What if ethics and compliance weren’t something we bolted onto organizations but something built into how the organization actually works?
In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Dr. Hemma R. Lomax talks with Sharon Seivert, Founder and CEO of Core Coaching & Consulting and creator of the SIX POWERS® framework, about organizational health, human agency, and building integrity from the inside out.
For Sharon, the work is deeply personal. She shares how the loss of her brother John in a workplace accident shaped her commitment to healthier systems and raises a question at the heart of the conversation: when something goes wrong, do we focus only on the individual event, or do we allow what happened to teach the system?
Sharon and Hemma explore what becomes possible when organizations are treated as living systems capable of learning, adapting, and recovering, and why ethics and compliance professionals should not have to do that work alone.
Highlights include:
- Sharon’s personal connection to ethics, compliance, and workplace safety
- The SIX POWERS® framework: Core, Vision, Mission, Interactions, Structure, and Synergy
- Why purpose and principles can act as an organizational “tuning fork”
- The difference between individual responsibility and systemic responsibility
- Finding and using your own “hub of power”
- The hidden costs of ethical compromise
- Why near misses should teach the system, not simply disappear into a case file
- Building organizations with enough “wobble” to adapt, recover, and evolve
- Why, ultimately, together we can do hard things well
Further reading from A Thinking Game
Sharon Seivert: Powering the Future: A Six Powers Roadmap & Compass. Evolve Organizations. Activate Leaders. Ignite Purpose.
This conversation also helped inspire Hemma’s latest A Thinking Game article, “A Community of Many Splendid Torches,” which explores what becomes possible when individual acts of courage, care, and participation are understood as part of a larger human system.
Bio
Sharon Seivert is the Founder and CEO of Core Coaching & Consulting, LLC, where she works at the intersection of leadership, systems thinking, and organizational health. A former CEO in healthcare and business consulting, Sharon brings decades of experience helping leaders, teams, and organizations navigate complex change.
She has written multiple books on her signature SIX POWERS® framework, a holistic approach designed to strengthen leadership and organizational health from the inside out. Her work brings together purpose, strategy, relationships, and systems thinking to help individuals and organizations become more integrated, resilient, and capable of lasting transformation.
Sharon is also a leadership coach, business consultant, and speaker, working with organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies and with a global community committed to healthier ways of living and leading.