The emotional intelligence of an organization’s leader can positively or negatively affect the company’s entire culture. While self-awareness has been shown to be one of the most important qualities a leader can possess, it is rarely taught in business school. Fortunately, the muscle of mindfulness, which strengthens emotional intelligence, can be learned, practiced, and developed by incorporating simple exercises into our everyday lives. In the context of the workplace, mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress, prevent employee turnover, and reduce burn out.
Mindful leaders are deeper listeners, less emotionally reactive, more empathetic, and have greater access to the parts of their brain that are responsible creativity, problem solving, and effective leadership. Informative as well as entertaining, this interactive presentation engages audience members with transformational mindfulness practices, teaching them valuable tools that they can easily incorporate into their everyday lives.
After this session, you’ll have a clear understanding of:
- The benefits of mindfulness practices for the individual and the organization
- The characteristics of a mindful leader
- Cognitive behavioral psychology as it relates to leadership
- The four cores of emotional intelligence
Participants will:
- Learn simple and effective mindfulness practices, shown to reduce stress and emotional reactivity and how they can be easily incorporated into the participant’s everyday lives
- Experience Mindful Listening and Speaking practices and learn new skills for effective communication
- Learn effective practices for stopping and checking in throughout the day to increase self awareness
More information and tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindful-leadership-tickets-64823678367.
Regular fee: $35
Stacy Kesten
Stacy is a transformational leadership consultant for Ensight Partners in Los Angeles, where she provides executive coaching, team consulting, mindfulness facilitation and leadership development training. She has helped hundreds of clients to be more effective leaders through training in subjects such as self-awareness, mindful leadership, effective communication, artful conflict resolution and more. She has spoken at numerous national conferences and worked across a diverse spectrum of organizations within multiple industries. Stacy is also a certified mindfulness facilitator through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.