Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward - Hardcover

Burton, Joe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119484782 ISBN 13: 9781119484783

Publisher: Wiley, 2018

Synopsis

Unleash your inner mindful leader

Mindfulness, emotional intelligence and resilience are the “must have skills” for modern leaders―yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training and positive psychology to help professionals thrive in the “age of disruption.”

Written by a global COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, the book provides a roadmap to greater health, happiness and performance. It speaks to every professional wanting to reduce stress, achieve greater success and enjoy life more.  

• Offers immediately actionable techniques for professionals at all skill levels
• Provides relatable, real-world advice
• Helps build resilience while changing your relationship to stress
• Shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change

Creating Mindful Leaders provides an informed, humorous and expert peak into the sources of stress caused by the modern pace of living and offers practical, actionable tools and techniques as the antidote to manage stress, increase resilience, and improve your wellbeing, performance, relationships, sleep and physical health. 

About this title

About the Author

JOE BURTON is the founder and CEO of Whil, the world's leading digital wellbeing training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their performance. He is an entrepreneur in the digital health space, former President of Headspace, and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Joe is a renowned keynote speaker and contributor to Forbes, Business Insider, and HuffPost.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR CREATING mindful LEADERS

“Since my late twenties my “go to” secret weapon has been a twice daily practice of meditation. Here finally MINDFULNESS, the goal of meditation, is de-mystified in a way that will draw others to a path from the person they are today to the one we all can become.”

• Rick Goings, Chairman & CEO, Tupperware Brands

“Creating Mindful Leaders is not your typical mindfulness book. Joe has made his mark and paid his dues in the corporate fast lane, and he brings an insider’s insights to this crucial topic. He is smart, irreverent, and has a wealth of stories to show what can happen when stress, ego and distraction get the best of us. If you think mindfulness is too wishy-washy for you, this book, research and advice will show why it’s a deeply transforming habit to help you to be successful in today’s business world without losing your soul.”

• Andy Lee, Chief Mindfulness Officer, Aetna

“This is a compelling call to action to bring mindfulness to the workplace. Burton shifts the mindfulness discussion from an individual activity to an organizational and leadership imperative. The book is easy to read and engaging, interweaving scientific findings, personal experience, and practical exercises from the company he founded.”

• Alexander Grunewald, Global Head, HealthTech Investment Strategy, Johnson & Johnson

“If you are seeking a relevant and relatable book on Mindfulness in the workplace, look no further. Joe Burton’s warm, funny and informed style allows all professionals to benefit from his expertise and personal experience to incorporate mindfulness easily into their lives. Joe, using science-based evidence, takes the mystery out of mindfulness. The link between mindful practices improving your professional and personal results is real, and this book is the key to unlock this connection for you and your team.“

• Ellen Mahoney, Chief Human Resources Officer, Harvard Business School

“Written with great verve and clarity, this book is full of practical help that is grounded in neuroscience, mindful wisdom, and enormous real world business experience. With fresh insight and many concrete applications, Joe Burton shows readers how to be even more effective leaders with the power of mindfulness.”

• Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

“Joe Burton demystifies mindfulness and makes it easy to take your first steps to being a happier, more effective, and balanced leader. We’ve never needed the help more than now. Corporate life is often chaotic and it’s getting worse. I wish this book had infiltrated the media and advertising industry earlier!"

• Charles Courtier, Retired CEO, MEC

“Creating Mindful Leaders captures what every professional in government, education and business needs to know - Times are changing fast and we need to adapt to thrive. We can all become more resilient, compassionate and effective with the practices, tools and techniques shared here.”

• Greg Fischer, Mayor, Louisville, KY

"This is a perfect and timely read for stressed out professionals. Mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills are the keys to unlocking greater possibilities and living life with purpose for modern leaders. Joe Burton provides the deep insights and training tips to make mindfulness a part of every successful career.”

• Chip Wilson, Founder, Lululemon

"Creating Mindful Leaders explores one of the most pervasive challenges of our time: overwhelming busyness, accomplishment addiction, and the imbalances that come from being constantly "on." Speaking from his own experience and with plenty of humor, Joe shares an important message for leaders and simple practices for bringing sanity back into our workplaces and our lives. If only one person in every organization can read this book, may it be the leader!"

• Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D., associate professor at Georgetown University and creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT)

“I love how this book uses personal stories and research that everyone can relate to. Anyone who reads it will come away with a solid understanding of how to manage their own stress and create stronger, more connected teams for sustainable success.”

• Debbie McGrath, CEO HR.com

"The perfect companion to start or evolve your mindfulness journey! From Joe's highly-relatable personal story, to the comprehensive research and practical and easy to implement approaches, Creating Mindful Leaders has everything professionals need to start positively impacting their personal and professional life today!"

• Patti Clark, Global Chief Talent Officer, Havas Group

“Joe Burton is a mind reader, trendsetter, or whatever you call someone who realized, long before mainstream media, that mindfulness is important. Here’s proof that all leaders have the ability (and responsibility) to support employees in their general wellness and happiness. The concept’s here are simple, actionable and powerful. Creating Mindful Leaders is an extension of Joe’s vision of mindfulness for professionals - and the world is a better place because of it.”

• Laura Agostini, Global Chief Talent Officer, JWT

From the Inside Flap

Mindfulness has become the holy grail for modern professionals yearning for the solution to overcome stress. Unfortunately, most executives are too stressed and overwhelmed to know where to start. Creating Mindful Leaders offers the antidote. Written by Joe Burton, a global COO turned successful tech entrepreneur, this stress-busting book shares profound insights and outlines the easy practices that are solidly based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology.

Based on his company's award-winning training system, Creating Mindful Leaders explores practices to improve every aspect of your life and career. The author shows how mindfulness training relates to the natural functioning of the brain: what you think about, you become. Filled with Burton's keen wit, the book eschews the New Age, woo-woo approaches to mindfulness and emphasizes a modern attention training practice to create a competitive advantage for yourself and your company culture.

Stress is the enemy that impacts health, wellbeing and performance. It impacts relationships and teams. And that impacts entire company cultures. Creating Mindful Leaders provides a tried-and true approach for achieving greater health, happiness and success. With wisdom that is grounded in research and drawing on his personal experience, Burton shares how to reduce stress driven by ongoing change and negative thought patterns that center on worry, regret, and anxiety. By practicing the mindfulness and emotional intelligence techniques presented in the book, you can learn to thrive in the "age of disruption." You can become the leader you aspire to be: happy, confident, committed, energized, connected, charismatic, lovable, intentional, compassionate, and purposeful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119484782
• ISBN 13: 9781119484783
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272