News & Updates
July 27, 2016
New, from Sounds True, Mindful Leadership Training: The Art of Inspiring the Best in Others by Leading from the Inside Out by Michael Carroll.
In this audio program, we will explore how to unleash our leadership talents, open courageously to life’s circumstances, and recognize how to skillfully inspire our world. We will learn how the practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation allows us to listen, act, and lead—not out of fear or blind ambition, but from deep confidence and wisdom. And we will examine the essentials for bringing these principles alive in our lives and into any organization or team. Purchase the Audio Book here.
January 30, 2015
McKinsey & Company recently published their Top 10 most popular articles with readers in 2014. Catch up on any you might have missed with this recap below.
Why leadership-development programs fail
Sidestepping four common mistakes can help companies develop stronger and more capable leaders, save time and money, and boost morale.
Change leader, change thyself
Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look inward as well as outward.
Management intuition for the next 50 years
The collision of technological disruption, rapid emerging-markets growth, and widespread aging is upending long-held assumptions that underpin strategy setting, decision making, and management.
Lead at your best
Five simple exercises can help you recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets that limit your potential as a leader.
January 30, 2015
Bengt Skarstam, PhD, a GCA coach based in Sweden, published Sustainability - It is Personal.
January 30, 2015
Blaine Bartlett, Avatar Resources' President and CEO, and Managing Partner at GCA, has been named to the Faculty Advisory Council of the American Association for Physician Leadership (formerly the American College of
Physician Executives). The American Association for Physician Leadership is one of the oldest physician and health care provider education organizations in the U.S. It is a highly regarded resource not only for physicians in a variety of professional roles, but for health care organizations and systems, cross-functional health care teams, public policy makers and the overall population of patients.
January 30, 2015
Compassionate Capitalism defines value creation in a very specific way...and profit is not at the top of the list.
This is a clip from a Compassionate Capitalism presentation GCA coach Blaine Bartlett delivered at the LA SuperSeminar in October, 2014.
January 30, 2015
Michael Carroll will conduct his Mindful Leader seminar Thursday, October 15, and Friday October 16, 2015 at the Seton Cove Spirituality Center in Austin, Texas as part of the 14th annual McPhee Lecture.
During this 2 day seminar, participants will explore mindfulness awareness meditation, review how such training is being applied in various organizational settings and discuss how to skillfully bring mindfulness to the job in order to promote health and well-being.
January 30, 2015
Michael Carroll will conduct his Awake At Work Seminar at the Albany Shambhala Center in Albany, NY, Friday June 12, and Saturday June 13, 2015.
To be Awake at Work is to acknowledge that all human beings are instinctively decent; all human beings want to be respectful, honest, and helpful. Such decency, however, can not be taken for granted and must be developed and appreciated and respected. To be Awake at Work is to cultivate this basic decency in ourselves and others at all times and under all circumstances.
Friday evening will be an open talk for those who are interested in meeting Michael Carroll and exploring the topic of Awake a t Work.
Saturday will be the Awake at Work seminar consisting of two 3 hour sessions followed by a reception.
January 29, 2015
Michael Carroll will be conducting his Mindful Leadership workshop at the Copper Beech Institute in West Hartford, CT, Friday, May 1 through Sunday May 3, 2015.
During this 3 day seminar, participants will explore mindfulness awareness meditation, review how such training is being applied in various organizational settings and discuss how to skillfully bring mindfulness to the job in order to promote health and well-being. Guided meditation sessions will form the basis of each day’s session.
October 14, 2014
Michael Carroll and Katherine Handin will be attending the upcoming Mindful
Leadership Summit in Arlington, VA
from November 14th to the 16th. Michael will be one of the featured
speakers at this event, which will bring together leaders and aspiring
leaders from all organizational levels and various backgrounds, including
business, non-profit, education, health & wellness, law, and government to
explore the growing practice of mindful leadership.
Michael has lectured on the topic of bringing mindfulness-awareness into
the workplace at Wharton Business School, Swarthmore College, Virgina Tech,
Columbia University, Drexel University, University of Sydney, Toronto
University, Kripalu, Zen Mountain Monastery, Omega Institute and many other
institutions throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia.
September 24, 2014
Katherine Handin and Michael Carroll will be attending and presenting at the upcoming Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches (APAC) 3rd Annual Coaching Conference 2014 in Seoul, South Korea on October 7th and 8th . The APAC2014 theme is “The Global Perspectives: culture, diversity, creativity & transformation. Katherine and Michael will give a keynote presentation on an emerging trend among leaders, mindfulness and its application to the challenges of leaders in complex global organizations.