Giving Compass' Take:

• Tara Nicholle Nelson shares two daily practices that help with focusing on inner guidance and offers three leadership strategies for others starting conscious companies. 

• How are these leadership strategies aligned with the missions of conscious companies? 

• Read about the new era of corporate social responsibility. 

Tara-Nicholle Nelson puts the conscious in conscious leadership. She is the former vice president of marketing for MyFitnessPal, now part of Under Armour, and during her time there she grew the user base from 45 million to more than 100 million. She also is the author of The Transformational Consumer: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair With Your Customers by Helping Them Get Healthier, Wealthier, and Wiser, creator of the Writing Challenge for Conscious Leaders and an entrepreneur in residence with Lightspeed Venture Partners.

The self-professed “impact junkie” shares two daily practices to help tap into your inner guidance system and three leadership strategies for supporting and cultivating genius in others.

  • Daily Practice: Sit in Silence: Tara-Nicholle Nelson: Get up in the morning and sit in silence for 15 or 20 minutes. Call it meditation if you want. Listen for that golden bolt of inspiration, whether it’s small or large: an idea, a phrase, an urge to do something or go somewhere. That’s often how intuition and inspiration from our inner guidance speak to us — just that little bolt.
  • Daily Practice: Freewrite: here’s a lot of emotional windshield-wiping and slate-clearing that happens in the process of freewriting every day. You capture every grudge, everything you remember from yesterday that’s still lingering on your mind and everything about the day ahead that makes it hard for you to be present.
  • Leadership Strategy: Manage Your Emotions 
  • Leadership Strategy: Recruit on Mission
  • Leadership Strategy: Stick to Your Approach

Read the full article about leadership strategies for conscious companies from Conscious Company at B the Change