Entelechy Leadership Stories

During today’s episode of Entelechy Leadership Stories we speak with Erika Uffindell, a pioneer in conscious leadership, about companies and individuals reaching their full potential. 

Erika is the founder of Uffindell. She started the business in 1989 and has led the business as CEO for 25 years before moving into the Chair role in 2014.

She is also a Director of The Global Centre for Conscious Leadership, a Partner in Pinea3 Living Organizations, Director of Founding Wisdom, and a founding member of Conscious Capitalism UK.

The concept of conscious Leadership is evolving and becoming an essential part of a companies ecosystem. The term conscious leadership has been referred to as responsible leadership, authentic leadership, servant leadership. It all comes from the same standpoint within leaders; a high level of consciousness and greater levels of self-awareness. Having these higher levels of self-awareness leads to systemic awareness in which leaders see the system as a whole. 

Conscious leadership expands from the “I” and “We” to the “Us”. Traditional leadership focuses on the “I” and how the “I” impacts the “We – the business”. Systemic leadership has the capacity to see and solve for the “Us” that includes the impact on society. Conscious leadership embodies how “we” work with others, and how we work together to solve the world problems. Purpose-driven companies are organizations that have a higher purpose that extends out, being aware of their impact out on the wider society. With an emphasis on how we are a force to do good in the world.

Conscious leaders have a great capacity to tame and train the ego, the ability to see the wider picture, has the ability to see multiple perspectives, deeply listens to and seeks to understand others, stands in non-judgment, and open to holding space for ideas to emerge for both individuals and companies to grow. They have the capacity to see the macro view of the higher purpose and the ability to focus on the micro granularity to focus and run a business.

Erika describes the studies being done on a global platform to measure and capture the key data points of the financial performance of companies run by conscious leaders. Capturing the value of conscious leadership for shareholders through quantifiable data supports the implementation and longevity of leaders committed to higher values and purpose.

To learn more about Erika, her company and organizations visit:

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/erika-uffindell-81b82848

Website: http://uffindellgroup.com/

Website: http://gcfcl.com/

As a prelude to our conversation in Episode 50 with Erika Uffindell, Kirstin shares her thoughts on "Conscious" Leadership from the perspective of her clients.

In today’s episode learn about unlocking leadership potential with Julian Roberts, a coach to leaders and organizations to achieve peak performance. 

He works with companies and leaders to thrive, gain clarity about their mission and purpose and reach their potential. He also supports them in aligning their organizations with their greatest assets and advocates, their people.  Failing to acknowledge and empower your people has a huge impact on the bottom line. This is part of maximizing the potential within an organization.

Research shows that those that get coaching create a greater financial impact on the bottom line. If you empower the people and create an environment where people can say what they need to say without repercussion and the ability to be part of the solution you find they bring forward innovative brilliant ideas that support the growth and profitability in the company. Being valued and respected gets far more out of the employee and contributes to the evolution and profits.

Julian helps companies create, build and develop resilient cultures through:

1. Online self-paced course: Creating resilient teams (click the link below)

2. Resilience team training/workshops delivered live online by Julian Roberts

3. Resiliency consultancy for HR/Senior leaders- helping you devise a culture of resilience

To learn more about Julian visit:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/julesroberts/

Website: https://www.julianrobertsconsulting.com/

An International Peace & Conflict Resolution Expert with experience leading teams in the Middle East, East Africa, and South Asia, LaChelle Amos blend this peace-building experience with Heart Wisdom coaching, yoga, and sound healing.

LaChelle is a contributing author to the internationally best-selling book Awakening: Meet the Women Birthing a New Earth, which reached #1 in the US, UK, Australia, and the Netherlands. The essence of her chapter is heart-centered conflict resolution; creating the foundations to be the peaceful change.

As the Founder of Silence of Sound Yoga, she blends this experience together with her Yoga Alliance 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher certification as an international teacher and sound healing practitioner.

LaChelle shares her experiences as a country director for various non-profit organizations on the impact of conflict on both a local and international level. She speaks to how conflicts have the ability to negatively impact both ways, international conflicts negatively impact local communities and local conflicts have the potential to impact international peace agreements.

She further outlines the impacts of both voluntary and involuntary migration, the impact of climate change on migratory patterns, and conflicts that arise out of fear over the resources of water, food, and agriculture. The impact of fear is that it creates an inability to rationalize how one processes thoughts and how one societally responds to fear. To transcend fear, there is a need to master mindful awareness to objectively see beliefs and identities that one is holding onto and deconstruct who we think we are.

The question was raised “how do two sides come together if both sides do not want to?” LaChelle was clear it cannot be done from one’s head, the mental state, if we deal with conflict from there, it will not be resolved. People must come into their heart and come from the heart. They need to be able to feel it, be able to sit with this discomfort. This is the key to overcoming the challenges of differences. 

LaChelle uses and teaches yoga and sound therapy practices to come into our body, get into the heart instead of the head, not operate out of fear and operate from mindful awareness. Through mindful practices, one can identify, remove and rewire and create different outcomes with a new mindset. You then become more aware, less responsive, and act less impulsively.

This is a much-needed conversation that further supports the goal of working towards peace and unity. 

More about LaChelle:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lachelleamos/

Awakening: Meet the Women Birthing a New Earth

https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Meet-Women-Birthing-Earth-ebook/dp/B08D1P3SJK/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3JNJ3HL5QFVRF&dchild=1&keywords=awakening+meet+the+women+birthing+a+new+earth&qid=1611793715&sprefix=awakening+meet+%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-2

LaChelle says, "I guide women to tune into their own intuitive Heart Wisdom by teaching them how to resolve their external conflicts and holding a safe space for their own inner healing work. I intuitively blend the wisdom and tools of peace & conflict resolution, yoga, sound healing, and heart-centered coaching, so that they fully...

“My experiences in economics, technology, and meditation made me think about what our society needs for systematic change for a better future,” says our guest Takatoshi Shibayama

Today’s episode is an undeniably powerful and awakened discussion with Takatoshi Shibayama, CEO of Blockchain Singapore and host of Future Design Podcast. Our discussion covers the range of technology, investments, self-awareness and improvement, spirituality, AI (Artificial Intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things), blockchain, cryptocurrency, shareholder maximization, conscious capitalism, leadership, egalitarian, empower the people and achieve profits, the importance of the youth and how they can support the future.

Takatoshi has more than 18 years in hedge fund and investment management, Wall Street, and businesses all over the world. He has a passion for blockchain technology and creating and cultivating societal changes that design a future worth living. Athlete by nature, he has built mental models to create successful mindsets and applied them in investing and business. He has a passion for jiujitsu (brown belt) and meditation that assisted him in creating enduring physical and mental strength.

In Takatoshi’s words “Technology has given us great power, and with proper use, can usher us into a more egalitarian, diverse and inclusive society…empowered individuals can have a much stronger voice and influence in bringing about revolutionary changes in the world.” His podcast Future Design Podcast and his personal commitments aim to serve as a catalyst and lead the way towards that change.

There are more ethical sustainable ways that businesses and shareholders can run their businesses. Takatoshi shares ideas on how leaders and investors can democratize their companies, empower the people ensuring maximized and thriving profits, ROI, thriving employees, families, environment, governments, societies, value chains, and supply chains. He also speaks to the importance of empowering people by providing transparent access to data that AI and IoT offer, versus the corporations and governments maintaining it to manipulate individuals.

Takatoshi shares a few thought leaders and organizations that are global think tanks focused on ensuring this change:

·     Schumacher center of new economics - https://centerforneweconomics.org/

·     Capital institute founded by John Fullerton - https://capitalinstitute.org/about-us/

If you would to learn more about Takatoshi Shibayama you can find him on:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takatoshi-shibayama-9a7b022/

Future Design Podcast: Future Design Podcast

Twitter: @taka_shibayama

Today we speak about creating purpose-driven, values-based, high-performance cultures within organizations with Robert “Bo” Brabo, Author, Podcast Co-Host, Executive Coach, Speaker, and HR Consultant. 

Bo is the author of an Amazon top 100 book on Business Leadership, “From The Battlefield, To The White House To The Board Room”, and podcast co-host of “The Bo & Luke Show”.

Bo has an exceptional career from the U.S. Army as the Chief of HR Operations with the White House Communications Agency and as a Presidential Communications Officer for President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. Throughout his career, Bo has always focused on the people and organizations, helping them tackle their challenges as if they were his own.

Great value-based high performing leaders lead:

·     Lead up

·     Lead sideways

·     Lead down

The best leaders empower junior leaders to take control, take charge and run their departments. They give their underlings and authority to run with ideas, tasks, running their department - give them purpose. They take care of their people, their families, the whole person concept, truly caring, individual approach. To achieve high performance in your company, you need to know about your teams, what impacts them and what is happening in their home and personal life. Understand the values each of the members of your company hold true and honor them.

The traits of veterans are described by Bo as individuals who have undergone significant leadership development, of which many executives never receive. Their training to work in high-performance capacities, in a zero-defect environment and support the mission is a prime example of the leadership qualities necessary for running organizations. When you add purpose, values and mutual respect and there is a perfect set of principles to cultivate to ensure a company thrives.

Where can you find Bo:

Website: https://www.robertbrabo.com/

His book, From the Battlefield to the White House to the Boardroom: Leading Organizations to Values-Based Results: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1948238209

His podcast: https://anchor.fm/theboandlukeshow

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbrabo/

In today’s episode, we speak with Kristin Molenaar, a young entrepreneur leading a company that has a bigger vision and a bigger purpose. 

Kristin is an entrepreneur-enthusiast who lives by the mantra "work less + make more". She enjoys helping entrepreneurs ditch the vanity metrics for true connections. She's the CEO of YesBoss, a digital agency that helps service-based business owners book podcast features, so they can generate new leads in just one hour per week. 

In line with her work less and make more, Kristin’s commitment is to the alignment of entrepreneurship and the life she wants for herself - freedom, family, balance, and financial success. This is the why, the driver behind how she runs her efficient business. 

Kristen speaks to her experience of leveraging her failures with her companies, pivoting, recreating, and cultivating success, and what it takes to grow a company. She learned “what makes a fantastic employee does not make a fantastic entrepreneur”. Through her perseverance, vision, and creativity she created a successful, high-performing digital agency.

Her passion is fueled by the creative essence and creative output. She terms this creativity as essential to fueling the entrepreneur. Creativity requires time, nurturing, and the ability to sit and have fluid thought and output flow. We also spoke to the need for caring for the body, mind, and soul to function as a high performer, which also supports the essential creativity flow.

Kristin’s company YesBoss supports you in elevating your vision, business, and brand. To learn more about Kristin and her company visit:

https://www.yesbossva.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinmolenaar/

Another great episode. Today with Phil Pelucha CEO and Founder of Billionaires in Boxers, School of Spiritual Entrepreneurs and also a business coach with his spirituality VERY closely connected.

Phil, a top 100 podcaster himself, Billionaires in Boxers guides clients to achieve influencer status in their niche by finding a voice, a stage, and building authority. In fact, his work is all about working from your essence, fall in love with your business and life, and work from the language of the heart with integrity. He has an inspiring commitment to empower 1 billion entrepreneurs by empowering those that empower others. A key he shares with us “fun”, he must have fun at what he is doing.

Phil has been practicing transcendental meditation since he was 11 ("Thankfully I was raised by a VERY spiritually connected grandmother," he says). His grandmother encouraged him to continue to go deeper with everything and always question why, knowledge is power. Always have the hunger to question why. She had a commitment to self-improvement and knowledge and imparted her wisdom unto Phil.

Phil shares that you begin living the way you want to live now, live and experience the feeling of your success and the success will follow the essence and the feeling you cultivate. Target the feeling of the destination and take actions now as if you were at that destination. The universe is a mirror, it mirrors back to you the vibration and energy you are putting out. Your vibe is your tribe.

To learn more or listen to Billionaires in Boxers podcast:

Billionaires in Boxers podcast: https://lnns.co/ZxrGyh3e68R

https://billionairesinboxers.com/ - Voted one of Business of Apps Top Influencer Marketing Companies of 2020

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/philippelucha

Twitter: @PhilPelucha

Sustainable Crystals, with Richard Wegner

Who doesn't love crystals?? Join Mark and Kirstin as they speak with Richard Wegner, owner of Wegner Crystal Mines in Arkansas. You can own precious gems and crystals and still maintain balance and love for our earth.

In this episode of Entelechy Leadership Stories Mark and Kirstin speak with conscious leader Richard Wegner, owner of Wegner Crystal Mines in Arkansas. Richard shares with us what it means to be a sustainable mine that produces some of the highest quality quartz crystals in the world.  His commitment is to improve social, economic, and environmental well-being of the community. Wegner Crystal Mine philosophy: “..an enterprise that through its efforts, puts little to no negative impact on the global or local environment, community, society, or economy…”.

Richard’s established the mine in 1980. His intent was set from the beginning, to extend personal conscious green living practices into all aspects of the business. He was guided and counseled by the local indigenous community on how to create a harmonious balance between giving and taking from the earth and how to interact and care for our planet and nature. This has always been one of the utmost priorities at Wegner’s. Richard describes a way of life aligned with indigenous principles and how he infuses them into all aspects of his life. 

He incorporates the principles of balance between give and take in interacting with our planet and nature. These include several green practices such as incorporating the three Rs’ (reuse, recycle, and reclaim), renewable energies, greenhouse, clean waterways, and healthy thriving earth. 

Other green initiatives:

• Built warehouse taken from the property and milled locally
• Repurpose old barn into Wegner Crystal Mines’ Museum, wholesale warehouse, offices, and tourist destination.
• Recycle area for employees and customers
• Reclaim boxes from local stores to pack and ship orders
• Reuse bags and boxes for tourists’ to take home rocks
• Use leftover paper from a print company for wrapping rocks
• Shred used paper and use as cushioning for packed orders
• Lights Out policy when customers are not present
• Crystals are cleaned with collected rainwater
• Toilets flushed with collected rainwater
• Reuse/Recycle wood when possible for projects/repairs
• Use efficient LED and fluorescent lighting
• Buy bulk, lessening their carbon footprint
• Use solar and wind-powered electricity

Richard also shares ideas to help guide and shape the new generation of leaders on how they can ensure our planet and humanity survive and thrive.

To learn more or experience a fantastic crystal expedition visit: www.wegnercrystalmines.com.

Additional Resources on Sustainability provided by Wegner Crystal Mine:

Rodale Press

http://www.rodalepress.com 

We recommend any publications by them, such as:

“Keeping Your Company Green” by Stefan Bechtel

“Keeping Your Company Healthy” by Kirk A. Johnson

You can find these books and more at

http://www.bookfinder.com/author/rodale-press/  

World

Business Council for Sustainable Development 

Dee Williams has earned every hard-fought win in life and in business. She overcame childhood sexual abuse at age eight, became a pre-teen mom at the ages of 11 and 15, while living on welfare on the streets of Baltimore, and at 16 became a 10th-grade high school dropout. You may be tempted to see Dee as a victim, but that’s the last word she’d use to describe her victorious path to achievement! 

Dee has and knows what it takes to not only make it, but to flourish in life, career, and business despite the blows and lows that life deals. Her battle-tested knowledge is a game plan for ‘Go-Getters’ and ‘Champions’ in the making who also want to defy the odds.

Deemed the Queen of Transformation, Dee brings an authentic, raw, and personable touch to motivating and transforming the “underdogs” and up-and-comers into success stories. In addition to getting results, her infectious personality makes the bright side of things contagious and tangible. Not one for BS, her no-excuses approach to unmasking the treasure in hidden challenges is what got her to where she is today.

Dee changes lives based on proven techniques that she’s applied in her own life. She has perfected the power of Individual Audacity since discovering her voice at the age of eight. After three decades of activating that power, she not only uses it to secure her own future but to show others how to do the same.

Dee Williams is a richly melinated multi-hyphenate. She soars as a true-to-herself-best-selling author, speaker, business strategist, Success Coach, tech founder, and the CEO of ReSkillify.com, a transformational elearning technology platform that teaches, coaches, and helps driven & audacious individuals level up in their career, business or life. She has transformed lives in more than 14 countries and 7 industries worldwide.

Dee is the founder of the tech platform TheCannabisJobBoard.com, an online and mobile job board geared towards the growing cannabis industry designed to inform, train, and connect job seekers with cannabis employers.

She is also the founder and CEO of Identifize Consulting, a recruitment and staffing consulting firm. Ms. Williams coined the term "Staffingpreneur" in 2008 and is the founder of Staffingpreneurs Academy, a digital business curriculum designed to educate aspiring entrepreneurs and provide them with the skills, tools, and resources they need to start, build and scale their niche' recruitment and staffing business.

In her spare time, Dee enjoys serial entrepreneurship, watching anime, technology, music, reading, impacting lives, AND, spending quality time with her kids, and singing dog King Caesar. Dee currently travels the world impacting lives 365 days of the year.

Dee is on a mission to move unconventional leaders into the center of their zone of influence by using hardships as fuel to empower, inspire, overcome, create, and transform. Her passion is to help the slept-on, underrated, and underestimated champions of the world become CEOs of their own careers, companies and masters of their lives.

https://staffingpreneursacademy.com/

https://dee-williams.com/

https://individualaudacity.com/