Sonja Klopčič is a leadership expert, innovator, entrepreneur, and author of several books including “The AEIOU of Leadership: Five Approaches to Leadership for Tomorrow”. Sonja is currently an independent business consultant who specializes in leadership development for conscious organizations. She is also a mentor and coach to leaders, executives, and managers, and founder of the Global Community of AEIOU Leaders whose mission is to support leaders who lead from love, purpose and inspiration in order to create prosperity for all. In the past, Sonja has created and managed several companies in Slovenia in multiple fields of business, and she has been recognized with many industry awards in both entrepreneurship and innovation.
In this episode, Sonja explains how she came to understand through her various roles in business that the current systems in which we live and work are not serving humanity and no longer support life in general. An engineer by training, Sonja has always had an insatiable curiosity to understand her own mindset as well as the motivations that drive today’s leaders and organizations to think and behave like machines. This curiosity is what drives her lifelong journey of exploration to study human and organizational dynamics, consciousness, cultures, and ancient wisdoms from around the world.
Early in her journey, Sonja began to see patterns and, working with other experts in Slovenia such as Violeta Bulc, recognized that organizations evolve through four stages: from ‘working’ (hierarchical) to ‘learning’ (knowledge) to ‘thinking’ (creativity where innovation is a value add) to ‘conscious’ (participation from all in leadership). She found that, in order to solve today’s challenges, we need to build conscious organizations. To do so, the leap to conscious leadership must be made which involves a comprehensive transformation of our manner of observing, perceiving, feeling, thinking, and acting.
Sonja created a powerful leadership development code using a deliberate combination of words and colors carrying timeless wisdom from our ancient ancestors across five continents. This code, with the acronym AEIOU, supports leaders in their journey to create conscious organizations. When put into practice, these five powerful words - Aroha (love), Eb (interconnectivity), Ikigai (purpose), Oikos (responsibility), and Ubuntu (relationships) - help leaders develop their mental, emotional and spiritual intelligences that are necessary for effective leadership transformation, and to better collaborate and co-create our new sustainable future together.
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