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As the movement of people seeking a better approach to leadership and answers to the persistent problems faced by business today gathers momentum, a new worldwide forum has been launched to help spread the word and hasten the pace of change.

The new Global Institute for Conscious Leadership is committed to transforming the leadership landscape by shifting the business ethos and promoting a step-change in leadership: one based on ‘we’ rather than ‘me’.  Ego-less leadership embodies the move away from our traditional perceptions of leaders as often ego-driven, profit-motivated and self-invested.

Conscious leaders are characterised and enlightened by their lack of ego. They step away from a ‘me-first’ mindset to create mutual benefit for all their stakeholders, not just themselves and their shareholders.  A far cry from the infamous business practices we have come to recognise today, they lead for the greater good as well as focusing on the bottom line, and create companies that are far more profitable as a result.

The benefits of adopting a Conscious Leadership approach are far reaching, extending to individuals, teams and whole organisations.  Customers, suppliers, and business partners also benefit as well as the wider community and arguably society as a whole and the environment.  In fact all of the ‘greater whole’ of which the business forms part stands to benefit.

As leaders make the move from ‘me’ to ‘we’ they open themselves up to a whole new level of performance and create balanced, sustainable and mutually beneficial working environments.  As working cultures are transformed, so they become capable of delivering truly exceptional results.

Current research shows them to be nearly nine times as profitable as those companies focusing on profit alone.1 These companies have kept their competitive advantage even during the global economic crisis.  Independent research2  also reveals ego as a cost to business. More than half of business leaders estimate that ego costs them up to 15 per cent of annual revenue, and the majority claim it has a negative impact on performance on an hourly or daily basis.

Global Institute co-founder and author Dr Sarah Morris3 welcomes the number of people now embracing conscious leadership:

“Interest in finding a new and better way of leading has never been greater or more needed and a huge number people from different companies and different continents are gravitating towards the more authentic, connected and ultimately more successful approach embodied by Conscious Leadership,” she says.

“The Global Institute is committed to establishing Conscious Leadership as the way of leadership of the 21st century.  An important resource, it supports those wanting to achieve this truly transformational level in their leadership ‘being’ and ‘doing’ and provides an instant global network of like-minded people who are going through this shift themselves.  We are hugely excited by the possibilities inherent in this.”

Gina Hayden, international leadership developer, facilitator and professionally certified leadership coach with the International Coach Federation, is co-founder of the Global Institute for Conscious Leadership, and believes the shift to conscious leadership is exactly what is needed right now in the world of business and politics today.  She says:

“The emergence of conscious leadership is a very timely response to recent global political and societal changes and to the clear need to think more collectively, considerately and collaboratively.  The world we live in has changed and traditional models have had their day.

“Conscious Leadership is a fitting and practical alternative and one which continues to focus on profit but also focuses on the greater good and wider benefits.  Thought leaders in all of corners of the world are now lighting the way for engaging in a different kind of commercial reality, one that does good and does good business.

“We are moving towards a time when these two things are no longer mutually exclusive.  A key role of the Global Institute is to spread the word and help more people make the leadership transition necessary to do business effectively today.”

The Global Institute for Conscious Leadership is committed to its mission of:

  • Providing thought leadership on the need for, the nature of and emergence of conscious leadership
  • Providing a hub for connecting conscious leaders
  • Being a centre of learning and advice about the development of conscious leadership and conscious business
  • Becoming a centre for collating and sharing best practice
  • Developing a Directory of Conscious Business to promote trailblazing companies
  • Promoting conscious leadership through an annual conference that brings together the very best pioneering thinking about conscious leadership and conscious business

Notes for editors

  1. Research conducted by Sisodia and Wolfe, Firms of Endearment, (2007).
  1. Research published in David Marcum and Steven Smith’s Egonomics finds 51 per cent of business leaders estimate ego costs companies between six and 15 per cent of annual revenue and 21 per cent say the cost actually ranges between 16 and 20 per cent; and 63 per cent say ego has a negative impact on performance on an hourly or daily basis while a further 31 per cent see a weekly impact.
  1. Dr Sarah Morris is Coaching Partner at the Parallax Partnership, an established top level leadership development organisation.  It is redefining the frontiers of leadership and supporting senior leaders, teams and companies to new levels of performance through its Conscious Leadership and High Performance Teams programmes.  The Partnership also offers innovative bespoke executive coaching programmes and supervisory and conflict management services.
  1. Gina Hayden is Director of Sphere Consulting Services and The Conscious Leadership Consultancy.  She works with leaders and their teams across the world as a consultant, facilitator and coach, helping them to shift towards a more conscious way of leading.  She is based in London and has a Masters degree in Psychology.  She is currently authoring Principles of Conscious Leadership
  1. Dr Sarah Morris’s book Egoless: the Final Frontier in Leadership is available through the Parallax Partnership at www.parallaxuk.com or through Amazon.


 

 

 

 

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