Embodied Leadership means leading yourself and others with integrity and intentional presence, acknowledging your full impact (cognitively, emotionally, and physically). This approach cultivates a high-impact culture that boosts employee engagement, reduces burnout, deepens trust, and leads to increased productivity and quality by motivating happier, healthier employees.

Foundational skills for Embodied Leadership, building critical team capacity, include:

Self-awareness: Key for effective guidance and understanding personal patterns, especially under pressure.

Courageous conversations: Essential for navigating interpersonal challenges, giving feedback, and resolving conflict by speaking truthfully with empathy. This involves regulating the nervous system to remain calm and clear-headed under pressure.

Discernment and situational assessment: Knowing when to step up, and when to empower others to optimize leadership effectiveness in the moment.

Embodied Leadership is a strategic framework that recognizes the inherent value and potential of every individual, a crucial shift from traditional models that, by focusing solely on revenue, often result in unsupported leaders and employees struggling with mental health challenges.

In contrast, Embodied Leadership prioritizes:

Valuing each employee

Collaborative growth

Integrity and wellness

Advancing projects, people, and companies holistically

Embracing Embodied Leadership delivers tangible benefits like increased employee engagement, reduced burnout, deepened trust, and improved productivity and quality. Conversely, neglecting this approach risks significant organizational costs, including employee unhappiness, revenue loss, reduced productivity/innovation, and high turnover.

Without Embodied Leadership, operations are often unknowingly driven by cognitive biases, personal agendas, and reactive fears, impeding holistic organizational progress. The premise of Embodiment involves:

Self-Attunement:

Checking in with your nervous system

Coming from intuitive wisdom, not reactive patterns

Skillful Presence:

Knowing when to act or pause

Communicating truthfully and essentially

Having difficult conversations with care

By cultivating self attunement and inner stability, leaders can offer support, release judgment and control, and truly partner with others. By "holding oneself," we can hold space for others - offering unconditional support, releasing judgment and control, and walking alongside which ends up producing the best results.

“As corporate leaders, we have so much coming at us requiring us quick reactions and problem solving. We must also be good listeners, provide feedback and empower our team. Humanity Shared opened my eyes to the importance of remaining present, balanced and vulnerable as a leader. I now lead with my authentic voice. I am calm, clear, and curious with my team members, my executives and my customers.“

"Attending Taylor’s talk on the importance of connections was eye-opening. The speaker's down-to-earth style and knack for getting everyone involved made it all feel so achievable. It's amazing how something as simple as connecting with others can enrich our lives so enormously."

“Humanity First provided a refreshingly different and profound approach to “leadership training” than others in my 25 year career. It taught me how to access the most authentic, grounded and best parts of myself to serve those around me. I find myself leading with openness and curiosity instead of simply driving to fix other’s dilemmas and problems. I would describe the training as rich, transformative and incredibly powerful.”

“Humanity Shared embodied leadership is about growth. I have drifted in and out of leadership roles for 40 years, but I've grown more as a leader in the past 9 months than I have in those previous years combined. Finally, the way I engage the world has fundamentally changed. Instead of "playing it safe" as I have for my whole life, I find myself leaning in and taking risks - living! - almost every day.”

My experience with Humanity Shared has been transformative professionally. Through their programs, I've honed invaluable skills like empathy, teamwork, and community service. The diverse opportunities broadened my horizons, developing skills instrumental for career growth - volunteering emphasized collaboration and leadership, while workshops fostered personal development. The ethos of compassion and service influenced my work approach. Understanding others' needs and empathizing with different perspectives allowed me to forge stronger professional relationships and contribute meaningfully to team dynamics.

“I have been a leader all my life in one way or the other, and Humanity Shared has caused me to step in differently and to understand leadership as service to myself and to others. It has caused me to see possibility in so many places that I hadn’t considered.”

“I was taught to stand on my feet, get grounded and speak from my heart to share what is true. To enter the room you need to use your voice, connect, give feedback, and know that we are all just human. Humanity First has shown me the big disconnect which is CONNECTING to self and to HUMANS, which has been my guide.”

“All these experiences have caused me to do things I otherwise wouldn’t have done. H1 has so far helped me shine light on dark areas inside myself that I have been mostly avoiding throughout my life. It has helped me dismantle the armor I have put up throughout the decades.”

“This has been transformational professionally and personally. Key concepts like vulnerability, feedback, calling people in, and speaking truth are powerful in both realms. As a CEO/GM type, I've found employees yearning for these teachings - authenticity, empathy, and capturing people's best contributions, often missing in organizations. Initially joining for personal growth, I was pleasantly surprised by how it made me a better, more empathetic, and impactful business leader and contributor.”

Our Leadership Team had been together for less than 6 months. What brought us to the work being done by Humanity Shared was the newness of the group. There was a disconnect, a lack of trust, and trouble gaining traction as a cohesive team. In an extremely large and global organization, it can be difficult to see beyond the silos we work in from day to day. But at as Leadership Team it was mission critical to see one another as humans to get to the business of trusting one another as colleagues.

The work done with Humanity Shared has truly connected us on a deeper level. The programming we chose has taken place over nearly one year. In a fast paced, “work environment” it was refreshing to not have slide heavy, cookie cutter, non-information thrown at us. There was no drinking from a firehose to hurry up and be on the other side of it. It was more a slow drip to sustain us and help us grow.

This a muscle we continue to flex and integrate into our daily lives. Showing up for one another in all the ways. Because we are the same humans inside and outside of the workspace.