Energetic awareness and the future of leadership

Link to an article in Forbes by executive consultant, leadership trainer and mentor Daphne Michaels. April 12, 2023.

An interesting example of how meditation and awareness are penetrating the marketplace, writes Aneesha while forwarding us the link to this article: forbes.com

First part of the text reads:

Subtle energies have a dramatic effect on everyday life, and it is no wonder that some leaders are trying to grasp the potential embodied in an energetic framework.

For centuries these concepts have held a powerful place in healing processes, and they have emerged more recently into our collective consciousness through depth psychology. Now, a belief in the power of energetic awareness in everyday life is ushering in fresh insight into how to master leadership skills.

Shifting the leadership conversation from “try harder, do more” to “think higher, achieve more” provides a new leverage point for organizations to transmute overwhelm and reset their trajectory to remain truly competitive in today’s world.

You might be thinking that bringing the concept of energetic awareness to leadership development is woo-woo and dangerously invites pseudoscience into important and high-stakes dialogue. But let’s face it: The mainstream embrace of meditation, mindfulness and even shamans has already let the energetic cat out of the bag, and that contemporary cat is never going back in.

As change-makers, our opportunity is to follow that cat and help shape its paradigm-shattering influence as it brings powerful epiphanies to leaders everywhere. Epiphanies that allow them to elevate their consciousness, tap into greater creativity and pursue industry-catalyzing, out-of-the-box solutions.

Simply put, if you wish to be on the leading edge of leadership development, an invitation awaits you to join a growing movement to embrace energetic concepts in leadership.

Here are four energetic concepts relevant to today’s leaders: