Heart intelligence:

inhibitors and levers

Heart Leadership University’s educative pilot program “Straight from the heart” has been designed as a transformative process for business leaders (developing a leadership driven by the intelligence of the heart, adopting new ways to manage, to innovate and to make strategic decisions).
We partnered with the IPBC (International Panel on Behavioral Change) to perform an 18-months long assessment of the impacts of the program on participating leaders and their companies, as well as to identify the obstacles & pre-conditions needed for Heart Leadership to occur.

IPBC has been grounded in 2018 as an international and large interdisciplinary group of scientists (from psychology, sociology to a large array of human and social sciences), aiming at building and sharing key knowledge, attitudes and levers for action, universal or contextualizable, as to facilitate the emergence of a more structurally and spontaneously sustainable, desirable and equitable world.

HLU aims that its new pilot exec program becomes a deeply transformative journey. Leadership practice can evolve significantly by using daily one’s “heart intelligence” (HI) which includes, among others: intuition, empathy, active listening, courage, consideration of emotions … The goal of the program is not only to develop HI as an essential and complementary leadership skill, but also to translate it into concrete actions of participating business leaders.
In this context, the IPBC contribution aims to:

  • Provide elements of conceptual and operational answers to these questions;
  • Evaluate the impacts of the program on the evolutions in the attitudes of the participants with regard to taking into account HI in leadership, in all its facets: emotional intelligence, empathy, intuition, ability to listen to/let your intuition speak, courage (to speak truthfully, to be yourself, to be aligned with your values, to make difficult decisions, etc.);
  • Evaluate the impacts of the course (development of the HI and its attributes in the participants) on the professional practices of the participants, the status that the criteria of the HI takes in their decisions; their desire and intention to implement learning from the journey in their work;
  • Analyze the transformation process itself in a process of continuous improvement of the methods used within the framework of HLU, in order to then make it more easily replicable.