Spiritual Intelligence with Distinguished Psychologist Yosi Amram

Transformative leadership goes beyond emotional intelligence—it requires spiritual intelligence. In this episode, Dr. Yosi Amram, a distinguished psychologist and executive coach, introduces spiritual intelligence as essential for effective leadership. He emphasizes virtues like purpose, service, gratitude, compassion, and integrity, showing how they enhance well-being and leadership.

Dr. Amram’s research with diverse leaders reveals that these qualities are universally valued. He shares personal stories, illustrating how spiritually intelligent leadership infuses daily interactions with meaning, presence, and wisdom. True leadership, he argues, starts with self-leadership and aligning with inner values.

Dr. Amram offers practical advice for maintaining spiritual intelligence amid external pressures, focusing on long-term goals, and building resilience. He highlights the benefits of spiritually intelligent leadership, including higher team commitment and better morale.

This episode calls for redefining leadership by grounding it in deeper values and promoting a humane and inspired approach to business and personal development.

Quotes

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“A study by Bain & Company, one of the top consulting firms in the world, has found that inspired employees are twice as productive as people that are just doing their jobs. And they identified 33 qualities that lead to inspiring leadership. And what were those qualities? It was servanthood, humility, presence, centeredness, empathy, listening ability, compassion, and so on. Most of those qualities match very closely to the qualities that came out in my research around spiritually intelligent leadership. So what is spiritually intelligent leadership? Spiritually intelligent leadership is the ability to embody and bring these qualities into our being, into how we conduct ourselves and the kind of teams that we build.” (08:26 | Dr. Yosi Amram)

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“Alignment means to live in integrity. We have to be in contact with our essence, with our spirit, because when we’re not aligned, then we’re divided. And that means we lose our power. So when we’re out of integrity with ourselves, with our spirit, with our core values, we’re actually weakened.” (18:59 | Dr. Yosi Amram)

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“We’re not talking about spirituality as an experience or as a belief system, but we’re talking about the embodiment of values that have now been validated in the fields of positive psychology and leadership—things like integrity, purpose, meaning, gratitude, and compassion to be very helpful in daily life. So my hope is that in the next 10 or 20 years, spiritual intelligence will be broadly understood as a valuable concept in our daily life, at home, at work, and everything else.” (45:01 | Dr. Yosi Amram)

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