On Friday January 8 residents of the District woke to a lightly-snow-covered city.  The OCL Group hosted a leadership circle at the Carlyle Suites Hotel,  near DuPont Circle in downtown Washington,  D.C. 

With Raj Chawla, Christiane Frischmuth, and Mark Addleson facilitating, a group of nine invited local leaders, from various businesses and non-profit organizations came together to discuss their challenges as leaders and to learn about Results-Based Leadership.

Participants included:

• Michelle Abboud of AWS
• Jason Bernhardt-Lanier of Ashoka
• Christina Best of Legg Mason
• Debra Kahn, of Wells of Love Program and Amman Imman
• Patrick Meskell of Silver Diner
• Carla M Roach of Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
• Mark Robinson of NeighborWorks America
• Caby Versoza of The World Bank Institute

Raj facilitated part of the session on Leading and Aligning for Results and Christiane took the participants through a framework for action based on alignment of self<->role<->system.

In between, the participants discussed the results they wanted and engaged each other on questions of alignment and commitments to action.  The photos on the following pages tell more of the story.