My guest for this podcast is Cultivating Leadership‘s CEO and founding partner Jennifer Garvey Berger. She recently released her new book co-authored by Carolyn Coughlin entitled Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead (The Stanford Briefs).

Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. Hence, she designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people with clients facing these dramatic shifts in complexity, volatility, and change in their workplaces and markets. Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia, and Oxfam International.

With much skills and experiences, Jennifer also has written several books about leadership and just last August, she, along with co-author Carolyn Coughlin, released her latest one entitled Unleash Your Complexity Genius: Growing Your Inner Capacity to Lead (The Stanford Briefs). This book offers a set of practices that help you not only understand complexity but actually hack into your own nervous system to bring your natural capacities back online. By paying close attention to your body, redefining your emotional experiences, and connecting more deeply to others, you can transform the anxiety, exhaustion, and overwhelm that complexity creates.

If you’re interested and want to know more about Jennifer, you may click here to visit her company website.

I hope you enjoy my engaging interview with Jennifer Garvey Berger. Happy listening!

THE BOOK

There is a complexity paradox that we all need to understand. We humans have a natural inclination towards connection, engagement, and creativity – all necessary skills to thrive in complexity. The problem is that the stress caused by uncertainty and ambiguity makes it difficult to tap into this inclination when we need it the most. Unleash Your Complexity Genius offers a set of practices that help you not only understand complexity but actually hack into your own nervous system to bring your natural capacities back online. By paying close attention to your body, redefining your emotional experiences, and connecting more deeply to others, you can transform the anxiety, exhaustion, and overwhelm that complexity creates. Better still, as you unleash your natural complexity genius, you create the conditions for those around you to flourish in an uncertain world.

THE AUTHOR

Jennifer believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. In this topsy-turvy time, when uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are raging, we need a new form of leadership for a new era. She designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people. Jennifer also supports executives one-on-one as a leadership coach. She supports clients to find their current growing edge and then make choices about how they want to develop. She teaches coaches around the world transformational and developmental coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series.

 

You may also refer to the transcripts below for the full transciption (not edited) of the interview.

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