2025-03-18: Sixth Level Leadership: Using Power of Women's Psychology to Lead Change

2025-03-18: Sixth Level Leadership: Using Power of Women's Psychology to Lead Change

North Canton, OH

March 2025 Chapter Meeting - IN PERSON

Join us on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 11:15 am to 1 pm for: "Sixth Level Leadership - Using the Power of Women's Psychology to Lead Change" presented by Elaine Russell Reolfi, CEO, CommQuest Services

Courtyard by Marriott

11:15am - Registration Opens
11:30am - Lunch starts serving*
11:45am - Program begins

SCHRA Members $25.00

Non-members of SCHRA $40.00

Student Members Full Time Students Should contact Valarie Nash (vdominicknash@yahoo.com) for a special offer.

Retirees (Honorary) and In-Transition members $15.00

Thank you to our sponsor:

NOTE: Registration closes the Friday before the meeting at 3pm.

Session Description: Elaine will be discussing:
Sixth Level Leadership, using analysis and empathy to lead change

Elaine will share both the theory of self-in-relation that defines Sixth Level Leadership and a case study of operationalizing the theory in her own organization (commquest.org). The Sixth Level model features four core differentiators: mutuality, ingenuity, justness, and intrinsic motivation. The differentiators promote a collective interest to create healthy social dynamics that, in turn, optimize business results. Many women are naturally oriented to exhibit these differentiators, but they can be learned by anyone. Self-in-relation dates back to a 1971 study by Dr. Jean Baker Miller of how the psychology of women shows up in effective leadership and is modernized through the narratives of 16 women (including Elaine) who contributed to the book thesixthlevel.com and have delivered business results by promoting collective interest to create healthy dynamics.

This session is designed to help you improve your own leadership skills while also learning what it takes to work across the organization to operationalize engagement to achieve results.

Participants will:
• Understand the elements of analytical and empathic leadership to improve aptitude to tap into both parts of the brain.
• Gain awareness of the contrast between a dominant and engaging leadership practice.
• Learn how Sixth Level leadership enhances inclusion and engagement.
• Apply this approach to create alignment on strategic guideposts, long-term strategy and annual business planning and performance reporting.
• Identify talent management strategies support this alignment and performance, from recruitment to development and engagement to reward and retention.

Speaker Bio: Elaine Russell Reolfi, CEO, CommQuest Services
Elaine is a first-generation college graduate who rose through the ranks in industry to executive leadership of global industrial companies including serving as executive vice president of HR and corporate relations at Timken Steel Corporation (now Metallus). She also was president of the Timken Steel Charitable Fund.


Elaine is dedicated to community leadership to help others realize their potential, and in 2021 turned her volunteer leadership into the next chapter of her career. She assumed the role of chief executive officer of CommQuest Services, a 105-year old behavioral health nonprofit, to lead a major transformation to ensure the organizations sustainability for the long term.
Elaine is married to Michael Reolfi, an attorney and college professor, is a mother of three, and a grandmother

This meeting is pending for recertification credits from HRCI and SHRM.