Waking up to Wholeness

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Conscious Leadership is about waking up to our own wholeness. So said Runa Bouius, Founder & CEO, TRUE Power Institute, in a recent Conscious Leadership in Action conversation with Paul Ward.  Runa went on to say, I believe we are all perfect, we are all whole, we have just forgotten. We are really like a diamond that needs a little polishing to allow our true nature to come up. We refer to that as our true power. We need to be going down into our true power, where the first step is to wake up, to become aware of our thoughts, of our feelings, of our behavior, of the impact that we have on other […]

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Conscious Leadership: A Practice not a Destination

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We have all heard that the answer to the question, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” is practice, practice, practice; but it’s not that easy. Have you ever tried to learn to play a musical instrument? If so, you’ll know how difficult that can be. So, what do you do? You find a teacher, mentor, or coach who can provide a path to success. Although Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall shown in the picture, or any other notorious music hall may be a destination to which we as musicians may aspire, it is the journey rather than the destination that can be most rewarding. In our home growing up, we had a pedal […]

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Learning in Dignity

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Dignity (etymologically,  ‘a state of being worthy’) is essential to the process and purpose of education. Yet, our societal narrative has lost the plot in terms of what boxes need to be ticked and how many ‘followers’ need to be clicked- in order to be worthy. It is not only the prerequisites to dignity that are pathologically constructed, but also the timelines. This is most evident in schools, where teachers report to having ‘no time to teach’ as they are so busy jumping through administrative hoops and stuffing a vast curriculum of facts into the heads of young learners for them to pass the next test, and for their school to maintain an ‘outstanding’ rating . […]

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Leading with Grace

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I have recently been reflecting on the concept of Leading with Grace. It has struck me that in today’s fast paced world, where businesses and leaders are ever more under pressure to deliver, Grace speaks to a way of slowing things down, a calmness and consideration of others, acceptance and an awareness of the things that matter to others, almost old-fashioned courtesy. A recent post by my colleague Gina Hayden – in which she spoke of her recent experience meeting with a conscious leader –  prompted me to recall two leaders who I had the privilege of working with a number of years ago. Both reflected the qualities of Grace in different ways. The first […]

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The Quality of Leadership Attention

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This week I sat with a CEO of a global company, an extraordinary man who has only recently merged his spiritual self with his business self. For many years, these two sides of himself have been living separate lives, but owing to some deep developmental work he has done over the past year – and his own readiness – he has brought these two sides into one whole. This has had an extraordinary result on his leadership, and what he is setting in motion within his company. It is too early to share details of exactly what he is doing on the purpose journey which he has initiated, but I can speak about the experience […]

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Engage in the Possibility of Passion, Purpose AND Profit

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It is possible, and if you think it is not- you are simply not aware of the cases where this is a reality in business around the world. There are organisations out there, operating in a whole new playing field- those who have abandoned their disillusionment and loyalty for the old system for a better way of being (a better way of seeing each quarter through). Raj Sisodia has long been interested in and researching these organisations- “Firms of Endearment”. Through his various publications, based on work with Universities in the United States, and consulting for global organisations, he has been able to shed some light on the process behind such win-win scenario’s in today’s […]

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