Conscious Growth Partners

Leadership gets stronger when the real issue becomes discussable.

CGP helps senior leaders understand their impact, strengthen the relationships that carry the work, and build accountability people can use.

The firmPsychologist-led leadership development
EducationYale educators and facilitators
Published workAuthors of Conscious Accountability
Where we workBased in Connecticut, serving organizations across the U.S.
How we see the work

A leadership problem that keeps repeating often has a human pattern underneath it.

Results and relationships are part of the same system.

Leaders rarely get to separate the business problem from the way people are interpreting, discussing, and responding to it.

A strategy can be sound while the senior team avoids the conversation required to carry it out. Expectations can be clear on paper while ownership remains uncertain in practice. A leader can intend to create trust while their impact makes it harder for others to speak honestly.

CGP works with both sides of that reality. We help people see the pattern, have the conversation, make clearer agreements, and practice what the organization needs next.

Meet the principals

Three practitioners. One shared standard of work.

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David C. Tate, PhD

David C. Tate, PhD

Co-Founder and CEO

David helps senior leaders understand their impact, work through consequential relationships, and create the conditions people need to learn and perform.

Meet David
Marianne S. Pantalon, PhD

Marianne S. Pantalon, PhD

Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Marianne helps leaders surface what is operating below the surface and turn it into clearer agreements, courageous conversations, and shared follow-through.

Meet Marianne
Karen A. Collins

Karen A. Collins

Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer

Karen helps leaders close the gap between what the organization says matters and how its systems, communication, decisions, and practices actually work.

Meet Karen
Where the work applies

Work with the leader, the team, or the wider organization.

The starting point depends on where the pattern lives and who has to be involved for the change to hold.

Leader

Understand impact and lead more deliberately.

Use focused assessment, coaching, and feedback when the work begins with one senior leader and the relationships around them.

Conscious Accountability book and companion materials
Ideas with a visible source

Built through practice, teaching, and published work.

CGP's authority should be easy to verify. The principals' books, articles, academic roles, interviews, and professional profiles give buyers a direct path to the work behind the claims.

Where CGP works

Based in Connecticut. Working nationwide.

Conscious Growth Partners is based in Connecticut and works with leaders and organizations throughout the United States. Engagements may combine virtual coaching, facilitated working sessions, assessments, and in-person work based on the scope.