Amy Elizabeth Fox | Podcasts
Many adults never move past an externally validated set of priorities. Often in our leadership programs, we see executives who feel like they have ticked every box, done everything expected of them. At a certain point, they realize that is a very hollow process. The real journey of vertical development allows you to devote your life to something wider, something bigger, to ennoble the full possibility of the human endeavor.
AMY ELIZABETH FOX
I think the future of leadership is helping leaders and organization be less disembodied, less emotionally numb, less preferencing of autonomy versus interdependence, less ignoring and agnostic to the inequalities of our society. Visionary organizations will engage powerfully what is revealing itself about exclusion, injustice and the hurt of generations of inequality. They will actually take the shadow of society and put it in the living room of the organization as an opportunity for collective repair and profound healing.
AMY ELIZABETH FOX
Real development, by definition, invites us into the terrain of a person’s heartbreaks and losses, brings us face to face with the things they are scared of, and ushers us into their widest aspirations and most generative possibilities. Vertical development is a dance with someone’s interiority: emotions, needs, beliefs, vows, and unconscious memory/ sensation and experience.
AMY ELIZABETH FOX
Let us not get confused or too dazzled by the false argument that what is needed is a resurgence of a stronger and exclusively commercial focus. We should not believe that a commitment to a business’s bottom line requires a callous work environment.