WISDOM IS MY DAY JOB
THE DISCOVERY
Now that the Integration of Healthcare in Dental Practice Conference has moved to May of 2022, I have more time to focus on my day job. My day job is coaching and consulting. I differentiate my brand as Wisdom Coaching and Consulting.
Thirty-six years, working with hundreds of leaders, from local to multinational companies, seventeen countries, thirty-six U.S states, more than a million and quarter air miles, I uncovered something in what makes great leaders genuinely great. And that something is great leaders are wise leaders. Wisdom was key.
Wise leaders generated deeply profound engagement and tremendous emotional commitment from people. Wise leaders triggered people to take on much greater personal and collective responsibility. Wise leaders impacted peoples' lives outside of their job. Wise leaders cultivated leadership in others. Wise leaders diligently practiced servant-leadership and avoided subservient-leadership.
Wise leaders operated at the highest level of integrity, ethics, and morality and brought forth these qualities in others. Wise leaders had people think and act as their highest self.
Wise leaders were fully engaged in self-understanding because they know that getting their own bullsh*t was essential. They know that self-deception is Wisdom's Achilles heel making self-awareness and self-development fundamental and critical to being a wise leader.
THE LEARNING
I have come to learn that Wisdom changes how one sees the world and how one sees oneself. Wisdom knows it's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see. And, what you see determines how you act, relate, and speak. Wisdom changes how you see.
My insight that Wisdom was the source of truly great leadership led me to years of study, learning, and practice. I read and studied great leaders. I listened to their voices and read their words; Gandhi, King, Lincoln, Einstein, Gates, Jobs, Bennis, Erhard, Flores, Mandela, Rabbi Schacter, Roshi Suzuki, Chief Seattle, The Dali Lama, and so many others. I did programs with great leaders to hear and think with their words, like Jack Welsch, Sir Richard Branson, Werner Erhard, Warren Bennis, Ram Dass. I heard not only their words but their tone and feelings. I could hear Wisdom being spoken and presenced.
In my participation with the Coaches Rising Company
https://www.coachesrising.com, in their Neuroscience of Coaching Course, when I applied their models to Wisdom, it was apparent Wisdom operated from unique and reproducible
neural pathways. It activated specific parts of the brain when Wisdom was active.
Wisdom was the 'precious metal.' Wisdom was the gemstone. These genuinely great leaders expressed Wisdom in how they talked, how they related to people, how they saw themselves in the world, how they provided a sense of sanctuary, enabling others to be more of themselves.
Wisdom was not only a noun; it was also very much a verb, just like Google or Zoom. Wisdom was also an adverb, a word or an expression that modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, or sentence. Wisdom changed people's thinking, speaking and way of being.
There is no top to the mountain of Wisdom. It is a path, not a destination. But I have reached a particular point at my age, experience, and knowledge on this Wisdom trail. I have distinguished the elements of Wisdom for myself and can now have leaders expand
their Wisdom consciously.
THE BOTTOM LINE
It's really straightforward; the greater Wisdom of a leader, the better leader he or she shall be. Period. End of sentence.
I am resetting myself to work with already successful leaders to expand their Wisdom to make a far more significant and lasting difference for themselves, their people, their communities, and their industries.
We're in the middle of formulating with clients a Wisdom for Leaders Program. The possibility of a Wisdom for Leaders Program is now real. We're thinking about ignition in the Fall when Covid is at minimal risk and travel is not restricted. I'll keep you posted when the program comes into existence and what it will look like. I am starting with the end first. Here are the deliverables of the Wisdom for Leaders Program.
And here's a little Wisdom for you to consider from one my very wise teachers https://soulbiographies.com/library/bravery-and-your-own-path/
