Corporate psychologist and mindfulness expert Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., helps us bridge the gaps between leadership, work-life balance, and mindfulness. If you’ve ever questioned why ‘soft skills’ matter, you won’t wonder again after this interview.

Summary: Mindfulness for Leaders

Corporate psychologist and mindfulness expert Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., helps us bridge the gaps between leadership, work-life balance, and mindfulness.

If you’ve ever questioned why ‘soft skills’ matter, you won’t wonder again after this interview.

Words of Wisdom

Leaders have a lot on their plates. Not only the tasks, but also the people getting tasks done. Sometimes leaders can just get very task focused. But when they take a step back and really think about the people and their motives and their needs and how they can develop them, and those sorts of things to create a more meaningful work environment, I think that’s how you create the positive work culture, just by, again, thinking about people as a whole. This is why having mindfulness for leaders is very beneficial. I mean it sounds straight forward and obvious, but my experience is that people can just get so stressed out and focused on goals and metrics that they forget about the interpersonal element of it. — Patricia Thompson, PhD, Mindfulness Expert

Resources Mentioned

• Patricia Thompson, Ph.D., Silver Lining Psychology (leadership quiz)
• Executive Mindfulness Online Course (includes a link to the quiz)
• Patricia Thompson, Ph.D.’s book: The Consummate Leader: a Holistic Guide to Inspiring Growth in Others…and in Yourself: available on Kindle or paperback
• google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?ref=womenconquerbiz.com">Google’s Project Aristotle
• Deep Work, Cal Newport

Connect with Our Guest

• Silver Lining Psychology
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram

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