Add Heart to Leadership

Guest: Marilyn Tam, former president of Reebok/CCM, former CEO of Aveda Corp. What does it mean to be a leader with heart? Heart-centered leadership means to lead others with authenticity, transparency, and humility. Our leadership reflects who we are inside and needs to include the heart’s intelligence in order to successfully support, guide, and encourage others.  In today’s world, we are all having to learn and adapt continuously. As leaders, we need to care for individuals and respond in new ways to the changes and emotional challenges people are experiencing with more presence, flow, flexibility, and connection. Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., our Add Heart® Podcast host, and her guest Marilyn Tam discuss why, in our present environment, the heart needs to be part of a leadership role—whether we’re leading a company, a team or group, or a community. Marilyn Tam, former president of Reebok/CCM, former CEO of Aveda Corp. and voted one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers in the world by Inc. Magazine, discusses with Deborah the vital importance of adding heart to leadership.  Our world has changed, and people are far more inclined to do business with companies that, first and foremost, do good for their own people, their customers, clients, vendors, and the world. Deborah and Marilyn talk about why caring for people first needs to be a priority in all roles of leadership.  Anyone can be a heart-centered leader if they have the commitment to practice heart-based principles. Hear about some of the practical and evidence-based ways organizations are creating collaborative and innovative work environments that support and encourage coherent teams. Deborah closes the discussion with a heart-focused meditation that we can each practice to lift our personal commitment to lead from the heart.  More about our guest:Marilyn Tam, Ph.D., is a humanitarian, business leader, and author of the best-selling book The Happiness Choice, which was the 3rd most read book by businesses according to 800 CEO Read. She was formerly the CEO of Aveda Corp., President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group, Vice President of Nike Inc., and voted one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers in the world by Inc. Magazine. Marilyn was honored with the Tara Bodhisattva Award in 2017, conferred by the Living Saint of Thailand Venerable Mae Chee Sansanee, at the Sathira Dhammasathan in Bangkok for her compassion and humanitarian work.

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The Add Heart® Podcast is designed to inspire connecting with our heart’s intuitive suggestions and guidance, while learning to balance and enrich our personal life and our day-to-day experiences and interactions. Each 30 minute episode features host Deborah Rozman, HeartMath President and CEO and an expert guest. They discuss a restorative heart quality and ways to apply it that can empower your life and help reduce stress and anxiety. Our mission at HeartMath is to help activate the heart of humanity and the purpose of the Add Heart Podcast is to inspire forward movement and heart-powered intention. The content shared draws on 25 years of scientific research, HeartMath books, HeartMath techniques and time-relevant practices. Each episode closes with a heart-focused meditation to create a reservoir of heart energy to support our personal and collective heart intentions. New episodes are published on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. The Add Heart Podcast is available on most podcast sites such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher and many more. Be sure to subscribe so you can be notified when new episodes are available. Focusing on different topics and issues, Deborah and her guest highlight a restorative heart quality and how we can apply it. They'll draw from 25 years of scientific research conducted by the HeartMath Institute - and they’ll share time-relevant practices and HeartMath techniques. Each episode closes with a heart meditation to create a reservoir of collective heart energy that supports our individual intentions. The Add Heart podcast will help inspire and empower your life - and especially help you to minimize stress and anxiety.