Leading Well From Within: Mindfulness Tools for Conscious Leadership

Conscious Capitalism is a call for Higher Purpose; an invitation to go beyond business as usual. To make this transformation, we require different mindsets and tools than the ones that were used to create our current circumstances. The qualities of conscious leadership point us in this new direction and mindfulness practices can be used to effectively develop and engage these transformative qualities.

This one-hour session will help participants:

• Describe how mindfulness can nurture conscious leadership qualities
• Differentiate what mindfulness is and is not
• Describe the benefits of mindfulness for leaders
• Utilize mindfulness techniques to enhance conscious leadership qualities
• Engage with a conscious leader practicing mindfulness and how it has changed her personal and professional effectiveness

SPEAKER BIOS: 

John Engel is the Associate Director at the Traumatic Stress Institute where he leads a team that provides training and consultation services to organizations implementing trauma-informed care. In private practice, Engel designs and facilitates leadership and organizational change initiatives to support mission-driven organizations. As a Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator, Engel supports mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing - that is central to healthy leadership and organizational culture - through a variety of mindfulness programs. Engel previously served as the Executive Director of MERGE for Equality, with a mission to change the way we raise boys, and for 10 years authored a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, ‘The Fatherhood Journey,’ to promote public and private conversations about fatherhood.

Cheryl Zoll, PhD, is CEO of Tapestry Health, a community-based organization that provides family planning and sexual health services, HIV counseling and testing, STI screenings, syringe service and drug user health programs, and WIC nutrition services, among other vital health needs, throughout Western Massachusetts. Zoll previously served as Executive Director of the Amherst Survival Center, where she led a team that transformed a grassroots organization undergoing a difficult transition into a thriving agency serving over 4,000 low-income residents of Western MA annually. She also taught for 10 years as a linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College, Hampshire College and the University of Iowa. She holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, a master's degree from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.