The Connection Key

Business Challenge

Human connection is the strategic advantage that helps people live better, work better, and go farther together.

We all want to feel connected, but today’s world makes real human connection harder every day. So, how do we build meaningful connections when more people live alone, work on-line and socialize on digital platforms? 

The modern workplace makes connection harder than ever. Remote work, hybrid schedules, and digital collaboration tools have made it easier to work from anywhere. But they’ve also made it easier to work without truly connecting with people. 

Whether you work in an office, from home, or somewhere in between, one thing has become clear: Human connection no longer happens automatically, so we must be more intentional about creating it.

This experiential workshop will give you the practice and confidence to build real-world human connections in a digital age to elevate your wellbeing and performance.  

We have tested, honed and applied this approach for 30+ years in our personal and professional lives and with client organizations. Various forms of scientific research have validated the effectiveness of this approach. 

Discover the abundant life that you can’t build alone. 

This high-impact workshop will give you the tools and the confidence to build real-world human connections in a digital age to elevate your wellbeing and performance.

Target Audience

Team members at every level.

Learning Objectives

Put the concepts from The Connection Key to work in your organization. This workshop cuts through the clutter to help your team members apply the actionable tools at work. They will also apply them in real-time during this workshop. 

Workshop participants will learn how to:

• Simple actions to reach out to others to make a positive impact on their lives… and yours
• Easy techniques to quickly find common ground with others to make it easier to connect
• Learn a variety of ways (and experience one of them) to create shared experiences and fun memories with new and old friends.

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Contact

Contact us now to cultivate healthy leadership so you can build a connected, healthy and high-performing team!

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Client Impact

I have applied The L Group’s practical tools for over 20 years. The Connection Key is another one of their  game-changing books! 

Human connection is the most overlooked performance advantage in today’s organization — teams break down without it. The authors provide relatable examples and clear steps to build human connections in real life.  

The Connection Key is the perfect guidebook for today’s leader who is navigating the challenges with disconnected teams. It is equally valuable for anyone trying to build a richer personal life through more meaningful human connections. I highly recommend it!

Frank Dulcich
President & CEO
Pacific Seafood

In a brilliantly simple way, Lee Colan and Julie Davis-Colan offer a process to develop positive, deeper connections with people in your life. They have given you a special gift – the gift of awareness. It will open your eyes, change your perspective, and help you enjoy more fulfilling and healthier relationships.

David Cottrell
Author of perennial best-selling Monday Morning Leadership

The Connection Key is a powerful, practical guide for anyone who wants to lead and live with greater impact! The authors deliver a simple, research-backed framework— Reach Out, Seek Understanding, Make Memories, and Check In—that makes building meaningful connections both accessible and actionable.

This book is energizing, insightful, and immediately useful! It’s a powerful reminder that small, intentional acts of connection drive wellbeing, strengthen relationships, and elevate performance.

If you want to make a real difference, in your work and in your life, start here!

Rachel Davis Mersey
Executive Vice President and Provost
SMU

Lee and Julie have been far more than coaches to me. Over time, they have become like family. In three years working together, Lee pushed me beyond my comfort zone, helped me make a major change I never imagined, and challenged me to build a life that feels meaningful, not just successful. Their belief in human connection isn’t something they just teach — it’s something they live. 

The Connection Key equips and empowers the reader to realize the success and fulfillment that are not meant to be achieved alone. More importantly, it is a practical guide for building meaningful connections in real life.

Veronica Schnitzius
President, Chief Manufacturing and Sourcing Officer
RH

Lee and Julie continue to publish their actionable tools and provide coaching and guidance to leaders at all levels of an organization. The Connection Key is yet another reference tool for managers to understand the human side of our teams and seek to develop the leadership practices to advance your organization. Add this book to your reference arsenal!

Brian Sinkiewicz
CEO
Crestview Aerospace

The Connection Key highlights one of the most overlooked drivers of individual and organizational success — meaningful human connection. In today’s highly digital and fast-paced world, the ability to build trust, strengthen relationships, and foster genuine collaboration is more important than ever.

The authors have provided practical, science-based insights that can help leaders, teams, and individuals improve wellbeing, engagement, and performance both at work and at home. This book serves as a powerful reminder that sustainable success is built not only through technology and processes, but through people and authentic human interactions.

Walter Pinto
COO
Pattern Energy

The Connection Key unveils one of the most powerful competitive advantages in business today: truly connected team members. Meaningful engagement across an organization is impossible without authentic connection.  Lee and Julie provide practical, impactful strategies to help teams build deeper relationships at every level.

When your team feels genuinely connected, engagement rises — and with it, productivity, collaboration, innovation and performance. Every organization has a team, but connected teams create a level of culture and competitive advantage that sets great businesses apart.

Jason D. Lippert
CEO
LCI Industries

The Connection Key is a must read for leaders today who are committed to human connection as a strategic advantage. The authors show how small, intentional behaviors drive better wellbeing, stronger relationships, and higher performance. What sticks most with me is being more intentional about small moments that are easy to overlook. Reaching out first, asking one more question to really understand someone, slowing down to create shared experiences, and following up so people feel seen and remembered. 

The real impact isn’t in big initiatives; it’s in consistently choosing these small, human interactions. This book makes that both simple and actionable. I strongly recommend this book to any leader who wants a practical, no-nonsense way to strengthen culture and drive performance through more meaningful human connection.

Amy Messersmith
Human Capital Executive & Chief People Officer
Caravel Autism Health

Whatever business you’re in, you are in the people business. Lee understands connection because they practices it. I have seen him add tremendous value in roundtable settings I have hosted, and I have also seen him bring together impressive people for thoughtful, high-quality conversations of his own. He brings substance, warmth, and thoughtful leadership to every room he enters. 

The Connection Key is an insightful, practical reminder that meaningful human connection still drives trust, wellbeing, and performance – especially in a world increasingly shaped by technology and artificial intelligence.

Dr. James Beckett
Founder
Beckett Media

We were created for relationships. First with our Maker and then with our family, friends, fellow workers, and those whose lives we touch. Whether you are an introvert or extrovert, Julie and Lee Colan, in their book, The Connection Key, have developed a simple but effective plan to help us develop and maintain relationships. In this age of social media nothing is more important than interpersonal relationships based on gratitude, respect, forgiveness, and simple acts of kindness.

Robert Murchison
Partner
Murchison Capital Partners, L.P.

The Connection Key delivers a timely and practical tools to build meaningful human connections that create a competitive advantage in business and in life. Lee and Jule combine research, real-world experience, and actionable insights into an impactful framework. In a world driven by technology and convenience, this book challenges us to be more intentional about how we engage with others. Organizations, Leaders, teams, and families will all benefit from the lessons shared in these pages.

Robert Covington
Founder & Managing Partner
Braemont Capital.