About
Founder & Principal
Founder Bio
Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere
Annalisa Adams-Qualtiere is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Six8Leadership, a leadership advisory, consulting, and speaking practice built on a single conviction: that justice, mercy, and humility are not values to aspire to -- they are disciplines to practice. With 30 years across corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors, including years as a Chief People Officer, she has spent her career inside the rooms where leadership either holds or doesn't.
She is the author of the Quiet Authority Leadership Brief series, published on SSRN, and is pursuing her doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership at USC Rossier School of Education. Her scholarly work examines the organizational conditions that shape how professionals lead, develop, and endure.
Six8Leadership is grounded in the principles of act justly, love mercy, walk humbly.
THE ORIGIN
The Six8Leadership Story
Six8Leadership takes its name and its organizing principle from Micah 6:8 — a verse that asks not what leaders know or how they perform, but who they choose to be. Act Justly. Love Mercy. Walk Humbly.
These are not aspirational values. They are operational standards — the measure by which every leadership decision, every exercise of power, and every organizational practice should be evaluated.
Founded after 30 years at the intersection of organizational power and human dignity, Six8Leadership exists to name what most leadership frameworks leave unnamed: that character, not competence alone, is the foundation of lasting authority.
THE METHODOLOGY
The Framework
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Power exercised without accountability is not leadership — it is positional authority. Acting justly means examining how decisions land, not just how they are intended.
02
Mercy in organizational life means attending to who bears the cost of how you lead. Differential cost-bearing is the hidden tax of power unexamined.
03
Quiet Authority is not the absence of confidence. It is the discipline of restraint — leading from formation rather than performance, trust rather than title.
Credentials & Affiliations
A structured examination of Strength, Heart/Passion, Abilities, Personality, and Experience — grounded in power awareness and self-examination in relationship to power. Not a general competency tool.
Author of a three-brief research trilogy on Quiet Authority, positional aggression, and differential cost-bearing. All briefs available on SSRN.
Keynote speaker on leadership integrity, unintentional harm, and the SHAPE framework. Confirmed: SHRM North Chapter Conference, September 2026.
SIX8LEADERSHIP
Leadership grounded in integrity starts here.
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