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Thus, in a Matrix Coaching session we give only two minutes to the ‘narrative’, to the presenting issue, and immediately look together into what is actually happening inside us beyond the conceptual bubble of our thinking.

Here we encounter physical sensations, and within the physical sensations, we discover that there are often unattended layers of emotion.

In the remaining twenty-five minutes instead of creating further fragmentation by labeling some emotions ‘negative’, or by trying to fix, transform or over-analyse them, we create a warm, safe enough, unconditional space to simply feel, to finally give up all the tension we use to not feel.

In so doing, we usually discover a profound relaxation, a deeply welcome sense of ‘coming home’, of ease, of oneness.

This is _energy_ work, and the results of each session will be experienced in the whole self. Typical results are more energy flow, more ease, more compassion and empathy, more clarity, a sense of inner space, and more groundedness.

These are the foundations of **Leader as Healer**


Winner of the Business Book of the Year 2023 award. 

Welcome to a new vision of leadership. This powerful training is designed to give leaders and leadership teams the frameworks and practices that will take your work to new levels of coherence, service and impact.
The leadership that is needed now.

All sessions bookings are subject to availability. The booking is completed upon receipt of a full payment of the session fee. Sessions are opened for booking until 24 hours in advance of the scheduled start time.
 
Cancellations made 24 hours or more in advance of the scheduled session will be available for rescheduling. Sessions cancelled within 24 hours of the scheduled start are fully chargeable. 

Rescheduling is available until 24 hours before the scheduled session. Full refund will be issued in case of a "no-show" of the coach. 

Each of us is an energetic structure within which at any one time there is free- flowing life energy, and stuck or frozen energy.

Nothing in us needs healing, fixing or transforming. What is needed are qualities of unconditional acceptance and a trust to move towards and embrace whatever is arising.

In the words of Nikola Tesla: “if you want to understand how the universe works, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”

Article discovering Nicholas Janni's Leader as Healer and the importance of emotional intelligence

Cast your mind back several weeks: when Prince William posted a public notice for an “emotionally intelligent” CEO with a “low ego” to help run Kensington Palace, it reignited discussion about the role of modern-day leaders. Who better to delve deeper for us than author Nicholas Janni whose outstanding work, ‘Leader as Healer’, recently earned him the Business Book of the Year award for 2023. 

https://flickread.com/edition/html/653151d6cc54c#22

FMCG CEO Magazine: Insight into Leader as Healer

Interview with Nicholas Janni, filmed at the Respond Network Bergerac Aug 2023 gathering, Commissioned by Life Itself. Witnessing, filming and editing by John Oliver.

Nicholas is uniquely placed to describe the power of the arts in our everyday practical, organisational and collective lives. Balancing craft, precision and emergence, we can learn to offer our gift of presence in whole new ways. 

InteriorTruth - Part 2: The gift of the arts

Nicholas is uniquely placed to describe the power of the arts in our everyday practical, organisational and collective lives. Balancing craft, precision and emergence, we can learn to offer our gift of presence in whole new ways.

InteriorTruth - Part 1: From a great consciousness to a greater good

Back by popular demand Nicholas Janni the author of Leader as Healer the business book of the year 2023 is back on BBC World Business Report interviewed by Sally Bundock. Epidemic of toxic leadership in top firms. 

Back on BBC World Business Report: Nicholas Janni with Sally Bundock on toxic leadership

Nicholas Janni was asked to write on the topic of Micromanagement  

Recently I was asked to contribute to a piece on Micromanagement 
published in Get Hired by LinkedIn
https://lnkd.in/d6DPWKSA

Here is my full text:

Micromanagement is one of the many dysfunctional symptoms of our corporate cultures in which doing and the left brain eclipse being and the right brain, and sensing, feeling, intuiting and the transpersonal are distant dots on the horizon of our consciousness.

In particular, it is sourced from what I call the ‘Inner Control Department’, whose CEO is charged with reducing everything to manageable and predictable detail, in a futile effort to gain some kind of illusory security in the face of the intensity of the ever changing pulse and ebb and flow of life. This department is a relic of the antiquated business model that sees people and organisations as mechanical parts, subject to rational manipulation and control.

To step away from this self-imposed prison, every leader needs to engage seriously and humbly with self-development that has two streams. One is the practice of meditation, mindfulness and the body practices such as yoga, qigong or a martial art, in order to break the obsession with thinking, and restore it to its correct function as a servant rather than a master, as Einstein asked of us. This is a stream of awakening.

The other is to recognise the extent to which the dysfunctional parts of our adult personalities are formed by our unintegrated childhood experiences of hurt and wounding, as well as intergenerational trauma patterns, and to find mentors who are able to work with the healing of these.

Then we will have leaders who are rooted in the river of life, and who create cultures that support the collective flow and natural intelligence of life, and who understand that, far from trying to control it, the urgency now is to learn how to be servants of it.

These are what I call Leader as Healer
Nicholas Janni

Get Hired by LinkedIn: Micromanagement

Article written for National World published in Yorkshire Post 

_Article written for National World published in Yorkshire Post _

**Is Collective Grief Blocking Emotional Intelligence At Work?
Why Leaders Need to Understand Trauma**

All unfelt emotions compromise not only our emotional intelligence and our capacity to relate, empathise and listen, but also diminish the clarity of our critical thinking faculties.

I cannot recall a single CEO or senior leader client who has not realised through our work that whole parts of the way they lead, usually the less well-functioning parts, are rooted in their childhood and/or intergenerational trauma. 

I will begin with some definitions of trauma, and then develop the understanding of the territory and why the title of this article is so important.


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Although many events are obviously ‘traumatic’, it is more important to understand what happens inside us in the face of difficult events, from the most extreme to what may seem quite innocuous scenarios.

A young child feels frightened – what could be more natural? In healthy scenarios, one of the primary caretakers metaphorically and/or literally embraces the child, lets them know that fear is natural, and supports them to feel it within a context of warm, supportive presence. The fear moves through the child’s nervous system, fades, and the child naturally moves on. There has been no need for any internal contraction. There is no ‘after effect’.

But mostly, in one way or another the child does not feel supported. Perhaps the parents are busy, perhaps they are themselves caught up in their own traumas and unable to be warm and present for their child. Perhaps they try to explain rationally why there is no need to be afraid. They may even make the child feel stupid for being frightened.

Whichever of these, the child has only one option – s/he has to stop or at the very least reduce the intensity of emotional energy inside them because they cannot contain it on their own. This is a survival function. We know instinctively how to do this, it’s in fact quite a remarkable innate intelligence. We basically close down our body, through tension and restriction of the breath. We often also find refuge in thinking. In cases of violence or abuse, people report that they literally leave their body. All of these are essential survival, self-protection strategies.

And so we do survive, but at what cost? Because each time we did this – and most of us did it over and over – a part of our life force closed down, went offline as it were. We also started the movement away from the home base of our body in the pelvis. To be grounded, open and rooted was simply too painful. 

The move way from full embodiment is then supported by our education system which increasingly prioritises data and rational thinking over play and sensuality. As this happens, our overall capacity to feel, and therefore empathise for instance also gradually closes down. Thinking becomes our dominant function, and we forget that thinking by itself does not feel or indeed have any experience of life.

And so, 30 to 40 years later, despite all our functional success, as someone rise up the leadership ladder to the point where their humanity and Presence become easily as important as their knowledge, they start getting 360’s telling us that people don’t trust them, that they don’t listen well, that they are perceived as cold, distant and so on. And however much they try to learn new behaviours, these are in the end just band aid until they address the underlying roots. 

We are all carrying the imprints of unaddressed trauma from our childhoods and from our lineages, often far more subtlely than in the obvious cases of Holocaust or African American descendants, or inhabitants of countries ravaged by war or natural disasters - the fathers who could not express their grief, who were isolated and lonely inside, the mothers who were seething with unexpressed anger, frozen in their sexuality, and so on. I have lost count of how often a client will suddenly see that ‘Oh my goodness, a whole part of how I feel is how my father felt….”, or will realise that much of the way they lead has been shaped by their experience as a five year old. Hence the very unfortunate and dangerous truth that all too often, boardroom behaviour is that of five year olds in the school yard.

Working with trauma requires skilled facilitation. It does not need months of therapy if the client is willing. Safe and unconditional space must be generated, so that feelings can be felt without any attempt to manage, fix or change them, and so that the constant escape into narrative, to talking about can be restricted. The work has to move from the cognitive to the experiential for it to bring healing. Everything has to happen first in the body, not the mind. The healing unlocks multiple dimensions of ourselves, including much higher levels of critical thinking.

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When the word ‘collective’ is used as in the title, the principles remain the same, though we address a wider and bigger systemic field. I believe that the primary collective emotion being experienced now is varying degrees of anxiety. This can relate to everything from personal professional and financial insecurity to the state of one’s country, to the growing global instability, the fact that it is too late to avoid catastrophic climate events, and that we are now constantly on the edge of a war whose progress, including the nuclear possibility, is completely uncertain.

Anyone who does not recognise the anxiety levels inside them is basically deeply numb. A senior leader who is emotionally intelligent however is first of all comfortable with their own emotions. Secondly s/he legitimises the emotions of those around. This can be very simple – in a meeting for instance, pausing to acknowledge the anxiety levels in the room, with Presence and empathy, and the owning of their own emotions. “I’m not sleeping well at present, I guess some of you may be feeling the same.” This is what I call robust vulnerability, one of the deepest and most impactful qualities of leadership. When a leader does this, the effect is one of huge relaxation within the individual and group nervous system.

I have seen time and time again that, following a moment of such emotional intelligence, new ideas usually start flowing into and through a group in a remarkable way, because the channels are open. Insights, new ideas and new solutions arrive effortlessly – the very epitome of collective ‘flow state’.

Conversely, when a leader and a team plough on without stopping to acknowledge emotion, be it grief or fear, it’s as if big boulders are impeding the flow of the river. People remain contracted inside in order not to feel, they think far less clearly, and they very likely leave such meetings feeling more depleted than when they went in. 

I believe that the growing awareness of trauma in the way I have defined it here, as well as the radical understanding that no emotions are negative, and no emotions need healing, fixing or transforming – that this happens naturally when they are felt and acknowledged in a supportive environment – is a game-changer in corporate culture. It liberates huge amounts of life-energy, and therefore intelligence. Our critical faculties, and our relational connectedness work at their very best when our bodies and hearts are less and less burdened by the contraction of stored, unaddressed emotion.

Nicholas Janni | 
August 2023




Why we need to accept anxiety as part of the human condition - Nicholas Janni

Newsletter ninth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: The new Future

Article in Business Leader - the UK most influential business email newsletter 

“Given the existential challenges we face, there is no book that is more important and timely than Leader as Healer.” – Michael Watkins, Professor of Leadership and Organisational Change for IMD Business School

Bookshelf - Leader as Healer: A new paradigm for 21st-century leadership

Article by Nicholas Janni in ByteStart: one of the most popular growth business sites in the UK. 5 million users, publishing no-nonsense guides and practical help for start-ups and growing businesses

A Startup now is operating within a time of profound disruption and instability. This challenges the organisation to find a core ground together within which the stormy seas can be navigated. A ground that calls us to participate with all of our faculties awakened.

I believe that the two essential pillars of this ground are Presence and Purpose

Building a culture of presence and connectedness as a startup

Nicholas Janni in 5min interview about 'Leader as Healer Business Book of the Year 2023'.

BBC World News interview with Nicholas Janni

Podcast with Alison Jones For writers and readers of extraordinary business books

When your work is about experience – helping people access a different physical and emotional state so that they can reconnect with their embodied, instinctual wisdom – you can do it most effectively when you’re in the room together. How can you possibly translate that somatic, relational, experiential work into words on a page? 

That was the challenge facing Nicholas Janni, and he rose to it so impressively that Leader as Healer was named Business Book of the Year 2023 at the recent BBA awards. In this week’s episode he speaks to me about the challenge of that translation process, and the somatic experience of flow in writing itself. 

The Extraordinary Business Book Club - Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni

Sally Percy - Leadership and management journalist

Good leaders are always looking to improve. One good way to finesse your leadership skills is to catch up with the latest in leadership thinking. So, what lessons in leadership can we learn from the winners of this year’s U.K. Business Book Awards?

Forbes: Six Lessons In Leadership From Award-Winning Authors

Very special episode hosted by Sally Dunsmore 

In this very special episode of LID Radio, we're joined by Nicholas Janni, the author of Leader As Healer - the Business Book of the Year 2023. 

Nicholas won the prestigious award at this year's Business Book Awards 2023. The book also won its title category - Leadership Book of the Year.

This episode is hosted by Sally Dunsmore. Sally is the co-founder and director of FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival and consultant to HM Government of Gibraltar on Gibraltar International Literary Festival. She also co-founded the Blenheim Palace Festival of Literature, Film and Music. 

LID Radio: Leader As Healer, Business Book of the Year 2023: Conversation with Nicholas Janni

Leader As Healer Wins Business Book of the Year Award 2023

2023 Business Book of the Year Award Goes to Leader As Healer 

In this conversation with coach and leadership consultant Nicholas Janni we explore the framework he uses to coach in a profoundly emergent way, his methodology in training coaches, some of the core differences between his style of coaching versus a more traditional approach, leveraging the power of presence and trauma-informed coaching.


Coaches Rising Podcast: The emerging edge of coaching

On the season 4 premiere of Do The Work, author and educator Nicholas Janni sits down with Denise for an in-depth candid chat about becoming an embodied leader. Nicholas focuses on exploring the development of our consciousness and highest potential, and how simple mindfulness practices can contribute to a bigger holistic modality in which all parts of a person are working together.


Do The Work Podcast: Nicholas Janni. Leader = Healer

Preparing for the Unexpected hosted by Alex Fullick

I'm joined by transformational leadership expert and author or 'Leader to Healer', Nicholas Janni. This is a very inspirational discussion on leadership, and not one many will have considered before. "To face the scope and threats of the 21st century challenges, today's leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied, grounded and intuitive." (From book cover). Nicholas touches on: 1. Defining resilience (I loved this!), 2. Being vs Doing. 3. Leader as an Executor vs a Leader as a Healer, 4. Self-awareness, 5. Defining purpose (personal and as a group), 6. The importance of emotions (You don't want to miss this!), 7. Tips to begin making a transformative change...and more. Nicholas is very inspirational and offers some very interesting insights into how leaders can find answers to some of their challenges - during crises, disasters, and other situations - by looking inwards to make transformative change happen. You don't want to miss this episode. Enjoy!

Part 1: Talking About Leadership - Leader as Healer w/ Nicholas Janni

I continue my talk with transformational leadership expert and author of 'Leader to Healer', Nicholas Janni. This is a very inspirational discussion on leadership, and not one many will have considered before. "To face the scope and threats of the 21st century challenges, today's leaders must possess potent powers for logic, reason, discernment and strategic forecasting. Yet, they must also be empathic and therefore embodied, grounded and intuitive." (From book cover). Nicholas touches on: 1. The importance of emotions in Leadership and how some leadership issues relate to emotions (You don't want to miss this!), 2. The importance of purpose - in organizations, leaders, and ourselves 3. Tips to begin making a transformative change...and more. Nicholas is very inspirational and offers some very interesting insights into how leaders can find answers to some of their challenges - during crises, disasters, and other situations - by looking inwards to make transformative change happen. You don't want to miss this episode. Enjoy!


Part 2: Talking About Leadership - Leader as Healer w/ Nicholas Janni

Julie Cusmariu is broadcasting from unceded Indigenous lands Tiohtia’ke, known as Montreal, Canada which is the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Kanien’kehá:ka has long served as a gathering place for many First Nations including the Haudenosaunee , st-lawrence iroqouains, mohaawk and Huron-Wendat and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. Nicholas Janni joined the conversation from Puglia, Italy.


Julie Cusmariu in conversation: Leader as Healer with Nicholas Janni 

Newsletter sixth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership

Nicholas Janni: FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON PURPOSE

Newsletter sixth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Breaking the trance

Newsletter fifth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership

Nicholas Janni: Living a Life of purpose

Newsletter fourth edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

There is so much uncertainty in the world at the moment and it is felt across many sectors. In many of my discussions, this is very prominent. But what does this ask of us and how do we navigate such a challenging time? My latest newsletter, “The world is shaking”, touches upon lessons from my book #LeaderAsHealer and deliberates on the healing we all need. 

Nicholas Janni: The World is Shaking

Social Impact Authors: How & Why Nicholas Janni is helping to change our world

Newsletter third edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Two definitions of Presence

Newsletter second edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: DOING and BEING

Grant Thornton - In person video interview

The world feels brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible, and coaches can support leaders in expanding their bandwidth. This recording is part of our latest coaching event with Nicholas Janni.

The principles and practice of transformational coaching with Nicholas Janni

Newsletter first edition: Leader as Healer - a new paradigm for 21st century leadership 

Nicholas Janni: Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter!

Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William and Mary Podcast

As businesses, organizations, and professionals deal with change like we’ve never seen before, it makes sense the way we lead will also change. Our guest today says a new leadership paradigm is urgently needed. Nicholas Janni is a sought-after coach, teacher, speaker and author. He works with the world’s top businesses and business schools transforming the way executives lead. He’s written a new book “Leader as Healer: A New Paradigm for 21st Century Leadership.” He joins us today to discuss his theoretical and practical path to the highest levels of presence and peak performance leadership. The leadership he says is needed moving forward.

Learn how the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William and Mary can help you and your organization develop your top talent through customized executive education and professional development programs. Visit us at www.wmleadership.com. Thank you for listening.

Nicholas Janni - A New Paradigm for Leadership

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