Crystal Fernando, founder of What Box Partners and author of Unapologetically Human, on the brain science behind stability, agility, and better leadership decisions.
Crystal spent 15 years at InterContinental Hotels Group and teaches brain based strategies at Emory University. She tells Greg Aden that over 90 percent of our decisions happen below conscious awareness, which means most of us are adapting to a faster world without ever being in the driver's seat of that adaptation. She walks through the first half of her SIM framework, safety, intention, and mindset, and explains why she calls stability the base camp of any journey and why performance emerges from the right conditions rather than from chasing it.
The conversation also covers the difference between a problem and a paradox, why stressed brains default to binary thinking and picking a side, how she presses leaders past a pile of values words to what those values look like in practice, and her belief that the next era of leadership means balancing stability and agility while holding more than one truth at a time. Her motto: slow down to show up strong.
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