The Ontological Leader: Recent Episodes
Maria Marc
The Ontological Leader invites us to open the covers of our life, so we can find the marvels inside. It invites us to explore our life as an ongoing narrative, where we can constantly refine the inner landscape of our being. The human soul is the hidden side of business.
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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://www.elvenglow.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://www.onaugh.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://www.onaugh.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://www.onaugh.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: info@newfieldinstitute.com.au
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]
Alan Sieler & Maria Marc's upcoming live online training:
Own Your Next Step (July 29 - Sept 2)
“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://www.onaugh.com
"The black and white world is easy… life is a thousand shades of gray!
When we feel fear, anxiety, or an urgent need to act, our natural reaction is often to go straight to the head to figure out what to do. We look for a way to make everything alright, to find a solution, or to find a way out of what is happening. Unfortunately, this approach usually leads to more stress and anxiety rather than effective response." - Alan Seale
In this episode Alan shows us how to use our multiple forms of intelligence we possess, versus being only in the head and intellectualizing everything.
Alan Seale is an award-winning author, inspirational speaker, transformation catalyst, master teacher and mentor to many leaders and coaches, and the founder of the Center for Transformational Presence.
Highlights from this episode
- The intuitive mind is the larger mind, of which the intellect is just one small part [3:17]
- Whole-mind thinking and whole-being awareness [5:30]
- The belly intelligence lives only in the present moment [7:15]
- How to discern what to pay attention to in the moment [11:50]
- How do we understand the journey of our lives? [17:00]
- HOW is a paralyzing question, how to shift away from it? [18:30]
- Intellect does not go away when we listen to our other forms of intelligence [18:11]
- Learning to listen with all our senses in life and leadership [31:25]
- What is intuitive leadership [35:11]
Alan’s work mentioned in this episode
https://transformationalpresence.org
Transformational Presence: How To Make a Difference In a Rapidly Changing World, by Alan Seale
Create a World That Works: Tools for Personal and Global Transformation, by Alan Seale
From Fear to Love, Head to Heart, Start in the Belly
Quote
“The intellect lives in the short term, is more focused on problem solving, on what needs to be fixed, what needs to happen right here right now… for short term gain. The intuitive mind is speaking to us, showing us information about a much bigger picture than the intellect alone. It’s not one or the other… we must enter the world of discernment – the wisdom to recognize the better path…what will serve in the bigger picture the most.” [10:01]
“If our leaders would first ask the question ‘What are we learning right now?’ as opposed to pushing against the other side constantly, that already would make a change. If we could listen for ‘what is in services of the space where everyone wins, where everyone gets at least some of what they need’!” [32:10]
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
“Transformation is a shift in vibrational frequency or pattern…
Our biggest assignment in this life is to pay attention, so that we constantly are expanding our awareness…
The future belongs to those who can listen to it, follow it, to where it’s asking us to go, to recognize that there is something that is wanting to happen…
The intuitive mind is the larger mind, the intellect is just a small part of that large intuitive mind…” – Alan Seale
Alan Seale is an award-winning author, inspirational speaker, transformation catalyst, master teacher and mentor to many leaders and coaches, and the founder of the Center for Transformational Presence.
In this episode Alan shares with us few tools for conscious and transformational leadership, but most importantly, he teaches us how to pay attention to how we show up to life, and how that impacts everything we do.
Highlights from this Episode
- How are you showing up? What do people experience when they are around you? [4:26]
- What is to live life from transformational presence [7:07]
- Understand how you pay attention [8:45]
- What it takes to embody transformational presence [11:40]
- How to step beyond the HOW question [14:19]
- ‘Push against or partner with’ exercise [20:11]
- How to dismantle a problem/situation with ‘the four levels of engagement’ [25:00]
- How can you lead from transformational presence [33:00]
Alan’s work mentioned in this episode
https://transformationalpresence.org
Transformational Presence: How To Make a Difference In a Rapidly Changing World, by Alan Seale
Create a World That Works: Tools for Personal and Global Transformation, by Alan Seale
Quotes
“Our job in transformational presence is about 'tending the garden'… it’s about creating the optimal culture, the optimal conditions, through which the greatest potential of a situation, of an organization, a team, a family, a system, or a person, can grow, can expand, can evolve.” [7:55]
“Our biggest assignment in this life is to pay attention, so that we constantly are expanding our awareness.” [9:40]
“Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed.” [17:08]
“A problem is not something to be solved, it’s a message to be listened to.” [19:42]
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Alan Sieler has more than twenty-four years’ experience as an executive coach, coach-trainer and organisational consultant. Recognised as the world’s leading authority on Ontological Coaching, Alan has written extensively about Ontological Coaching. In addition to this book, his other publications are Volumes I, II and III of Coaching to the Human Soul, as well chapters he has contributed to The Complete Handbook of Coaching (three editions) and Further Techniques in Mentoring and Coaching. As a world leader in advanced coaching, Alan is committed to the development of coaching as a genuine profession.
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.
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: info@newfieldinstitute.com.au
Alan Sieler & Maria Marc's upcoming live online training:
Own Your Next Step (July 29 - Sept 2)
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.
In response to a deep spiritual calling Anantadev dedicated himself to a life of spiritual pursuit becoming a monk in his late teens. He spent the next decade immersed in practices of inner-development, meditation, service and the cultivation of wisdom.
His personal philosophy rests in recognizing the individuality and uniqueness of everyone he encounters, serving them to unlock their deepest potential.
Contact:
anantadev.com hello@anantadev.com Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Ruchi Puri is a doctor and a wise global nomad. She believes that ‘Our journey in life comes with “homework” and it can take a lifetime of learning to complete. The assignments start showing up in all sorts of life circumstances. Some are pleasant surprises and others knock us off course. When we get off course in the form of illness, anxiety, depression, soothing ourselves with addictive habits, a loss of heart, a sense of helplessness, or hopelessness; it is the wakeup call of that guide from the beyond. Healing is about returning to our course.’
Ruchi traveled, worked and studied in over 35 countries and her experience traverses the healthcare industry, policy, research, public relations and clinical medicine. She maintains a strong passion for improving women’s healthcare globally with years of humanitarian service devoted to improving obstetric and surgical care.
Learn more about Dr. Ruchi Puri at: http://ruchipuri.com
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Alan Sieler has more than twenty-four years’ experience as an executive coach, coach-trainer and organisational consultant. Recognised as the world’s leading authority on Ontological Coaching, Alan has written extensively about Ontological Coaching. In addition to this book, his other publications are Volumes I, II and III of Coaching to the Human Soul, as well chapters he has contributed to The Complete Handbook of Coaching (three editions) and Further Techniques in Mentoring and Coaching. As a world leader in advanced coaching, Alan is committed to the development of coaching as a genuine profession.
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.
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: info@newfieldinstitute.com.au
Alan Sieler & Maria Marc's upcoming live online training:
Own Your Next Step (July 29 - Sept 2)
Senia Maymin, Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford, is a consultant and executive coach whose clients include Google, Intel, and VMware. Maymin runs a coaching network that provides coaching for upwards of 30 managers at a time to large technology companies in the Bay area. When entrepreneurs and executives seek far-reaching productivity improvements, they call on Maymin as an executive coach and workshop leader.
Maymin is the coauthor of the business book Profit from the Positive (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2013), and the co-business columnist for Live Happy Magazine. Maymin has been featured in the media—including PBS’s This Emotional Life, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, and USA Today—primarily for her work as a positive psychology executive coach. Maymin founded and is editor in chief of a research news website featuring more than 1,000 articles by over 100 authors. She has worked in finance on Wall Street and in technology as cofounder and president of two start-ups.
Maymin holds a BA in Math and Economics from Harvard, a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA and PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She speaks Russian, French, and Japanese. She lives with her family in California.
Learn more about Dr. Senia Maymin at:
https://www.svchange.com
https://www.senia.com
http://www.profitfromthepositive.com
http://www.positivepsychologynews.com
Mentioned books:
Profit from the Positive
Rework
The Resilience Factor
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
This is a true story inspired by my friends Michelle Martone & Ruchi Puri. Moving, heartbreaking, uncomfortable, eye opening, inspiring! It’s also an ontological conversation about us – humans, facing the current environmental crisis.
Michelle Martone has been practicing and studying the teachings of Yoga since 2003. She received a Doctoral degree and formal training in the intricate anatomy and physiology of the body and mind. She has studied extensively in the U.S. and India with teachers of Hatha, Kripalu, and Sivananda Yoga.
Ruchi Puri is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist who grew up in the suburbs of Washington. She is also a global nomad who has traveled, worked and studied in over 35 countries. Her experience traverses the healthcare industry, policy, research, public relations and clinical medicine.
Learn more about my inspiring wise friends at:
https://michellemartoneyoga.com
http://ruchipuri.com
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Justine Burt is a climate optimist who focuses on replicating and scaling projects for transformational change.
Her book, The Great Pivot, describes 30 sustainability projects in five areas – advanced energy communities, low-carbon mobility, the circular economy, food waste reduction, and nature restoration – these projects are about creating new and meaningful jobs.
Justine has a solid plan on how to create these jobs, but she can’t do it alone. Discover her next bold project in this episode.
Learn more about Justine at: http://www.appraccel.com
Justine's book on Amazon: The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future
Join the conversation on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpivot.org/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Abri Holden specializes in individual and organizational transformation at the crossroads of mindfulness and leadership. She has worked as a leadership consultant and coach by designing, facilitating, and managing global learning experiences for leaders across the globe.
Abri currently works at Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI), a mindfulness non-profit born at Google and based on neuroscience. As a teacher and coach of mindfulness, she works with leaders to help them get out of their own way by building emotional intelligence, resilience, alignment, and envisioning what’s possible by shifting perspectives. She also manages teacher development at SIYLI, creating ongoing support for mindfulness teachers. Abri also leads her own private practice as a personal coach, working with individuals who are looking to create more freedom, connection, and aliveness in their lives.
Prior to these roles, Abri served as a leadership consultant and coach at Korn Ferry Hay Group, a global consulting firm. Before that, Abri was a senior consultant and the director of Linkage’s Women in Leadership Institute™ and Institute for Leading Diversity and Inclusion™, and as a learning and development manager responsible for company-wide learning, culture and engagement, and organizational development. She is a contributor author for the book, “Mastering Your Inner Critic and 7 Other High Hurdles to Advancement: How the Best Women Leaders Practice Self-Awareness to Change What Really Matters.” She has also served as a researcher for Harvard School of Public Leadership’s “America’s Best Leaders Project” which was published in US News and World Report Magazine.
Abri is a certified Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) mindfulness teacher. She is also a certified coach through International Coach Federation (ICF), which is the governing body for coaches worldwide. She was trained as a Co-Active coach through the Coach Training Institute. She holds a BA in Organizational Communication and Leadership Studies.
Websites:
https://siyli.org
https://consciouswomenrising.com
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Catherine Sherlock helps people and businesses explore their potential and possibilities and break through to greater levels of inner power, awareness, emotional resilience and energy. After her Master’s, Catherine worked as an environmental and sustainability consultant. She served all levels of government, businesses large to small, non-profits and other agencies. Her work encompassed a wide range of areas from organizational development, research and evaluation to land management and education. She loved that work – getting to work with all kinds of people and teams. Helping agencies negotiate change and create innovative solutions. Bringing people together and resolving conflict. Helping agencies tell new stories. And yet, as much as she loved it, there was always a part that wanted more. She felt a yearning to be able to make deeper and lasting change in the world. Solutions that were celebrated by clients still often felt like throwing tiny pebbles into a very large, deep bucket. Over time, as she sought to facilitate greater transformation, more and more of her personal journey seeped into her work. As she did so, it became increasingly transformative for clients. She began to understand that to make real change easier required a change in the inner conditions. As people connect to their inner wisdom, they begin to see opportunities and choice points that weren’t visible before. Website: http://www.sherlockink.com
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Connie Larkin is her own words:
I love anything that has to do with using my own thinking, and I am fascinated with the freedom to be. Fortunatelly, one day I met an education that 'opened the door' and I got to know my own thinking and I got free.
The great thing I found out is that educating myself depends on me alone.
This extraordinary education is called 'ontological' and its results are seen instantaneously; it makes one be aware and be filled with awe, joy, power and inspiration in the face of anything one does, now, in the present.
Learn more about Connie at: https://connielarkin.com
Connie's book: https://connielarkin.com/book/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
When she was growing up, Ros wanted to be a vet or a scientist, but her fascination with human behavior and neuroscience led her to a career in organizational development, specializing in improving business outcomes by developing individuals, teams and organizations.
After more than 20 years in corporate human resources and organizational development roles, a successful battle with cancer gave Ros the nudge to take her passion for transforming leaders and improving how individuals and organizations cope with change in a new direction.
Leaving her senior corporate role in 2012, Ros established her consulting business, Shaping Change, to achieve her goals.
Ros is a solution and results oriented facilitator, with expertise spanning strategic planning, leadership development, organizational culture, change management, emotional intelligence and employee engagement.
She is also a talented executive and leadership coach, with current coaching clients at executive and senior levels in Government agencies, private enterprise and the community sector.
Recently, Ros felt compelled to look deeply at the differences in the leadership styles of men and women. The result was the Women’s Leadership Archetypes model, now being used worldwide by women to discover how they can better leverage their natural strengths to lead with purpose, authenticity and integrity.
Ros is a blogger and the author of The Resilient Employee. In addition, she contributes regular articles to Leaders in Heels, The Huffington Post and People Development magazine.
Learn more about Ros at:
http://rosalindcardinal.com
http://www.shapingchange.net.au
http://www.shapingchange.net.au/archetype-survey/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
The Green New Deal Resolution unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in February 2019 provided the broad brush strokes for a plan to address climate change and reinvigorate the economy.
Justine's Burt new book, The Great Pivot, describes 30 sustainability projects in five areas – advanced energy communities, low-carbon mobility, the circular economy, food waste reduction, and nature restoration – that will create millions of meaningful jobs.
Building a sustainable future will not only restore climate stability and reverse mass species extinction, it will also address the crisis in the world of work. Current trends of outsourcing, automation, the gig economy, and low levels of employee engagement have left working Americans anxious about their jobs.
Meanwhile, 37 million people of prime working age, 25-64, are not in the labor force, and the 626,000 people released from prison each year have a hard time finding work that will allow them to reintegrate into society.
Learn more about Justine at:
http://www.appraccel.com
Justine's book on Amazon:
The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future
Join the conversation on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpivot.org/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Justine Burt is the Founder + CEO of Appraccel, an environmental sustainability consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients in the private, public and non-profit sector to successfully implement projects in energy efficiency, renewable energy, alternative transportation, waste prevention, and water conservation. Clients include NASA Ames Research Center, the U.S. House of Representatives, Alameda County StopWaste, businesses in manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, and retail, various universities, the Clean Coalition and the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition.
Justine is a climate optimist who focuses on replicating and scaling projects for transformational change.
Learn more about Justine at:
http://www.appraccel.com
Justine's book on Amazon:
The Great Pivot: Creating Meaningful Work to Build a Sustainable Future
Join the conversation on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/thegreatpivot.org/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Cynthia Owyoung is the embodiment of an Ontological Leader and Inclusive Leader — the kind of leadership that assures that all team members feel they are treated respectfully and fairly, are valued and sense that they belong, and are confident and inspired.
In her own words, she is a wife, a mother, a daughter, a daughter of immigrants, a first generation born in the Unites States, Asian, a woman... and lastly a leader.
As a D&I leader, she has established and led diversity and inclusion initiatives for nearly 15 years at organizations both large and small, including GitHub, Yahoo and Intuit. Cynthia is known for integrating a diversity and inclusion lens into all aspects of the business, from talent management to product development.
Outside leading her own organization Breaking Glass Forums, she holds the role of VP, Diversity and Inclusion, at Charles Schwab.
Learn more about Cindy at:
https://www.breaking.glass
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cowyoung/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Grant Hunter is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of corporate training, marketing and franchising experience in the U.S., Japan, and Peru. He’s been immersed in and based out of the Silicon Valley, involved in a variety of e-business activities for a Fortune 500 company and a boutique marketing startup he co-founded 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 enterprise solutions to poverty in the developing world first in Peru and over 30 other countries. Higher purpose has really 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 Guide and Leadership Development consultant at Syntropy. Healing the wound between money and meaning, profit and purpose to enable business to be a force for good is his personal purpose and the work he does in the world. There is a restlessness in the marketplace for conventionally successful people in business who hunger for more, who feel called to play a bigger game and take a longer view. Business can be a vehicle for both personal fulfillment and as a positive agent of change in the world and in fact, the two are intimately connected. Syntropy teaches people and organizations the practices they need to catalyze this more conscious view of capitalism every day at work. About Grant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantmhunter/ Website: www.syntropycenter.com Email: grant@syntropycenter.com Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Connie Larkin is an ontological educator who does not like titles. This is how she describes herself instead:
"I live my life with passion, in constant dance with the Present. For me, the most empowering relationships are the ones based on respect, where the people involved are open to listen and are committed authentically to evolving…in those relationships I blossom.
For me Education is an "Inside Job"! Nobody can make you educate yourself except you. I find self-education to be the most honorable way to live life, always being committed to one's own evolution!
In the language of Possibility which I adopted in 1983 as being the only one that honors the most the human being, I am who I say I am. Who I say I am is any possibility of being that most inspires me."
Learn more about Connie at: https://connielarkin.com
Connie's book: https://connielarkin.com/book/
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
Matt is Co-Founder of Beneficial Ventures, the country's first B-Corp Commercial Real Estate company which he helped form in 2018, prior to that Matt spent time crafting a strategy for the first B-Corp Trucking Company, RFX Forward. His role was as Chief Strategy & Karmic Officer.
Matt has spent 8 years traveling Asia, mostly on an inward journey exploring vipassana meditation and yoga. Along this path he formed KarmaVentures, a group providing educational assistance, waste management solutions and relief efforts to communities in Nepal and Honduras.
Prior positions include Senior Managing Director at Foundation Source Philanthropic Services Inc. the nation’s leading provider of support services to private foundations.
Additionally, Matt has held executive positions with several leading financial technology companies, including: * Chief Marketing Officer for publicly traded internet financial services provider, Corillian Corporation * Vice President of Microsoft's Transpoint Bill Presentment Service * Industry Executive for Microsoft's Banking Division.
Matt holds an MBA from University of Connecticut, and BA from Ithaca College. He currently resides in Seattle, WA. Learn more about Matt at:
https://www.beneficialventures.com/team/ www.TheAbundanceModel.org karmaflights.org Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com
The ontological leader podcasttakes a deep dive into real, first-hand stories of how authentic conscious leaders inspire positive change, in their lives and the lives of others.
Here is the big question. What if leadership isn’t a function of what we know?
Through her interviews and personal stories, Maria Marc will unveil shadows and challenges that hold us back in our journey towards awareness, integrity, authenticity, and purpose.
Maria is a Change Facilitator, Trainer, and Organizational Coach. Her focus is on helping organizations create thriving and happy workplaces. She delivers perceptive insights that optimize team and organizational dynamics.
She is an advocate for Conscious Leadership and an incurable globetrotter. She strongly believes that mediocrity is not the only option in life, and we actually have to power to create the path we want for ourselves.
Maria’s Website: https://www.onaugh.com