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Helen Mundy
‘My passion is enabling those who lead themselves, others, teams, organisations and systems to learn how to wake up to their choices of thinking, feeling and acting as leaders. How to know their choices well enough that when their basic programming takes them over, they know how to ‘get back to themselves’. That when they have an impact that they don’t want to they can get curious and understand why it’s happened, what part they have played and others programming has played and find new ways forward that take these into account and still deliver excellence.
I have founded Wide Awake Leadership because I want more people in the world who are awake to how their brains work. Engaged in using that ‘awakeness’ to make really good choices for themselves, each other and the wider systems in which they operate. Choices which are humane and deliver a meaningful difference to the particular ‘world’ they have chosen to be in.’
‘My passion is enabling those who lead themselves, others, teams, organisations and systems to learn how to wake up to their choices of thinking, feeling and acting as leaders. How to know their choices well enough that when their basic programming takes them over, they know how to ‘get back to themselves’. That when they have an impact that they don’t want to they can get curious and understand why it’s happened, what part they have played and others programming has played and find new ways forward that take these into account and still deliver excellence.
I have founded Wide Awake Leadership because I want more people in the world who are awake to how their brains work. Engaged in using that ‘awakeness’ to make really good choices for themselves, each other and the wider systems in which they operate. Choices which are humane and deliver a meaningful difference to the particular ‘world’ they have chosen to be in.’
My Background and how it relates to Wide Awake
- An early passion for biology led to a BSc in Biological Sciences – I find that now renewed through the burgeoning research in Neuroscience and how it informs us about our Auto Pilot, how it is formed and how we can purposefully set out to form a different navigation system for ourselves.
- A corporate background in IBM gave me a sound grounding in management and leadership approaches which still serve me well today. It also gave me insight into the opportunities and challenges of leading in a multi-national organisation.
- An SME background in a highly innovative software company, AIT where ‘awakeness’ to how to create excellence for clients and staff were at the core of company values and life – led to experiences about how to ‘cut through’ systemic Autopilots and create a different, creative, humane way to do business.
- A Masters in Responsible Business Practice – backed up my AIT experience – understanding the complexity of how to influence and do business with integrity.
- Deep, layered training in the understanding and use of NLP to create awareness and then awakeness to my own leadership and life maps – has given me the foundation for all of my coaching and training work in organisations.
- Continued CPD across a multitude of models and techniques that all help create awakeness and 14 years’ experience that leads me to be accredited as a Master Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching.
- Working with my clients has opened my eyes even further to the possibility for all leaders to use the practice of Wide Awake Leadership to improve their own, their teams and their organisations impact in work and in wider life.
