New Global Mind #9 Leading in Chaos with Amy Elizabeth Fox CEO Mobius Executive Leadership

Unprocessed trauma is a governance risk — especially in times of sustained uncertainty.

But there is a second, often unspoken dimension of leadership in complexity:
the capacity to access deeper judgement, intuition, and purpose — the “hidden chamber” that sits beneath the surface of rational decision-making.

In this conversation, Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO Mobius Executive Leadership and I explore both.

We discuss how unprocessed trauma at senior levels manifests as reactivity, short-termism, control dynamics, and fragmented execution — ultimately undermining decision quality, trust, and resilience.

And we examine the other side of the equation: how leaders who are internally coherent are better able to access signal in the noise — to sense direction, align action over time, and lead with clarity in conditions that cannot be fully analysed.

Rather than treating inner work/vertical development as a personal or cultural add-on, we reframe it as a foundational input into executive judgement and system-level performance.

In a BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible) world, leadership maturity is not a “soft” capability — it directly shapes risk, execution, and long-term strategic coherence.

This conversation addresses one critical dimension of leadership capability. Vertical development is essential for the evolution of the mind towards a synthetic strategic level — a level of capability required to perceive and shape the transition to a clean economy within planetary and system constraints.

This sits at the core of the New Global Mind inquiry.

The session is available on all major podcast platforms:
Spotify https://lnkd.in/eWYFCtnw
Youtube https://lnkd.in/evnexrpN

Congratulations to Amy and her co-author Nicholas Janni on the launch of their new book Leading in Chaos — an important contribution to this conversation.