Fire That Gathers

Jeanine Becker
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Welcome to Fire that Gathers, fuel for purpose-led leaders forging what’s next. Leading in a way that meets this moment is a stretch, not just for what must be done, but for how you're called to lead. Fire that Gathers  is a movement of leaders choosing to use this moment of breakdown and possibility as a catalyst, for the systems you're creating and for who you're becoming At this hearth there is fuel for your movement From the field:  Real conversations with the purpose-led leaders forging what’s next. Not the polished case study. The live questions they're walking where the map runs out At the edge: Breakthrough moments from my coaching rooms And mMe walking my own developmental edge in real time I'm gathering, too. Come with me. For the spark: Wider perspectives to shift what you see. researchers and practitioners of systems transformation. Poetry that cracks open possibility Every episode anchored with an with alchemical questions — the kind that transforms what you see. Because shifting our paradigm is among the highest leverage points for systems change. How we see shapes what’s possible. Welcome to fire that gathers 🔥

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 3 - How Do We Gather Toward An Impossible Future? With Gabriel Grant

    How do we gather toward an impossible future? In this episode, I sit down with Gabriel Grant — catalyst, researcher, and network builder, working with people shifting systems from inside impact networks, organizations, and families. He's currently building Shareholder Democracy and partnering with Weaving Futures, and his work with the Clean Electronics Production Network and The Impact are two of the stories we get into. His PhD at Yale asked when and how purposeful work actually contributes to the flourishing of leaders and organizations. His pedagogy for change agents is taught at Cambridge, Cornell, MIT and universities worldwide. Over fifteen years he's coached and trained more than a thousand purpose-led leaders and world-class change agents — founders, board members, and C-suites across 150+ major brands. I've had the chance to work alongside Gabriel for seven years, through Converge and now Weaving Futures. What I've watched in that time is a commitment to creating impossible things. We anchored this conversation in a quote that's been on my office wall for two decades, from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass: When Alice says – I can’t believe impossible things and the white Queen replies – "I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Gabriel doesn't call the future he's building impossible. He calls it inevitable and then takes the next step. This episode is a MUST LISTEN! We discuss the following: 🔥"But we could start an arts festival." The move at the heart of every impossible thing Gabriel has helped build — finding what's buildable now, with who's already here 🔥 What it took to transform a hacky-sack town into a renowned arts and design district — and the four years before anything could begin, spent getting the right people into the right seats 🔥From a supply chain 23 layers deep, where workers were arrested for learning what chemicals they were handling, to a commitment program written into the CHIPS Act — how the Clean Electronics Production Network built trust where there was none 🔥Vision was not the driver. What Gabriel expected to find at Patagonia and New Belgium, what he actually found, and the three flavors of self-determined motivation 🔥The cleaner, more renewable fuel — why we start the Network Leadership Series with your real why for the work, not obligation and not grit, and why that matters most on a long arc 🔥Six months inside one question: how can love flow through markets?  Why your shares may be voted to undo the work you do all day — and what it means that you're told it isn't your job to care 🔥Calling as the place where what we have is needed in the world and it's there to grow us — the question I bring to every leader I work with 🔥The growing edge: what it's like to be back at ground zero, playing the day-to-day role you once coached others to play What is your arts festival – the buildable step toward your impossible future? More information and to connect with Gabriel:  Shareholder Democracy www.shareholderdemocracy.org LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielgrant/ The Network Leadership Series — eight weeks with practitioners building coalitions, movements, and impact networks. Next cohort begins October 14th. https://www.weavingfutures.org/training-nls Weaving Futures — www.weavingfutures.org Learn more about working with me and Collective Counsel:  Collective Counsel — www.onpurposetogether.com/collective-counsel  LinkedIn — www.linkedin.com/in/beckerjeanine Book a call — www.onpurposetogether.com/call

  2. Aug 20

    Episode 2 - The Boardroom, Fireworks and Butterflies: On Disagreeing Well

    At the Edge ❤️‍🔥 What might we gain if we disagree well? I carried Kirthi Jayakumar's question out of our conversation and into a week of my own work. It showed up on the cover of Harvard Business Review at an airport newsstand. In a boardroom on day two of a leadership offsite. And on a curb at Disneyland, five minutes before the parade, with my eight-year-old. For two decades I've partnered with leaders at the intersection of vision, responsibility, and systems change — foundation presidents distributing millions annually, CEOs of social enterprises reshaping cities and reimagining health systems, executives at companies designing how millions communicate. I taught negotiation at Stanford for a decade — and learned interdependence solo-parenting, needing and really receiving support. The parenting, the caregiving, the life you're holding alongside the work isn't separate from your leadership. It may be the source of your deepest why. And it's often the invisible practice ground for the skills we need most to meet this moment. This episode is about how we shape conversations so collaboration truly leverages difference — in perspective, in information, in resource. Meetings used not just for updates, but to create the conditions to move shared outcomes. This is where personal growth meets strategy. This episode is a MUST LISTEN! 🎙️❤️‍🔥🔥 We discuss the following: 🔥 Generative, not just kind — the three questions I asked a leadership team to explore so their offsites could shift from quiet report outs of a stoplight chart to actively wrestling with what required everyone in the room ❤️‍🔥 The HBR cover I picked up at the airport on my way to that offsite, and how it set the context for disagreeing well before we even introduced the questions 🔥 The three pillars of collaborative leadership: agency — knowing what you want and naming it, genuine curiosity about what matters to another, and the willingness to sit in the unknown long enough for something new to emerge ❤️‍🔥 Fireworks and butterflies: how a last-minute negotiation with my eight-year-old at Disneyland became the perfect practice of collaborative leadership 🔥 Where personal growth meets strategy: the inside move I had to make before we could generate an outcome that met both of our desires — and how these small family decisions train the capacity to collaborate that our purpose requires & more… Where are you shaping a conversation so that differences become generative? Drop it in the comments — I'd love to hear. Listen to the conversation with Kirthi Jayakumar that sparked this reflection HERE Learn more about working with me and Collective Counsel: Collective Counsel — a curated circle of purpose-led founders, funders, and executives — www.onpurposetogether.com/collective-counsel On Purpose Together — www.onpurposetogether.com LinkedIn — www.linkedin.com/in/beckerjeanine Book a call — www.onpurposetogether.com/call

  3. Aug 8

    Episode 1 - What Is Possible If We Disagree Well? With Kirthi Jayakumar

    In this episode, Jeanine sits down with Kirthi Jayakumar, co-founder and researcher with Connected Power, a global team co-creating actionable blueprints — recommendations and policy frameworks to unlock the creative power and prosperity of feminist digital movements and guide $100M+ in future investments. Together Jeanine and Kirthi explore creating generative spaces for systems transformation and the alchemical question at the heart of this episode: what might we gain if we disagree well? Based in Chennai, Kirthi is a tech-geopolitics expert and a future of work practitioner focusing on emerging technology, and her work examines the intersection of technology, power and social movements. She also runs Civitatem Resolutions and is completing her PhD at Utrecht University on feminist approaches to governing AI. Drawing from 200+ conversations with feminists, funders, and technologists across the globe — and from the grandmothers, mothers, and aunties whose movements taught her that change never arrives with a single hero — Kirthi shares what becomes possible when we treat disagreement as a friend we invite into the room. This episode is a MUST LISTEN!  🎙️❤️‍🔥🔥 We discuss the following: 🔥The CEO who said "we never disagree" — and the one brave person willing to question it 🔥Pluriverses — why we don't need a single universe where everyone bends to belong 🔥Jeanine's three pillars of collaborative leadership: agency – knowing what you want and naming it, genuine curiosity about what matters to another, and the willingness to sit in the unknown long enough for something new to emerge 🔥Am I curating an echo chamber? Kirthi’s potent question that emerged during our discussion of Curating the People in the Network Leadership Series (NLS) 🔥Why too uniform a room costs us something, and how that shaped Collective Counsel as a cross-sector circle 🔥What a thousand-year-old Sanskrit text can teach us about alignment in AI 🔥Jugalbandi: what if AI responded like a dancer to a singer — reflecting back, asking what more it needs to know — instead of rushing to answer? 🔥What changes when you make people co-architects rather than sources and data points — and how Connected Power moved away from the extractive interview model 🔥The 5Cs as GPS: how the core lessons from NLS became Kirthi's anchor for where to put her attention next 🔥How this work is a catalyst for Kirthi’s own growth and where she's finding an expansive appetite for hope Where have you seen disagreement become fuel in your work? Drop it in the comments -- I'd love to hear. More information and to connect with Kirthi: Connected Power: https://www.connectedpower-blueprint.net LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirthijayakumar/ Learn more about working with Jeanine and Collective Counsel: Collective Counsel: https://www.onpurposetogether.com/collective-counsel On Purpose Together: https://www.onpurposetogether.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckerjeanine/ To Book A Call: https://www.onpurposetogether.com/call

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Welcome to Fire that Gathers, fuel for purpose-led leaders forging what’s next. Leading in a way that meets this moment is a stretch, not just for what must be done, but for how you're called to lead. Fire that Gathers  is a movement of leaders choosing to use this moment of breakdown and possibility as a catalyst, for the systems you're creating and for who you're becoming At this hearth there is fuel for your movement From the field:  Real conversations with the purpose-led leaders forging what’s next. Not the polished case study. The live questions they're walking where the map runs out At the edge: Breakthrough moments from my coaching rooms And mMe walking my own developmental edge in real time I'm gathering, too. Come with me. For the spark: Wider perspectives to shift what you see. researchers and practitioners of systems transformation. Poetry that cracks open possibility Every episode anchored with an with alchemical questions — the kind that transforms what you see. Because shifting our paradigm is among the highest leverage points for systems change. How we see shapes what’s possible. Welcome to fire that gathers 🔥

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  • Creator
    Jeanine Becker
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
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    © 2026 Jeanine Becker
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