Nov 3, 2022
Today on the podcast, I get to talk to Jeremy Hunter about what it means to be a mindful leader during our modern times. Jeremy highlights how difficult it is for leaders to manage others without learning how to first manage themselves. This is an essential step because organizations experience the consciousness of the leader. Jeremy also discusses how important it is for leaders to focus on building relationships rather than the task-at-hand and how building trust is an essential ingredient, too. We finish our conversation discussing how powerful coaching is as a tool to help people learn, develop and grow. Listen to the whole episode and share your takeaways with us.
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Jeremy Hunter, PhD is a global
authority on
mindfulness and leadership as well as the great-grandson of a sumo
wrestler.
He serves as the Founding Director of the Executive Mind Leadership
Institute as well as Associate Professor of Practice at the Peter
F. Drucker Graduate School of
Management. He is also co-founder and partner of Transform LLC in
Tokyo, Japan.
For nearly two decades, he has helped
leaders develop themselves while retaining their humanity in the
face of monumental change and challenge. His work
explores how to live a meaningful, engaged and effective life. He
works with healthy companies that aspire to greatness. He has
designed and led leadership development programs for a wide variety
of organizations, including Fortune 200 aerospace, Fortune 50
banking and finance, the public sector, the arts and civic
non-profits in North America and Japan. Program impacts have led to
both positive professional, personal and financial outcomes for
participants.
Hunter has been featured in the Wall
Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, the Nikkei
Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio’s
Morning
Edition. His work is informed by the experience of living
day-to-day for 17 years with a potentially terminal illness. When
faced with the need for life-saving surgery more than a dozen
former students came forward as organ donors. He hosts the podcast
Untaught Essentials and is co-author of Transform Your Results: The
Drucker School’s Self-Management Class” (Published in Japanese by
President Publishing).
Dr. Hunter received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago. He also holds degrees from Harvard University and Wittenberg University.
He and his family live in Los Angeles where they tend to the needs of a chatty housecat and happily drive across town for great Chinese dumplings.