The science of Heart Work™

Humans express themselves through a variety of behaviors, emotions, and communication. Heart Work is a leadership model that reflects how heart-centered leaders express themselves in life, love, and leadership. Why is this important to an organization? It's pretty simple; leaders lead how they live and love. Learn more about how organizations can leverage science, while equipping leaders to be designers of healthy, safe, and high-performing cultures.

Heart 

Our physical heart contains its own independent nervous system, or “heart-brain,” of approximately 40,000 neurons that can sense, feel, learn and remember. The heart-brain sends information to the big brain about how the body feels. - Daniel Amen, M.D.






Mind

Recent advances in neuroscience are cluing us in on why and how humans respond to certain kinds of environments and stimuli and how that impacts daily behavior. It’s telling us that the hardwiring in our brain doesn’t fundamentally need more money or fun company perks.  - Don Rheem, "What Does Neuroscience Have To Do With Leadership?"




Wellness

High workloads and time pressures as part of job demands have shown to be correlated with higher amounts of exhaustion and disengagement in nurses (Demerouti et al., 2000). Demerouti et al. goes on to explain how different job conditions induce stress reactions and can in turn decrease overall life satisfaction. A way to combat this is for supervisors to create a healthy work environment and to promote a joint role in decision making. - Haley Griffin, "Leadership and its Effects on Employee Wellness and Morale"