Pete Hamill is a consultant, facilitator and coach with an international background in leadership and organizational development. He is currently Program Director for Embodied Leadership open program, which he introduced, at Roffey Park Institute. He has been certified as a Somatic Leadership Coach and has completed a Certificate in Humanistic Counselling with the Gestalt Centre in London. He has worked with a range of international organizations, including KPMG, Lloyds Banking Group, AXA and Virgin Atlantic.

Ideal for leaders who need to be able to deal with complexity and ambiguity in interpersonal and organizational relations while remaining a force for influence and change.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One Setting the foundations

01 What do we mean by leadership anyway?Leadership: the leaders
Leadership: the position
Leadership: actions and behaviours
Leadership: the results
Leadership: an integration
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02 How do I get better at it?Self-cultivation
What are you practising?
Deliberate practice
Embodiment and mastery
Beginnings
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03 If I am to develop myself, what exactly is my 'self'?The evolution of an idea about who we are
Understanding the root question
Descartes' answer
An alternative answer?
Can we find something that makes more sense?
An embodied mind
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04 What does neuroscience have to say about the self?Health warning: how to read neuroscience research
Growing a brain: understanding brain development
How the brain-body unit functions
Going with our guts
From somatic markers to the shape of the self
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05 Embodying our selvesHow somatic markers shape us
The impact of somatic markers
Applying this to leadership
New ideas for leadership development
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Part Two Exploring the ideas in practice

06 Developing choice and clarity as a leaderThe meeting
Centring
Moving forwards
Applying Jane's learning
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07 Conflict, stress and our conditioned tendenciesConditioned tendency response
Meeting again
Blending
John's stress
Applying this learning
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08 Giving feedback and being mindful rather than mindlessSomatic assessments
John's programme
Ongoing practice
Mindfulness meditation
From mindfulness to mastery
Applying this learning
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Part Three The wider implications for leadership

09 Ethical leadershipUnderstanding group behaviours
Ethical reasoning versus rationalization
Ethical frameworks
Ethical dilemmas
Resisting social pressures and rationalizations
Taking a stand
Saying 'no'/declines
Insists
Quits
What about controls?
Exercising ethical leadership
Creating an ethical code
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10 Leadership for the 21st centuryWorking with complex systems
Innovation and creativity
We are motivated to be leaders
Innovation = leadership
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11 ConclusionsTaking up this challenge
Practise, practise, practise...
Embodied leadership development programmes
Certifying as a somatic coach
Further resources for consultants and coaches

Index