Episode 172 - Amy Lynn Durham | Creating Magic at Work: Elevating Your Leadership by Growing Your Spiritual Intelligence

Do you feel like there’s even more inside you and your leadership? Are you committed to working on yourself to enhance your leadership influence and impact? Are you ready to elevate your leadership and impact by growing your spiritual intelligence as a leader?

Our special guest Amy Lynn Durham answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and creating magic at work for your organization and team.

Amy Lynn Durham is the CEO of an organization called Create Magic at Work. She’s a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. She’s also certified to coach in 21 skills associated with Spiritual Intelligence (SQ).

Amy has spent years in the corporate world managing hundreds of employees for all different types of companies. She created create magic at work with the intention to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and EQ tools to energize and transform the workplace. Amy not only believes in creating positive company cultures, but this is what she does in her passion and her work.

Amy believes in leading differently, building cultures differently and creating magic at work.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

Two key leadership questions: How do you want to leave your team feeling? Are you leaving your team in a better place than when you found them?
Understanding emotional intelligence (EQ) and spiritual intelligence (SQ)
Critical impacts from leading with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
The intelligences pyramid from the bottom up: Physical Intelligence (PQ); Cognitive Intelligence (IQ); Emotional Intelligence (EQ); Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
Strategies for practicing emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
One key spiritual intelligence skill is making wise and compassionate decisions
Exploring your breadth of time perception
The role of radical self-forgiveness in leadership
Understanding that spiritual intelligence is across a spectrum of skills (not just a single skill)
What it means to lead from your higher self and why it matters
Leadership work is the deep inside personal work
Importance of creating a safe place for vulnerable conversations at work
Exploring the scales of motivation and energy
The Great Resignation and the call for spiritual intelligence in leadership
Overcoming the challenges of all the roles required of middle managers and leaders
Importance of vulnerable conversations at work to create magic at work
Strategies for building spiritual intelligence skills in a virtual workplace
Foundations of spiritual intelligence – human connection, compassion, emotions, empathy, vulnerability and curiosity
Gifts of spiritual intelligence in leadership – innovation, productivity and profitability
What it means to be a selectively data driven executive and why it holds you back
One result of creating an environment that thrives with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence is a workplace that creates less ego induced drama
The important role of paradox (complexity of thought) in leading with spiritual intelligence (enhancing your polarity management skills)
Expanding your leadership to quantum leadership where you think about the effects that your business has on humanity, communities and the planet