Laurie Cameron, author of The Mindful Day, founder and CEO of PurposeBlue, mindfulness teacher with Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being, and a guest professor on Mindful Leadership at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, and Wisdom Labs’ Co-Founder and CEO, Cory Smith, discuss Mindful Leadership and the power of building community. Laurie shares how she works with companies on leadership development and change management through the lens of mindfulness, clarity, and compassion.
Conversation includes:
Laurie’s personal story of becoming interested in leadership development, how awareness, purpose, and connection make leaders more mindful, loneliness and isolation in leadership, the core need of belonging, how integration and harmony lead to work-life balance, connecting with what’s most important before making decisions, the impact of inner-compassion on motivation and resilience at work, and how how mindfulness allows us to meet the Inner Critic with compassion.
Links:
Laurie J. Cameron
Kristin Neff’s Research on Self-Compassion
Show Notes:
1:48 – Laurie’s Work in Leadership Development, Change Management, and Mindfulness
3:36 – What is a Mindful Leader?
4:30 – The Loneliness Epidemic and The Need For Belonging and Connection
7:26 – Cultivating Community
8:24 – The Power of Meta-Communities
10:15 – The Basics of Work-Life Balance
13:58 – The Role of Self-Compassion at Work
16:12 – Befriending The Inner Critic
18:22 – Self-Observation and Inquiry
19:05 – Laurie’s Book The Mindful Day
21:13 – Mindfulness in The Workplace is Doable
