Scott Shute: Former Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn

How can you unite your work life and your “real life” and show up as your authentic self at all times? How can we use tools like mindfulness to transform work from the inside out? These are questions that Coaching.com CEO Alex Pascal discusses with Scott Shute in this episode of Coaches on Zoom Drinking Coffee.

Scott is the author of The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out, and he shares his experience of writing a book in this episode. He also presents his belief that cultivating compassion is key to transforming the workplace, which he applied in practice while working as Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Programs at LinkedIn. 

These days, the science of mindfulness is fairly well known: the business world is aware that regular mindfulness practice rewires the brain, increasing its capacity for concentration and improving decision-making abilities. However, actually integrating this practice into an organization’s operations is another challenge, one that Scott reflects on in this episode.

Scott and Alex also take some time to analyze the relationship between mindfulness, spirituality, and religion, discussing how the same tools that a minority uses to achieve enlightenment can be used by the majority to obtain more everyday objectives, whatever their belief system. 

During these volatile times, we often find ourselves wondering what we personally can do to make the world a better place. Scott has an answer to that question - to focus on “being,” rather than “doing”. Listen in to find out more!