Guest: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Ph.D.

From fostering smiles in the office to mindfulness, your personal practices have a major effect on your team – and your success. In fact, what you do as a person – not just as a leader – can ripple through your organization.

That’s one major takeaway from Dr. Kathryn Goldman Schuyler in this episode. She’s conducted extensive research on “waking up at work” – a greater awareness of workplace systems and how your actions affect them. Having a sense of humor, spending time outdoors, journaling, meditation: they can all boost positivity and morale in your team, and that boosts productivity and engagement in the process.

Here's what Kathryn and Maureen cover:

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RESOURCES:  

Learn more about Kathryn’s work on her website: https://coherentchange.com/.

Kathryn’s book, Creative Social Change: Leadership for a Healthy World is in paperback on Amazon at https://amzn.to/4hdsMZ7.

Her book on leadership and Tibetan Buddhism she referenced is Inner Peace – Global Impact: Tibetan Buddhism, Leadership, and Work. The paperback is available at https://amzn.to/4hamWr8; the Kindle version is https://amzn.to/40wJq0o.

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Her other 10 books are available on Amazon here. 

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About Our Guest:  

Kathryn Goldman Schuyler, Ph.D., is the President of COHERENT CHANGE, as well as Professor Emeritus of Organization Development at Alliant International University, teaching courses in ethics, leadership, and sustainability. She has many years of experience in leadership development, organizational consulting, research, and somatic learning. Over the past fifteen years, she has mentored many graduate students who have completed research under her guidance and moved on in their careers to increasingly influential roles in major companies, start-ups, and universities.

Kathryn has published widely on leadership and change (see the “Resources” section above). Her recent research focuses on awareness and mindfulness at work: her published work in this area highlights how being fully present enhanced participants' connectedness with others and with the natural environment and renewed their sense of purpose in their work.

Kathryn earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University (NY) as a sociologist and has studied with Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, who developed a sophisticated approach to somatic system learning. In addition to her teaching and research in organization development, she is a somatic educator, helping children and adults with moderate to severe neuro-motor challenges to move, learn, and live fully. She has studied mindfulness and awareness with HH the Dalai Lama, Mingyur Rinpoche, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, and other masterful teachers of meditation. Kathryn and her husband, a composer, live overlooking San Francisco, a view that encourages them to pause and appreciate gleaming sunsets and foggy mornings, the calls of ravens and the circling of hawks, and the sparkling city lights.