Inner Mastery, Outer Impact: The Essence of a Great Leader | Hitendra Wadhwa, PhD
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
What is the primary driver of effective and impactful leadership? Is it from science—or the soul? Is it a more practical, results-driven organizational practice? Or is it an inner, meditative sense of self?
This week’s Finding Mastery guest, Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa, has spent his career exploring these questions… and his answer is, well, both.
Hitendra fuses the mystical history of his Indian roots with the more results-oriented needs of Western business -- bridging the gap between spirituality and science, leadership and personal growth. It's a methodology that he teaches at Columbia Business School, the Mentora Institute (which he founded), on his podcast "Intersections" and in his book, Inner Mastery, Outer Impact.
He’s turned what he’s found into powerful tools that any of us can use to be effective leaders and masters of our own lives.
Hitendra’s message for us is simple and clear: when you cultivate your inner self, wisdom shows up in the outer self. And that wisdom can be used to lead. Hitendra does it with an engaging sense of story, and telling examples from the lives of Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, and Steve Jobs.
Today, we talk about cultivating inner awareness and outer engagement, unlocking human energy to lead, checking emotion before making decisions, finding meaning in every experience, and much, much more.
This entire conversation was full of insights and I think you may just leave it thinking about success, leadership, and your relationship to it in a whole new way.
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| 0:00.0 | An ideal, anything, an ideal piece of art, an ideal family, ideal human being, and certainly an ideal leader, |
| 0:08.0 | would be one where outer excellence and outer beauty is actually emanating from inner |
| 0:14.7 | excellence and inner beauty. Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I am your host Dr. Michael Jervais |
| 0:31.2 | by Trade and Training a High Performance Psychologist. |
| 0:34.6 | What is the primary driver of effective leadership? |
| 0:37.2 | It's a question that so many of us wrestle with. |
| 0:40.8 | What is the primary driver of effective leadership? Is it science or is it more |
| 0:46.2 | soul? Is it a more practical results driven organizational practice or is it an inner meditative sense of self? |
| 0:56.8 | Dr. Hittindra Wadwa has spent his career |
| 0:59.4 | exploring these questions. |
| 1:01.7 | With deep roots in both Indian mystic traditions and the rigorous world of MIT |
| 1:06.5 | Sloane School of Management, he bridges the gap between spirituality and science, leadership and personal growth. |
| 1:14.0 | As a celebrated professor at Columbia Business School and the visionary behind the |
| 1:19.2 | Mentora Institute, Hittendra has coached executives in Fortune 100 companies and has also penned the transformative |
| 1:26.7 | book, Inner Mastery, Outer Impact. |
| 1:30.3 | His teachings distilled from a life's work at the intersection of success, wisdom, and authenticity, |
| 1:36.5 | have reached thousands, earning him accolades and a reputation as a pioneer in personal leadership. |
| 1:43.0 | His philosophy is simple and so profound |
| 1:46.0 | that when you cultivate your inner self, |
| 1:49.0 | wisdom shows up in the outer self, |
| 1:52.0 | and that wisdom can be used to lead. This |
| 1:56.6 | entire conversation was full of insights and I think you may just leave it |
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