273: Leading with Love: The Inner Work of Transformational Leadership with Amy Elizabeth Fox

Dec 15, 2025

Amy Elizabeth Fox, founder of Mobius Executive Leadership, shares her insights on trauma-informed leadership and emotional maturity. She emphasizes that unresolved trauma can hinder team performance and organizational culture. Exploring how inner work can be translated into practical business applications, Amy highlights the importance of loving practices like tenderness and candidness in coaching. She asserts that collective healing is vital for addressing systemic pain and advocates for peer support among coaches to foster ongoing growth and integrity in their practices.

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INSIGHT

Emotional Immaturity Limits Leadership

Leaders' emotional immaturity acts as an invisible pandemic that caps team and organizational performance.
Integrating psychospiritual and vertical development frees leaders to lead from their highest vision.

ADVICE

Speak Business Language First

Translate psychological concepts into business terms like psychological safety and innovation to gain organizational buy-in.
Match language to executives' priorities to make trauma-informed work actionable.

ADVICE

Get Longitudinal Therapeutic Depth

Do longitudinal dyadic therapy to surface unconscious relational patterns before coaching others.
Use modalities like IFS, gestalt, or psychodynamic therapy to refine relational self-awareness.

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In this episode, host Helena Clayton is joined by the founder of Mobius Executive Leadership, Amy Elizabeth Fox to explore the field of trauma-informed coaching, vertical development, and the urgency of doing deep inner healing work with senior leaders. As organizations face greater volatility and complexity, Amy reflects on the role of emotional and spiritual development both in the maturation path for coaches and practitioners as well as in the development journey for leaders.

They delve into how understanding trauma, building emotional literacy, and developing presence can fundamentally shift the culture of leadership and organizations. With insights from decades of integrating psycho-spiritual development into executive work, Amy explains why examining and healing trauma is no longer optional for modern executives who want to create impact, and how coaches must do their own inner work to serve with integrity and impact. They explore the specific practices for expressing love in the workplace and how the qualities of tenderness, candour, and wholeheartedness can transform leaders and teams. Amy discusses the power of collective healing, the importance of practitioner communities, and the role of authentic story work in building trust and intimacy in organizations.

From understanding trauma at an individual and systemic level to expressing love in practical, grounded ways, this episode is a guide to cultivating the transformational capabilities needed to lead in a complex world.

You will learn

· The importance of trauma literacy for coaches and facilitators

· The need to undertake healing in group contexts not just private therapy

· The relevance of vertical development in a less predictable volatile world

'I have a strong conviction that the level of emotional immaturity and regression from which most leaders are operating is a sort of invisible pandemic.'

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