I’d like to begin this episode by acknowledging the land that I am learning and living on is the traditional unceded, un-surrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People.

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Toxic Leadership. It’s a disease that destroys teams with a ruthless efficiency, often happening before anyone even realizes the damage has been done.

So how do we avoid toxic leadership? How can we ensure we aren’t the toxic leader? And what do we do if we find ourselves and our teams in an environment where the leader is toxic in nature?

In this episode, you’ll hear from Marika Messager, a consciousness researcher, who will define toxic leadership and help us recognize when we are in a toxic team, with a toxic leader.  Marika will also offer advice to countering a toxic leader help ensure we don’t become the toxic leader.

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Marika’s Episode Links:
1. website: https://consciousleadership.org/
2. Podcast guest episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conscious-leadership-create-a-conscious-world/id1590870145?i=1000604287575
3. Podcast guest episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/91-what-conscious-leadership-means-and-why-it-matters/id1497554597?i=1000533320755
4. Podcast guest episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/learning-rewired-04-conscious-leadership-with-marika/id1489528648?i=1000554100705

Marika’s Recommended Book/Movie List:
Books:
1. Conscious Capitalism- John Mackey and Raj Sisodia
2. The Intuitive Body Discovering the Wisdom of Conscious Embodiment and Aikido- Wendy Palmer

 
Videos:
1. TED Talk My Stroke of Insight- Jill Boy

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