Resilient Leadership Master Class
Check in on our Resilient Leadership Master Class practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind. Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK”, and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircle everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your email.
Lowering the Voltage: What Dogs, Vets, and Leaders Know About Anxiety
Being a Step-Down Transformer isn’t about suppressing emotion, or fixing others, it’s about regulating yourself well enough that you don’t unknowingly escalate existing stress.
Standing Steady: How to Lead with Conviction
At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain.
Cultivating & Calibrating Connection
At its best, a healthy leadership looks: responsive, energized, and still self-possessed. At its worst, conviction can harden.
Transforming Triangles
Nothing about the situation with my phone had changed. But something in me had.
Minding the Empathy Trap
It’s hard to find someone who says that empathy is not a good thing. It’s often touted as a primary quality of leadership.
What you do in the ninety seconds after?
A Resilient Leadership approach comes down to three moves, repeated over and over can provide calm, clarity, and conviction.
RL Practice of the Month
Check in on practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind. Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK” and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircles everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your e-mail.
A 10-Minute Practice for the Season Ahead
As summer gives way to fall, shifts in daylight, sleep, temperature, and time outdoors can influence mood and the body’s stress response.
What you do in the ninety seconds after?
A Resilient Leadership approach comes down to three moves, repeated over and over can provide calm, clarity, and conviction.
Minding the Empathy Trap
It’s hard to find someone who says that empathy is not a good thing. It’s often touted as a primary quality of leadership.
The Fine Line Between Conviction and Stubbornness
Without calm as our foundation, we become like emotional corks tossed about on a turbulent sea – reactive rather than responsive, at the mercy of circumstances rather than in command of our choices.
Seeing the Whole: How Leaders Practice Systems Thinking
Like metallurgists ensuring the proper balance of chromium, nickel, and iron, leaders must notice not just the major crises but also the nuance of subtle shifts that signal the organization’s balance is changing.
Finding Calm in the Moment
Standing outside the room, I leaned on what I’ve learned about managing stress to keep my anxious energy from entering the session with me.
Weekly Insights, Viewpoints, & Resources
Follow our weekly updates for insights and practices offered by our Certified RL Coaches and Trainers. Learn with and from these RL experts as they work to deepen their knowledge and practice of Resilient Leadership.
Is Anxiety Always A Bad Thing?
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.)
LIFE – Moving Oneself Along the Path
Because the forces driving our actions and reactions are so deeply ingrained, this scripting is extremely powerful and has a major impact on us in every aspect of our daily lives.
What Do You Mean by Self-Differentiation?
While a leader’s actions are critical elements in achieving success, RL suggests that a leader’s primary lever for influencing emotional systems is the quality of his/her presence. A positive presence, as we define it, is the aura of confidence, poise, attentiveness, calm, focus and energy one radiates wherever one goes.
The Quality of Your Leadership Presence
While a leader’s actions are critical elements in achieving success, RL suggests that a leader’s primary lever for influencing emotional systems is the quality of his/her presence. A positive presence, as we define it, is the aura of confidence, poise, attentiveness, calm, focus and energy one radiates wherever one goes.
Three Powerful Concepts in Resilient Leadership
AnaLia Medina describes why is it crucial for leaders to lead with a “systems view” in mind?
Is it Anxiety, Fear or Worry?
The amygdala triggers the fight, flight or freeze response, like slamming on your brakes to avoid a car accident. This anxiety response has passed down virtually unchanged from the earliest vertebrates on earth.
Resilient Leaders Lower Anxiety in the Systems They Lead
Leaders who act as step-down transformers understand this distinction and work to practice skillful inquiry rather than interrogation.
Be a Step-Down Transformer – First for Yourself
Anxiety is often stored in the body in our shoulders, jaw and chest. Relaxing these areas as you exhale releases stored stress, helps to lower cortisol levels (the stress hormone) and enables you to project greater poise.