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Version 1.0
Mindfulness for your
Leadership & Personal Growth
EO Chapter Berlin, 11.3.2020
Reiner Kraft, PhD
TheMindfulLeader.net

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Workshop Agenda
1) Welcome & Introduction (5 min)
2) Motivation (7 min)
3) What is a Mindful Leader? (10 min)
4) The Capabilities of a Mindful Leader (5 min)
5) How to become a Mindful Leader (10 min)
6) A Framework for your Leadership & Personal Growth:
The Seven Pillars of Mindful Leadership (35 min)
7) Other Applications of Mindfulness (5 min):
- Deep Innovation
- Stress Resilience
8) Conclusion (3 Min)
9) Take Action (10 Min)
10) Q & A (30 min)
Mindfulness for your Leadership & Personal Growth
EO Chapter Berlin, 11.3.2020

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About “me”
Former CTO, seasoned Silicon Valley veteran, trusted Advisor & Coach to Leaders to transform the Workplace
- Locations:
- Grew up in Hesse (Wetzlar, Giessen)
- Lived 20 years in the Silicon Valley (IBM Research,
Yahoo, UC Santa Cruz)
- Moved 2016 to Berlin (Zalando, Yunar)
- Education: Computer Science, Entrepreneurial Leadership
- Roles: Leader, Technologist, Engineer, Scientist, Inventor,
Teacher, Trusted Advisor, Coach, Public Speaker, Musician,
Entrepreneur, Bio-Hacker, Husband, Father of 2 sons, ...
- Realized profound impact of Mindfulness in 2015
- Blog: http://TheMindfulLeader.net
- Mission:
- Constructing thriving teams and purposeful
organizations with meaningful and sustainable
impact.
- Foster Deep Innovation in the New Workplace
- Helping others becoming mindful and inspirational
leaders, as well as stress resilient, to change the
world using a data-driven and scientific approach! Reiner Kraft, PhD
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/reiner

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Motivation

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- SAP Studies: Mindfulness in Organizations has a proven strong ROI
- 200% ROI (Employee Engagement Index, Decrease Sick Days)
- 50+ Mil. Euros p. 1% EE Index
- 85+ Mil. Euros p. 1% Business Health Culture Index
Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace

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- Many Organizations still driven by Intellect & Ego
- This results in suboptimal and toxic work environments (“old workplace”)
- Goals are more important than values
- Stress and Disharmony common symptoms
- Insufficient focus on
- sustainable and positive contributions to our planet
- collaboration, unity & personal growth
- Key talent is prioritizing purpose & sustainability over money, stress, ...
We need Mindful Leaders to upgrade our Workplace

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Mindfulness cultivates your consciousness growth
An increased level of consciousness will support your personal &
leadership growth, and gives rise to new capabilities
Stay tuned to find out how …
But there is more to Mindfulness …

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- Big Picture:
- Understanding the role of Mindfulness as THE foundation for your leadership &
personal growth
- Overview of a structured Framework to becoming a Mindful Leader:
- The Seven Pillars of Mindful Leadership
- Deep Dive into each pillar to understand the key dimensions of it:
- Challenges
- Tools / Methodologies
- KPIs
- A motivation for a science-based and data-driven approach to Mindful Leadership
- A fresh impulse for your own consciousness growth
- Actionable ideas to explore and getting started
- Helpful insights from my own experience applying Mindfulness in my personal and
business life
What you will get out of this Talk ...

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What is a Mindful Leader?

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„The intention of mindful leadership is to embrace a mindset of present
awareness and mindfulness as an underlying foundation to all your
thoughts, words, and actions.“
What is a Mindful Leader?

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- … but enabler for
- Increased leadership effectiveness
- Stronger collaboration & unity
- Improved emotional intelligence
- Better self reflection
- Strong stress resilience
- Enhanced focus
- Deeper connection with Intuition
- Higher quality decisions
Mindfulness is not an End Goal

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The Capabilities of a Mindful Leader

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Take the qualities of a good leader.
- Trust, integrity, calm, being decisive, …
Then add qualities cultivated by consciousness growth:
- Increased emotional intelligence
- Strong connection with your intuition
- Ability of ego calibration
- Equanimity
- Resilience
- Interest in truth
- Authenticity
- …
=> New Leadership
The Capabilities of a Mindful Leader

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How to become a Mindful Leader?

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Can Mindful Leadership be learned in a structured way?
How to become a Mindful Leader?

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Use “The Seven Pillars of Mindful Leadership” as a
guiding and underlying Framework
- Increase your Present Awareness
- Cultivate your “forgotten” Qualities
- Train and unclutter your Mind
- Achieve Clarity on your Purpose, Vision,
Mission, and essential Values
Live the “12 Principles of Mindful Leadership” to
- upgrade your leadership style and
- generate a New Workplace
How to become a Mindful Leader?

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„The underlying foundation of a Mindful Leader is the
aspect of “being”, not the doing.“

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The state of being requires continuous training of your mind
Applying and integrating Mindfulness into your Business is a
continuous process and effort
Balancing Being and Doing is hard
How to get there?

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A Framework for your Leadership & Personal Growth:
The Seven Pillars of Mindful Leadership

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Motivation:
Having a unified Framework to structure your Personal & Leadership
Growth
The 7 Pillars of Mindful Leadership

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Organizing different dimensions into separate pillars of growth:
- Clear purpose, focus area
- Specific challenges, growth goals
- Resources, knowledge
- Tools, techniques and methodologies
- Expertise of subject experts
- Clear performance indicators (KPIs)
The 7 Pillars of Mindful Leadership

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1. Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift
2. The Mind - Clean-up and Upgrade
3. Toward Conscious Decisions
4. Cultivating your “forgotten” Qualities
5. Connecting with Yourself: Clarity on Purpose and your Mission
6. New Leadership - living the 12 Mindful Leadership Principles
7. New Workplace Transformation - toward a Conscious Business
The 7 Pillars of Mindful Leadership

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Overarching Methodology:
A Science Based Approach to Mindful Leadership, Deep Innovation, and
Stress Resilience
“If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Improve It”
- Peter Drucker
The 7 Pillars of Mindful Leadership

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Pillar 1: Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift

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Primary Goal:
Increase your Level of Consciousness (LOC) or Present
Awareness
Pillar 1: Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift

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“Pure Consciousness (or Awareness) is the
observer of all your Experiences”
What is Consciousness?

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Exercise: Close your eyes. Focus on your breadth. Experience your consciousness. Where is
it located? Notice that your consciousness is the quiet observer. Try to listen into the room.
What do you hear? Feel into your body, what do you feel?
Experience Consciousness

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- Major Challenges:
- Busy “monkey” mind
- Identification with Thoughts
- Mindset trapped in Ego
- Tools & Methodologies
- Formal meditation practise
- Daily Mindfulness Exercises
- KPIs
- LOC via self-assessment
- Thoughts per Minute / Day
Pillar 1: Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift

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1. Basic Awareness and Dormancy
2. Rise of the Ego
3. Intellectual Dominance
4. Opening & Awakening
5. Transformation & Personal Growth
6. The Quest for Truth: Inquiry and Struggle
7. On the Frontier: Testing Boundaries
8. Non-Duality: The Death of the Ego
9. Stabilizing & Maturing
10. Completeness
A Taxonomy of Consciousness Growth

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“As your Consciousness is growing, your
Mindset is shifting”
Pillar 1: Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift

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From “Old leadership” to “New Leadership”
From “Trapped in your Ego” toward Non-Duality
From “lots of thinking” to (almost) “no thinking”
Pillar 1: Consciousness Growth & Mindset Shift

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Pillar 2: The Mind - Cleanup and Upgrade

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Pillar 2: The Mind - Cleanup & Upgrade
Primary Goal:
Becoming aware of your Limiting Thoughts and False
Beliefs

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- Major Challenges:
- Limited level of present awareness
- Not honest with yourself
- Tools & Methodologies
- Continuous inquiry
- Self reflection
- KPIs
- # of positively reprogrammed thoughts & false beliefs
Pillar 2: The Mind - Cleanup & Upgrade

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Pillar 3: Toward Conscious Decisions

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Pillar 3: Toward Conscious Decisions
Primary Goal:
Increase number of Conscious Decisions to become
fully in charge of your Life

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- Major Challenges:
- Limited level of present awareness
- Old dormant & emotional pain entity (“pain body”)
- Tools & Methodologies
- Meditation & Mindfulness Training
- Self reflection
- Conscious decision Training
- KPIs
- Estimated size of your “pain body”
- Latency (in minutes) to trigger a reactive response
- Percentage of conscious decisions
Pillar 3: Toward Conscious Decisions

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Pillar 4: Cultivating your “forgotten” Qualities

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Pillar 4: Cultivating your “forgotten” Qualities
Primary Goal:
Evolve your dormant Qualities and deepen your
connection with your Intuition

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Compassion
Resilience
Propensity to surrender
Interest in truth
Minimal level of defensiveness
Capacity to tolerate cognitive
dissonance and/or emotional
discomfort
Gratitude
Frequency of non-dual experience
Low Anxiety level
Motivational paradigm
Authenticity
Level of disidentification from the
mind
Humility
Pillar 4: Cultivating your “forgotten” Qualities

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- Major Challenges:
- Limited level of present awareness
- Regular practise to train your qualities
- Tools & Methodologies
- Meditation & Mindfulness Training
- Intuition training
- Skill specific training
- KPIs
- Self-assessment test, developed by scientists from UC San
Diego and Chopra Foundation
Pillar 4: Cultivating your “forgotten” Qualities

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Pillar 5: Connecting with Yourself - Clarity on your
Purpose, Vision, Mission, and essential Values

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Pillar 5: Connecting with Yourself
Clarity on your Purpose, Vision, and your Mission
Primary Goal
Determine: Why are you here?

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- Major Challenges:
- Not connected with yourself and your intuition
- Tools & Methodologies
- Meditation & Mindfulness training
- Self reflection
- Intuition training
- KPIs
- 1-pager of your purpose, vision, mission, and essential values
Pillar 5: Connecting with Yourself
Clarity on your Purpose, Vision, and your Mission

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Pillar 6: New Leadership - Living the 12 Mindful
Leadership Principles

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Pillar 6: New Leadership
Living the 12 Mindful Leadership Principles
Primary Goal
Transform your Leadership Style to upgrade the Workplace

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- Published in 2017 - http://themindfulleader.net
- Introduced @ Zalando
- Simple and intuitive
- Complement “standard” leadership principles
- Easy to understand, but hard to follow …
The “12 Mindfulness Leadership Principles”

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- Major Challenges:
- Limited level of present awareness
- Insufficient practise in pillars 1-4
- No clear purpose, vision, values (pillar 5)
- Tools & Methodologies
- Meditation & Mindfulness Training
- Fast iteration & experimentation, self reflection
- KPIs
- Self-assessment quiz, scoring on mastered leadership
principles
- 360 feedback from peers, manager, and team
Pillar 6: New Leadership
Living the 12 Mindful Leadership Principles

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Pillar 7: New Workplace Transformation - Toward a
Conscious Business

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Pillar 7: New Workplace Transformation
Toward a Conscious Business
Primary Goal
Transform your Organization & Leadership Team

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- Major Challenges:
- Insufficient mastery of pillars 1-6
- Lack of leadership experience
- Tools & Methodologies
- Meditation & Mindfulness Training
- Fast iteration & experimentation, organizational systems
- KPIs
- Various organizational KPIs
- Organizational / team health over time
- Employee happiness, retention rate, ...
Pillar 7: New Workplace Transformation
Toward a Conscious Business

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Other Applications of Mindfulness

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Deep Innovation

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Becoming Stress Resilient

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Conclusion

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- Mindfulness as a major driver cultivates your consciousness growth (pillar 1)
- Elevated present awareness allows you to effectively train and reprogram
your mind (pillars 2 and 3), and gives rise to helpful qualities (pillar 4)
- Your connection to yourself is strengthening, which allows you to define your
purpose, vision, values, and mission (pillar 5)
- At the “application level” you have now a strong foundation built up:
- New Leadership increases your leadership effectiveness (pillar 6)
- Deep Innovation can be accessed through your intuition
- Your Stress Resilience increases
- You’re ready to transform and upgrade the Workplace (pillar 7)
- Improve all other aspects of your personal life
Mindfulness for your Leadership and Personal Growth

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“Consciousness growth requires an ongoing and
strong commitment of your time and resources”
There is no free lunch …

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Take Action:

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Commit to a formal Meditation Practise

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Sprinkle in Daily Mindfulness Exercises

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Leverage Technology
MUSE Meditation
Oura Ring
HeartMath
...

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Consider Bio & Neurofeedback

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Start Balancing your Life Categories Now
● Body & Health
○ Nutrition
○ Exercise
○ Sleep
● Mind
○ Consciousness Growth
○ Brain performance
○ Intellectual
○ Emotional
○ Character
● Spiritual
● Relationships
○ Family, Friends, Social
○ Love
○ Parenting
● Quality of Life
● Life Vision & Mission

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Find a knowledgeable integrative and functional
doctor near you
Optimize your Health

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- Diverse Network of likeminded Leaders to collaborate, mastermind,
and grow
- Experts are available to support
Join a Community:
The Fellowship of Mindful Leaders

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Challenge: 200+ million businesses, 10+ million leaders
Imagine if most of these leaders would embrace mindful
leadership to transform their companies!
This can't be done alone or in isolation, and requires
collaboration and serious commitment.
The Role of the Fellowship

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Sign up and Join the Fellowship of Mindful Leaders today:
https://www.themindfulleader.net/mindful-leader-fellowship
Take Action

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Relevant Books & Resources
Eckhart Tolle: Jetzt! Die Kraft der Gegenwart / The Power of
Now
Deepak Chopra: Meta Human

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Personal Coaching Series
Investing into your Personal Growth
● Deep Dive in The 7 Pillars on becoming a Mindful
Leader (10 Sessions over 6 months)
● A science based approach to Becoming Stress
Resilient (7 Sessions over 4 months)
● Deep Innovation (7 sessions over 4 months)
● The New Leader (A modern introduction to
Leadership, 10 sessions over 6 months)
● Personal Leadership (10 sessions over 6 months)
● Advanced Technical Leadership (for senior leaders, 10
sessions over 6 months)
Other Topics & Coaching Formats as well !
Reiner Kraft, PhD
More Infos:
http://themindfulleader.net/coaching

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Calm & Idyllic Nature setting - in a beautiful Gutshaus
Deepening Mindful Leadership (Level 2)
Transformation Seminar - Q3 TBD

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Q & A

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