Conscious Leadership

20 Aug, 2025

"The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success” (by Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer and Kaley Klemp) are designed to help leaders shift from fear-based, reactive leadership to conscious, self-aware, and empowered leadership.

Responsibility

1. Taking Radical Responsibility

I commit to taking full responsibility for the circumstances of my life and my physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

2. Learning Through Curiosity

I commit to growing in self-awareness and learning through curiosity rather than defensiveness or needing to be right.

3. Feeling My Feelings

I commit to feeling my feelings all the way through to completion—emotions are neither good nor bad; they just are.

4. Speaking Candidly

I commit to saying what is true for me and allowing others to say what is true for them.

5. Eliminating Gossip

I commit to ending gossip, talking directly to people with whom I have an issue or concern, and encouraging others to do the same.

Integrity

6. Practicing Integrity

I commit to practicing impeccable integrity, including keeping my agreements and being whole and undivided.

7. Generating Appreciation

I commit to a life of appreciation and gratitude, seeing the value in myself and others.

8. Excelling in My Zone of Genius

I commit to living in my Zone of Genius, and to supporting others to do the same.

9. Living a Life of Play and Rest

I commit to creating a life of play, rest, and rejuvenation, and to supporting others to do the same.

10. Exploring the Opposite

I commit to seeing that the opposite of my story is as true (or truer) than my original story.

Authenticity

11. Sourcing Approval, Control, and Security from Within

I commit to sourcing approval, control, and security from within myself.

12. Having Enough of Everything

I commit to experiencing that I have enough of everything—including time, money, love, energy, space, and resources.

13. Experiencing the World as an Ally

I commit to seeing all people and circumstances as allies that are perfectly suited to help me learn the most important things for my growth.

14. Creating Win for All Solutions

I commit to creating win-for-all solutions, where everyone gets their needs met and everyone wins.

15. Being the Resolution

I commit to being the source of resolution, seeing that the issue is never “out there.”