Event Details
Leading with Whole-Body Intelligence: The 3N Model for Listening to Validate
| Date: | March 11, 2025, 7:30am – 9:00am |
| Organizer: | EIHRA |
| Location: | Mount Mercy Graduate Center |
| Price: | Free For Members and $15 for Non-Members |
| Event Type: | Monthly Program |
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Doors Open at 7:30, Speaker from 8-9 a.m.
Breakfast will be provided!!
Summary of Presentation
In this interactive session, participants will explore the difference between listening to fix and listening to validate, discovering how validation can transform both communication and problem-solving. Through the 3N Model—Notice, Name, Navigate—leaders will refine their communication, deepen relationships, and enhance team dynamics by embracing a more empathetic, curious, and innovative mindset.
By focusing on validation, leaders foster psychological safety, where team members feel seen, heard, and believed. The 3N Model provides a practical framework for noticing and recognizing emotions, naming feelings, and navigating responses, allowing leaders to harness Whole-Body Intelligence—the integration of cognitive skills with body awareness.
This approach equips leaders to:
- Enhance emotional regulation and co-regulation.
- Build resilience through somatic (body) awareness.
- Cultivate an inclusive, validating leadership style that boosts team performance by engaging both the mind and body in decision-making.
This program is ideal for leaders seeking to deepen their Whole-Body Intelligence and transform their approach to communication and problem-solving.
Learning Objectives
Participants should gain an increased awareness and understanding of:
Key principles of somatic (body) awareness and its relevance to personal and professional development.
The 3N Model (Notice, Name, Navigate) in real-life scenarios to enhance communication and problem solving.
Their personal experiences with whole-body intelligence and identify specific areas for growth
This will be 1 CE Credit.
Speaker
Jennifer Zach
Jennifer Zach, ACC, is a certified mind-body coach and integrative somatic trauma therapist, and the founder of Zach Coaching, LLC. She is the author of Somatic Awareness: Leading with Body Intelligence and uses her expertise as an author, speaker, and executive coach to help leaders optimize their performance by integrating cognitive and body intelligence. Through her work, she empowers leaders to leverage the power of both mind and body to achieve greater results.
Jennifer’s over 20 years of corporate experience in the financial and utilities sectors have honed her business and leadership expertise, making her a trusted advisor and valuable resource for many leaders.
Jennifer is known for her proprietary 3N Model—Notice, Name, Navigate. The impact and personal and professional transformation that her clients achieve through this process is what makes her work so important.
A breast cancer survivor, Jennifer is dedicated to giving back and teaching somatic awareness to those living with a cancer diagnosis at her local cancer center. Jennifer is the president of Kirkwood Keynotes Toastmasters Club and serves on the advisory council for the Hawkeye ATD chapter.
You can find Jennifer’s work in publications like Choice, the Magazine of Professional Coaching, ATD’s TD Magazine, and Training Magazine. She has also been a featured speaker at conferences, including ATD’s ALC, Disrupt HR, and Iowa SHRM.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Jennifer is an avid reader and enjoys knitting and playing pickleball. She and her husband live on their family farm in Iowa, are the proud parents of a one-and-only daughter, and caretakers of two spoiled cats, Yow and Peanut.
