Coaches Rising 12 - Jennifer Garvey Berger: Cultivating Higher Leadership Consciousness
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Feb 7, 2018 
Jennifer Garvey Berger, an adult development expert and founder of Growth Edge Coaching, discusses how leaders can cultivate higher consciousness to adapt to rapid change. She explains the critical shift from self-authoring to self-transforming leadership, emphasizing the importance of perspective-taking and co-creation. Jennifer highlights that these leadership capacities are developmental stages rather than mere skills to be taught. She shares insights on how coaches can facilitate this growth through compassionate developmental conversations.
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Presence Trumps Technical Skill At Scale
- Leading at scale depends more on who you are than what you know or who you know.
- Leaders must transmit presence and calm in fleeting moments to influence large organizations.
Stages Of Adult Meaning-Making
- Human minds move through distinct meaning-making stages: self-sovereign, socialized, self-authored, then self-transforming.
- The leap to self-transforming creates spaciousness to hold multiple perspectives and co-create solutions.
You Grow Capacities, You Don't Teach Them
- Later-stage capacities (self-transforming) are not teachable like skills; they must be grown over time.
- Growth requires passing through earlier stages and harvesting their strengths first.
