This is a PowerPoint from a Women's Conference at the University of California, San Diego, which took place on May 6, 2014. Conscious Leadership was born out of the dissertation work of Dr. Valita Jones and is focused on assisting individuals within any organization in becoming more aware, responsible and accountable. After being exposed to the Conscious Leadership theory, framework, and practice you will learned how to influence change, be able to create opportunities for transformation within systems, intentionally lead from a shared perspective and promote an organizational ethos of cooperation and collaboration.

1. Conscious Leadership As An
Empowering Leadership
Practice
DR. VALITA JONES
PROGRAM MANAGER, CIHED
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

2. Agenda for the Day…
 Reflective and critically look at an alternative
leadership model/framework
Create A
New Cycle
Of Thinking
& Change

3. We Think of Leadership As…
 A Developmental Process...
 Authoritarian…
 Management…
 Visionary…
 Strategic…
 Systemic…
 A Practice...

4. Leadership Styles: The
Condition of Our Thinking…

5. Types of Leadership Models
 Traditional (Fragmented)
 Authoritarian leadership (chain of
command)
 Charismatic leadership
 Trait leadership
 Transformative (Networked)
 Love-Based leadership
 Soul leadership
 Personal leadership

6. Ethos of Work Environments
Fragmented/
Hierarchical Orientation
 1. Past perspectives
 2. Distinct boundaries
 3. Linear causality
 4. Change incrementally
 5. Simple Complexity
 6. Can be controlled
Networked Orientation
 1. Whole system
 2. Blurred boundaries
 3. Non-linear causality
 4. Dynamic flux
 5. Increased complexity
 6. Can be influenced
Allen & Cherry, 2000

7. Why Are Styles Important?
Because the style of an organization’s leadership is
reflected in both the nature of that organization and its
relationship with the others

8. Motivation To Change…
 Learning organizations are emerging
 Creativity and innovation are unfolding as
drivers within organizations
 Unprecedented meeting of worldviews, belief
systems, and ways of engaging reality
 Globalization and changing work
environments now require cooperative &
collaborative interactions

9. A Need To be Different
"We cannot solve our problems with the
same kind of consciousness with which
we created them.“ ~Albert Einstein

10. Conscious Awareness
 Is a process of recognizing what is going on
inside and outside of you
 That decisions and actions have effects and
the interaction between a complex array of
factors and forces that are not necessary
controllable
 Awareness is a powerful tool for transcending
unconscious patterns, fostering an expanded
perspective and openness to new possibilities”
http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/08/conscious-
leader/

11. So What Does it Mean to Be Conscious?
 Simply put we are aware…
 Work from a place of possibility…
 Understand that our thoughts have power…
 Develop skills that can match our inner capacities
to the outer complexities of life (balance)…

12. How Do You Know You Are
Conscious?
“The best indicator of your level of consciousness
is how you deal with life’s challenges when they
come. Through those challenges, an already
unconscious person tends to become more
deeply unconscious, and a conscious person
more intensely conscious. You can use a
challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to
pull you into even deeper sleep”
~Eckhart Tolle

13. Hidden Message in the Water
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpnlCo5APrE

14. Buddha says…
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we
think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow
that never leaves"

15. Consciousness Can Be Measured!
 Tool
 CQ-Consciousness Quotient
 Termed coined by Romanian professor of psychology-
Dr. Ovidiu Brazdua
 www.consciousness-quotient.com

16. Consciousness Quotient
 Psychometric tool used to measure dimensions of
consciousness
 Measures the amount of access we have
simultaneously to information from a vast field of
possibility
 High CQ = Broader perspective/higher level of
awareness
 Low CQ = Assess less information
 Higher CQ enables greater consciousness and
greater awareness and choice
 No awareness…no choice!

17. Six Dimensions
 Physical – conscious of your body and physical
elements in your environment
 Emotional Mental – conscious of your feelings and
any emotions
 Spiritual – conscious of yourself as being part of a
larger whole and your connection within it
 Social/Relationship – conscious of human
relationships and the People you connect with
 Self-conscious/Self-awareness – consciousness of
self; awareness of your self-awareness-of the
observer who is doing the observing of yourself

18. Nine sub-categories
 Internal State Awareness - refers to the ability of being
conscious specifically about the inner changes
 Self-Reflectiveness - refers to the ability of being
conscious in a reflective way about you own person
 Mindfulness - refers to a way of looking at yourself and
your environment in a non-judgmental way
 Autonomy - refers to the degree of autonomy- the
individualization of a person; in other words, the ability
to function autonomous, without requiring external
support
 Personal Growth - refers tot the ability of being
conscious about the evolutionary transformation one
person goes through

19. Nine sub-categories
 Positive Relations with Others - is the ability of being
conscious about inter-personal relationships.
 Purpose in Life - refers to existence of a purpose in life.
Purpose is the context of meaning within which one
makes life choices
 Verbal Expression - describes the ability of expressing
the conscious content through verbal communication.
The items are spread one in each main factors
 Openness toward new experiences - refers to the
ability of being conscious about new information;
generally it is the ability of being open to any new
things happening to one

21. Peter Drucker…
“Every few hundred years in Western
history there occurs a sharp
transformation. Within a few short
decades, society – its worldview, its
basic values, its social and political
structures, its arts, its key institutions –
rearranges itself. . . We are currently
living through such a time”

23. Pillars of Conscious Leadership
Purposeful
Responsible &
Accountable
Intentional

24. Grounding and Approach….
Conscious leadership is a conceptual framework that
is grounded in the sociocultural knowledge of
reciprocity, which allows leaders to perceive patterns
in the environment, see the interconnectivity of
multiple problems, and subscribe to a participatory
leadership style, which incorporates the idea of
shared responsibility and problem solving.
_Jones, 2012

25. Leadership On A Continuum

26. Attributes of a Conscious Leader
 “You” are your greatest asset!
 Embrace Your Authentic Self
 Self-knowledge, Self-mastery and Self-
confidence
 Purposeful and Intentional
 Develop Active Listening Skills
 Believe in Reciprocity
 Capitalize on Community Wealth (Partnership
Mastery/ Communities of Practice)

27. How Are Conscious Leaders Different?
 Self-aware and less clouded by their identity. Thus, having the
freedom to be more flexible. Create rather than react and is a critical
thinker
 Have personal power and focus on the leadership of "doing" rather
than "being." A conscious leader considers all the player in the
organization as they lead and act in a ways which supports the
balance of the whole
 Are self-aware enough to know that they can always explore their
limitations further and as leaders, they set the tone for an
organizations of continual self-examination and evolution
 Aware that they have access to broader and multiple sources of
information simultaneously
 Open to dealing with things as they are, which implies a greater
capacity to influence situations and effect change

28. So What Does It All Mean?
 Understanding of organizations as networked systems that are
interconnected
 Promote organizational learning, innovation, creativity and shared
leadership
 Compassionate
 Increased wisdom
 Cooperative and collective
 Understand the POWER of choice
 Ability to guide change
 Create opportunities for transformation and change
 Tap into the collective awareness of the group
 Building relationships/partnerships

29. Organizations Who Practice
A More Conscious Leadership
 GOOGLE
 SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
 THE CONTAINER STORE
 ZAPPOS
 PATAGONA
 WHOLE FOODS
 THE CONTAINER STORE

30. Conscious Leadership Tool Kit
 Conscious Leadership Framework
 A Leadership Platform Statement
 A Portfolio of Your Work
 Leadership Action Plan (Leadership
Options, i.e. education, corporate,
non-profit)
 Journal

31. Final Thoughts….
 Deconstruct
 Reconstruct
 Construct

33. Questions?
“Women don’t want a divided life; they
recognize that career is not enough;
they want to be interconnected with
people. They want to keep growing
throughout their different lives, adjusting
as needed to different circumstances.
They want to live a “balanced” life”
_Jamila Aswad, 2013