The Leadership Mind Using Poetry as a Medium of Cultivating Professional Leadership with Abigail Prout
In today’s episode, Massimo is joined by Abigail Morgan Prout, a passionate advocate for poetry as a medium of cultivating professional leadership. Abigail has worked as a professional Co-Active coach for the last 20 years and has spent the last 8 years as faculty for the Co-Active Training Institute, leading their coaching and leadership courses. She returned with her husband Clive to Washington State to live on the small island where she grew up to raise their two children, Iona and Jax. She can be found rambling, singing, and listening in the coastal forest every morning with her silky black lab, Bella. Walk Deep is the winner of the 2021 Homebound Poetry Prize and published by Homebound Publishing October 4th, 2022.
Highlights from today's podcast include:
- What inspired Abigail to write one poem per day for an entire year and what she learned from it
- The benefits of spending more time in nature and how to do it, no matter where you live
- What has to be present for leadership to occur
Connect with Abigail:
Instagram: @abigail_morgan_prout & @the_spiralway
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