LISTENING WITH INTEGRITY™
LIVE WORKSHOPS • TEAM TRAININGS
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The Foundational Discipline Behind Stronger Communication, Leadership, and Relationships
DEVELOP AWARENESS • REGULATE RESPONSE • CREATE MEANINGFUL CONNECTION
Listening with Integrity™ helps individuals, leaders, teams, and organizations strengthen communication, leadership, and connection—by changing how they listen.
Most People Believe They're Good Listeners—Until It Matters
The gap between how we think we’re listening and how we actually show up is where communication breaks down.
In real conversations, listening is often interrupted by internal reactions—judgment, distraction, defensiveness, and the urge to respond.
These patterns happen quickly and often go unnoticed, but they directly impact the quality of our conversations, relationships, and results.
Listening with Integrity™ introduces a different approach—one that helps you recognize these patterns in real time and respond with greater awareness, clarity, and intention.
A Different Kind of Listening Training
This isn't about learning what to say next...
It’s about learning how to stay present, aware, and intentional while others are speaking—especially when it matters most.
Through a practical, experience-based framework, you’ll begin to recognize your internal listening patterns, identify sabotaging Listening Blocks™, regulate them in real time, and respond with greater clarity and connection.
Through guided reflection, practical tools, and real-world application, you’ll begin recognizing these patterns in real time—and responding with greater awareness, clarity, and intention.
What you'll gain...
Identify your primary Listening Blocks™ and interrupt reactive patterns in real time
Strengthen communication in high-stakes personal and professional conversations
Respond with greater awareness, clarity, intention, and emotional intelligence
Build trust and deepen connection with clients, teams, and those you lead
Improve the quality and outcomes of your relationships in every area of your life
Transform how others experience you in every conversation
This is where awareness becomes transformation.
The Listening With Integrity™ Foundational Model
Listening with Integrity™ is built on a simple, powerful framework.
This model reflects how effective listening develops—from recognizing the habits that interrupt understanding, to regulating responses in real time, to creating conversations where trust, clarity, and connection can thrive.
The Listening With Integrity™ Experience
The Experience
Listening with Integrity™ is a highly interactive experience designed for immediate, real-world application.
Through guided reflection, practical exercises, and real-world application, participants begin integrating the framework in real time.
Experiences may include workshops, team trainings, coaching intensives, and facilitated group sessions:
An official Certificate of Completion (for eligible CECs)
Practical tools and resources for immediate application
Increased awareness of your listening patterns
A clearer path for improving everyday communication
Principles you can apply across all areas of your life
Workshops & Private Training
Public Workshops
Live Listening with Integrity™ workshops and immersive experiences will be announced periodically throughout the year. Join our interest list or follow LIG Coaching for future workshop announcements and registration opportunities.
Private Training & Facilitation
Listening with Integrity™ is available for:
organizations and leadership teams
conferences and retreats
coaches and facilitators
schools and educators
couples, families, and private groups
Customized virtual and in-person experiences are available upon request.
Please contact LIG Coaching for scheduling information, availability, and custom training options.
Want to learn more?
Download the Listening with Integrity™ Overview to learn more about the framework, philosophy, and real-world application of LWI™.
Listening with Integrity™ is a practical, repeatable discipline that teaches individuals how to regulate themselves while listening—transforming communication, leadership & relationships.
Listening with Integrity™ FAQs
Listening with Integrity™ can be experienced through live workshops, organizational trainings, facilitated team experiences, coaching integration, leadership development, and private group sessions. Some experiences are delivered in multiple parts to allow for deeper awareness, reflection, and real-world application between sessions.
Yes. Listening with Integrity™ is highly interactive and application-focused. Experiences may include guided reflection, breakout discussions, practical exercises, facilitated dialogue, and real-time communication application. This is not passive learning—it’s designed to create awareness and immediate integration.
Listening with Integrity™ is designed for anyone who wants to strengthen how they communicate, connect, and lead—personally and professionally. Participants often include leaders, corporate professionals, coaches, facilitators, educators, couples, families, students, teams, and organizations seeking stronger communication and deeper connection.
Teams and organizations are also encouraged to attend together to build a shared language and approach.
Yes. Certificates of Completion may be available for select workshops, trainings, or professional development experiences. Continuing education eligibility may vary depending on the organization, credentialing requirements, and training format.
Most communication training focuses on what to say—how to speak more effectively, influence conversations, manage conflict, or improve delivery. Even many listening trainings focus primarily on surface-level skills or techniques.
Listening with Integrity™ approaches communication from a completely different perspective.
At its core, nearly every relationship challenge—personally or professionally—can be traced back to how we listen, react, interpret, assume, interrupt, defend, or emotionally respond in conversation. Yet most people never stop to examine how they actually listen in real time. In fact, most people genuinely believe they are good—even great—listeners.
But when individuals begin exploring the 12 Sabotaging Listening Blocks™, the experience is often eye-opening. Patterns that once felt automatic suddenly become visible: reacting instead of listening, thinking ahead instead of staying present, judging, fixing, defending, assuming, interrupting, or listening through stress, emotion, distraction, or pressure.
What makes Listening with Integrity™ different is that it doesn’t just create awareness—it provides practical tools to regulate those patterns in real time. Through a simple but powerful framework, participants learn how to catch reactive behaviors, interrupt unhealthy communication habits, and intentionally choose a different response while conversations are happening—not afterward.
The impact is immediate.
People often experience meaningful shifts in connection, clarity, trust, emotional regulation, leadership presence, and relationship dynamics from the very first day they begin applying the work. Because ultimately, this isn’t just about becoming a better communicator.
It’s about transforming how people experience you in conversation—and how your relationships experience you in life.
Where This Work Begins
Listening with Integrity™ serves as a foundational discipline within the LIG Mentorship Academy.
For coaches, consultants, facilitators, and leaders who guide others, this work provides a critical starting point—developing the awareness and regulation required to lead meaningful, effective conversations.
Before leading others, we learn to:
Understand how we listen
Regulate how we respond
Create intentional, meaningful connection
For those who choose to go further, this work expands into advanced application through mentorship—offering a path toward deeper integration, facilitation, and licensed delivery.
This is where the work begins.
Meet the CEO of LIG Coaching & the Creator of Listening with Integrity™
Marcus Straub
CEO & Founder | LIG Coaching & Consulting
Marcus Straub is an award-winning, full-spectrum Master Coach recognized for his pioneering work in transforming assessment insights into practical, life-changing tools.
In 2011, he was named International Coach of the Year, and in 2026, he was honored by TTI Success Insights® as Contributor of the Year for his impact within the global partner network and leadership in assessment-based transformation.
With more than 23 years of experience guiding individuals, leaders, and organizations, Marcus is known for helping people move beyond awareness into meaningful, sustainable action.
Marcus is the creator of the proprietary TDSF™ (Thinking • Doing • Saying • Feeling) framework, the CSR™ (Catch • Stop • Redirect) tool, and the Functional Integration Tool™—all designed to elevate emotional intelligence and create results that last.
Listening with Integrity™ is a foundational discipline within this work and serves as the starting point for developing stronger communication, leadership, and relationships.
Join Marcus for this live workshop experience and begin applying this work immediately.
