We aim to rebrand leadership away from one of achieved status, to a role based on our capacity and willingness to support our community.

Imagine what our society would feel like if every person you worked with, lived next to, committed to, and cared for had a coach, a mentor or an emotionally intelligent friend.

We believe that we need more people to adopt these roles in our local communities. We believe that they provide the MOST ESSENTIAL foundation for our well-being. These roles are “the bones” of society. These connections are slow to develop, but become the necessary foundation for modern day leadership.

It is OUR INTENTION to find, compel, resource and support people to adopt this way of leadership.

WE PROMOTE AND RAISE OUR COLLECTIVE SOCIAL HEALTH THROUGH THESE SPEARHEAD SERVICES.

Mindful Men: It’s not about what you know. Or about who you know.

It’s about crafting relationships around the shared intention to grow, and to share more.

Non-profit & SOCIAl ENTERPRiSE MEDIATION and Mentoring

This service provides high quality mentorship and leadership training to under-served, under resourced and stressed business owners and staff, emerging local leaders in the hospitality, wellness or those managing or caring for at-risk individuals. We provide insight and pragmatic action steps on improving cross-boundary collaboration, establishing data and foundational processes that optimize performance and resource sharing, handling conflicts, innovation and ego management. In coaching, we apply wholistic acumen to support leaders who want to achieve outstanding results through relevant, contextual, and practical techniques.

Community Cultivator Events

We belong to a growing movement that strives to move towards a sense of “WE.” Our community conversations are designed to generate social capital, motivation to adopt prosocial behaviors and insight into the hidden ways we continue to get in the way of social health, justice and progress.

Held 3-4 times a year, involving collaborative committees, speakers, panelists and industries, these cultivator events raise participant’s practical hope that humanity is getting better and WE CAN CONTINUE to fuel progress through easy to use practices.

MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID CERTIFICATION

We certify citizens, both locally and remote, to be able to provide mental health first aid to anyone who faces a challenge or is in crisis.

Students learn an easy to apply, person-first oriented, system for approaching others, listening non-judgmentally, offering guidance and information, and encouraging people towards diverse resources.

Soon, this skill based program will be as common as CPR.

We especially aim for wellness practitioners, hospitality staff, tattoo and beauty stylists, Uber/Lyft drivers and any “coach” to become certified. ANYONE who wants to make their community healthier, happier and socially safer for all.

2025 marks the 3rd year Free Leadership Inc has facilitated Mindful Men. In two years, over 180 men have joined a two hour, free experiential leadership training session. Two third’s of men who join one time, return again. Together, and with expert facilitation, the group focuses on how they can improve their leadership and their support of others in their community. These men are diverse in age, life-style, professional industry, economic and relational status, political and religious affiliation, and ideological attitudes. They don’t sign up. They choose to show up.

And we believe this act ripples out to create social capital, social trust and social progress where they show up next.

Meet Mindful Men…our flagship population service.

The National Institute of Health and other well established community health research findings continuously indicate that men are less likely to access, and also to benefit from, mental health and/or counseling services. Initial research suggests that role models and friends are one of the key interventions that improve men’s help-seeking attitudes, intentions, and actual actions. These peer figures often convey accurate information and key psychoeducational material, and often motivate men to persist in behavior change efforts and build on positive “male” traits (e.g. responsibility, direction and strength).  Our Mindful Men Mentoring Certification Program educates men in the community with the knowledge, tools and skills to become this type of mentor and friend to their peers, neighbors and possible clients.

Mindful Men has a free meet up every first Monday of the month (that’s a mouthful!). It’s just one of our multi-focused services to generate and nourish leadership in Tampa Bay.