Fix what's broken in your leadership, culture, and systems, before you lose another six-figure team member
Each departure costs your organization an average of 22k- and that number skyrockets with senior staff.
Morale. Productivity. Institutional knowledge.
Your're not just losing people
You're bleeding culture
I am Jenora Ledbetter, an organizational doctor. I diagnose the breakdown you can't name, map the damage, and show you how to stop the internal collapse, before it costs you even more.
Not Ready to Dive in Yet?
Let's talk through what's happening behind the scenes.
This isn’t a coaching session. It is not a sales pitch. It’s a decision point.
An executive-level diagnostic conversation designed to uncover where your leadership challenges are costing you and how to address them before they escalate.
Leadership gaps cost organizations thousands in turnover, missed performance, and low morale. This free 30-minute call gives you a rapid, expert diagnosis of your top 2–3 people challenges and the steps to fix them.
By the end of the call, you’ll know which next step makes the most sense and whether we’re a fit to work together.
Why "Self Care" Is More Than Our Name
At The Self Care Network LLC, we believe real organizational change doesn’t come from another workshop or performance management tool, it comes from facing the root breakdowns in your leadership, culture, and systems.
“Self care” in our work means protecting your people by fixing what’s been quietly draining them.
It’s not just our name, it’s the principle that guides how we fix broken systems and rebuild trust from the inside out.
We help you:
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Expose and interrupt the silent patterns fueling burnout, disengagement, and mistrust
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Realign leadership and operations to reflect your values
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Build a resilient culture that holds under pressure not just when things are easy
We don’t “train and dash.” We stay with you through the hard work, so your people can exhale, trust leadership again, and actually perform.
WELCOME
They erode quietly, internally, and at the root.
You don’t need culture workshops or policy refreshes.
You need someone who can walk in, name the breakdown no one else will say out loud, and help you fix it, before more damage is done.
We don’t do band-aids.
We diagnose hidden breakdowns in your leadership, people, and systems and design a path forward.
If you’re bleeding top talent, navigating leadership dysfunction, or feeling an unspoken tension across teams, we’ll help you realign from the inside out and rebuild culture that actually holds.
Every Organization Has a Purple Elephant™
That unspoken tension.
The silent resignation.
The system failure everyone tiptoes around.
The gap between your values and your staff’s lived reality.
When silence becomes survival, performance, morale, and trust all collapse.
We help you name it, dismantle it, and rebuild something better.
Organizations don't collapse overnight
Our Signature Services
We offer three levels of support, designed to meet your organization exactly where dysfunction shows up.
When something’s off, but no one can name it.
This high-stakes diagnostic session helps you uncover the real breakdown behind your retention issues, culture fatigue, or leadership tension.
We name the Elephant. Then we give you the truth and a path forward.
For organizations in active breakdown.
You’re bleeding talent, morale is collapsing, or leadership is misaligned.
We lead a deep-dive facilitation, map the damage using our 8-track Purple Elephant™ diagnostic, and deliver a customized recovery roadmap.
When you need an embedded leader to guide internal recovery.
We step in as your CPO-stabilizing leadership, repairing trust, and rebuilding your people systems from the inside out.
If Your People Are Struggling, Your Systems Probably Are Too
We don’t sell buzzwords.
We rebuild culture, leadership, and operations so people stop burning out, checking out, or walking out.
Real change starts with listening and naming what no one else will.
We bring lived experience, systems thinking, and sharp insight into the unspoken behaviors shaping your workplace.
Performance doesn’t improve where people feel unsafe, unseen, or silenced. We prioritize trust over control because compliance doesn’t build culture. People do.
We don’t stop at values.
We turn vague commitments into clear decisions, structure, and measurable transformation.
Ready to stop performing and start fixing?
Not sure where to start? Let's talk
A free 30 minute executive-level diagnostic conversation designed to uncover where your leadership challenges are costing you and how to address them before they escalate.
By the end of the call, you’ll know which next step makes the most sense and whether we’re a fit to work together.
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Making People
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The Purple Elephant Intensive 🐘
Stop the bleed. Fix what's quietly breaking your culture.
Every leadership team has one:
That unspoken issue you all feel… but no one names.
The Purple Elephant™ Intensive is a focused diagnostic experience for organizations in active breakdown, where misalignment, mistrust, or internal confusion is eroding retention, morale, or credibility.
We don’t guess. We diagnose.
Through our proprietary 8-pathway framework, we uncover where the real dysfunction lives, whether it’s power dynamics, leadership inconsistency, fractured systems, policy exposure, or silent burnout, then guide a targeted intervention that treats the root, not the symptoms.
You walk away with:
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A mapped diagnosis of your cultural and operational risks
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Executive-level debrief and decision-making alignment
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A prioritized strategic roadmap to restore trust, structure, and stability
This isn’t a workshop. It’s a turning point.
The Elephant’s Path
Your Strategy is Only as Strong as Your Blind Spots Are Weak
Before you plan, pivot, or restructure, you need to know what’s actually going on.
The Elephant’s Path™ is our diagnostic track inside the Purple Elephant™ Intensive. It maps what your leaders think is happening against what your staff actually experience.
We blend executive interviews, confidential staff feedback, and systems analysis to uncover the patterns you’ve missed, so you stop throwing strategy at symptoms and start fixing what’s breaking trust from the inside.
Why It Matters:
You can’t solve what you haven’t named
Your staff already know what’s wrong, they’re just not saying it
Strategy becomes aligned, actionable, and trusted
You stop spinning in reorgs and start leading with clarity
Ready to Stop Guessing and Start Fixing?
If your leadership team is navigating breakdowns you can’t quite name, but you know something is off, this is where the real work begins.
The Purple Elephant™ Intensive gives you the data, diagnosis, and direction to stop the bleed and rebuild your culture from the inside out.
Book a Clarity Conversation to see if the Intensive is right for your organization.
The Elephant’s Heart
What's Driving Turnover Isn't Personal, It's Structural
Burnout, mistrust, and resignations are not people problems, they’re the loud symptoms of a culture built on silence, unclear expectations, and systems that exhaust instead of support.
The Elephant’s Heart™ is where we diagnose the real signals your policies, roles, and internal operations are sending to your staff. Then we rebuild from the inside, with structure, clarity, and infrastructure that earns back trust and drives retention.
Why It Matters:
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Your culture already has rules, they’re just unspoken and breaking people
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High performers don’t burn out by accident, they burn out by design
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Operational misalignment is costing you talent, momentum, and morale
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You don’t need another “values” workshop, you need values that actually live in your systems
Ready to stop bleeding talent and rebuild a culture that retains without burnout?
The Elephant’s Foundation
What You Don’t Fix Internally Will Eventually Cost You Publicly
Policies are outdated, accountability is unclear, and your systems can’t back up your values. That’s not just misalignment, it’s a liability.
The Elephant’s Foundation™ identifies where your organization is vulnerable legally, reputationally, and ethically, and builds the internal architecture to withstand public scrutiny, leadership transitions, or internal crises.
We don’t just patch risk, we future-proof your organization by hardwiring transparency, integrity, and operational protection into how you lead.
Why It Matters:
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Internal confusion always leaks into public perception
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Culture isn’t resilient without structure, it’s just vibes
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If your accountability systems only activate when things go wrong, it’s already too late
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Leading with confidence requires operational integrity, not just mission statements
Unsure if your systems could withstand public scrutiny or internal shakeups?
The Elephant’s Signal
Your Brand Can’t Be Trusted If Your Culture Can’t Back It Up
If what you’re saying publicly doesn’t match what your people feel internally, the gap becomes a credibility crisis.
The Elephant’s Signal™ exposes where your external voice has outpaced your internal culture and builds the alignment needed to regain trust across staff, stakeholders, and the communities you serve.
This isn’t about PR polish. It’s about building a reputation grounded in truth, not optics.
Why It Matters:
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Internal misalignment always becomes public eventually
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Your staff are your first brand ambassadors or your loudest critics
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Community trust can’t be bought, but it can be broken
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Messaging means nothing if your operations can’t back it up
Worried your messaging doesn’t match your culture? Let’s make it honest.
The Elephant’s Wisdom
Your Culture Is Only as Strong as Your Board's Alignment
When governance lives on paper instead of in practice, mission drift takes over.
The Elephant’s Wisdom™ is our governance and compliance intervention inside the Purple Elephant™ Intensive. It aligns your board, oversight structures, and decision-making processes with the culture you’re actually trying to build, so you’re not leading one way and governing another.
This isn’t about paperwork. It’s about power, integrity, and aligned leadership at the highest level.
Why It Matters:
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A misaligned board undermines culture, trust, and credibility
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Compliance systems should support, not strangle, your mission
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True leadership means modeling your values at every level
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Governance can either protect your future or quietly sabotage it
If your board isn’t modeling your values, your culture won’t either.
The Elephant’s Journey
Transformation Doesn’t Happen by Reading the Slide Deck
Awareness is the spark but without activation, it fizzles.
The Elephant’s Journey™ is our applied learning track inside the Purple Elephant™ Intensive. These are not off-the-shelf workshops. We deliver bold, psychologically safe sessions that help your teams name the tension, shift behavior, and build the actual muscle to lead and collaborate differently.
If your people have the language but not the tools, this is the work.
Why It Matters:
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A psychologically safe learning environment grounded in respect and curiosity
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Capacity to address bias, burnout, and breakdowns at every level
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Leaders and staff aligned in mindset and behavior
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A workplace where growth is embedded in culture -not checked off a list
Your people are ready to grow. Now give them the tools.
The Elephant’s Footprint
If Your Culture Exhausts People, It’s Not High-Performing—It’s Just Surviving
Mental health is not a perk. It’s an operating condition.
The Elephant’s Footprint™ is our structural track for embedding emotional well-being into the DNA of how your organization functions. We identify the unspoken rules, invisible expectations, and leadership behaviors that are pushing your people into chronic fatigue, silence, and performance collapse.
Because when people are stuck in survival mode, trust dies and strategy crumbles.
Why It Matters:
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Burnout isn’t about yoga, it’s about systems that refuse to change
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Culture is either trauma-informed, or it’s complicit
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Innovation and retention collapse when people feel unsafe or unseen
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Your people can’t pour from empty, and neither can your leadership
Ready to lead a culture where people don't just survive—but actually thrive?
Not Ready for a Full Engagement?
Start with a Naming the Purple Elephant Strategy Session
Committing to a full consulting engagement is a big decision, especially when you’re still trying to figure out what’s actually wrong.
But delay costs more than discomfort. Every day your team is spinning, every leadership meeting that goes nowhere, every new resignation, it adds up.
The Naming the Purple Elephant™ Strategy Session is a 90-minute diagnostic designed to stop the spiral, fast. You’ll walk away with sharp clarity, mapped root issues, and an expert view on what’s quietly eroding alignment behind the scenes.
No long-term contract. No fluff. Just real answers, fast.
Ideal For:
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Executive teams sensing misalignment but unsure where it's coming from
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Organizations navigating tension, turnover, or leadership disconnect
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Culture and DEIB leads who feel stuck advocating for change without traction
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Founders or CEOs who know something’s “off” but can’t name it yet
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Boards losing confidence in leadership decisions or internal direction
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HR or People leaders carrying the weight of staff burnout without systemic support
You'll Walk Away With:
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Clarity on the root cause, not just the symptoms
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Expert analysis of your culture and leadership patterns
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A short-term roadmap you can act on immediately
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A decision point: continue solo or go deeper with support
Who We Support
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We work with organizations where unspoken tension, fractured trust, or misaligned leadership is slowing progress and draining retention.
Not everyone is ready to do this work. Our best partners are the ones who are.
We’re built for organizations ready to:
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Name what’s been avoided, tiptoed around, or quietly eroding culture
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Diagnose the real breakdown—beneath the turnover, disengagement, or burnout
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Rebuild trust, alignment, and operational clarity from the inside out
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Lead with integrity, not performance optics
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Stop outsourcing the problem and start owning the fix
If you're done patching the surface and ready to lead real change, we’re ready to walk with you.
Testimonials
"This work isn’t easy, but it’s essential. Through this process, we created space to listen, learn, and align as a team. The impact has been incredible—not just internally but in how we show up for the families and communities we serve. The framework helped us turn barriers into bridges, and we’re stronger because of it."
Suzannah Holsenbeck, Executive Director, Read to Grow
"Jenora didn’t just give us a workshop she gave us a mirror. For the first time, our leadership team had the language to talk about what was actually going wrong. We walked away with more than a strategy. We walked away with hope."
Director of Operations (Attended Naming The Purple Elephant Capacity Building Series) Hosted by: The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain
"Our organization had passion but no internal alignment. Jenora guided us through the hard conversations and helped us rebuild from the inside out. Her work didn’t just change our systems, it changed how we show up for each other."
Executive Director, Mid-Sized Nonprofit
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