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🎧 Aligned Intelligence in Leadership with Marco Houwen | Lead with Inner Peace & Purpose

Apr 26, 2025

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Aligned Intelligence is the key to thriving as a leader in today's fast-paced, AI-driven world. In this deep-dive episode with Marco Houwen, we explore how blending cognitive, emotional, and spiritual intelligence can create a leadership edge rooted in purpose, not pressure.

Whether you're an overwhelmed CEO, burnt-out entrepreneur, or executive searching for clarity, this conversation offers profound insights. Marco shares how embracing authentic leadership, introspection, and identity work unlocks new levels of peak performance and fulfillment—beyond just financial success.

In this episode, you'll discover how:

Spiritual leadership helps leaders stay grounded in turbulent times
Corporate culture transformation drives talent retention
Emotional intelligence in business is the missing link in AI-era leadership
A growth identity empowers organizations to pivot without losing their core
Marco’s Zen Entrepreneur framework leads to executive burnout recovery and reinvention

Marco Houwen’s experience as a serial entrepreneur and identity-driven leadership coach offers not just theory, but real-life frameworks for entrepreneurial transformation. If you've ever felt successful on the outside but stuck on the inside, this episode is your permission to pause, reflect, and rise again—with Aligned Intelligence as your guide.

00:00 – Intro: Who is Marco Houwen?01:00 – From tech success to inner emptiness02:30 – The birth of Zen Entrepreneur03:45 – What clients come to Marco for05:00 – Childhood wounds & entrepreneurial drive07:00 – Finding peace through introspection09:00 – The cost of external conditioning10:00 – Building identity-driven organizations11:30 – Kodak vs. Netflix: Lessons in growth identity13:00 – Why static identity kills innovation14:00 – What is Aligned Intelligence really?16:00 – The rise of AI and leadership’s identity crisis17:30 – How leaders can stay relevant in the AI era18:30 – How to connect with Marco Houwen

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