About Mindful Spaces
Mindful Spaces is a leadership development and consulting practice focused on reducing emotional and organizational interference so leaders, teams, and organizations can perform with clarity under pressure.
Our work is grounded in a simple truth: leadership challenges rarely stem from a lack of intelligence or effort. They arise when emotional, relational, and systemic dynamics distort judgment, communication, and alignment.
Mindful Spaces exists to address that reality directly.
Through human-centered strategy, emotional intelligence, and the EQuorient™ Leadership Performance System, we help leaders navigate complexity with steadiness, intention, and measurable impact.
Philosophy
Leadership is Fundamentally Human.
Leadership does not happen in a vacuum. It happens through people.
When leaders understand their emotional landscape, regulate pressure with intention, and align their actions with their values, performance improves across every layer of the organization. Decision-making sharpens. Communication stabilizes. Trust strengthens. Teams function with greater coherence.
Emotional intelligence is not soft. It is observable. It is strategic. It is measurable.
And it is foundational to sustainable leadership performance.
Mission
To empower organizations to cultivate mindful spaces where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to reach their full potential.
We transform workplace well-being through lasting changes in leadership behavior, emotional intelligence, and organizational systems.
Vision
To ignite a global movement where every workspace becomes a catalyst for positive and transformative change in employee and organizational well-being.
Values
Human-Centered Leadership
We honor the humanity behind every leader and every team.
Alignment & Integrity
We lead and coach from values-driven alignment.
Emotional Intelligence
We believe emotional clarity is a strategic advantage for modern leadership.
Impact & Transformation
Our work must create meaningful, lasting change for individuals and organizations.
Approach
A Human-Centered System for Reducing Leadership Interference
EQuorient™ — the Human-Centered Leadership Performance System, helps leaders and teams:
Understand emotional and behavioral patterns that influence performance
Reduce internal, interpersonal, and systemic interference
Strengthen alignment between values, decisions, and actions
Communicate with intention and influence
Navigate complexity with clarity, steadiness, and presence
Who We Serve
We Support Leaders
Our work meets leaders where they are and equips them to elevate how they lead, relate, and make decisions. We support leaders across industries and career stages, including:
Executives & senior leaders
Leadership cohorts & development programs
Affinity and Organizational leadership groups
Emerging leaders & managers
Cross-functional and matrixed teams
High-visibility professionals (public figures, athletes, etc.)
“Leadership begins the moment you choose awareness over autopilot. Everything after that is alignment.”
Founder
Meet Our Founder and Creator of EQuorient™
Laci Gatewood, @LeadWithEI
CEO, Mindful Spaces and Creator, EQuorient
Mindful Spaces began as a personal reckoning with the realities of modern work.
Rigid structures, outdated leadership norms, and emotionally disconnected environments were leaving leaders and employees navigating uncertainty, misalignment, and cultural friction. Over time, it became clear that these patterns were quietly eroding trust, performance, and well-being.
What began as advocacy and leadership training evolved into a deeper mission: to transform how leadership is experienced and expressed in real-world environments.
That vision led to the creation of EQuorient™, a human-centered leadership performance system designed to help leaders navigate complexity with emotional intelligence, grounded presence, and aligned action.
Today, this work is carried forward through Mindful Spaces in partnership with organizations committed to clarity, humanity, and sustainable performance.
Our team collectively brings:
- Over three decades of executive, senior leadership, and organizational experience.
- Certifications in emotional intelligence, coaching, facilitation, and the EQ-i 2.0/360 assessment tool.
- Expertise across corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, technology, and mission-driven sectors.
- A grounded, human-centered, emotionally intelligent approach to leadership.
- Shared mastery of the EQuorient™ Leadership System.
We don’t just coach leaders. We partner with organizations to create environments where clarity, trust, and well-being can thrive.
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