There are a few ways you can work with me:
Working One-to-one with Leaders, CEOs, and Athletes
In one-to-one work, we explore upleveling performance (and happiness) from the inside out.
Our work together is extremely individualized and very experiential. It’s based on your goals and objectives – combining both short-term goals and big, hairy audacious goals so you feel progress in work and life. I’m a facilitator of your growth, bringing a host of tools to increasingly connect you to your best and authentic self, your wisdom and inner resources. You become increasingly anchored in your own authority and individuality as a leader and human being. It’s like removing the filters between you and where your best is elicited while activating more of your potential.
We combine both left and right-brain (think advanced meditation states) approaches for maximum effectiveness and growth. Besides the language of the right brain, my areas of expertise include psychological safety PLUS, emotional wisdom (vs. emotional intelligence), human-centered leadership, answering the call of the authentic self, and developing your sense of self.
Working with Leaders and their Teams
I also work with leaders and their teams, supporting growth from the inside-out.
Group Work with Leaders and Others
From time to time, I work with groups of like-minded people for their growth and development. This depends upon interest so check in with me if you’d like to learn more.
Consulting
I provide consulting to organizations to help create training programs for psychological safety PLUS and Human-centered Leadership.
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Increasing Inner Peace: the Start of Designing Yourself as Leader
It’s often overlooked in the corporate context, but having inner peace is fundamental for leaders as they steer their organisations through turbulent times and change.
Inner peace manifests in equanimity, open-mindedness, continuous and agile learning, and eagerness to collaborate amid disruption.
It means you can spend more of your time and energy focused on the things you want to create.
As you exude more calm you foster environments of calm and clear thinking. You help to defuse anxiety that other team members may be feeling and communicate in ways that create human connection and relatedness.
Overall, this is about coming home to and feeling more comfortable within the self. The authentic self.
Decision-making (Head, Heart and Gut)
Mental capacity is everything to leaders. It’s the fuel for information gathering, decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
Data is important, of course, but not enough. The situations that leaders deal with are often too complex and fast moving to rely on data alone.
As a leader, to function at your best, you need access to broader information to make better decisions.
That’s where the head, heart and gut model comes in. It expands your awareness and helps you connect and listen even in crisis situations.
Elevating Consciousness:
Becoming the Leader You’re Meant to Be
This could also be called answering the call of the authentic self as a leader.
Greater inner resources create greater business results. You gain new perspectives and uncover new possibilities and choice points that weren’t visible before.
This is about stepping into more of your potential. As a leader and a human being. Getting out of your own way. Taking leadership consciousness to a deeper level.
Uncovering limitations, discovering new perspectives, and rejecting the status quo to emerge as a wiser, more gracious, and empathetic human.
People Building
Besides being problem solvers and decision makers, one of the central roles of leadership is people building.
Creating great places to work isn’t about superficial things like foosball tables (not that they’re not nice :), but rather becoming an organization that helps lift people up into their own growth and learning.
Empowering people to feel like they’re living their best selves and unlocking their potential.
How do you infuse every position in the company with opportunities to learn, grow, and get better?
How do you light the fire within people to want to grow and get better?
We combine the best of science and personal growth in bringing those answers to the table.
Emotional Wisdom
One of the biggest places people are disempowered – where they struggle – is around their emotions.
We haven’t been properly taught what emotions are and how to deal with them.
Models like emotional intelligence teach us mental awareness of emotions but not how to resolve and integrate them.
Emotional wisdom explores how to decode our feelings to harvest the wisdom and guidance.
It brings a deeper understanding of our emotional processes and higher level development.
Things like:
- Getting triggered,
- How hidden motivations and needs can interfere with your service as a leader,
- Not getting hooked by others’ unhealthy emotional responses,
- The essential, life-changing shift from self-as-enemy to self-as-ally,
- How and why we repress and suppress,
- Self-differentiation and its importance to health, regeneration and potential,
- and common sticking points like trying to prove ourselves and struggling with or avoiding difficult conversations.
Emotional wisdom explores how our emotions work within our larger consciousness and how we can use them to grow in consciousness.
The new success is connected success.
Success that doesn’t bypass the self.
Connected success equals emotionally healthy and comfortable leaders. That pays out big dividends.
Not just in all the painful and costly stuff you avoid – things like poor decisions, burnout, disconnection, divorce and other relationship issues…
but also in the gains – the sense of thriving and helping others to do the same, the ability to think at a higher scale – and the many advantages that trickle down to the people and company.
In the Zone
A lot of leaders think the trick to performing better is to work harder. But there’s great power in working smarter rather than harder. In being able to direct and channel your strengths in each moment.
An aspect of this is spending more time in the zone.
The zone is the ultimate experience of optimal performance. It’s a feeling of using your skills to the utmost.
It’s key to eureka moments and breakthroughs. In the zone, we feel connected to something bigger and more expansive than ourselves.
It feels as though your consciousness expands.
As though time is spacious. Everything is still coming at you at the same speed, but none of it feels overwhelming.
Your mind is open, able to keep track of numerous elements at once.
Bill Moyers, author of The Power of Myth put it this way: The athlete who is in championship form has a quiet place within himself. And it’s out of that that his action comes. If he’s all in the action field, he’s not performing properly.”
Using Meditation and Brain States for Growth and Performance
You may or may not have had success with meditation in the past.
Either way, there’s much more.
It’s time to look at meditation in a bigger way.
First, we need to get meditation off the mat by recognizing that these are natural brain states. These deeper states give you access to problem-solving information and faster learning and healing capabilities.
The goal is to learn to harness them so you can access the best states to capitalize on the moment in your every day living.
Second, meditation is usually taught in a passive way.
There are loads of types of meditations. Each has various strengths and limitations. For example, meditation on the breath is one of the most common meditations taught.
But if you’re a leader looking for more creativity and insights, it’s the wrong meditation. It’s a convergent meditation, when you want a divergent one.
Before choosing a practice, ask yourself what you want to grow in your life and leadership.
What are your goals? Your challenges and aspirations?
Then design your meditations with the right practices to actively further your growth.
Lastly, the secularization of meditation helped spread it far and wide. But it lost much of its transformative powers in the translation. I play in the zone of bringing them back.
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