Systemic Leadership with Ram Ramanathan

For any sustainable growth to thrive there has to be a building of an ecosystem of conscious corporate leaders. Where there is an opportunity for people to open up and express themselves, there is shared learning and people become emotionally bonded together for a common goal. 

 

That is what this conscious leadership stands for. 

 

Ram Ramanathan has 40 years of global corporate leadership experience, 30 years of spiritual training with 7 years as trainee monk, 10 years as a leadership coach as the cofounder of Coacharya - a leading, award-winning, coaching company where its focus is in building an ecosystem of conscious corporate leaders. 

 

In this episode Ram shares his thoughts on why individual leaders find it difficult to align with organisational vision when their lenses change through coaching. He also pointed out the importance of learning from mistakes, and why we shouldn’t just revel in the knowledge we acquire, we need to gain wisdom from it.  

 

 

 

 

What you will learn from this episode: 

 

Discover the importance to democratize coaching to bring positive systemic change across the world Learn why for an organization it is important that leaders learn from mistakes Know what a systemic coach is and their responsibilities 

 

 

“The systemic approach is a means to an end. Mistakes need to be made because in any leadership development, a part of anyone becoming a leader is that they have to make mistakes and learn from them.” 

Ram Ramanathan 

 

 

Valuable Free Resource: 

 

Why Systemic Leadership Coaching? Check-out the blog at https://coacharya.com/blog/why-systemic-leadership-coaching 

 

Topics Covered: 

 

 01:39 - What is conscious leadership, conscious capitalism, or servant leadership? 

 

05:08 - Why is there a need for a systemic approach to leadership? 

 

10:01 - Why does he think people are not learning from history’s mistakes and keep repeating the same mistakes? 

 

12:04 - Actionable tip to help people learn from their mistakes 

 

15:10 - One free resource that can people understand the concept of the learning organization 

 

16:49 - What did he do as a spiritual seeker for a while? 

 

22:02 - Learning from ancient spirituality to align with Quantum Science 

 

 

 

 

Key Takeaways: 

 

 

“I coach CEOs. Because CEOs do not like to be coached, they know everything, they want others to change, they don't want to change themselves. I rarely found CEOs coming to me for any kind of input for changing themselves.” 

 

“People don't learn from their mistakes.”  

 

“As a corporate leader, I was never used to listening. I was used to telling people what to do. Fear was the key, but as a coach, it has that diametrically opposite kind of stuff. So I work with leaders today, to see how they can completely shift themselves.” 

 

Resources Mentioned: 

 

Otto Scharmer’s Theory: https://www.presencing.org 

 

Connect with Ram Ramanathan: 

 

Website: https://coacharya.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coacharya Twitter: https://twitter.com/coacharya Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Coacharya