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Leadership Development and Executive Coaching That Changes Behavior
Using The GLIMMERS Effect™ to transform hidden behavioral patterns that shape leadership and organizational culture.
EXECUTIVE COACHING
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PATTERN AWARENESS
WOMEN LEADERSHIP
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Leadership Development for Behavioral Pattern Transformation
Creative Energy Options, Inc. delivers leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational consulting focused on behavior transformation and creating lasting change.
Led by Dr. Sylvia Lafair, a leadership expert with 35+ years of experience, our work helps leaders break outdated behavioral patterns, strengthen communication, and lead with clarity during periods of uncertainty and change.
Our approach blends practical leadership strategy with behavioral pattern transformation, helping leaders improve decision-making, emotional intelligence, and workplace culture.
Unlike traditional leadership training, we focus on behavior change that lasts beyond the training room—improving performance, relationships, and impact across every organizational level.
If you're seeking executive coaching or leadership training that goes beyond theory, you're in the right place.
CEOptions has worked with these top industry leaders...
When leaders change their patterns, everything else changes.
- Sylvia Lafair
Total Leadership Connections: Pattern-Based Leadership Transformation
Most leadership programs focus on skills. Total Leadership Connections (TLC) focuses on behavioral leadership transformation.
At Creative Energy Options, leadership development and executive coaching go deeper than strategy and performance metrics. Leadership is shaped by behavioral patterns—how people respond under pressure, communicate, and integrate head, heart, and gut in decision-making.
TLC is a behavioral leadership transformation program designed to help leaders recognize and shift the patterns that influence communication, conflict, and effectiveness.
The result is lasting behavior change that strengthens leadership, improves culture, and elevates performance across teams and organizations.
Through the TLC program, you will learn how to:
- Identify the invisible behavior patterns that drive workplace success, or create stress and disconnection
- Align your thinking, emotions, and instincts to make stronger, clearer decisions
- Lead with calm authority instead of reaction or overwhelm
- Build trust, loyalty, and engagement across your team
- Create success at work without sacrificing your personal life
This is the work Sylvia Lafair has spent more than 35 years pioneering, helping leaders understand how family, culture, and crises, your life experiences shape leadership behavior, and how small shifts can create powerful, lasting results.
Clients often say TLC is unlike anything they’ve experienced before. It’s practical, deeply personal, and immediately applicable. Leaders don’t just gain new skills; they gain new awareness, new confidence, and a new way to lead. Whether you are an experienced executive, an emerging leader, or someone ready for the next step, TLC helps you stand out by becoming the kind of leader people trust, respect, and want to follow.
If you’re ready for a leadership experience that goes deeper than traditional training and creates real, lasting change, we invite you to explore TLC. Call (570) 233-1042 to learn more, or click the button below.
Lead differently. Lead wisely. Lead from the inside out.
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Award Winning Books by Dr. Sylvia Lafair
Don’t Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success
$24.95
eBook: $13.00
Genre: Business Culture
How can you get to the bottom of workplace behaviors that simply don't work for you or your organization?
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: March 3, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Length: 256 Pages
Narrator: Sylvia Lafair
ASIN: B001U5VJOK
ISBN: 0470404361
List Price: $24.95
eBook Price: $13.00
Don't Bring it to Work
How can you get to the bottom of workplace behaviors that simply don't work for you or your organization?
About the Book
Don’t Bring It to Work explores what happens when patterns originally created to cope with family conflicts are unleashed in the workplace.?This groundbreaking book draws on the success of Sylvia Lafair’s PatternAware program Total Leadership Connections. Throughout the book she shows how to break the cycle of pattern repetition and offers the tools that can turn unhealthy family baggage into creative energy that will foster better workplace associations and career success.
Lafair identifies the thirteen most common patterns that correspond to characters familiar to anyone who has ever worked in an office: Super Achiever, Rebel, Persecutor, Victim, Rescuer, Clown, Martyr, Splitter, Procrastinator, Drama Queen or King, Pleaser, Denier, and Avoider. To help overcome destructive behavior problems, she maps out the three main steps for becoming aware of patterns and finding the way OUT
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GUTSY: How Women Leaders Make Change
$11.95
eBook: $5.95
Genre: Management & Leadership
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy, to speak out, take risks, stand at the leading edge of change. For most of us we need a nudge. So, this is a great book to get you started on your path to being GUTSY!
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Genre: Management & Leadership
Publication Year: November 6, 2012
Format: Paperback
Length: 142 Pages
ASIN: 1436814408
ISBN: 074146893X
List Price: $11.95
eBook Price: $5.95
How Women Leaders Make Change
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy, to speak out, take risks, stand at the leading edge of change. For most of us we need a nudge. So, this is a great book to get you started on your path to being GUTSY!
About the Book
Its GOOD to be GUTSY! For some of us this is easy, to speak out, take risks, stand at the leading edge of change. For most of us we need a nudge. So, this is a great book to get you started on your path to being GUTSY! Youll learn to Observe and Understand behaviors that have stood in the way of true collaboration, and Transform into the world of outstanding partnership. From exploring models of being GUTSY, to what it means to have a pink or blue blanket this entertaining book will give you the puzzle pieces to build a GUTSY You!!
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Unique: How Story Sparks Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement
$11.95
eBook: $5.95
Genre: Business Culture
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND CONNECTED Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore.
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: June 12, 2014
Format: Paperback
Length: 146 Pages
ASIN: 1436814611
ISBN: 0988362511
List Price: $11.95
eBook Price: $5.95
How Story Sparks Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND CONNECTED Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore.
About the Book
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE AND CONNECTED Everyone has a back story. Everyone. Most of us put on a mask or hide behind a shield and keep our stories hidden. Not anymore. This book helps you find your story, your place as a leader. “Story is the most powerful tool in a leader’s arsenal,” says Harvard Professor Howard Gardner. Stories teach us about courage, creativity, compassion, and collaboration. Once you learn to tell your story you develop a personal brand that puts you head and shoulders above your peers. Become the best you can be with these important business tools: SANKOFA MAPPING™ to see behaviors that are handed from generation to generation The OUT Technique™ so you can Observe, Understand and Transform behavior patterns PEP Talks™ to discuss difficult subjects and get great results.
Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the page above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
Invisible Stress: It's NOT What YOU Think!
$11.95
eBook: $5.95
Genre: Business Culture
This new best seller "Invisible STRESS (It's NOT What YOU Think!)" offers skills vital for the uncertainty of our times and will benefit everyone personally as well as professionally.
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Genre: Business Culture
Publication Year: October 5, 2021
Format: Hardcover
Length: 120 Pages
Narrator: Sylvia Lafair
ASIN: 0988362570
ISBN: 0988362570
List Price: $11.95
eBook Price: $5.99
Invisible Stress (It's NOT What YOU Think!): Identify and Change the Patterns and Behaviors Controlling Your Life
Survival Guide to identify your INVISIBLE STRESS, Live in the SAFE STRESS ZONE, and ENRICH YOUR LIFE
About the Book
You first become aware of stress and you then seek treatment. But what if you are not aware of it in the first place?
Invisible stress. Surprisingly, there is a level of stress that can remain hidden. It is this form of stress that award-winning author Sylvia Lafair, Ph.D. brings to light in 'Invisible Stress (It's NOT what YOU Think!): Identify and Change the Patterns and Behaviors Controlling Your Life'. "
• Discuss the fourth level, invisible stress, with information not available till now.
• Gain cutting-edge methods to tackle root causes of overwhelm and self-doubt.
• Acquire powerful yet simple ways to make stress work for you.
• Gather tips to build confidence and strengthen resilience during tough times.
• Learn how to adopt healthy daily behaviors to stay in the safe stress zone.
• Explore coping mechanisms to manage today’s accelerated rate of change.
• Master new leadership skills for less stress and a more harmonious life.
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