--- title: Leadership, Culture, Impact | Active Choices, Inc. | Anese Cavanaugh | The IEP Method® | Navigating Change description: Navigating Change | Featuring articles and resources from the founder of the IEP Method®, Anese Cavanaugh, and the team at Active Choices, Inc. 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(You can also search this blog for end of year posts and questions to support you as well.) Since 2020 has proven to be so... deliciously demandingly different... I'm shifting gears. Here's the invite. Get [subscribed](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/subscribe) (if you're not already), read my stuff and do the work and exercises I offer in my broadcasts and in my blogs (at no charge), ask yourself these SEVEN questions (below) as you leave 2020 and lean into the 11 "Anese-isms" as you enter 2021, take an assessment (or four) on our [new assessments](https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/engage-with-anese/assessments/) page\*, and enroll in any of my [self-paced programs](https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/iepmethod/self-paced-programs/) as they resonate for you, and/or in my live virtual programs coming in 2021 (there are TWO: [Learning Labs](https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/engage-with-anese/webinar/) and [Impact Cohorts](https://www.anesecavanaugh.com/engage-with-anese/executive-impact-cohorts/)). \[A special note about this site, any page with the *"wave"* as shown above, is a new page with new resources or offerings for 2021. Have fun and please join!!\] [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/becoming-in-2021) In [Energy Leadership](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/energy-leadership)/ [Navigating Change](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change)/ [Showing Up, IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/showing-up-iep-method)/ [Virtual Presence](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/virtual-presence) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/the%20very%20real%20dance%20of%20leaderSHip.png)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/honoring-funerals-pandemics-leadership-and-the-light) August 28, 2020  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [Honoring funerals, pandemics, leadership, and the light...](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/honoring-funerals-pandemics-leadership-and-the-light) I've got to say, this last month -- not to mention this whole year -- has been a... "doozy." Pandemics, politics, wildfires, hurricanes, more violence, unrest, and racial injustices, people and businesses I love changing forever, people hustling and finding new meaning in ways unknown before, distance learning, sending my son back to school and the multiple levels of tenderness that go with that, not to mention the death of someone near and dear taken far too soon and attending a funeral during a pandemic -- outdoors, amongst the smoke, with loved ones in tear-stained masks, six feet apart... It feels like every week brings a new level of intensity, darkness, and grief, but also lightness, grit, and grace...  [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/honoring-funerals-pandemics-leadership-and-the-light) In [Navigating Change](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change)/ [Showing Up, IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/showing-up-iep-method)/ [Leadership Presence](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/leadership-presence)/ [Stress, Overwhelm and Burnout](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/stress-overwhelm-and-burnout) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/Optimizing%20Your%20Virtual%20Presence..png)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/optimizing-your-virtual-presence-now) August 6, 2020  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [Optimizing your virtual presence now](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/optimizing-your-virtual-presence-now) As we become more and more virtually-based (V), leading team meetings, having 1:1's, teaching, speaking, dating, relating, and all things human connection over pixels, our *Intentional Energetic Presence®* (IEP) + (V) is more important than ever. After all, we now have to create safety and connection ON a screen in little boxes, hundreds and thousands of miles away from each other, and sometimes just next door. This is no small feat. However, it can be done beautifully.  [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/optimizing-your-virtual-presence-now) In [Navigating Change](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change)/ [Showing Up, IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/showing-up-iep-method)/ [Leadership Presence](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/leadership-presence)/ [Virtual Presence](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/virtual-presence) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202020-06-11%20at%2012.47.13%20PM.png)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/states-of-grace-opening-learning-and-action) June 11, 2020  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [States of Grace, Reflection, Learning, and Action](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/states-of-grace-opening-learning-and-action)   Hello! We are experimenting and doing something a bit different for these blogs now... I will be doing more video and discussion of what may be happening in your organizations, cultures, and personal and executive leadership.   Today I talk about where we're at in the pandemic, our conversation of racial inequity, cultural health, and seven different "energetic" and "emotional" states you can tap when you are wanting to learn, listen, stay open, be an invitation, navigate difficult conversations, and help be a part of a productive conversation...  [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/states-of-grace-opening-learning-and-action) In [IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/iep-method)/ [Authenticity](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/authenticity)/ [Navigating Change](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change)/ [Showing Up, IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/showing-up-iep-method) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/0.png)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/youasked-preparing-for-transitions-in-our-lives-and-creating-our-experience) January 16, 2020  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [#YouAsked: Preparing for transitions in our lives and creating our experience](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/youasked-preparing-for-transitions-in-our-lives-and-creating-our-experience) Hi all, continuing to participate in LinkedIn's #YouAsked feature, here is a question I was given with my thinking to go with it...    **“In two years, I'll be transitioning from 20 years in the military. How do I prepare for what is going to be, at least to some degree, culture shock and ensure I can fit in properly?” — *Saundra U., Minnesota Army National Guard***   (Note: Friends, these thoughts can apply to any transition in our lives, the bigger the transition and the more intense, the more important these become.) [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/youasked-preparing-for-transitions-in-our-lives-and-creating-our-experience) In [Self-Awareness](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/self-awareness)/ [Navigating Change](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change) [All posts](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/all) [Next](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/navigating-change/page/2) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 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