“Who’s afraid of wild emotions?” – advancing emotional awareness in organizational transformation.

Keynote Speaker: Ulf Brandes, Berlin.

Every leader is facing the reality that the pandemic has heightened the complexity of o-day’s environmental with social and political challenges that demand unprecedented cross-sectoral collaboration, and significant mindset shifts — as well as adequate leadership and organizational structures. However, we can’t have social cohesion, resilience, and innovation without emotional skills and connectivity which is the basis for the emergence of a need for Conscious Leadership.

So, more than ever, this complexity calls for our humanity, empathy, intuition, and emotional and spiritual awareness. Yet, most of our organizations — governments in particular — still shy away from such “soft skills“ and continue to seek salvation in traditional “hard skills“ such as technology, Legal jurisdiction, and Financial considerations . Arguably, for many, the necessary mindset shift just seems too hard.

Workshop Content

How can leadership influence mindsets? The reality is: To achieve outer transformation, we need inner transformation. But for many leaders, this is barely charted territory.

So, let’s examine what drives our behaviours below the surface of organizational development, and tap into the potentials of emotional awareness — reflecting what assumptions, structures, and leadership habits drive an organisation’s capacity to innovate and transform” e.g. in order to seriously address environmental issues. There’s an abundance of initiatives we can do to productively deepen our modes of organisational development and leave Victorian-age thinking behind.

Executive Summary and Outputs

In this interactive workshop, we will:

•     Be invited to reflect, share and deepen our personal plans among inspiring SIBL members, in response to the pandemic and today’s overall situation.

•     Reflect the potentials of emotional awareness in transformative leadership.

•     Explore healthy, effective foundations of building emotional capacity in the organization.

•     Get into some practical experience and a taste of what is possible.

•     Build on proven practical structures to initiate change in our professional and personal lives.

Keynote Speaker Profile

 After an MSc in Physics and Behavioural Economics spent15 years in international innovation, digitalization and transformation leadership at Procter & Gamble, PayPal, and three start-up SMEs.

For the past 10 years Ulf has developed his own consultancy to helps organisations change the way they work, by building capacity for more agility, resilience, and future-fit, facilitating transformation from within.

During this tome Ulf has inspired and led cultural change in hundreds of organizations as an independent facilitator and author and film maker.

 In 2021, Ulf is planning to be the founder of a new Institute “as a think-and-do-tank” and advocacy for emotional awareness and skill-building, to promote emotional competence in leadership and parenting across the society in ways that are joyful, effective and engaging.

 Ulf lives in Berlin, Germany, with his wife and their three sons.