High Minded Leaders

A high-minded leader is someone who lives and leads in touch with something greater. Someone who takes responsibility for both internal development and external results, who has thought the extra mile, is ethically in place and gets both people and businesses to expand in line with what creates value.

“You can pick a high-minded leader out of a crowd because he or she possesses skills that help perform on top of their game”

The name High Minded Leaders is a reflection of the type of leaders I want to help develop: Ones with the ability and knowledge to make a real impact - in the short as well as the really long term.

Through the many thousands of leaders I have trained over the years, I have seen patterns that have given me the conviction that leadership that occurs with a higher awareness is what is needed to create real positive change. In the big and the small. Rational and emotional.

Aristotle is said to have said that "The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." On Google you can read that high-minded is being intelligent, having integrity and good character. It is a great person who cares about living in line with their values and standing up for what they believe in. A person who chooses to lead.

With High Minded Leaders, it is also about opening up one's mind. To broaden perspectives and abilities, to not only understand neuroscience mentally but to work with it and unlock potential in a way that is as practical as it is magical.

Bryan E. Robinson, PhD. writes about High-minded leaders on Forbes and defines them based on the fact that they possess 10 strong professional principles. The ability to lead based on these principles results in employees becoming more engaged and productive plus the leaders getting higher rankings and the company's profitability flourishing.

  • Curiosity versus judgment
  • Calm versus anxiety
  • Clarity versus confusion
  • Connection versus isolation
  • Compassion versus cold-heartedness
  • Confidence versus intimidation
  • Courage versus fear
  • Creativity versus stagnation
  • Comedy versus drama
  • Celebration versus exhaustion

High Minded Leaders are thus leaders who both value a higher awareness in terms of their own thoughts, feelings, choices and influence on others but also in terms of consciousness itself and how to release the potential, creativity and energy that is available to all of us when we open up beyond our everyday consciousness through, for example, meditation and get the brain to work in Delta instead of Beta.

What is the mind?

When we have to describe the mind, most people see a picture of the brain in front of them. But the mind is not a body part, it is an activity. It is an interaction between the subconscious and the conscious.

By the time we are 35 years old, 95% of us are made up of unconscious habits, behaviors and emotional reactions that operate automatically like a computer program.

If we choose to consciously start working with our mind, reprogramming ourselves, a whole new world of possibilities opens up. And when we combine that with really good leadership, we really sharpen our capacity - Deep Impact Leadership.



“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change”

– Wayne Dyer