This document discusses leadership presence and its importance. It explores three levels of awareness: how one sees themselves, how others see them, and the space in between which holds the truth. The document emphasizes suspending judgment and listening without preconceptions to gain clarity. It encourages setting intentions and committing to plans that require showing up differently to have impact. Several quotes on leadership, mindsets, and driving change are included.

1. Leadership
Presence
May 2013

2. The Essence of
Leadership Presence
What does it really mean,
and why is it important
to you (and to others)?

3. Learning is not just about capacity, it is about awareness.
Truly profound levels of learning change who we are, and then how we change.
Suspend judgment for a deeper level of awareness, listen from nothing.
Clarity happens when you can do this. In this opening things happen.
There is no meaningful conversation without people opening their minds.
This is why meaningful conversation is so rare these days.
There is only one force; intention.
Question: How do we move beyond our normal ways of seeing things?

4. How the human paradigm works:
„Observation‟
leads to
„Interpretation‟
leads to
„Reality‟
leads to
„A Story‟

5. Three Levels of awareness:
1. How you see yourself
2. How others see you
3. The space in between
…..the truth

6. What‟s next?

7. Group Dialogue
What is your intention moving
forward?
What is your plan to have
impact?
What will now be required of you
and where will you need to show
up differently?

8. What is your
commitment
moving
forward?

9. Quotes that have
had an impact on
me…..

10. “If you‟re the smartest
person in the room,
you‟re in the wrong
room.”
- Unknown

11. "People may not
remember exactly what
you did, or what you said,
but they will always
remember how you made
them feel."
- Dr. Garthwaite

12. “Follow me…..I am
right behind you.”
- John Maxwell

13. “Great spirits have
always found violent
opposition from
mediocre minds”
- Albert Einstein

14. “You are the way you
are, because that‟s the
way you‟ve made up
your mind to be.”
- John C. Maxwell

15. “The greatest danger is not
that our hopes are set too
high and we fail to achieve
them; it‟s that they are too
low and we do.”
- Michelangelo

16. “15% of one‟s financial
success is due to one‟s
technical knowledge and
85% is due to skill in human
engineering – leadership
and influencing people.”
- Dale Carnegie

17. “Ego and Awareness can
not co-exist.”
- Eckhart Tolle

18. Here‟s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels,
the troublemakers, the round pegs in the
square holes…the ones who see things
differently– they‟re not fond of rules… You can
quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify
them, but the only thing you can‟t do is ignore
them because they change things…they push
the human race forward, and while some may
see them as the crazy ones, we see genius,
because the ones who are crazy enough to
think they can change the world, are the ones
who do.
- Steve Jobs

24. Leadership and Social Media influence
for business….

26. What would happen if I Google‟d YOU?
The new leadership reality…

27. Thank you for invited me to be
part of your group…..I am
honored!
Neil Thornton
The Thornton Group
Trigger Strategies
905.401.1434
neil@thorntongroup.ca
www.thorntongroup.ca
www.triggerstrategies.ca
@neilathornton