Women’s Leadership Summit interview with Sandja Brügmann, hosted by Jennifer Maynard of Discovery Coaching in USA Jan 2016. Listen in to learn: Who or what motivates me to continue to succeed daily How I foster creative and innovative thinking within my business and organization How I maintain motivation and inspiration despite obstacles, pushbacks or setbacks What piece of advice I would give to someone starting their leadership journey   SANDJA BRÜGMANN is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker and sustainable communications & marketing expert with a passion for conscious leadership. Sandja mentors visionary business leaders and entrepreneurs around the world helping people manifest a passion-filled and on purpose business that makes a positive difference to people, planet and profits. She… Read more »

It is our highest purpose as human beings to live with focused commitment to our inner growth. We create eudaimonic contentment (i.e., deep, sustained contentment) when we forego immediate pleasures—such as the next shiny object (materialism, workaholism, sex, drug etc). ‘Eudaimonia’ is a Greek word associated with Aristotle and often mistranslated as ‘happiness’—which has contributed to misunderstandings about what happiness is. Some experts say Aristotle meant ‘well-being’ when he wrote that humans can attain eudaimonia by fulfilling their potential(WSJ).” This article interview explores how you create a deep level of contentment and fulfillment for yourself in your business life.

Mark Nepo is a New York Times best selling author, poet and spiritual teacher. He has been featured in Super Soul Sunday with Oprah, and he is the featured poet and spiritual teacher in the film The Power of the Heart, currently on world tour. Mark’s new book Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness was just published. You might think, what does a poet and spiritual teacher have to do with conscious leadership and success in business? So let me explain just briefly how this connects for me. Our inner journey of being broken open, so we can learn to sink into our own real, humble, authentic, feeling selves is the very same journey we need to master in… Read more »

Last week, I received an email from an old colleague of mine. We used to work together more than 15 years ago at a large growing mindful company publicly traded on NASDAQ. Back then she was in trade marketing, and I was on the consumer marketing side. The title of her email to me was “Spiritually bankrupt.”  “There must be something more than this ….” Today she is 40 years old. She has had a good career. Been there and done that. Made money for everyone else but herself, and she feels tired. “Not to complain,” she writes, “I’ve led a good life, but there has to be something more…. ” This woman is very bright. Hard-working. Creates results. Goes all… Read more »

  I had the great pleasure of having Baptist de Pape on PassionTalk TV to share some of his wisdom and findings on the power of the heart, and living and doing business from this place. Baptist de Pape is the creator of the film, The Power of the Heart and a book by the same title now available in 80 countries. His personal journey of disconnection, yet by all modern standards, a successful attorney career in Amsterdam, to finding his purpose and becoming a film maker about the heart collaborating with an amazing star cast of thought- and spiritual leaders like Paulo Coelho, Dr. Maya Angelou, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende, John Grey, Marci Shimoff, Gary Zukav, Dr…. Read more »

Leaders of the new Conscious Capitalism business paradigm are typically committed to continued personal growth, expanded inclusion and conscious awareness of the context in which they do business.

We gathered some of our favorite quotes from global business-, thought- and spiritual leaders to inspire you to lead from a deeper passion with purposeful determination, knowing that this is your time to go for big. 1. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez