Conscious leadership: How to create a no-drama, high-trust work environment

How do you cultivate a healthy, open culture that empowers employees to thrive?

In today’s episode, we’re talking with Diana Chapman, the co-founder of The Conscious Leadership Group, about how to create a more authentic, people-focused culture at work.

Diana and her team have helped dozens of organizations, including Ebay, Asana, Whole Foods and more, to increase employee engagement and performance by eliminating drama, building trust, and cultivating a culture where authenticity, vulnerability, and transparency can take root.

And they’re getting results. In fact, Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, the co-founders of Asana, actually give every single one of their employee the chance to go through CLG’s leadership training, and credit that with helping them to more effectively achieve their company goals.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How Diana went from teaching scrapbooking classes in Michigan to teaching Silicon Valley giants the importance of conscious leadership
  
• Why authentic conversations and mindfulness matter, not just in personal relationships, but also within organizations
• The need to value emotional intelligence and ‘body’ intelligence as highly as cognitive intelligence
• How to cut through drama and see the underlying facts
• How to change your approach to a situation by changing the way that you frame it
• How to create a roadmap to get yourself and your team out of negative habits

Diana is an incredibly open and inspiring person and was more than willing to share the exact exercises she guides companies through to help their employees to thrive.

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

• [00:01:10] How Diana moved from teaching scrapbooking to her current career
• [00:02:36] The class on conscious relationships that Diana took from Gay and Katie Hendricks
• [00:03:07] What it was about the classes at the Hendricks Institute that made Diana want to focus on conscious leadership
• [00:06:03] The definition of conscious leadership
• [00:07:30] The power of being in the present
• [00:09:09] What being present looks like
• [00:11:29] The three types of intelligence
• [00:13:50] How you can cultivate emotional intelligence and body intelligence
• [00:17:09] What happened when a presentation did not go the way that Diana expected
• [00:20:12] What Diana changed about her presentation•[00:22:02] How the experience of the group Diana was working with changed once she changed her approach
• [00:22:58] How that presentation experience impacted the way that Diana makes presentations with other companies
• [00:23:28] How to present people-first ideas to people in organizations who are skeptical
• [00:25:47] Exercises that can help with presenting alternative ideas
• [00:34:55] How clients can use the results of their exercises
• [00:36:57] Steps organizations that want to change can take
• [00:38:12] What to do when one person wants to have an authentic conversation and another person does not•[00:41:34] What kind of changes Diana has seen in organizations that have embraced conscious leadership
• [00:42:26] What flow states are
• [00:43:30] How Diana would help people understand the benefits of a people-first approach
• [00:48:02] One resource that Diana recommends•[00:49:03] The Enneagram system