As founder of Fair Voyage, there are many people I’ve learnt and drawn advice from. When I’m thinking of the kind of ideal conscious leaders that I believe the world needs to build massively impactful businesses, I aspire to combine the best of the following 3 individuals as role models:
At the start of my impact journey, when I was still working in finance, reading Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen, inspired me to become a social entrepreneur. Like Jacqueline, I aspire to do what’s right, not what’s easy, and follow the leadership role models for holistically sustainable solutions that she advocates in her Manifesto for a Moral Revolution.
On a more practical basis, I’ve been benefiting greatly from the personal videos and talks of Vishen Lakhiani as founder of MindValley, the world’s fastest growing personal growth company. Vishen combines his business-savvy engineering background with the power of meditation and consciousness re-engineering—The Buddha and the Badass—to create massive positive impact. That’s exactly what I also aspire to do with Fair Voyage.
And finally, Richard Branson’s Lessons in Life, including “Live life to the full” and “Have fun”, help me believe that I can achieve the impossible whilst living a fun and healthy life.
We have too many past and present leaders who sacrificed their own health and relationships to create the change they wanted to see. This deters people from stepping into a leadership role, because we believe in a binary world of either or—either we make a massive impact, or we live a good life. I was also struggling with this self-limiting belief, but now I understand it doesn’t have to be that way.
Nowadays, we benefit from break-through neuroscience and a rapidly emerging consciousness revolution. Research proves that we are our most creative and impactful when we also invest in our physical and mental health. This includes getting enough sleep, physical exercise, mindfulness practices and plenty of recovery time off work. But we need more role models who share their experience, so more people see that this is possible and thereby fundamentally change their own beliefs.
By striving to become an exemplary role model as a conscious leader—creating massive positive impact whilst building a profitable business and whilst building an amazing life—I hope to inspire many more people to also follow their hearts and be the change that we need.
