Reimagining the Nature of Leadership
In a culture where lines are blurring between work and life, leaders can seize the moment to reimagine the fundamental nature of leadership as a chance to welcome the mess and conflict needed to pave the path forward. How might this shift allow more humanity into organizational culture?
Mansi Jain , Co-Active Coach
On episode 23, we explore the exciting intersectionality of business, adaptive leadership and new ways of being with Mansi Jain, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and Transformational Facilitator with over a decade of experience coaching leaders, teams, and organizations across industries and geographies. She integrates modern research and ancient wisdom around psychological, spiritual, and systems development, while also drawing on her background in consulting with McKinsey & Company, leading a large-scale organizational transformation from the ground up and teaching through Wharton's Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania. At her core, Mansi is guided by a purpose to co-create a world where we continually choose love over fear.
Amidst headlines in Forbes, Harvard Business Review and Time Inc. pointing to more feminine models of leadership surfacing in 2021 around authenticity and emotional agility, there’s much to unpack about the shape of leadership to come in our world’s most influential organizations. Having worked with leaders to explore their capacity for holding deeper states of vulnerability and presence, Mansi shines a light on what is possible when leaders reimagine the fundamental nature of “leadership.” The old story was around providing answers while the new story centers on creating space for the answers to be born. For her, it’s about the skillful ability to bring together the right people, courageously admit that you don’t know, and encourage your team to play in the mess -- even going so far as to create conflict where it’s needed to ultimately deepen into a clear path forward. This then begs the question, what would it take for leaders to show up as their full self and encourage their teams to embody the same?
In this spiritually rich conversation, we cultivate curiosity around:
Examining leadership at the interplay of reactivity vs. creativity and fear-based vs. love-based
What it means to cultivate leadership at the intersectionality of complexity theory, adaptive leadership and wisdom traditions.
The power of dropping into nature in her transition from a multinational firm like McKinsey to an independent consulting practice
What love would look like at the organizational level (against the backdrop of “Women are Better Leaders During a Crisis” - Harvard Business Review)
The reimagining of courageous conscious leadership in a moment that’s filled with uncertainty and despair