TESTIMONIALS
“When an organization commits to meaningful change, its leaders face very challenging choices every day. The Wise Advocate is about what happens in those moments and how the best leaders move their cultures forward.”
Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor,
The Critical Few and The Wisdom of Teams
“To strike [the] balance between a wider perspective and the details, practice using your ‘Wise Advocate’ — a term described by Art Kleiner, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, and Josie Thomson…
These practices will help you answer critical questions in a transformation, such as: What is this organization here to do? What impact could we have if we reached our potential? What do we need to leave behind to make progress?”
David Lancefield and Christian Rangen,
”4 Actions Transformational Leaders Take,”
Harvard Business Review
I have had the most amazing Neuroscience of Leadership workshop with Josie Thomson. It provided great insight into effective leadership, performance discussion and getting the best and most out of your staff. Josie is very engaging and her knowledge in this subject is extraordinary. You will not regret your investment.
Tamara B., HR Consultant, Department of Justice, Queensland
“Art Kleiner has a superb facilitation style; a remarkable ability to hold the space. I appreciated how he honored peoples’ requests, giving them thought and consideration, yet keeping us moving as a group through the information we all wanted to hear, know, and understand. ”
Program participant
The workshop with [Art] Kleiner is giving me permission to think and talk about strategic leadership.... If we are to be good stewards of the resources we control, and the power that’s been delegated to us, we ought not squander our energies on that which doesn’t work.
Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean,
Andover Newton Seminary, Yale Divinity School,
”Reconsidering Strategic Thinking,” Medium
“Josie, congratulations on a beautifully delivered workshop. You covered a complex topic in a way that I found highly engaging and memorable. What a gift you have given today to our emerging and current leaders.”
Ian Hall, Executive Leader, Urban Utilities, Australia
“I am imagining how I can engage in a more strategic “high ground” mode of leadership with my team. I also plan to rework some of how I use applied mindfulness in my own teaching practice.”
Strategic Leadership program participant
“The Wise Advocate wants to help you avoid the terrible habits that keep you locked into habitual thinking… I’m talking about impulsive thoughts, terrible decision making and paying too much attention to horrible mental content that arises in memory…. Jeffrey Schwartz, Josie Thomson and Art Kleiner provide simple ways to overcome impulsive thinking and create greater leadership in your life and for others. ”
Anthony Metivier, Magnetic Memory Method podcast host
and CEO of Advanced Education Methodologies
