By Arash Arabi.     Influence is a skill. Leaders who are competent in the art of influence can easily gather support from others and are able to lead a group that is engaged, mobilised, and ready to execute. Leaders have a degree of leverage due to their rank in…

Written by Virginie Bodescot, Eva Marugan, and Lyne Desormeaux.     What happens when three professionals sign up for Emotional Intelligence (EI) certification training? Our EI certification training in 2019 and 2020 prepared us for changing times in ways we could not have imagined when we first started. Here we…

Drawing on my observations over many years of helping leaders improve their emotional intelligence, I’ve identified four core practices that are instrumental in emotionally intelligent leadership and that, when practiced in conjunction with experiencing nature, increase their impact exponentially. They are: our relationship with time, our ability to broaden our…

By Leonela Mora and Fernando Restoy   In today’s world, teaching Emotional Intelligence to kids is as important as teaching reading, writing, math, and science. To prepare our future generation, we need to help future adults to understand their emotions and learn how to effectively navigate them early in life.…

A single tear sat comfortably at the corner of his eye while the deep joyous sound of his famous chortle echoed through the halls. His Holiness the Dalai Lama (HHDL) had just entered the entrance hall, where eight of us had the opportunity to receive a private audience.   Why did…

It is both with a heavy and a hopeful heart, I share these reflections with you today, which also happens to be the most important day in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar called Saga Dawa, which translates as “Great Occasion”. Saga Dawa commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. It is also said that whatever actions one takes on…