“The age of a business being a place people naturally want to be has passed.”
Emotional Leadership - a New Way to Inspire Growth in the Age of AI.
With workforces facing increasing fear and cynicism, preeminent through geopolitical uncertainty, AI disruption, and the scars of COVID - leaders are navigating the most complex human landscape in living memory. And most are doing it without a map.
Melissa Jenner has spent 25 years inside some of the world's most iconic organisations - witnessing first-hand how brilliant strategies elevate businesses, how small shifts in leadership behaviour can ignite massive transformations in morale and performance. But also the human cost of ignoring emotions at work.
Careers stalled by fear. Potential left unrealised - not for lack of talent, but for lack of safety, trust, or belief.
In Emotional Leadership, she introduces a new model for how leaders can return work to being a place people love to be - whilst embracing technology, pursuing growth, and building businesses of both purpose and profit.
At the heart of the model is the Emotional Triad - the three powerful forces that shape every workplace: Fear, Love, and Hope. Most leaders unconsciously transmit one of these emotions to their teams every day. The question is which one - and whether it's by design or default.
This is a call to action. To lead like it matters. With heart. With humility. And with the courage to care about your people, first.
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Interested in bringing the Emotional Leadership ideology into your team?
I run small executive workshops, and multi-session training programmes based on this model - for leadership teams navigating AI transformation, and looking to utilise emotions as ‘signals’ for change.