Joe Loizzo - Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others, and Ignite Positive Change

PRAISE FOR

Boundless Leadership

This very practical book shows how to optimize your body, mind, and heart for twenty-first century leadership. From two master teachers, it is comprehensive, profoundand extraordinary.

RICK HANSON, PHD , bestselling author of Resilient and Hardwiring Happiness; Senior Fellow, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley

In this empowering synthesis of contemplative insights and the science of the brain and mind, Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan offer a guide to personal and professional leadership that helps us find deep inner resources of strength in ourselves and others. The approach of this guide to being an impactful, compassionate, and visionary leader is built upon cutting-edge science and inspired by the wisdom of meditative practice, providing us the best of rigorous research and heartfelt truths that can help us all to create a new world of compassion, connection, and creativity.

DANIEL J. SIEGEL, MD , bestselling author of Mindsight; clinical professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and executive director, Mindsight Institute

Boundless Leadership is a ground-breaking book that redefines what it means to be a true leader today. Rather than a superficial list of mundane and trite qualities found among great leaders, Boundless Leadership takes a deep dive into the leaders themselves to identify the critical characteristics that define authentic, mindful, and effective leadership in a world full of sloganeering. This book is as much for the leader as it is for those they lead. A unique and progressive take on the organization of the future, Joe and Elazar are to leadership what Demming was to quality. A must read for both current and aspiring leaders.

RON INSANA , senior analyst, CNBC

A breathtakingly original approach to leadership, both practical and visionary. Anyone who cares about our future and how leaders can help shape a better one will find Boundless Leadership a source of inspiration.

DANIEL GOLEMAN , author of Emotional Intelligence

Have you ever had a workplace that you just couldnt relate to? Boundless Leadership provides us with a road map to changeblending the heart, mind, and body to change how we relate to ourselves, bring authenticity, connect with others, and lead in the workplace.

SHARON SALZBERG , author of Lovingkindness and Real Change

In a world increasingly powered by connectedness, interdependence, and networks, the ability to shed historical win-lose thinking and embrace boundless leadership is critical for the success of any leader, organization, or society. The evidence-based approach and pragmatic techniques contained in Boundless Leadership combine to create a powerful handbook that guides the reader to successfully achieve this necessary and advanced approach to self-development and leadership.

BRAD D. SMITH , former CEO and executive chairman, Intuit

Boundless Leadership builds an understanding that leadership comes from within, that each of us can impact positive change in ourselves, our organizations, our personal lives, and even the world. It doesnt stop there; the book gives practical methods to shift thinking and behavior to achieve success. I cannot help but think how helpful this work would have been for my younger self.

BETH SHAPIRO , executive director, Citymeals on Wheels

There has never been a more appropriate time for this book. Leaders today struggle to transform, as they are defined by archaic stereotypes and presented with conventional approaches for improvement. Boundless Leadership delivers a path for those ready for self-exploration and to begin their own personal journeys of transformation. The practical methods offered by Elazar and Joe apply to the leaders in all of us and transcend our personal and professional lives. The future of authentic and empathetic leadership starts here. For those who embrace it, the positive impact in your lives, organizations, communities, and the world are endless.

FIONA BRUDER , president, Americas, George P. Johnson Experience Marketing

Boundless Leadership is a deeply comprehensive and science-backed manifesto for enlightened leadershipan essential manual for leaders, change-makers and anyone who wants to make a difference and develop their full potential.

EMMA SEPPL, PHD , author of The Happiness Track

We take as a given that professional athletes practice their sport based on years of research into the optimal way to build muscle, skill, and motivation. Boundless Leadership is the training manual for professional leaders, combining neuroscience and psychology to provide pragmatic and effective skill development that will have a huge impact on you and your organization.

BRIAN OKELLEY , Serial Entrepreneur, Technologist, and Angel Investor

Boundless Leadership fearlessly proclaims how to place human dignity and joy at the very center of the twenty-first century workplace. Clear, practical, and seasoned, Elazar and Joe use their decades of business experience and transformational practice to challenge, guide, inspire, and advise. Their guidance is urgent; their insights are vital; their wisdom is refreshing!

MICHAEL CARROLL , author of The Mindful Leader and Awake at Work

Joe and Elazar have written a book that isnt just another leadership manual that offers new wrapping for the same old concepts of how to lead. This book is a guide for how to shift your whole being to uncover the compassionate wise leader within you. They lay out a clear and actionable plan for training the mind, body, and heart, and I am certain it will help all those who read it find the boundless potential they might not have even known they possess.

ERIN L. OLIVO, PHD, MPH , cofounder and executive clinical director, Center for Wise Mind Living

Boundless Leadership uses the latest findings in science and a finely engineered architecture along with tools and practices to guide you on a journey of transformation. If you do just some of the work, expect a massive shift in your leadership, of self and others.

ELENA GRINEV , head of Solution Delivery, Shell New Energies

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2021 by Joseph Loizzo and Elazar Aslan

Cover art: Oleksandr Slobodianiuk/iStock

Cover design: Pete Garceau

Interior design: Kate Huber-Parker

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Shambhala Publications is distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House, Inc., and its subsidiaries.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Title: Boundless leadership: the breakthrough method to realize your vision,

empower others, and ignite positive change / Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD and

Elazar Aslan, MBA, PCC; edited by Alice Peck.

Description: First edition. | Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2021016137 | ISBN 9781611809213 (hardback)

eISBN 9780834843813

Subjects: LCSH : Leadership. | Management.

Classification: LCC HD 57.7 . L 645 2021 | DDC 658.4/092dc23