Surrender

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Surrender is my word for the year 2021. Rather than new year’s resolutions which frequently get diluted within the first few days of January, I advocate setting clear intentions. Not so much specific goals or outcomes, but intentions for how we wish to show up in the world. So, my intention this year is to surrender to life as it unfolds. During the past year, I read The Surrender Experiment written by Michael Singer, the creator of a thriving meditation center and founder of a highly successful medical practice management software company. Singer’s philosophy of “surrendering yourself to Life itself” was an inspiration to me during the early days of the pandemic where the uncertainty about the […]

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Cultivating Commitment with Wise Leadership

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In my recent 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.

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The Role of Conscious Elders

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Leaders as Elders, Stewards, and Tuning Forks is one of the chapters 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.” In our Conscious Leadership in Action conversation, Jeffrey talks about the role of conscious elders. Elders have a calming effect and observe a lot. They observe more than they act, but when they act, they act with precision and efficiency. Elders don’t have to be super old. They could be wise, they could be an old soul. These are people who listen to understand and speak to be understood. They’re patient, they’re more […]

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Leaders of Consciousness

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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. During our conversation, Charlie Efford provided a fascinating description of the color coded spirals described by Frederic Laloux in Reinventing Organizations and Don Beck and Christopher Cowan in Spiral Dynamics, with references to vertical and horizontal learning. Charlie suggested that a lot of the work around conscious leadership is probably coming out of the green level of consciousness, maybe tipping a little bit towards teal, and raised the […]

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Conscious Leadership in Action Podcast with Kevin Rafferty

Wake Up, Get Real, Be Happy!

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During my Conscious Leadership in Action conversation with Kevin Rafferty, the Conscious Leaders Coach, he said, There isn’t a CEO out there who isn’t still a little boy or little girl inside. Every CEO that I’ve ever met, when you’re behind closed doors, and they’re being honest with you, they all have confidence issues, and they’re all afraid that they’re not doing it right. That they’re not smart enough, that they’re going to be found out, that they’re a pretender, that they don’t have all the answers. And yet, that fear has them putting up this facade of strength where it appears they’ve got it all under control. That gets them to a level of […]

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Conscientious Leadership or Conscious Leadership?

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In this Conscious Leadership in Action podcast conversation, Eric Kaufmann, CEO of Sagatica, suggested a distinction between conscientious leadership and conscious leadership. During our conversation, Eric said: Being conscientious means To Do the Right Thing. So, recycling, diversity, inclusion, fair trade, those are the right things to do. We applaud that. Recycling is really critical, the environment is critical, treating people fairly is critical. But there’s a distinction being conscientious and being conscious. To be conscious means to be in unresisting awareness of the present moment and the interconnectedness of all of life. So, I could recycle, but be really hard hearted; I could recycle, but be so competitive in my behaviour that I am […]

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