

Wed, May 20
|Smart Wellness Collective
The Grounded Leader
Presence, Reactivity, and the Inner Work of Leadership
Time & Location
May 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Smart Wellness Collective, 2257 Thurman Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
About the event
Leadership has never demanded more attention from more directions at once. Constant context-switching. Back-to-back meetings with no buffer. More information, more decisions, more noise than ever before. You’re moving from one conversation to the next with almost no space in between. Your attention is split, with part of you still in the last meeting or already in the next. And it starts to show in missed details, reacting faster than you meant to, and conversations that don’t quite land.
What if you could stay steady and connected, even when things move quickly or don’t go as planned?
Most leadership training was built for a different era. It focuses on frameworks and communication skills but rarely addresses what’s happening underneath them—what’s going on internally, and how that carries into how you show up and connect in each moment.
And in a world that keeps accelerating, your presence is one of the…
