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Thoughts from Conscious Leadership Coach Sue Heilbronner

Latest blogs from Sue
Jul 11

Conscious Communication: The Antidote to Passive Aggressive Speech

I often attend leadership team meetings held by client companies at which I coach or teach Conscious Leadership. I recently noticed what I interpreted as a habit among the C-level team members at one client company.One person offered a very accretive idea for an upcoming customer event, and after he... read more →
Jul 11

Clean Agreements: The most efficient way to reduce hours of frustration and disappointment

Many of the executives and companies I work with find the Conscious Leadership concept of “clean agreements” to be one of the most transformative principles. The idea is that, as a matter of developing integrity and trust in your relationships, Conscious Leaders work to create and honor impeccable agreements. If you have... read more →
Jul 11

Choosing Unhappiness

Here’s something you may not know about me, probably because until now, I haven’t really wanted you to know; I hadn’t found it particularly flattering.Despite all the wonderful things that have happened in my life and all the wonderful people, I continually find myself back on the “feeling bad couch.”... read more →
Jul 11

Choosing Candor in Business and The Perils of Making Any Other Choice

It’s been a rough two weeks for me and my conviction around the availability of candor in business.You know how you can see a really scary horror movie and replay scary images for months after? Well, I’m having that kind of post-traumatic experience after reading two business books. Go figure.First... read more →
Jul 11

Choosing to See Our Personality Patterns as Gifts

At the end of a virtual event Sue Heilbronner and I co-facilitated this week, one of the attendees expressed what I heard as dissatisfaction with the call. I immediately went below the line. The person’s reaction sounded highly reactive to me. I heard her as jogging around the three roles on... read more →
Jul 11

Before Making New Year’s Resolutions, Explore Your Unconscious Commitments

It’s the dawn of a new year – heck, it’s the dawn of a new decade – so new year’s resolutions will be in full force.Yoga classes will get more crowded, there will be a line for treadmills at the gym, thrift shops and libraries will exhaust their supplies of... read more →
Jul 11

Awareness. Changes. Everything.

If you haven’t read Part 1: Choosing Unhappiness, we pick up right where we left off. In Part 1, I revealed how I had been committed to being unhappy because I had been believing I was actually happier that way. If that makes no sense to you, good. It shouldn’t. It turns... read more →
Jul 11

*A Heartbreaking Revelation* The Costs of Unconscious Listening

Until twenty minutes ago, I spent my whole life thinking that this thing → * ← was called an “Asterix.” Or maybe an “Astericks.” Either way, I thought the K sound came before the S sound, rather than what it actually is, an S and then K sound: Asterisk.  My... read more →
Jul 11

A Four-minute, Foursquare Foray Into Focus and Alignment

This morning I got an “I’d love to pick your brain” email from a friend and member of my community. It was the second one from this person in six months. In Conscious Leadership, I talk often about full-body yes and no as a key element to conscious decision-making. But... read more →
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Jun 12

Take a Walk with Me and #changeourneighborhoods: 100% Responsibility

I realized that just seeing more people of color walking down these streets would be noticeable and salutary...read more →
Feb 13

Everything I Know About Company Culture I Learned at Summer Camp

If you can intentionally preserve core values for over 105 years, or even five years, you’re doing something incredibly special...read more →