In this episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr sits down with Scott Tibbitts and Scott Christiansen, co-founders of Starsys Research—an extraordinary company that built spacecraft hardware used on missions to Mars and beyond. From an invention crafted with $7 in hardware store parts to a global space company with 99% employee retention and a 100% mission success rate, their journey reveals what’s possible when purpose and culture come first.

Together, they unpack how values like fun, family, and personal responsibility shaped their company's DNA, what it takes to lead without hierarchy, and why culture might just be the most powerful innovation of all.

Episode Takeaways:
➤ How a paraffin-filled copper tube sparked a Mars-bound company
➤ Why they rejected hierarchy and embraced mentorship models
➤ The radical way Starsys co-created values—with full company consensus
➤ How culture sustained them through financial crisis and near collapse
➤ Practices like "Efforts & Blunders" that built psychological safety and trust
➤ Why fun, family, and trust were just as critical as engineering precision
➤ What today’s leaders can learn from this story of purpose-led innovation

Resources & Connect:
➤ Book: From the Garage to Mars by Scott Tibbitts – Memoir of a Space Entrepreneur
➤ Learn more about Renelle and InSight’s work: www.insight-cc.com

Engage with InSight:
At InSight, we believe purpose fuels performance. Through transformational coaching, immersive retreats, and system-wide culture change, we help leaders build organizations as powerful on the inside as they are on paper.

🎧 Tune in to discover what building for Mars can teach us about building for what matters most—on Earth.

Summary:
In this episode of Conscious InSights, Renelle Everett Darr delves into the Enneagram with experts Claire Williams and Pastor Stephanie Williams O'Brien to explore how this ancient tool can revolutionize modern leadership. Discover how the Enneagram's deep insights into personality and behavior patterns can transform leadership effectiveness across generations.

Episode Takeaways:
➤ Understand the Enneagram’s foundational role in personal and leadership transformation.
➤ Learn how leaders can use the Enneagram to identify and transcend personal limitations, enhancing their influence and effectiveness.
➤ Discover practical applications of the Enneagram in both personal development and team dynamics.

Resources & Connect:
➤ Claire Williams -> An executive coach who specializes in making transformational concepts actionable for leaders and teams. https://www.clairewilliamsindepth.com/
➤ Pastor Stephanie Williams O'Brien -> A lead pastor and professor who integrates the Enneagram in her leadership and pastoral teachings. @pastorsteph
➤ Books -> The Enneagram Guide to Waking Up by Beatrice Chestnut and The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
➤ Assessments -> IEQ9, CPS Enneagram Compass, RHETI Enneagram

Engage with InSight:
➤ With decades of experience in both large-scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams, and organizations for the new era of work. Visit InSight

🎧 Tune in for Enneagram insights that redefine modern leadership and personal growth.

The world is shifting fast, and traditional leadership strategies aren’t built for this level of complexity. In Part 1, we explored how change follows cycles and how leaders can find stability in uncertainty. In Part 2 of The Future of Flourishing, Renelle and futurist Cecily Sommers explore why leaders must evolve alongside their strategies to successfully navigate uncertainty.

The conversation connects inner leadership growth with external strategic adaptation, highlighting why leadership today requires change fluency—the ability to track patterns, anticipate shifts, and lead with confidence. Cecily introduces the four forces shaping all societal change—Resources, Technology, Demographics, and Governance—and explains how leaders can use these forces to craft adaptive strategies that align with the realities of a changing world.

• Leaders cannot separate their own evolution from their organization’s strategy—they must grow together.

• Change fluency is essential—leaders must continuously track external shifts while developing internal adaptability.

• The most effective strategies today are adaptive, iterative, and rooted in a leader’s ability to sense and respond.

• Organizations that do not integrate change literacy into their strategy will find themselves constantly disrupted by external forces.

• Cecily Sommers-> https://www.cecilysommers.com/

• Engage with InSight-> With decades of experience in both large scale change and deep leadership coaching, InSight bridges the intellect and the heart to fully power leaders, teams and organizations for the new era of work. https://insight-cc.com/

• Missed Part 1? The Future of Flourishing: Finding Order in a Disordered World

🔊 Listen now to learn how personal and strategic evolution must go hand in hand.