Great leaders move us to greatness and inspire us to be at our best and move beyond it. Although they talk of strategy and competition, great leaders establish a deep emotional connection with others called resonance. They are literally in tune with others around them. Their own levels of emotional intelligence (EI) allow them to create and nurture these resonant relationships. They use their EI as a path to resonant leadership through mindfulness, hope, compassion, and playfulness.

These resonant relationships are key to the effectiveness of the relationship between helpers and those they seek to help, whether leader-follower, teacher-student, professor-student, doctor-patient, nurse-patient, coach-coachee, mentor-protégé, manager-subordinate, and likely parent-child and spouse/partner to spouse/partner.

These experiences of mindfulness, hope, compassion, and playfulness are essential to renewal of the human organism at the neurological, hormonal, emotional, and behavioral levels. Based on decades of research into emotional intelligence competencies and longitudinal studies in their development, Professor Richard Boyatzis will lead the audience through examples of how coaching with compassion is key to leadership development and more resonant relationships. He will describe recent fMRI studies on resonant versus dissonant leadership and coaching to the Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) versus the Negative Emotional Attractor (NEA), as well as recent doctor-patient studies showing that arousal of the PEA increased treatment adherence for Type II Diabetics.  He will explain why it is central to neuro-endocrine renewal in the human body (which is the only antidote to the ravages of chronic stress).