The Ontological Leader

Learn how to plug into deeper purpose at work to deliver more positive impact to the world.   Grant Hunter is a serial entrepreneur, author and educator with over 25 years of experience in the U.S., Japan, and Peru. Based out of Silicon Valley, he’s been involved in a variety of e-business activities for a Fortune 500 company and a boutique marketing startup he helped launch and later sell in San Francisco called INBOX Marketing, and in his role as Founder/ CEO of Microfranchise Solutions (MFS).   It was through MFS that he promoted replicable enterprise solutions to poverty in the developing world in Peru and over 30 countries. Higher purpose has been the through-line of his own evolution in his role as a social entrepreneur over the last 10 years and now working with companies as a purpose and impact advisor at Syntropy, where he helps others lead lives of purpose, authenticity, and service.   You'll discover...

• A model of inside-out change moving from the individual to the collective.
• A method of mind-body-spirit-soul cross-training at work.
• The relationship between purpose, leadership, culture and impact.
• How your deepest purpose leads to your greatest contribution.

  More about Grant's work: From Money to Meaning book (Complimentary e-book Offer) Grant's website Toolkit Courses, Books, Coaching Contact: [email protected]   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantmhunter/

We are not separate from Nature, we are Nature! 

 

Dr. Marc Palahí is a leading expert on forests and global change, with a new vision of the transformational role forests can play in fighting climate change and developing a circular bioeconomy.

 

He has been Director of the European Forest Institute since 2015, driving its development as a pan-European science-policy platform, and working to connect knowledge to action at the interface of science, policy and business. Marc has a PhD in forestry and economics and his work, which has featured in Nature and other high-level scientific journals, focuses on the development of a sustainable circular bioeconomy that prospers in harmony with Nature. Marc leads the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance established by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.

More about Marc and his work: 

https://efi.int/director

https://blog.efi.int 

 

You Are Here to Understand, Honor, and Liberate Your Uniqueness!

Today's lessons come from Irina Prokofieva!

 

She is a Certified Transformational Coach, Business Mentor and Human Design Expert.  She specializes in supporting women on a journey of deep self-discovery, self-reclamation and self-empowerment, using a unique combination of powerful energy and mind-body tools, including Human Design, Gene Keys, Neurolinguistic Programming, Emotional Freedom Technique etc.

 

She has a PhD in Economic Theory and over 15 years of experience in international scientific research coordination. She’s passionate about empowering and educating a new generation of female leaders and spiritual visionaries, who are committed to building a better world for themselves and our future generations.

 

Irina’s Links:

Website: https://irinaprokofieva.com

IG: @iamirinap

Community: Human Design for Entrepreneurs

You Are Here to Understand, Honor, and Liberate Your Uniqueness!

'It's one thing to be aware of childhood wounds, it's another thing to have healed them... and it's another thing to see how they show up in your relationship to your children." - Mark Guay

 

Mark is a transformational coach, speaker, and full-time dad. He believes in the untethered ability to manifest our unlimited potential and works with leaders who bring their greatest gifts to the world in a way that aligns mind, body, and soul.

Conscious Dads are rather rare... join the conversation!

Links: 

https://markwguay.me

https://remoteclo.com 

 

Shonte Jovan Taylor is a neuroscientist, potentialist, and brave-minded leader who wants to do things differently. She knows that we need to do something at a much deeper level to shift from the old way of thinking to new and innovative ways of reaching higher levels.

“It is only when we are operating at our highest levels that our missions become aligned.  The understanding of the brain allows us to be highly productive, focused, and creative allowing individuals and organizations to soar.” - Shonte Jovan Taylor In this episode you will learn how to optimize your brain by integrating left brain and right brain thinking, where empathy sits in the brain, how to build a resilient brain in our changing times. Our brain is the next frontier in human evolution. Don’t be left behind…join in and learn more from Shonte… today! If we are diligent in learning our craft, our voice—what is uniquely ours—will come out in the unfolding!  Links: https://www.shontejtaylor.com

 

“We don’t work in a production line any more for the most part, and I don’t think in the current workplaces that we have, this nine to five, Monday to Friday, is the way that it should work. I don’t think it does work… largely, we have moved away from like production work, industrial work, to more creative work…. even tech work is very creative work. To me creativity means space. You can’t schedule creativity.” - Anantadev

 

Growing up in the outskirts of London, Anantadev found himself surrounded by poverty, crime, and segregation. He understood that the world around him was not quite right, but for years, he simply watched, feeling helpless. This was his adolescence, and although he may not have known it at the time, all his rough-and-tumble experiences were preparing him for a higher calling. Every time he faced something traumatic, he was also facing his inner growth, and slowly but surely, questions arose within him – deep, meaningful questions that would guide him towards his path.

 

Today Anantadev is a wisdom teacher, personal development coach and thought leader in the field of inner transformation. He also serves as a Bay Area CEO at the forefront of social change philanthropy.

 

Highlights from this episode

• Outer achievements, lack of balance [3:20]
• Outdated systems [6:04]
• Toxic masculinity [9:15]
• Exploitation, property [11:20]
• Balancing masculine and feminine values [14:15]
• Inner ethics, outer ethics [18:00]
• Race to the bottom [21:25]
• Shadow, fears, growth [26:30]
• How we find our greater cause [30:10]

 

Quotes

“When you look at things as property… land, assets, human beings -as they did in the past… inherently you take away the rights of the things that you are looking at.” [11:27]

“We have to reassess our value system, and it’s not about getting to the top, but rather how you are striving to grow and achieve things.”  [15:30]

“Meaning is a far more satisfying pursuit than happiness.” [37:00]

 

Anantadev’s website: https://anantadev.com

Maria’s website: https://remoteclo.com 

“In the infancy stage of development, boys have more emotional reactivity than girls. Once a boy gets around the teenage years… almost every westernized man, have some story in their life where they’ve been deeply shamed for expressing emotions. Men were shamed around sadness, but women were shamed just as much, typically around anger, … clean anger is hard for anyone to express." – Mark Guay

Mark Guay is a meditation teacher and performance coach based in San Diego, California. He combines developmental psychology with the ancient art of the chakra system to unlock your unlimited potential and lead a life with greater purpose, energy, and connection. 

Highlights from this episode

• What does it take for a human to feel [4:20]
• Sharing feelings with a man vs sharing feelings with a woman [6:45]
• What we need to unlearn from our conditioned childhood [9:25]
• What happens when a man opens up in front of other men [11:18]
• What does it mean when a man says ‘I just don’t cry’ [13:40]
• What men can do if their emotions have been silenced for too long [17:38]
• What could women do to hold space for emotional expression [19:10]
• What would it take for men to safely honor emotions in the workplace [24:45]
• How to interact with emotions in five steps [29:24]

Quotes

“It’s a minority still out there… particularly in leadership roles, for people to have this embodied high emotional intelligence.” [16:50]

“The human being does not stop developing after the physical body develops… you can continue to expand and grow, it’s an infinite game.” [22:36]

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Robert Kagan’s theory of Adult Development

Drama Triangle

Men Talks Podcast

The Mankind Project

Transformation Through Intimacy Book

Nature and The Human Soul Book

More about Mark Guay

• Mark’s website
• Join Mark’s Men Circle
• Meditate with Mark on InsightTimer 

Maria's website: https://remoteclo.com 

“Mindfulness in some way is cultivating our attention, our way of being, that can be a doorway to our own emotional lives, and then our emotional lives can be a doorway to cultivating our leadership ability and toward the possibility of creating great cultures…positive, healing cultures.” – Marc Lesser

Marc Lesser is a speaker, facilitator, workshop leader, and executive coach. He is known for his engaging, experiential presentations that integrate mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices and training. He is the author of 4 books, including Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, and CEO of ZBA Associates, an executive development and leadership consulting company. 

Highlights from this episode

• Developing our character is about developing our way of being, or state of mind [7:00]
• How one develops character, to be able to stay open in times of change [8:00]
• There is no avoiding discomfort [12:00]
• Three leadership lessons from Winston Churchill on how to deal with change [12:15]
• The seven practices of a mindful leader [15:45]
• The power of not being an expert [21:00]
• We are in the midst of an enormous transition period [25:30]
• Self-awareness is the starting point of any change [27:15]
• All our systems are built on greed and fear …we need systems based on care and fairness [28:30]
• Men live 10 years less than women [29:30]
• How to be more resilient when faced with change [31:50]

More about Marc Lesser

Marc helped develop the world-renowned Search Inside Yourself (SIY) program within Google – a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence training for leaders which teaches the art of integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and business savvy for creating great corporate cultures and a better world. He founded and was CEO of 3 companies and has an MBA degree from New York University. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years, and director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the western world. He leads Mill Valley Zen, a weekly meditation group.

Website: https://www.marclesser.net

Quotes

“We are comfort seeking creatures and recognizing that is important…we miss a lot by the unwillingness to be uncomfortable, avoiding difficulty and conflict.” [11:08]

“Not sugarcoating in a way is like ‘own your discomfort’, ‘own your fear’…it opens the path towards optimism, towards greater meaning and purpose.” [12:00]

“If we are going to change systems and cultures, it starts with ourselves.’’ [26:50]

“Strong, wise leadership can heave the possibility of helping to align people and get them excited. If we are all in this together, we can create organizations and cultures that work for the greater good, and not just a handful of people.” [28:30]

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen
• The Splendid and the Vile book

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com 

 

“The manner in which we observe determines what we observe. But ... how aware are we of how we observe and how we can change that? The only place we can observe from is our Way of Being, which is where our perceptions and attitudes live, many of which are deep-seated and out-of-awareness.”– Alan Sieler

Alan is the Director of Newfield Institute. He has designed a world-leading in-depth, comprehensive and internationally accredited coach-training program, the Certified Ontological Coaching and Leadership Program (formerly GraduateDiploma of Ontological Coaching). Alan also works with a network of colleagues in different countries in the delivery of Ontology as a robust business improvement methodology for organizations to enhance leadership capability, eliminate coordination waste and develop collaborative capital as the means to building a high-performance culture.

Highlights from this episode

• How can we refrain from falling into fear and anxiety, in this current COVID-19 pandemic [5:02]
• What to look for when you stop and listen to yourself [6:50]
• Difficult times are also times of opportunity [10:33]
• Artistry exists in everyday life…it doesn’t belong to the elite people [15:25]
• With ontological design we can begin to notice our internal conversations [18:20]
• What can we do to become better learners [20:10]
• Curiosity is a gift… it helps us be better learners [21:00]
• Ontological self-coaching is very much about self-authoring our way of being [24:04]
• How to deal with resentment when faced with crisis [5:15]

More about Alan

Alan has worked with personnel in global and national corporations and government organizations from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India, mainland China, England, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia, and the United States.

Information about Alan’s coach training and corporate services can be found at:

Newfield Institute (Australia) - www.newfieldinstitute.com.au

Ontological Coaching Institute (global) - www.ontologicalcoaching.com.au 

Both websites have the same wide range of articles on the applications of Ontology for leadership development, organizational improvement, executive and personal coaching, relationships and personal development.

Contact Alan at: [email protected]

Quotes

“People are complex, and if people are going to change, adjust and adapt to different circumstances, it very much involves them changing their perceptions and behaviors.” [14:16]

“People can only lead from their way of being to be more effective as leaders.” (19:00]

 

“The secret to inspiring accountability and engagement starts with asking:

• What makes us human?
• What drives us toward or away from tasks?
• What inspires us to give our best?
• What motivates us to shut down?
• What, exactly, determines our happiness and fulfillment at work?

We begin in the brain, where all experience and engagement begins!” – Elaina Noell

Elaina helps organizations design cultures that increase employee engagement, productivity and fulfillment. Her approach focuses on working with human dynamics and neuroscience to positively inspire sustainable results instead of trying to enforce ideals that lead to defensiveness, mutual frustration and disengagement.

She recently published her second book 'Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace'.

Highlights from this episode

• What is wrong with traditional accountability [5:15]
• Why so many people are disengaged at work today [7:30]
• The pressure for people to live their best lives and do work they love has become a reason to be ashamed, when that’s not happening [8:45]
• Our brain wants more rewards more quickly, but it’s not always practical [9:25]
• We need serotonin in the workplace and leaders can produce it, it is non-negotiable for humans [16:25]
• Accountability is crucial in changing a culture [25:26]
• Proactive versus responsive accountability [25:50]
• The results model framework last question [31:20]
• Why we procrastinate [32:04]
• What leaders do we need in 2020 and beyond [35:27]

Elaina’s website: https://www.inspiringaccountability.com

Elaina's book: Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets to Inspiring Engagement, Accountability and Results

Quotes

‘What you don’t address you approve” [6:30]

‘We are all just trying to feel like we are contributing meaningfully, like we are good at what we are doing, but it’s not always gonna be every day feeling like ‘wow, I’ve completely lived up to my full potential’…and I think that puts a lot of pressure on the employees and a lot of pressure on leaders [9:10]

‘Surprise recognition is what most spikes the serotonin in employees’ [7:00]

‘Only when an excuse is brought to light can it become part of the solution’ [29:54]

‘Our brain seeks the task that has more actionable clarity because there is more reward associated with it’ [31:52]

Maria’s Website: https://remoteclo.com