Laura Prisc on Conscious Leadership

Jeff interviews Laura Prisc, an Organization Leadership and Executive Coach as well as the author of Conscious Leadership: Are Your Leaders Wide Awake? Laura talks about Individual Empowerment and how she utilizes the diagnostic tool Strength Finders for self-discovery and Consciousness Leadership for team building and leadership development. 

Some of the topics Jeff and Laura also discuss:

• Collaboration as a way to approach life and work. (1:30)
• Laura’s career and background, and a few stories about her life. (2:50)
• How Laura defines “empowerment mentoring” and her use of Strengths Finder in the mentoring world. (7:50)
• The characteristics people have to overcome to become “empowered” and what it really means to be empowered. (10:44)
• A fresh interpretation of empowerment, and how to feel it for yourself. (13:15)
• Why Laura loves Strengths Finder and how she uses it. (15:00)
• Examples of what a Strengths Finder profile might illustrate. (16:30)
• The concept of “confident vulnerability”. (20:20)
• The definition of “consciousness leadership”. (21:30)
• What makes for a good leader in a new organizational paradigm? (24:30)
• Building emotional intelligence. (29:30)
• What does “consciousness leadership” as a tool. (30:55)
• Laura’s Podcast, Making Space For Conversation That Matter. (34:30)

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