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Shownotes Giles Hutchins, who is at the forefront of a necessary revolution, guest lectures at leading universities and business schools and is a keynote speaker at conferences. He uses consciousness-raising techniques, deep-dive nature immersions, ancient wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge research to work with business leaders creating the conditions for their organizations to become vibrant and future-fit. Giles is Chairman of The Future Fit Leadership Academy, a community of forward-thinking practitioners. He is Chairman of the Future Fit Leadership Academy, lead partner of The Natural Business Partnership, co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, co-founder of Regenerators.co, and partner/associate with a number of pioneering organizations including The Global Leaders Academy and The Laszlo New Paradigm Research Institute. He writes the blog, The Nature of Business, and has written three books: The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014), Future Fit (2016) and Regenerative Leadership (2019) as its co-author. He holds an MSc in Business Systems, a BSc in Finance, Valuation and Property, a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Leadership, Global Leadership Development GOLD certification, Advanced Coaching certification, Analytic Coaching Network practitioner, Human Emergence Framework trained, Solonomic and 5 Deep Holistic Leadership trained, Way of Council trained, and Reiki Master certification. Giles is member of various professional associations including The Institute of Directors, The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, and The Royal Society of Arts. Giles Hutchins websiteThe Academy website Giles’s mission: “Help humanity reconnect with nature’s wisdom, and in particular by activating the logic-of-life for leaders.” Giles’s one-line message to the world: “What is within us is within everything. And let’s learn to open our eyes, our ears, and our body-mind to the song-lines and the synchronicities of life so that we learn to read the book of life, to co-create and participate with the book of life, and in so doing step into what it means to be truly human.” The SUE Speaks Blog Post about Giles Hutchins Talking points from this episode Need for new vision for humanity Change education to be transformative -- “bringing forth what is within us” How nature works to motivate humanity Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who say that “If you want to build a ship, don't assign people tasks or break the, up into teems, Instead, teach them to long for the immensity of the sea.” The mythos and the logos -- A story of separation shifting into a story of reconnection and regeneration Don’t use yesterday’s logic (top down, mechanistic, masculine) to solve today’s issues Leadership development -- connecting with natural world and their deeper nature. Working with root cause. Kindness pervading the world. Simple practices that enable us to open-up and deepen self-discovery -- sitting around the campfire How interconnected everything is -- since Einstein, Max Plank, and David Bohm, participating in a field of consciousness rather than self-preservation/self-maximization A trip through history. First, we were attuned to nature. 300-400 years ago started a mechanistic approach, story of separation – focus on parts and not whole Wave of change last 20 years --from maximizing shareholder returns to enhancing stakeholder value (all of us). Approaches to organizations and social systems and political structures to enhance a new way Anne Baring: lunar to solar (from being in nature to supplicating to God outside ourselves) – background that we need to understand Donella Meadows: worldview is where we make the most leverage for system change Regenerative Leadership -- living-systems logic – learning to be in right relation to life, not stuffing in behavior top down but emerge from within Jesus: If we bring forth what is within us, then will save us.