Cultivating Commitment with Wise Leadership
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Release Date: 01/07/2020
Women’s Wisdom and Impact in Midlife
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Living Consciously in Midlife and Beyond is based on the conscious Living Wheel introduced in the book Midlife, New Life written by Eileen Caroscio, Sandy Demarest, and Paul Ward. The purpose of this podcast is to advance conscious living and conscious leadership for the greater good of humanity. Betsy Pickren uses the Midlife, New Life book as a foundation for her Wisdom Impact Groups. In our conversation, Betsy shares her own journey of transitions through midlife and explains how she helps women repurpose their wisdom for good in her wisdom groups. To listen to the video podcast go to my...
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Contagious You!
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Most of us think about being contagious in terms of a virus or ill health, especially at this time as the coronavirus is spreading rapidly around the world, but emotions and attitudes are also contagious. During my Conscious Leadership in Action conversation with Anese Cavanaugh, author of the book, Contagious You, we talked about how we as leaders are contagious. We also talked about intentional energetic presence (IEP), and being conscious and intentional about everything we do.
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Leadership Breakdown
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
In my Conscious Leadership in Action conversation with guest Eric Kaufmann we talked about his new book, Leadership Breakdown: How to break the vicious cycle, release the struggle, and succeed with conscious leadership. Eric describes his book as a journey through the applications of conscious leadership. The podcast includes Eric being exceptionally vulnerable in sharing his own leadership awakening along with a beautiful meditation.
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Cultivating Conscious Leadership
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Transformational coach and spiritual mentor, Gema Ramirez, explores how leaders can cultivate conscious leadership. Gema’s vision is to change the world to see everyone becoming a conscious leader, inspiring others, and coming together with our own unique versions of conscious leadership. During our conversation, Gema describes nine qualities of a conscious leader: authenticity, collaboration, inspiration, oneness, presence, equanimity, trust, inclusion, and greatness.
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Cultivating Commitment with Wise Leadership
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Karen Wilhelm Buckley explores how leaders cultivate commitment with wise leadership. it's constantly an inner journey, and then it's constantly an outer journey as well. The capacity to integrate our experience and our knowledge with our conscious awareness is really key to the capacity to be consciously a leader and to be conscious in our leadership. We cultivate commitment from the inside out. Yet commitment in itself is not enough. We have bring in wisdom before we take action.
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Off Self, On Purpose
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Josh Perry talks about three principles he has learned on his journey from Pro BMX athlete to multiple brain tumor survivor and inspirational speaker. Josh almost died because doctors thought his headaches were quite normal and it wasn’t until a routine brain scan following a training accident that two massive brain tumors were revealed. His three principles are: Perspective is Essential to Life, Health is Internal, and Our Reality is a Manifestation of our Choices.
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Increasing Your Gut Intelligence
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Susan Wehrley is the author of recently published Yogi Executive, 7 Principles to Improve Your Gut Intelligence and Become a More Clear, Calm and Confident Leader. During our conscious leadership conversation, Susan talks about the yogi executive as somebody who's practicing groundedness and awareness. Being a yogi executive doesn't mean you have to be an executive in a company, but it's using that executive functioning part of your brain. So everybody's a yoga executive when they're doing that.
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Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Leaders as Elders, Stewards, and Tuning Forks. In Jeffrey Deckman’s award winning book, Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset for the 21st Century, Jeffery writes, “elders are not in pursuit of leadership roles they’re in pursuit of consciousness.” When trying to figure out how to begin to take steps on the journey to conscious leadership, just think about the image you have of an elder and think about what they do and why they’re respected, and that will get you headed in the right directio
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Exploring Consciousness
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Different states of awareness or levels of consciousness exist in our universe. In this Conscious Leadership in Action conversation, Charlie Efford relates these levels of consciousness to octaves on a musical scale, each having a number of notes within it. Higher octaves mean higher levels of consciousness. He also talked about the color coded spirals described by Frederic Laloux in Reinventing Organizations and Don Beck and Christopher Cowan in Spiral Dynamics.
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Wake Up, Get Real, Be Happy – Becoming Your Authentic Self
Conscious Leadership and Conscious Living in Action podcast
Start with your people. All business issues are people issues, and those people issues often relate to the false ego, the unconscious part of ourselves. So if we can break through those issues, and help them get into their own true essence and their own true selves, and tap into their own higher intelligences, they’ll come up with their own solutions. And then, my job is to help them figure their strategy for implementing and hold them accountable. That's my role as a conscious leaders coach.
info_outlineIn my Conscious Leadership in Action conversation with Karen Wilhelm Buckley, we explored how leaders can cultivate commitment with wise leadership. During our conversation, Karen said that unless we are grounded and centered in what matters most, our leadership is not employed with as much veracity, as much strength, or as much power.
Aligning with the title of the book, The Inner Journey to Conscious Leadership, Karen suggested that it's constantly an inner journey, and then it's constantly an outer journey as well. If we're only inward, then we're probably up in a cave, being a monk. If we're only outward, then we're always interacting with the world and there is not the maturity that comes from the inner work. The capacity to integrate our experience and our knowledge with our conscious awareness is really key to the capacity to be consciously a leader and to be conscious in our leadership.
When commitment is paired with wisdom, there's an awareness of the limits of the reliability of our own knowledge. The second part is the wisdom that comes when we're aware of the inherent dilemmas that come within acting on any commitment. So there's always polarities. There's two choices to make that don't necessarily seem to go together. And an ability to be aware of those dilemmas and the fact that we have ill structured problems and messes that we're dealing with, that are much more complex than we can possibly come to understand. That awareness is wisdom.
We cultivate commitment from the inside out. Yet commitment in itself is not enough. We have bring in wisdom before we take action. Cultivate the commitment paired with wisdom, and then take the responsible action that delivers the results.
To view the Conscious Leadership in Action video conversation with Karen Wilhelm Buckley, go to my YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/48MhOFDrm6M