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Improving the CEO’s Brain
How to Optimize your Brainto Realize your Full Leadership Potential
CEO ClubDallas
October 20, 2009
Center for Leadership Performance
Agenda
1. Leadership Development Today1. Leadership Development Today
2. Center for Leadership Performance2. Center for Leadership Performance
3. Results of our Programs3. Results of our Programs
4. Optimizing the Brain Demonstration4. Optimizing the Brain Demonstration
5. Corporate Case Study - Bridgewater5. Corporate Case Study - Bridgewater
6. Q&A6. Q&A
Leadership Development Gap
Existing leadership development programs are not enough for sustainable long-term growth and development of leaders
Millions spent annually on LD programs, but pessimism on their use and very little evidence on what transfers to the job
75% of CEOs identified improving leadership talent as a top business priority¹
Only 41% of CEOs are satisfied with what their organizations offered to help them develop leadership skills (12% decline since 2007)¹
More than one-third¹ of all new leaders fail due to a lack of: Leadership skills - facilitating change, building a team, and coaching
Interpersonal skills - building relationships, networking, and communicating
¹ Development Dimensions International - “Global Leadership Forecast 2008-2009”
Leadership depends on Self-Development
Effective leadership requires a wide range of
capabilities:Critical and creative thinking
Self-efficacy and inner locus of control
Decisiveness
Interpersonal competencies to resolve conflict
constructively and build team spirit
Vision
Leadership capacities are primarily a function of a
single comprehensive dimension: self-
development
Advanced self-development in the context of our
knowledge economy and networked organizations
is fundamental to realize effective leadership
Psychological Development
Advancing Enlightened Leadership
TranscendentalConsciousness
Leadership as a Function of Development of Consciousness (see Notes)
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Center for Leadership Performance
The Center for Leadership Performance provides individuals and organizations with customized training courses in the Transcendental Meditation program
As our clients grow to higher stages of development, their enhanced cognitive, interpersonal, and ethical capacities make them more capable of envisioning progressive solutions and implementing them in their organizations
Results validated by 40 years of research at top medical schools and by the experiences of tens of thousands of meditating professionals
U.S. medical schools that have conducted research:
•Harvard Medical School
•Yale Medical School
•University of Virginia Medical Center
•University of Chicago Medical School
•University of Michigan Medical School
•UCLA Medical School
•University of Southern California Medical School
•Stanford Medical School
•University of California at San Francisco Medical School
ROI within 4 months
Employees who learned the TM Program showed, over a four-month study period, significant increase in a composite scale of leadership behavior (LPI), in contrast to controls.
Increased Leadership Behavior in Employees
Career Development International 4: 149–154, 1999
Increased Self-Actualization
Self-Actualization increases 3
times more with TM than with
other meditation techniques
Improved Workplace Relations
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping 6 (1993): 245–262.Academy of Management Journal 17 (1974): 362–368
More Innovative Thinking
Journal of Creative Behavior 19 (1985): 270–275; 13 (1979): 169–180
Using standard tests of Creative Thinking, TM practitioners score higher on figural originality and
flexibility, and on verbal creativity
Enhanced Job Performance
Anxiety, Stress, and Coping 6 (1993): 245–262.Academy of Management Journal 17 (1974): 362–368
Executives and workers in the auto industry after 3 months of the TM Program:
Scientifically Proven Results
• The most researched program of self-development with 600 scientific studies at 250 universities and research institutes in 33 countries
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted more than $25 million over the past 20 years to study the effects of the TM program and other related programs on cardiovascular disease
The Unified Field
What is Consciousness?
EEG Brainwave Coherence
Eyes Closed TM Practice
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 116, 1519-38 (2006); Biological Psychology, 61, 293-319 (2002); Consciousness & Cognition, 8(3), 302-18 (1999); Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology, 35 (1973); International Journal of Neuroscience 14: 147–151, 1981.
Deeper Physiological Relaxation
American Psychologist [42] 879-81, 1987
Meta-Analysis of 32 existing studies
Reducing Chronic Anxiety
Meta-Analysis of 146 existing studies comparing the effectivenessof various relaxation techniques for reducing trait anxiety
Reducing High Blood PressureMeta-Analysis of 28 studies comparing the effectivenessof different approaches to normalizing high blood pressure
Reducing High Blood PressureNIH-funded study of hypertensive African-Americans
11mm reduction in BP, which is about the same as average reductions seen with drug treatment for high BP
Education Control
Progressive Muscle Relax.
Hemisphere, 291-312, 1992
56% Less Hospitalization
Psychosomatic Medicine 49: 493-507, 1987
87% Less Heart Disease
55% Less Cancer
87% Less Nervous Sys. Disease
70% Less for those 40+ yrs
Hospital Admissions for TM meditators aged 40+ is 70% less than for non-meditators
Reduced Physician Expenses
$165
$185
$205
$225
$245
$265
$285
$305
$325
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Years
TM
NonTM
TM Start
n = 159
n = 159
Longitudinal Study on Reduced Medical Expenditure of over-65s practicing TM
Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 2005; 17: 415–442 p = .0001
Improved Metabolic Syndrome
Effects of TM on Metabolic Syndrome: A Precursor to Diabetes & Heart Disease
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2006, 166: 1218-1224
Improved Chronic Illnesses
Alleviation of Symptoms through Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health
Reduced Cigarette UseMeta-Analysis of 131 studies of various prevention
and treatment programs for cigarette use
Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 11: 13–87, 1994
Reversal of the Aging Process
International Journal of Neuroscience, 1986
Younger Biological Age
Measuring Brainwave Coherence
EEG: Electro-encephalographShows electrical activity produced by the firing of neurons and reveals the level of integration of brain functioning
EEG Brainwave Coherence
Eyes Closed TM Practice
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 116, 1519-38 (2006); Biological Psychology, 61, 293-319 (2002); Consciousness & Cognition, 8(3), 302-18 (1999); Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology, 35 (1973); International Journal of Neuroscience 14: 147–151, 1981.
Optimal Brain FunctioningHigh EEG coherence significantly correlates with:
International Journal of Neuroscience 13 (1981): 211–217; 15 (1981): 151–157
Increased Neurological Efficiency
The Only Program to Increase IQ
Development of Intelligence in College Students
Personality and Individual Differences 12: 1105-1116, 1991
Holistic Intellectual Improvement
Intelligence 29 (2001): 419–440
Significant improvement in five measures of intellectual performance
The ‘CEO’ of the Brain
NORMAL BRAIN STRESSED BRAIN
FunctionalLesions
Fred Travis, Ph.D.
Bridgewater Associates
Ray Dalio• President, CIO• Founded firm at age 25• #65 in Forbes’ 400 Richest Americans 2009• “TM is the single most important reason for
whatever success I’ve had”
• World's largest hedge fund• Manages $67 billion• Returned 14% in 2008 before
fees, amid market turmoil• Over 100 employees learned
the TM Program in 2008
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Ramani Ayer, The Hartford
Ramani Ayer• Chairman & CEO• The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.
• “I have been practicing TM for over 30 years. It has certainly helped me consistently raise my performance levels and maintain a steady state of mind—it has given me equanimity no matter what happens.”
Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D.
Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D.• Women’s Health Specialist• Author, The Ageless Woman
• “When you meditate, job stress affects you less, and that has immediate benefits for your health and happiness. It also naturally follows that you enjoy your work more, are more productive.
• You don’t carry stress from the office home with you. You’ve better relationships with your family and friends.
Bob Jones
Bob Jones• Managing Director, CIO• Major NY investment bank
• “TM gives you the clarity of mind to realize: ‘These are the things I need to do, and these are the things that are less important.’
• By being more settled and focused, you end up with more time than you would without meditation.”
Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons• Founder, Def Jam Music • One of the “Top 25 Most Influential
People of the Past 25 Years”(USA Today)
• “Comprehension comes from stillness. Focus comes from stillness. TM is the practice for touching that stillness for a few minutes twice a day.”
David Lynch
David Lynch• Director, Artist• Author, “Catching the Big Fish”
• “Transcendental Meditation is a simple, effortless way to ‘dive within,’ to experience an ocean of pure consciousness, pure creativity, pure knowingness. I’ve never missed a meditation in 34 years.”