Conscious Leadership and Conscious Capitalism: A conversation with an Organization Development Scholar-Practitioner

My guest this episode is Dr. Corrie Voss, who is an Organization Development Scholar-Practitioner.  Dr. Voss focuses on leadership development and helping organizations and leaders practice what she refers to as “conscious capitalism” and “conscious leadership”.  We discuss how COVID-19 has turned the volume up on the challenges organizations were already facing prior to the pandemic.  Corrie shares that “whatever you were saying to your employees about COVID, you might as well make it your marketing strategy for the next 20 years, because everyone is going to remember what you chose to do.” In terms of leadership development trends, we discuss how leaders are tending to focus more inward and focusing more on themselves rather than focusing on how to fix ‘them’.  She shares how this is a reflection of a couple of areas of her deep expertise, and that is the concept of conscious leadership and conscious capitalism (an authentic focus on the triple-bottom-line.  A key dimension around this notion of consciousness is the question of what behaviors are you choosing to starve and which behaviors are you choosing to feed?