Message from HueLife Team: Trust and Truth: The Invisible Infrastructure of Leadership
Honoring Pride:Reflecting on Stonewall and the ongoing impact on conversations around human rights
Featured & Upcoming Programs: Transformational Leadership Retreats & Summer Programs
Pro Tip: When trust must be earned: The Two Pillars of Sustainable Leadership
People Making a Difference Using Our Tools: Hannah Tomeo - Using facilitation tools to create space for voices to be heard, confidence to grow, and communities to thrive.
HueLife Updates: Recruiting volunteer facilitators to support communities through global projects
Mission Updates: SupportingSenator Hoffman’s family and honoring his work. Hosting young leaders from Ukraine for 5 weeks in your home!
In Case You Missed It: May Newsletter
💭 Message from HueLife Team:
Trust and Truth: The Invisible Infrastructure of Leadership
Trust isn’t built on titles or pressure. It grows when leaders create space for honest conversations, take responsibility, and face difficult truths with courage. This month, Irina reflects on how truth-telling builds trust, strengthens relationships, and ultimately creates healthier teams and better outcomes.
Want to explore how truth-telling shapes trust and leadership?
🔗Read our LinkedIn post for Irina’s Full Reflection:
Reflecting on Stonewall and the ongoing impact on conversations around human rights
This month we honor the Stonewall Resistance, a pivotal moment that sparked a global call for human rights. The courage to create space for voices long marginalized remains at the heart of leadership today. Real progress happens through honest, often difficult conversations that lead to meaningful change. The work continues...
🌄Featured & Upcoming Sessions
✨Transformational Leadership Retreats:
Twin Cities & Sedona
Step away from the routine. Create space for reflection, clarity, and growth.
HueLife’s Transformational Leadership Retreat is a 3-day immersive experience where you’ll sharpen your leadership lens, build new perspectives, and strengthen your capacity to lead with greater purpose. Whether you’re leading a team, an organization, or your own next chapter, this retreat offers space to reconnect with why you lead and how you want to grow.
Five Ways to Build Trust as a New or Promoted Leader
When trust must be earned: The Two Pillars of Sustainable Leadership
For leaders, trust is more than a nice-to-have; it’s the foundation everything else stands on. But building trust isn’t accidental. It’s a practice grounded in two core pillars: Character and Competence. When leaders consistently align their words with action, demonstrate care, deliver results, and create space for honest dialogue, trust grows. And where trust grows, teams thrive, decisions stick, and leadership becomes truly sustainable.
Want to explore how leaders can cultivate lasting trust?
*Concept adapted from the Trust Matrix model by Christopher Andersen, LMHC, GCEC.
🔦People Making a Difference Using Our Tools:
Hannah Tomeo
Using facilitation tools to create space for voices to be heard, confidence to grow, and communities to thrive.
After completing ToP® Facilitation Methods training earlier this year, Hannah Tomeo has found powerful ways to apply her new skills while working with rural youth, elders, and healthcare partners in Washington State. From supporting youth leadership councils to strengthening community planning efforts, Hannah’s story shows how facilitation empowers diverse voices and fosters confident, community-led solutions.
Recruiting volunteer facilitators for local communities, organizations, and global initiatives in support of the common good
HueLife is expanding opportunities for pro bono facilitation projects supporting nonprofits, youth groups, and community organizations. Whether you’re building your CTF portfolio or simply want to serve, we invite you to join our network of facilitators making an impact through meaningful conversations.
This month, we dedicate our Mission Update to Senator John Hoffman — a trusted partner and mentor to our YouLead participants from Ukraine. Many of the youth fondly remember his warmth, humor, and willingness to spend hours discussing public service, leadership, and hope for the future.
Just days after championing new legislation supporting youth exchanges between Ukraine and the U.S., Senator Hoffman and his wife were critically injured in a violent attack at their home. We celebrate his ongoing recovery and honor his deep commitment to leadership that serves others.
Host Families Needed!
We are welcoming a group of Ukrainian youth to Minnesota this August for a 5-week leadership development program. If you’re able to open your home and heart to host a student during this life-changing experience, please
