Episode 175: Compassionate Leadership: Skills AI Can't Replace

10/26/23 • 24 min

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Our world is calling for more compassionate leadership. As technology speeds up and the rhythm of life creates more chaos, we need compassionate leaders to help lead the way with courage and care. Leaders also need compassionate training to feel resourced to prevent burnout and create a work culture of psychological safety, transparency and trust. Today on the pod, Janine Johnston and I explore compassionate leadership in more detail. We also discuss an upcoming training we are offering online through St Regis University's Anderson College of Business & Computing. Take a listen to the episode and let us know what resonates.

Learn more about the Compassionate Leadership Training: Skills AI Can't Replace here. Sign up for early bird by November 10th and gain access to a group discount rate.

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Janine Johnston empowers leaders and staff in the mental health sector and real estate industry, as well as in schools and universities with resilience skills. She specializes in helping individuals and institutions gain awareness about their relationship to self (as an inner ally); heightening one's ability to understand and work through conflict, building resilience and harnessing growth; as well as connecting with others (in communities defined by businesses, educational institutions and families). As the mother and daughter of women with dyslexia and on the spectrum, Janine dedicates part of her life to empowering those with learning differences and neurological diversity. She is a solution-focused coach, certified Mindfulness Facilitator through UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Trained Teacher of Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Chris Germer's Mindful Self-Compassion Program through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.

Additionally, Janine is a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) and has a sub-specialization in unleashing the brilliance of organizational leaders and students with ADD, dyslexia, and autism. As a bilingual speaker of English and Spanish, she teaches and facilitates in both languages around the world. As a coach, she has worked with executives and managers throughout the US, Ireland, Germany, and South Africa in companies such as SAP and US Bank as well as local small businesses and non-profit organizations. Janine supports leaders and young people in balancing aspirations and high standards with inner validation and motivational skills rooted in compassion.

Learn more about the Compassionate Leadership Training: Skills AI Can't Replace here. Sign up for early bird by November 10th and gain access to a group discount rate.

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Episode 174: Understanding our Identities in the Workplace with Sandra Chapman

Today on the podcast, I speak with Chap about the importance of understanding our identities and how that affects how we show up in the world and workplace and how the world and workplace receives us. This is a very nuanced and complex topic, but Chap breaks it down to help us understand how identity power works in relationship to positions of power. When we learn about our visible and invisible differences, we can create more meaningful connections. Chap highlights how research shows how having a diversity of identities is better for business. There is more risk taking and problem solving abilities. Having awareness of our identities, being to name microaggressions and learning how to repair are essential to creating a culture of psychological safety. Take a listen to the whole episode and share your takeaways with us by leaving a voice note on CenteredintheCity.com.

Check out The Compassionate Leader: Skills that AI Can't Replace day-long training. Sign up for early bird as well as group pricing.

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Sandra (Chap) Chapman, Ed. D. CEO of Chap Equity Inc., an organization rooted in collaboration, research and dialogue. She is lead on Social Identity Development for the Great First Eight curriculum project, led by Dr. N.K. Duke at the Stand for Children. Dr. Chap is a partner for Perception Strategies, where she translates concepts on identity into interactive workshops. Dr. Chap is the co-author of Bias Starts Early. Let's Start Now: Developing an Anti-Racist, Anti-Bias Book Collection for Infants and Toddlers (https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.2169, co-author of Black Girl on the Playground (Teaching Beautiful Brilliant Black Girls, Corwin Press, 2021) and primary author of The Power of Conversation, an article in NAIS Magazine (Summer, 2014). She was interviewed by UNICEF (July 2020), Why Kids of All Races Need to Know How to Talk About Race and Racism. Listen to her on What School Could Be, or watch it on Game Changer Series. Chap co-created the slogan, You Get What You Get and You Don’t Get Upset, Unless It’s Unjust, Then Let’s Make a Fuss!, a child-centered slogan for inspiring young activists, and creator of a Latine Heritage Project to inspire affirming identity formation.

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Jamie Varon is a writer, designer, sitcom and romcom lover, and digital course creator living in Los Angeles. You can find her giving encouraging pep talks on Instagram, or writing real and honest letters every other Friday in her Friday Letters. If you're interested in her process of building a beautiful life for yourself, check out her digital course Live with Intention.