106: Nicholas Jani: Developing Cultures of Presence

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This week on the show, Nicholas Janni, transformational coach, leadership development specialist and founder of Core Presence joins me Carissa Bub as we talk how we tend to live in a world of absence, what happens when you combine being and doing, and how developing presence can transform teams and organisations.

Nicholas and I discuss:

• His childhood discovery aged 16 that inspires his work
• What led him to theatre as a spiritual practice
• The work and his experience as a co-founder of Olivier Mythodrama
• What he means by presence and how he defines leadership presence
• What it takes to help leaders and teams shift their concept of reality
• How he works with teams
• His work at IMD in preparing leaders for the future
• His vision for cultures of presence

More on Nicholas:

Over the last 15 years Nicholas has gained an international reputation for his transformational coaching and leadership development seminars for leaders and teams. The clients he has served include FedEx, Rolls Royce, Swiss Re, Centrica, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Amdocs, Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, eBay and Lafarge, as well as the UK Permanent Secretaries and several cabinet ministers. He bridges the worlds of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a uniquely powerful, relevant and accessible way. In his first career Nicholas was a theatre director. He taught acting at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and directed his own theatre company. He has spent 30 years researching the theory and the practice of ‘the zone’ of peak performance, and studying multiple mind/body disciplines. In 1998 he became a Visiting Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management, and in 2001 he left the theatre to co-found the arts-based leadership development consultancy Olivier Mythodrama. In 2013 he founded his own consultancy, CORE PRESENCE. He was an Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford Said Business School 2010–15, and currently teaches regularly at the IMD Business School in Lausanne where he leads large international groups. He is based partly in Israel, where he works with numerous corporate clients, Israeli and Palestinian NGO’s and at Tel Aviv University Recanati Business School. You can find everything you want to now about Nicholas here: https://www.nicholasjanni.com

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