Leadership unlocked
Unleash the power of your body fulfillment.
What?!
Body?
I have one… but…
What does that have to do with leadership?
The best Things in life are FREE
Sunshine
Oxygen
Love
Body
Leadership can be authentic and inspiring. Life can be whole and fulfilling.
Are you a successful leader looking to achieve sustainable growth?
Do you find positive behavior change difficult despite your best intent?
Are you tired of using the same old tools and not getting results?
Are you a coach with a mission to help leaders accomplish the above?
A Mind-Body integrative approach is a creative and proven way to grow better leaders and happier people.
In this book, award-winning executive coach and former corporate executive, Yan Maschke, presents eight case studies of successful leaders using this approach to:
Connect with authentic self
Develop emotional intelligence
Enhance executive presence
Drive change
Learn impulse control
Listen powerfully
Think and act strategically
Lead through delegation
Each chapter comprises a real story, a leadership lesson, and an embodied leadership practice that you can put into action right away.
Welcome to a new world of possibilities!
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Overview
Even with the best intentions, business leaders find it difficult to make measurable behavior changes to create effective long-term growth. In this book, award-winning executive coach Yan Maschke declares that the most effective leaders use more than just the Mind to reach their full potential. They embrace Embodied Leadership, a leadership approach that actively integrates the holistic intelligence of the Body and Mind to increase leadership effectiveness, impact, and fulfillment.
Drawing on 25 years of experience as a corporate executive, management consultant, executive coach, and strategic advisor, Maschke uses her cross-cultural life experience to bring an integrative Mind-Body approach that delivers proven results. By working with the Body and Mind in cultivating their BEING (“inner game”), leaders can deepen self-awareness. By working with the Body and Mind in cultivating their DOING (“outer game”), leaders can accelerate real change.
Details
This book offers practical applications to address real-life leadership challenges while referencing modern neuroscience and ancient wisdom. In her engaging story-telling style, Maschke highlights eight case studies of successful leaders enhancing their Embodied Leadership. She shows how they used the leadership strategies and practices to become better leaders and happier people. Leaders learn how to connect with their authentic self, develop emotional intelligence, enhance executive presence, drive change, learn impulse control, listen powerfully, think and act strategically, and lead through delegation. Each case study is followed by an Embodied Leadership Practice that can be put into use right away. Filled with artistic illustrations, this easy-to-read business book is designed to delight the eye and can be read in a single sitting, though the concepts and practices will remain with the reader for the rest of her career.
This book is for leaders who are tired of the same old tools and are interested in creative yet proven ways to achieve better leadership results while feeling whole. Leadership coaches may also use this book to build the next generation of high-performing leaders. Whatever your role, this book aims to unlock your full business potential and create a better way to lead.
Being authentic is being aligned in what we think, feel, speak, and do.
Note: I am envisioning the design in a way that “think”, “feel”, “speak”, “and do” are each on its own line/row
Everyone is a leader. Leadership starts with self.
Leadership is most inspiring when we are authentic.
Leadership and life should be holistic: Being + Doing; Mind + Body.
Being is who we choose to be.
Doing is what we choose to do.
After working super hard to achieve her goal and dream job, Yan discovered that her life formula did not work!
Power of Your Body
o Leadership and life requires Being (who we choose to be) + Doing (what we choose to do)
o By integrating the Mind and Body, we deepen awareness and accelerate action.
Embodied awareness is visceral and real; it deepens our commitment to action.
Awareness is only half the battle.
The issue is in the tissue
Mind + Body
Desired Actions == Embodied Actions
o By integrating the Mind and Body and by being fully authentic, Yan and her clients achieve more impact and fulfillment and discover a new world of posisbilities!
About the Author
Yan Maschke, award-winning Executive, Team, and Strategy Coach helps corporate executives and leadership teams achieve more and do less in a way that feels authentic and inspiring.
Yan grew up in China and immigrated to the US as a young adult. For over 20 years, Yan led strategy and execution in Fortune 500 environments and managed multiple $100 million-plus global businesses. Now, as the founder of Yan Maschke Group, she develops senior leaders and teams worldwide through executive coaching, leadership team coaching, and strategy facilitation.
Yan promotes a Mind-Body integrative leadership approach that draws from the modern, the ancient, and life-long self-cultivation. She is the author of the book "Leadership Unlocked: Unleash the Power of Your Body for Impact and Fulfillment". For her expertise, the industry authority International Coaching Federation (ICF) has featured her powerful coaching client stories and has granted her the prestigious President's Award.
Yan earned an M.B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.A. in International Relations from University of Northern Iowa. She loves to travel and enjoys dancing, qigong, and yoga. Find out more or join her email list at www.YanMaschke.com. She can be reached at Yan@YanMaschke.com or (+1) 216-233-7014.
Introduction by the Author
Advance Praise
We often hear people being described as “being in the zone,” “on top of their game,” “on fire.” Yan brings unique insight into how to find the level of focus and self-awareness necessary to experience more of these moments through embodied awareness. This was a new term for me, and I now think about it as being fully present and unburdened by historical baggage. Unburdened by preprogrammed thoughts, she goes on to demonstrate how we can up our game and become more effective leaders.
If you are trying to be a better leader or a better person, this book is for you!
Craig Arnold, Chairman and CEO, Eaton Corporation
In her true colors, Yan Maschke embodies integration of the East and the West. Her integrative approach to leadership is refreshing and impactful. A must-read for any leader!
Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.
Great leadership is critical to any business or organization. But how can leaders become great? Yan Maschke’s answer is to look at the art of leadership holistically, crystallizing her deep executive coaching experience to enable anyone in any position to achieve balance, overcome obstacles, and excel.
Her real-life examples are engaging and provide many practical lessons drawn from the fusion of her Eastern and Western experiences.
Stewart Kohl, Co-CEO, The Riverside Company
Leadership development requires an in-depth analysis of the whole person, which includes understanding how they think, lead, problem solve, interact with others, and take care of themselves (mentally and emotionally).
Yan Maschke covers each of these areas masterfully and ties them all together through a compelling Mind-Body framework. Her "Being" versus "Doing" dichotomy is brilliant and a critical determinant of success for any leader.
Randell McShepard, Chief Talent Officer, RPM International Inc.
Stop being a body denier. Embrace yourself (however weird that sounds). Awareness and action is Yan’s recipe for holistic authenticity and the path to a deep sense of purpose in life. In the process, you find that you become more exciting to others and maybe unleash your inner leader!
Richard Boyatzis, Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Co-author of the international bestseller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change.
I loved the book. The adage ‘Train people and fear they leave or not train people and fear they stay’ is even more true with coaching. Yan has made an enormous impact on our business so take her book to heart and see your business improve.
Brett Lindsey, CEO, Everstream Solutions
Embodied Leadership is the new emotional intelligence. Sustained great leadership requires wholeness and authenticity. Yan’s holistic approach connects the mind + body to drive lasting impact.
The methods shared in her book are both practical and impactful. Leaders looking to reach their full potential should read this book!
Steve Kessen, CEO, Fathom
My conversations with Yan are always enlightening. The way she leads her clients to the essence of leadership is unique. Her integrated methodology, combining Being and Doing, is spot on, one can’t lead to sustainable change and success without the other.
She is a thought leader in the field of new world executive coaching, where actual change is achieved.
Nelda J. Connors, CEO, Pine Grove Holdings, LLC; NACD Leadership Fellow
Yan is not only a student of leadership, but she is also a proven executive that has led at the highest levels. Yan provides incredible wisdom and practical tools that I have already put into action.
The book is a powerful tool for those looking to take their business and leadership to the next level.
Sean Wenger, CEO, Precision Communications
I initially did not understand or comprehend the need and fundamentals of an executive coach. I recall an early conversation regarding a project for an expat we have in China and naïvely said, he needs training! Yan politely helped me appreciate the difference between training and coaching, and we began a very rewarding relationship.
Yan creates a balance between coaching, mentoring, informing, and challenging that helps the individual and team create the right relationship with all relevant stakeholders. People say change is hard. It is, but it is much more achievable when you have Yan as your coach to guide you through the process.
Erik Weyls, CEO, Coventya Group (Paris, France)
Leadership development starts with self-awareness and self-development. To lead others, one must first lead self. While this is a standard for good leadership, Yan Maschke uniquely presents how to achieve this concept for game-changing leadership and personal fulfillment.
Her identification of the sense of Being and Doing is an exciting paradigm for the successful journey that every leader should explore. The material in this book is powerful and practical, and vital information for leaders across many fields.
Serpil Erzurum, M.D., Chair, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic
Leadership starts with self and Yan sets the example for others from day one. She encourages from the front, leads from the middle leaving no one behind. She is a highly effective leadership coach and advisor for individuals and for leadership teams.
This book does a fabulous job capturing her unique integrative approach to leadership, which helps leaders deepen self-awareness and accelerate desired change towards their vision.
Lawrence T. McFadden, GM/COO, Union Club of Cleveland; Certified Master Chef #55; Olympic team member - National team 1992 and 1996; World Champion, 1994
Great and easy read... emotionally captivating and spiritually rewarding. Everyone should read it and learn. As we say in Ghana, “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is NOW."
Siisi Adu-Gyamfi, Managing Director, AGA Associates; Author; Interim CEO, ID-Queue LLC
This is a book for leaders who want to understand the depth of their capabilities and harness the power that is created by bringing Mind and Body together. I’ve spent so many years trying to get smarter, but Yan’s work shows just how much more effective I can be by connecting the emotional and the physical to my efforts.
Absolutely recommend to senior leaders and to young executives looking for their edge. I wish this book existed earlier in my career.
Jennifer van Dijk, CEO, Hoonigan
As a new executive, I was inspired and motivated by this book to look deep within and acknowledge my subconscious as I make decisions. Yan’s insight in excellence being a habit resonated with me as I strive to create a culture of excellence and not perfection in our organization.
This book is an essential read for a new executive and offers a fresh perspective on self-awareness and strategic thinking.
Lakisha Miller-Barclay, Executive Director & CEO, Rubber Division, American Chemical Society
