The Mindful Leader
Transforming Organizational Culture through Mindful Leadership

Michaela is a driven perfectionist. While this can be an admirable quality, in her leadership, it often manifested as her being controlling, task-driven and uncaring. Despite intellectually knowing how to be caring and empowering, she kept going back to old controlling habits.

Brian struggled with keeping his emotions in check. He was often reactive and it affected his judgment and damaged relationships. Despite attending EQ programs and keeping a calm diary with wise quotes on his desk, his reactivity still kept hijacking his best intentions.

Isabel often avoided tough conversations, and rarely gave her team members honest feedback. Despite learning all the skills to give constructive feedback, she kept finding ways to avoid those tough conversations.

The Mindful Leader is a leadership development firm that takes old-fashioned training and development into the new era of adult development and behaviour science. We all know a Michaela, Brian or Isabel, leaders with the right skills and intentions who still do not reach their full potential. We have all experienced our organization investing heavily in programs that deliver zero change. Skills’ training is simply not enough to shift deeply rooted patterns of behaviour in individuals and organizations. This is especially relevant in culture change and executive leadership development. Founded by mindful leadership expert Michael Bunting, the firm offers transformational leadership development programs that cultivate self-awareness and personal growth, integrated with behaviour science and adult development principles that are in turn connected to key business goals for the organization.

As Bunting puts it, “We help organizations and leaders articulate and master the behaviours that increase profitability, agility and staff well-being. These three outcomes are called the Triple Goal in our work. We then support them to actually shift and grow these behaviours in a sustainable, predictable process. Let us face it. If behaviour does not change in the actual workplace, there is no point to any leadership or culture improvement programs.”

Under the guidance of the firm, senior leaders are supported to consciously change key strategic behaviours, setting an example for the organization and acting as catalysts for sustainable change. The Mindful Leader also assists clients in the development of internal structures, such as everyday practices or rituals, to facilitate the embedding of new behaviours. To further incentivise the adoption of new behaviours, organizations establish a reward and accountability system that aligns with the company’s behavioural aspirations.

The Mindful Leader’s core programs, assessments, coaching and workshops are also offered through the firm’s digital platform, Awakened Mind, thus enabling clients to scale the training. It facilitates global clients to empower their leaders across the organization efficiently and cost effectively.

The Mindful Leader has guided numerous organizations towards unprecedented success through its leadership development programs. For instance, the firm played a pivotal role in turning around a prominent resources company, whose American division had endured six consecutive years of financial losses. Within six months of implementing the ‘Mindful Leader Vertical Growth’ program, the client achieved profitability. Several clients of The Mindful Leader have won the ‘Great Place to Work’ awards.

These results are typical as The Mindful Leader nurtures leaders and workplaces that improve employee engagement, retention, productivity, and satisfaction—the recipe of business profitability.