The Mindful Leadership Summit 2017 focused on the transition from conscious leaders to mindful organizations, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, authenticity, and responsibility in leadership. Key concepts included self-care, attention management, and creating a conscious work culture that fosters connection and curiosity. The summit encouraged practices such as meditation and mindful rituals to enhance productivity and personal growth.

1. Mindful
Leadership
Summit 2017Gurgaon
27th & 28th Sept, 2017

2. From Conscious Leaders
To
Mindful Organizations
- Fuelling the Leadership (R)evolution
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3. Silent Mind
One silent mind… one more silent mind…
(The Ripple Effect – need of the hour)
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4. To Do List
To Be List To Do List
- Dr Marshall Goldsmith reminds us of ‘What Not To Do List’
Good idea to have a To-Be List, then build a To-Do-List
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5. Focus
• Outside In Vs. Inside Out
– be aware, make a choice, shift consciously
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6. Seed
• I am the seed - Water the seed
1. 20 minutes, every morning, for myself
2. Avoid media, social media in morning
• First two hours, when retention is maximum
• Before going to work – avoid negativity
A Challenge: Practice, for 3 months & see magic!
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7. IQ
All external sources give intelligence
• Intelligence Vs. Wisdom
- Choose
Outer world influence you
Vs.
Create a beautiful inner world
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8. Morning Alarm
• Do you feel sleeping some more in the
morning
• Even though got good sleep, rest
• Mind has not got rest?
#5AM Club
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9. Self Care
Taking care of yourself: whose responsibility?
- My responsibility
Self-Care, Self Love, Self-Acceptance
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10. Angry
• Why do we get angry?
• When people, situation not my way?
• Are your children like you?
Give Love where expectation is anger
Come what may, stable, in control
#AngryKya
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11. Conflict
• Silent for one minute
Silent mind, silences ego
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12. Conflict
• Create your own definition of ethics
• ‘Normal’ may not be healthy
• Me/My organization => Money, No Silence
• Client => Blessings
Silent mind natural way of life
Ethics & Values – a personal choice
Truth is absolute
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13. Mindful Ritual
Ritual without spirit is not spiritual: Master’s Voice
• 20 minutes in when you wake up
• 10 minutes before going to bed
• 1 minute every 59 minutes
Start the day with Love, Fill the day with love, End
the day with Love. This is the way to God –
Master’s voice
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14. Conscious Work Culture
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15. Conscious Leadership
Taking responsibility on the impact of
people around them
• Conscious – Non triggered, non reactive
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16. Conscious Leadership
Creating conscious work culture: 3
Ingredients
1. Self Awareness
2. Authenticity (not behind ‘professional’
façade)
3. Radical Responsibility
*Compassion
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17. Learning
Curiosity
Am I open to Learning?
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18. Learning
•Authenticity creates connection
•Connection creates teams
Great teams come out of
psychological Safety
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19. Learning
Responsibility > Blame
Change – difficult
•Animals dislike change
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20. Conscious Leadership
Process
• Responsibility key to mindful
leadership
• Take risk – 5% out of comfort zone
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21. Conscious Leadership
Process
• Content Vs Context (coaching focus
is on context)
• Above the Line Vs. Below the line
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22. Conscious Leadership
Process
• What puts us in optimal space (Flow!)
• Spiritual Bypass 
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23. Potential Project
Mindfulness
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24. Attention Deficit Trait
• 47% of time we are not concentrating
• 59% of mind on task
• 41% of mind off task
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25. Attention Matters
Attention => Choices => Actions =>
Results
How attentive are you?
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26. Neuroplasticity
Mindfulness Training (Basic)
• Retracting our mind to FOCUS
Anatomy Breath Count
Distraction
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27. Meditate
• Research shows 20 minutes meditation
strengthened pre-frontal cortex of the brain
• Benefits in professional & personal life
Coaching does not distinguish between the
leader at work/outside work
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28. Mindfulness
1. I: Bring mindfulness to everything you do
2. We: People start doing, more people
3. Organization get direction (unlike
chicken yard)
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29. Health Care Leader
Listening for
• Values
• Differences (not for agreements)
Listening: a key coaching competency
#Ubuntu : I am because you are!
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30. Listening
Look for
• Connections
• Not for Perfection
Create a safe environment (a la coaching,
thru trust, agreement, listening)
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31. Passion
Surround yourself with people who can hold a
mirror for you (a coach’s primary responsibility)
‘Dil pe lagegi
Tabhi baat banegi’
Be a #ThankGodItIsMonday organization
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32. Consulting Leader
Evolution of Job
Today’s children studying for ‘new’ jobs
Hand Head Heart
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33. Leadership
Quality of Presence determines change
• Not intelligence
• Moore’s Law => New velocity
• Social Media => AI, Machine Learning
#IQ2EQ2SQ
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34. Silence… Deep
Deep Silence needed for extreme activity
‘All should do 20 minutes of meditation.
If no time, do 40 minutes’ – Dalai Lama
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35. Distraction to Focus
A distraction – message notification (eg)
DYK it takes 23 minutes to get back focus
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36. Meditate
1. Break into meditation
2. Facilitate meditation at work
3. Allow to experience
‘When I do….’
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37. Mindfulness
Communication
Gestalt Way
1. Here & Now
2. Here & How
Why question: cause, cause….
Coaches are discouraged from asking the ‘WHY’ question.
But curious about the why!
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38. Authenticity
• On a scale of 1-10, how authentic are
you?
• At work
• At home
• How much do you value authenticity?
Can authenticity be ‘negative’?
Authenticity is only positive
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39. Authenticity
• Who do you sometimes pretend to be?
• Who are you?
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40. Hypno-Baba
Designing organizations to be
• More Purposeful
• More Successful
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41. Brain
98% of what the brain does is outside
of conscious awareness – Michael S
Gazzaniga
- Rationalizing after falling in love!
Ayudha puja greetings carried image of
brain!
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42. Father of Management
• Peter Drucker or Frederick Taylor?
- Mammalian brain & neocortex: Legacy & beyond
respectively
Father of psychology: Freud or Jung?
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43. Rumi
Current generation, a mixture of
• Ayn Rand (industrialization mindset)
&
• Rumi ( yoga, vegan, cleansing)
More Rumi quotes now that ever!
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44. 3 Steps
1. Ego system to ecosystem (liver doctor
does not know what heart is upto)
2. Default content to created content
3. Leading from the future to create created
future
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45. Siyli.org
Radical Generosity (without losing
depth, taste)
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46. Many more…
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