How Can Mindfulness Enhance Your Leadership Skills?

In this episode of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast, Nicole Greer interviews Pamela Marcheski about mindfulness and its application in leadership. 

Pam Marcheski is the principal owner of Intentions to Actions Leadership, a company specializing in mindfulness-based leadership. She has twenty-five years of experience as a senior executive in Fortune 500 companies, leading teams of over 1,000 employees, and managing billions in business. Pam now focuses on coaching individuals and organizations in operational excellence, leadership development, and strategy implementation.

Her coaching approach combines practical experience with certifications in mPEAK (Mindfulness, Performance, Enhancement, Knowledge) and Marshall Goldsmith’s coaching methods. As a certified Executive and Organizational Leadership Coach, she excels in helping leaders align their intentions with actions through customized coaching.

Pam is an active member of the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Institute of Coaching, SHRM, and Women’s Leadership Institute. An alumnus of the Executive Leadership Institute and Leadership California, she has worked with executives from NASA, Raley’s, Black Hills Gold Utility, Mary Kay Cosmetics, TSA, Sempra Infrastructure, Chevron, and Leadership California. Pam resides in San Diego, California, close to her adult son.

🌟 Main Lessons & Ideas:

• Mindfulness in leadership
• Transition from corporate career to opening a mindfulness-based leadership company
• Definition and benefits of mindfulness practice
• Mindfulness, Performance, Enhancement, Awareness, and Knowledge (mPEAK) program
• Internal aspects of mindfulness practice
• Formal and informal mindfulness practices
• Importance of self-awareness and intentional practice
• Mind-body connection and brain's response to mindfulness
• The power of mindfulness in breaking habit loops
• Small mindful practices for everyday life

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

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

https://intentact.com/