Tired of the normal prescriptions of do more, be more, do it faster, cheaper, better, smarter? Today's leaders need a break! This book shows leaders a way to be powerful and effective in the midst of it all while retaining (or reclaiming) sanity, serenity, and grounded focus. Yoga provides tools to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex world. Presence of mind, peace, balance, strength, confidence, space, freedom what leader couldn't use more of these? The principles and lessons of yoga have a direct and profound impact on how leaders create and operate their organizations and themselves, even if those leaders never take up the physical practice of yoga.
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF:
-You are a leader: whether emerging, novice, experienced, or sage.
-You are a leader: whether of a company, a not-for-profit organization, a small business, an initiative, a project, a social movement, politics, a team, a community, a congregation, a family, a group, a life, or yourself.
-You are seeking an easier way to connect to your role as a leader amidst the frenzied pace of business and life today.
-You are overwhelmed, and know there's a better way.
-You want strategies for how to regularly access your inner wisdom and find your voice as a leader without missing a beat in your day-to-day work or life.
-You are anywhere on the yoga spectrum: practicing or not, love yoga or have no idea what yoga is, you keep hearing about it or you've maybe tried one class, you've seen people do yoga, you practice regularly, you teach yoga, you are an enlightened yogi master.
Wherever you are on the yoga spectrum, you will find new connections, a new perspective, and a new way of looking at both Yoga and Leadership.
This book could also be subtitled: The Inner Game of Leading, since the Yoga of Leadership gives you insight and practices for how to manage your own mind and energy to be most effective as a leader regardless of circumstances in which you find yourself.It's crucial to your success in leadership, whether you are leading a company, your career, a family, a team, or a community. Think of it as a holistic guidebook that takes you to an integrated approach to leadership. Most education for leaders is outside of ourselves. We go to university and graduate school, we read books, we attend trainings and webinars, watch TED talks or attend conferences -- it's all external information coming in from other sources. We have knowledge and wisdom internally that we don't always access or even know how to access in any given situation. That's what this book is about. It's about how to play your inner game of leadership. This book is written for anyone who finds the competing demands of life difficult to balance. It's for people who aspire to leadership and have questions. It's for people who wake up in leadership roles and wonder, "what now?" It's for people who are entrenched in their leadership role and questioning the demands and perks in search of meaning. It's for people who want success without sacrificing inner peace. It's for people who want to know how to operationalize their intuition.
We explore what yoga and leadership have to do with each other. Principles of yoga create harmony, balance, strength, confidence, flexibility, awareness and joy. The tool of awareness is the secret to the way we impact others. Everything comes from it: motivation, leading others, mastering yourself, making a difference, getting results. Yoga of Leadership is access to that awareness of yourself as a leader.
Author Biography:
Suzi Pomerantz is an award-winning executive coach, facilitator, and #1 bestselling author with over 25 years of coaching and teaching experience working with leaders and teams in more than 200 organizations internationally across Government agencies, not-for-profit and private sector clients, including seven companies on the Fortune 100 list. Ms. Pomerantz specializes in executive coaching, leadership development, and innovative influence. Suzi's strength lies in helping leaders and organizations find clarity within chaos. Her no-nonsense approach is professional, strategic, conversational, analytical and results-oriented. She was one of the first executive coaches to receive the Master Coach credential from the International Coach Federation over 21 years ago and is considered a thought leader in the coaching industry. This places her in the top 4% of coaches worldwide (according to the International Coach Federation, as of May 2017, only four percent of certified coaches in the world (803 of 22,349) hold the Master Coach credential). Suzi helps executives, teams and high performing, high-potential future leaders to clarify their vision and exceed prior performance. She provides executive coaching, team/group coaching, and emerging leader coaching in organizations to assist executives and their teams with setting strategic direction, managing talent, and developing leadership bench strength. She also develops leaders in team building, sales, effective meetings, interpersonal savvy, and facilitating change. She helps organizations develop and retain leadership capacity by coaching leaders in executive presence, presentation skills, personal power, communication, and vision work. Suzi is a recognized leader in the advancement of the profession of coaching in organizations, serving on several international boards of directors. She's credited with more than 30 publications about coaching, ethics, and business development, and has authored or co-authored 11 books including the bestselling Seal the Deal: The Essential Mindsets for Growing Your Professional Services Business (HRD Press, 2006) and the #1 international bestseller Ready, Aim, Captivate, co-authored with Deepak Chopra and other luminaries. She has been quoted in the Washington Post and Washington Business Journal. Suzi received the 2007 Woman of Achievement Award. In 2008 the ICCO (International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations) Board of Directors established the Suzi Pomerantz Award for Stewardship. In 2009, Suzi was named the #1 Most Influential Executive Coach on Twitter, and in 2010 she was invited as a Founding Coach in Keith Ferrazzi's Relationship Masters Academy. She was also named a coaching hero for her work with the world changers in the prestigious TED Fellows program. In 2012 she was invited to join the Harvard Business Review's Advisory Council to help shape the content they develop on management and leadership. Suzi annually attends the exclusive Conversation Among Masters invitation-only gathering for master coaches. In 2013, Suzi was inducted into Bestselling Authors International Organization. She is the designer of the LEAP Tiered Coaching Program. In 2014, she was invited to become the Director of Training for the Leadership Coaching and Organizational Performance program at George Mason University and Rutgers University. In 2015, Suzi was invited to join the Association for Coaching Excellence. In 2016, she was invited to join the Forbes Coaches Council, and invitation-only community for leading coaches. She is also a co-founder serving on the Executive Board of the IPCPA (International Professional Coaching Publications Association) and on the Advisory Board of the international journal: Philosophy of Coaching. Recipient of the 2017 ICF Global Board Chair's Award and was named in Corporate Vision magazine's Coaching Top 50 as well as Six Figure Coach magazine's Top 200 Coaches to Follow Online. Linda Lang's studio, The Open Door, has brought yoga into the greater Washington community since 1999. During that time her work has been recognized and recommended by Shady Grove Adventist Hospital's Wellness Program and the Center for Integrative Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center. She is a frequent lecturer at GWU's Medical School on therapeutic applications of yoga and meditation, student and community wellness. Linda is certified in the medical arena of Cardiac Yoga, is an Anusara-Inspired instructor and serves as a guest lecturer on stress management, yoga and meditation. She presents classes, workshops and seminars throughout the year for the George Washington University Medical School, and is adjunct faculty in the undergraduate Lifestyle, Sport and Physical Activity Program. Linda has taught at The Center for Holistic Psychiatry, the Discovery Channel, non-profit organizations and numerous educational institutions. She holds the professional designation with the national Yoga Alliance as E-RYT for "teachers with significant teaching experience who want to train teachers or conduct continuing education." Linda is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and is engaged in research projects demonstrating the benefits of yoga as personal and professional skill development and as a palliative modality. Linda has studied yoga extensively with John Friend, as well as Doug Keller, Martin Kirk, Betsey Downing, Desiree Rambaugh and Todd Norian. Sally Kempton and Richard Miller have been influential in the study of meditation and yoga nidra. Linda works with the Center for Integrative Medicine at George Washington University Hospital as a member of their team of health care practitioners and medical professionals. Linda is a dedicated teacher with a comprehensive perspective, offering public and private classes. Linda's fascination with yoga began 45 years ago, when the Beatles brought Maharishi Mahesh Yogi into the spotlight. Since that time, 1967 to be precise, she has been drawn to eastern literature, art and philosophy, the fundamentals and foundations of classical yoga traditions. Today, she is a highly trained professional, certified in the medical arena of Cardiac Yoga, with an appointment as adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at GWUSMHSR. In 2009, Linda was invited to join the Center for Integrative Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Research in Washington, D.C., as their Therapeutic Yoga practitioner. In addition to being a frequent lecturer and instructor at GWU's Medical School on therapeutic applications of yoga and meditation, she is a popular presenter at seminars and retreats on medical leadership and professional development, as well as student and community wellness. Linda is known for her innovative and creative contributions to the field of therapeutic yoga and yoga therapy, as founder and director of Therapeutic Yoga of Greater Washington. Her original, ground-breaking curriculum designs are a result of collaboration with medical schools in search of meaningful ways to bring non-traditional, integrative modalities into personal, academic, community and clinical settings. She serves as community and committee member with the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine and the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care, as well as the International Association of Yoga Therapy. At the moment, Linda serves as consultant to Tai Sophia Institute in Maryland, a leader in wellness education and holistic Eastern medicine, as they prepare to offer a Master's degree program in Therapeutic Yoga. She is also involved with the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia.
