Lori Darley: How Conscious Leadership Benefits Everyone

I’m excited to introduce Lori Darley to the listeners. She is a leadership coach and trainer who uses her skills to foster communication within the organizations she works with. Her coaching focuses on communications and giving and receiving feedback within the organization.

For a long time now, Lori has been involved in conscious capitalism; the idea that we can conduct business through mindful social, economic and environmental practices. She runs her business, Conscious Leaders, LLC this way and it’s a part of the values she coaches her clients and their employees in.

“When you pay attention to the value that everybody brings to the organization, and they are seen and heard as valuable individuals, then they become more engaged.”

The purpose of her company is to evolve the consciousness of the entire planet. Quite a goal, but Lori is absolutely capable of affecting this type of evolution.

To make any type of transcendent evolution or even just to solve a problem you’re facing, Lori recommends to change your perspective and look at things from the future as if you’ve already accomplished what you want to do. Ask yourself, “What was the first thing I did to overcome the problem?” When you do this, a pathway unfolds that wasn’t present for you before because you were stuck within the problem.

People can often be resigned to the career they’ve chosen, their problems or the life they’re living. They’re stuck in an unhappy place, but don’t know how to get out. Lori gives a few questions to ask that might illuminate a direction to head to break out of this funk:

• What is it that makes them feel stuck?
• Why are they resigned to staying in this situation?
• What mind blocks are in place?
• How can they put their bandwidth to use elsewhere to satisfy their creative needs?

Lori will soon release a book called ‘Dancing Naked: A Journey for Conscious Leaders’ (to be released this fall). Fitting the writing of a book into her schedule is darn tough, but she decided to hire a team to support her in the process and to get beyond the resistance. “They light a fire under my butt that I can’t put out on purpose.” The team that she has is a circle of rigorous support. Having support like this makes it easier to keep your promises as they hold you accountable and don’t let up that easily.

Lori has a few habits she’s put into place to help her stay aligned with her beliefs:

• Meditation – this daily practice allows her to look at the contents of her mind in different ways
• Journaling – this is great for bypassing the thinking mind. Putting pen to paper and writing daily for ten minutes has shaped her thinking and her conversations with others in a positive way.

Lori believes that a bold person is one who continuously steps into their fears and won’t back down from a challenge that scares them. This was a great interview with Lori, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy our little chat today.

 

SOME QUESTIONS I ASK:

• What is Conscious Leaders, LLC?
• What does the term “transcendent evolution of leadership” mean?
• How can a person be what they need to be in order to achieve what they want?
• How did Lori’s life evolve from dancer to dance school owner to founder of Conscious Leaders, LLC?
• Does she have any advice for people who want to feel expressed in their work, but didn’t choose a career path that lets them lead or act creatively?

 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

• Lori’s motivation for starting Conscious Leaders, LLC and what benefit can people get from her coaching.
• How she’s gradually adding virtual coaching/training into her business model.
• How she was able to fit writing a book into her busy schedule.
• A technique of journaling which gives her great results.
• Plus much more…

 

DON’T STOP HERE…

• Lori Darley and Conscious Leaders: Website | Facebook | Twitter

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

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• Social Venture Network
• Headspace App
• ‘Wild Minds’ by Natalie Goldberg: Amazon
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