larger roles.

This seminar is not designed for leaders looking for inspiration alone. It is designed for leaders who want a practical model for challenging what is no longer working.

Seminar Agenda

Part One: The Leadership Comfort Problem
Why organizations often protect harmony, delay, and politics when they most need clarity.

Part Two: What Insurgent Leadership Really Means
How disciplined nonconformity helps leaders challenge weak systems without becoming reckless or oppositional.

Part Three: The Seven Disciplines
A practical introduction to principle before preference, truth before harmony, standards before sympathy, authority before permission, pressure without recklessness, accountability with consequence, and courage with discipline.

Part Four: Applying the Model
How leaders identify one avoidant pattern, name the real issue, apply constructive pressure, and take disciplined action.

Framework Used in This Seminar

This seminar applies the Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ model developed by Jim Woods.

The model is built around a clear premise: leadership fails when comfort becomes more protected than truth.

Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ helps leaders challenge normalized patterns that are no longer defensible. It gives leaders language and structure for protecting standards, confronting avoidance, strengthening accountability, and building trust through disciplined execution.

What Participants Receive

Participants receive a practical seminar guide and application tools they can use immediately after the session.

These include:

Principle-Centered Leadership Diagnostic™
Constructive Challenge Map™
Accountability Pressure Grid™
Seven Disciplines Reference Guide™
Ninety-Day Leadership Action Prompt™

Participants who complete the live seminar receive a Certificate of Completion from Seattle Consulting Group.

Program Details

Program: Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™
Category: Leadership Development
Format: Live online seminar
Length: Two hours
Investment: CA$295 per participant
Certificate: Certificate of Completion included

Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. MT | 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. MT | 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET

Registration is limited to preserve discussion, application, and participant relevance.

Attendance Guarantee

If you attend the seminar and do not believe it is relevant to your leadership responsibilities, Seattle Consulting Group will refund your registration fee.

This guarantee applies after live attendance.

Led by Jim Woods

Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ was developed by Jim Woods, CEO and President of Seattle Consulting Group, author of HR Unchained, architect of the Authority-Based HR Model™, and creator of the Woods HR Power Model™.

Jim brings more than three decades of experience across human resources, organizational development, leadership development, manager accountability, workplace performance, employee relations, and practical people-decision training.

His work has supported leaders, managers, HR professionals, and frontline teams across corporate, government, military, education, and public-sector environments, including Fortune 500 and national organizations.

Jim holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources. His work focuses on practical leadership systems, clearer decision rights, stronger manager accountability, and more credible people practices.

The Core Idea

The organization does not need more leaders who can preserve comfort while problems mature.

It needs leaders who can act from principle, challenge accepted practice, strengthen accountability, and build trust through disciplined execution.

Principle-Centered Insurgent Leadership™ is not rebellion.

It is leadership with enough courage to question what is no longer working and enough discipline to build something better.

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