Mindful Leadership: Strategies for High Performing Communication, Accountability and Engagement

Mindful Leadership:  Strategies for High Performing Communication, Accountability and Engagement

Take-Aways from Mary Lee’s Presentation ~

A Rock Star Ability to:

•    Be Self-Aware and Self-Regulate like Top Leader
•    Engage a Team with Active Listening
•    Easily Provide the Key Things Employees Want
•    Manage Yourself in a Crisis
•    Show Empathy When You’d Rather Turn Away
•    Shift from Self-Doubt to Certainty
•    Manage Triggers in Yourself and Others
•    Notice Assumptions and Convert Them to Openness
•    Enjoy Effective Leadership Influence
•    Build a Loyal Tribe of Followers
•    Execute for Results Not Process

You’ve seen The Mindful Revolution on the cover of Time. You’ve heard about the studies and the programs at Google, General Mills and Aetna. People in your office talk about meditation and Yoga. What does all this have to do with work? Everything. What would your productivity look like if you could complete your next project in 70% less time? That is the percentage of employees in the U.S. who are not engaged in their work according to Gallup. Odds are that some of the 70% work for you.
 
Learn to switch off autopilot so that you can change the world instead of just flying around it with mindful leadership skills you can apply today. In today’s world of virtual, written, non-verbal and face-to-face communications connecting is still the leading indicator of success. Learn to manage assumptions, how fear affects your behavior, to interpret body language, identify triggers and set preconceived ideas aside to remain open to opportunity. Demonstrate a no-blame environment, influence that creates action, and an understanding of differences from extroverts to introverts and more. Your leadership isn’t about what you do – it’s about who you are and how you do it no matter where you are seated at the table. Connect!
 
Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE is an award winning Mindful Executive Strategist, certified coach, author and president of StartingOverNow.com – a consulting firm that helps people Get Confident – Get Connected – Get High Performance Results. Mary Lee has a unique perspective with 20+ years as a CEO leading organizations worth up to $26 million within 60,000 employee organizations as well as coaching executives on mindful leadership with strategies that took Mary Lee from welfare to CEO.
 
In addition to her consulting practice Mary Lee is also CEO of St. Margaret Foundation at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital in Pittsburgh, bringing to bare 18 years of C-Suite experience. She is a Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation, a Certified Professional Coach by Duquesne University, a Certified Association Executive, a Leadership Pittsburgh XXV graduate, and an alumnus of the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference.
 
Mary Lee was awarded the Joe Gilbert Lifetime Achievement Award by Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives and the Women of Integrity Award by Pittsburgh Professional Women. Mary Lee is the "Mindful Leadership" columnist for Smart Business Magazine and a columnist for the Pittsburgh Business Times. She’s been featured in Money Magazine, NPR, Yahoo.com, U.S. News and World Report, msn.com, Forbes.com, CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com.
 
Mary Lee’s personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took her and her children from the country club life to public assistance from where she re-invented her life to support her family. She is the popular author of two books “Reinvent You – From Welfare to CEO” and "Starting Over” which are available in bookstores, online, or on her web site StartingOverNow.com.