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By Art Kleiner, Jeffrey M. Schwartz, and Josie Thomson, guest contributors

This is part of a series. You can find the first article here. 

Strategic leadership is the ability to handle complex problems: where there is no obvious or facile solution, the stakes are high, and collaboration with others is essential. In this series for Mindful Leader, we are exploring the seven challenges, based in the mind and brain, which strategic leaders can expect to face as they move through their careers.  

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Witness Naropa University’s President, Chuck Lief, and Chief Diversity Officer, Regina Smith, as they ask each other the tough questions about how identity informs their work, and that organizational leaders often avoid. This fierce and compassionate conversation demonstrates the fearlessness that is a trademark of leaders who are rooted in mindfulness practice, principles, & presence. This video was recorded at the 2018 Mindful Leadership Summit. 

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Shelly Tygielski shares how to create a Self-Care Plan to address burnout and provides approaches on how to build self-care in community settings at @Work 2019. Shelly explains how many people may not realize they are burned out because they do not know the signs of burnout. To recover from burnout, Shelly illustrates ways to conduct self-care in community, by identifying categories, establishing groups, and allowing for people to express their obstacles and…

By Andy Lee, guest contributor

In 1988, the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) published a book that transformed how people thought about leadership development. In The Lessons of Experience, the authors proposed that based on their research, the most important source of professional growth is not training programs or even mentoring relationships, but rather the insights that result from on-the-job experience. They captured this lesson in the 70-20-10 prescription for leadership development, …

By Dr. Christopher Willard, guest contributor

This pandemic is and will continue to be a traumatic time. While some of us may be relatively comfortable and secure for now, others are facing illness and loss of friends, family, and finances, yet none of us is spared the incredible disruption of this time. 

Trauma can mean many things, and our reactions to it vary. Yet one aspect of how humans react to trauma recently surprised me in my research—more of us experience posttraumatic growth than it…

By Gayle Van Gils, guest contributor

“Raw, vulnerable, ungrounded, and exposed” – these are feelings I have been having since working alone in social isolation. In coaching conversations with clients and masterclasses with colleagues, I have been hearing these same words over and over. They made me reflect on the interesting fact that these feelings are so similar to the condition that I find myself in several days into an immersive meditation retreat. In fact, much of my personal experience of…

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Susan Piver shares her journey of being a meditation teacher and author at Mindfulness @Work 2019. She explains and contrasts the difference between mindfulness, meditation & compassion. She reframes compassion as a fierce, brave, and courageous act, rather than the connotation of being soft or “nice”. According to Susan, the most important part of meditation is not what happens on the cushion, but how to bring this meditative sense into daily life and how w…

By Tyler McCune, guest contributor

The recent coronavirus pandemic has brought waves of change to every corner of our lives. Every corner of the globe, too. And even though this is an extremely difficult time for many, with stress, illness, death, and financial hardship taking their tolls, this period of self-isolation gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we live and act moving forward. 

This is true in the mindfulness community. And this is true in the marketing community. 

In fact, the…

By Sarah Hollenbeck, guest contributor

Bringing mindfulness into your work life has been proven to increase productivity, decrease anxiety and create an overall more relaxed atmosphere for everyone. But with more and more people taking a working lunch, the ability to completely decompress and come back to work feeling refreshed is dwindling.  

While there seems to be an idea that skipping out on lunch can help you get ahead in your career and get more done, studies have shown that is not the t…

By John J. Murphy, guest contributor

You know that virus that scares you? It isn’t the virus. You know the disruption that upsets you? It isn’t the disruption. You know that person who annoys you? It isn’t the person. 

I've learned we are never upset for the reasons we think we are. We are upset because we see something in the mind’s eye that is not there. We are holding something negative in mind and projecting it onto the world. So, of course we are right. We are experiencing a manifestation…