Impact Exchange: Start with Love

Creating Smart & Mindful Organizations

A live Impact Exchange conversation

Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT

Location: Online

Join us from anywhere in the world.

About This Event

Imagine love as an experience of connection, beyond its familiar associations with romance or religion.

What could become possible when this simple, emotionally charged word becomes a foundation for how organizations lead, collaborate, make decisions, and shape their workplaces?

In this Impact Exchange, Steve Robert and Nathalie Tanguay, co-founders of Smart & Mindful Optimizations, invite us to explore one of the central ideas from their book, Start with Love: Creating Smart & Mindful Organizations. You can learn more about the book and their consultancy here.

Steve and Nathalie will introduce their Smart & Mindful Framework and show how love can become a practical foundation for creating more purposeful workplaces. Their systemic approach connects human well-being with organizational performance and care for the planet.

What We’ll Explore

• What “starting with love” means within an organizational context

• How human connection influences workplace culture and decision-making

• How the Smart & Mindful Framework supports purposeful organizations

• Ways leaders can integrate performance and well-being with care for the planet

Who This Is For

This conversation is designed for those who want to participate in the conversation around the possibility of love in organizations: leaders, change agents, organizational development professionals, coaches, consultants, and others who want to contribute to more adaptive and human-centred workplaces.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A practical organizational interpretation of love

• A systemic perspective on organizational transformation

• Questions that can open meaningful workplace conversations

• Ideas for creating conditions where individuals and the planet can thrive

Meet Our Presenters

Steve Robert

Steve Robert is a Business Process Management consultant who helps organizations strengthen governance and business architecture to become more adaptive, efficient, and human-centred. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Studies from Royal Roads Military College and an MBA from Heriot-Watt University.

Nathalie Tanguay

Nathalie Tanguay is an organizational development consultant and coach whose professional journey began in agronomy.

She supports leaders in developing the emotional intelligence and strategic clarity needed for today’s rapidly changing world. Nathalie is an HSA Certified Happiness Trainer. She also holds a Master of Science in Organizational Development and a coaching certification in Positive Psychology.

About Smart & Mindful Optimizations

Steve and Nathalie founded Smart & Mindful Optimizations to help transform organizations into high-performing places where individuals and the planet can thrive. Their book, Start with Love: Creating Smart & Mindful Organizations, offers a systemic approach to improving organizational performance and well-being while advancing sustainability.

About the Impact Exchange

The Impact Exchange, stewarded by Harvest Performance, brings people together for conversations about leadership, purpose, human performance, and meaningful impact.

This curated series creates space for shared learning and relationships that strengthen people, organizations, and communities worldwide.

Connect. Learn. Grow. Multiply Impact.

Reserve your place and join us on Tuesday, September 29, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT.

Together, we cultivate impact that lasts.