Inspiring Action and Impact
Presenter:
Michelle Maldonado
Time:
13:03
Summary
Michelle Maldonado is Founder of Lucenscia (pronounced loo-SENSE-see-ah), a firm dedicated to human flourishing, emotional intelligence, and mindful business transformation. She is a former corporate and tech attorney turned business leader, an internationally certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher, and leadership development consultant. Michelle’s work focuses on leadership development at the pivotal intersection of mindfulness, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence, authenticity, and compassion, nestled on a foundation of neuroscience and taught through an equity lens. She serves as a trusted advisor and facilitator to leaders across corporate, government, nonprofit/NGO and higher-ed communities around the world in her capacity as consultant, trainer, and coach She also serves as faculty for 1440 Multiversity’s Leadership Center, Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification program and Bill George’s True North Leadership program. Michelle has been recognized as one of the “12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement,” “Woman of the Year,” and a “Top Corporate Leader,” with her work featured in the DQ Institute in association with the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Global Engagement Summit, Mindful magazine, and Barnard Magazine as well as HuffPost, Thrive Global, and the meditation apps Wisdom Labs’ Wise@Work, Insight Timer, and Breethe. She lives in the Washington, DC, metro area with her family and is a graduate of Barnard College and the George Washington University School of Law.
Transcript
The first thing I want to talk about is to lay this framework of emotional intelligence. We're not doing a deep dive. This is not an emotional intelligence training, but there's something really important about emotional intelligence that helps us understand it as the vehicle to be mindful and present in our leadership capacities and leadership just simply means how we're showing up and understanding the nature and quality of our presence and our impact across our ecosystems, our ripples. So some of you may already be aware that that emotional intelligence consists of four key quadrants, self awareness, self management, social awareness and relationship management. And the one that is most important, the foundational domain upon which all the others are built, is self awareness. Now self awareness, we're going to dig into that, particularly in this session. But the other ones, I just wanted to share quickly what we mean when we refer to them. Self management is how we take the information and our experiences and respond to them.
Now, either we can be skillful and and respond skillfully, or we can knee jerk react, or we can be an autopilot, but the self awareness and the self management is really important. The relationship between them is, as we cultivate our self awareness, it then allows and informs what it is that we need to self manage, and those two together help us with our social awareness, how we understand what is happening with others, to others in our presence, and how we are impacting them as well. And then finally, relationship management pulls all those three domains together, and that's what we use in the leadership space, because leadership is about relationships. It is about pulling people together and in creating the dynamics for psychological safety, for leadership and followership, all of which help organizations and communities begin to flourish. Now some of you may have heard of this research that was done in 2017 by Tasha your can later released publicly in 2018 it was around self awareness, and as part of the research study, the experiment, she asked people in the group, how many people here believe they are actually self aware. They found that only 15 to 20% of people in the study who thought they were self aware actually were self aware, and here's why we tend to do a very good job of knowing when we're angry, frustrated, tired, happy.