Mike Nowland
Mike has been dedicated to Leadership Development and Human Resources after starting his management career in Food & Beverage Operations. This experience in L&D and HR helped him develop his Purpose Statement: “To help managers be better, do better, and live better.” After many years of large group facilitation and individual coaching, Mike discovered Resilient Leadership Development.
He is confident that RL Coaching and Training are the most effective way to help others realize their own unique purpose as leaders, managers and family members.
The Benefit of Self-Differentiation
Watch my short video where I describe the true meaning and significance of the Resilient Leadership Principles — and how they changed my life, and my career!
As a Resilient Leadership Coach and Trainer, Mike understands that his purpose is to help managers to be better, do better and live better! He’s a persuasive and empathetic communicator with over 35 years of senior level experience in Leadership Development and Human Resources with companies like United States Pharmacopeia, the Food and Drug Administration, Marriott International, ResMed and Kisco Senior Living.
Reach Mike at: nowland619@gmail.com.
Your Part in the Emotional System
Mike's Published Work
Middle Managers – the “Unsung Heroes of Our Age”
Managing the performance of others can be a source of chronic anxiety at any level of leadership. Those in the position of Middle Manager often feel they are stuck between “a rock and a hard place.”
What is my role in this?
Being curious allows you to ask, “What is at the root of what is going on here?” and “What is my role in this?”
Self-Differentiation and Resilient Leadership
Through Resilient Leadership certification I learned more about the Rational System and the Emotional System. I learned that we are generally unaware of chronic anxiety and so we tend to just react unconsciously to it in any Emotional System (think relationships.)
A “Tactical Pause,” or an “SBF” to Focus Our Anxious Brain
Historically, anxiety has always been a part of daily life. Today, clients tell us they feel more anxious than ever given all that is happening in our world, politically and otherwise. But it’s one thing to read about difficult circumstances in people’s lives in an earlier age, and it’s quite another to be living in a day and time when VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) is at an all-time high. Consequently, chronic anxiety is the norm for most of us...
Resilient Leadership Inspires A New Way of Seeing, Thinking, and Leading
“To do the same thing, the same way, over and over again, and to expect different results is one definition of insanity.” This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein, although that is not certain. What is certain is that this quote rings true for a lot of our personal and professional behaviors. “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” or “trying to fit a square peg in a round hole” are two other expressions with similar meanings...
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