Improving the CEO’s Brain

How to Optimize your Brainto Realize your Full Leadership Potential

CEO ClubDallas

October 20, 2009

Center for Leadership Performance

Agenda

1. Leadership Development Today1. Leadership Development Today

2. Center for Leadership Performance2. Center for Leadership Performance

3. Results of our Programs3. Results of our Programs

4. Optimizing the Brain Demonstration4. Optimizing the Brain Demonstration

5. Corporate Case Study - Bridgewater5. Corporate Case Study - Bridgewater

6. Q&A6. Q&A

Leadership Development Gap

Existing leadership development programs are not enough for sustainable long-term growth and development of leaders

Millions spent annually on LD programs, but pessimism on their use and very little evidence on what transfers to the job

75% of CEOs identified improving leadership talent as a top business priority¹

Only 41% of CEOs are satisfied with what their organizations offered to help them develop leadership skills (12% decline since 2007)¹

More than one-third¹ of all new leaders fail due to a lack of: Leadership skills - facilitating change, building a team, and coaching

Interpersonal skills - building relationships, networking, and communicating

¹ Development Dimensions International - “Global Leadership Forecast 2008-2009”

Leadership depends on Self-Development

Effective leadership requires a wide range of

capabilities:Critical and creative thinking

Self-efficacy and inner locus of control

Decisiveness

Interpersonal competencies to resolve conflict

constructively and build team spirit

Vision

Leadership capacities are primarily a function of a

single comprehensive dimension: self-

development

Advanced self-development in the context of our

knowledge economy and networked organizations

is fundamental to realize effective leadership

Psychological Development

Advancing Enlightened Leadership

TranscendentalConsciousness

Leadership as a Function of Development of Consciousness (see Notes)

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Center for Leadership Performance

The Center for Leadership Performance provides individuals and organizations with customized training courses in the Transcendental Meditation program

As our clients grow to higher stages of development, their enhanced cognitive, interpersonal, and ethical capacities make them more capable of envisioning progressive solutions and implementing them in their organizations

Results validated by 40 years of research at top medical schools and by the experiences of tens of thousands of meditating professionals

U.S. medical schools that have conducted research:

•Harvard Medical School

•Yale Medical School

•University of Virginia Medical Center

•University of Chicago Medical School

•University of Michigan Medical School

•UCLA Medical School

•University of Southern California Medical School

•Stanford Medical School

•University of California at San Francisco Medical School

ROI within 4 months

Employees who learned the TM Program showed, over a four-month study period, significant increase in a composite scale of leadership behavior (LPI), in contrast to controls.

Increased Leadership Behavior in Employees

Career Development International 4: 149–154, 1999

Increased Self-Actualization

Self-Actualization increases 3

times more with TM than with

other meditation techniques

Improved Workplace Relations

Anxiety, Stress, and Coping 6 (1993): 245–262.Academy of Management Journal 17 (1974): 362–368

More Innovative Thinking

Journal of Creative Behavior 19 (1985): 270–275; 13 (1979): 169–180

Using standard tests of Creative Thinking, TM practitioners score higher on figural originality and

flexibility, and on verbal creativity

Enhanced Job Performance

Anxiety, Stress, and Coping 6 (1993): 245–262.Academy of Management Journal 17 (1974): 362–368

Executives and workers in the auto industry after 3 months of the TM Program:

Scientifically Proven Results

• The most researched program of self-development with 600 scientific studies at 250 universities and research institutes in 33 countries

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted more than $25 million over the past 20 years to study the effects of the TM program and other related programs on cardiovascular disease

The Unified Field

What is Consciousness?

EEG Brainwave Coherence

Eyes Closed TM Practice

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 116, 1519-38 (2006); Biological Psychology, 61, 293-319 (2002); Consciousness & Cognition, 8(3), 302-18 (1999); Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology, 35 (1973); International Journal of Neuroscience 14: 147–151, 1981.

Deeper Physiological Relaxation

American Psychologist [42] 879-81, 1987

Meta-Analysis of 32 existing studies

Reducing Chronic Anxiety

Meta-Analysis of 146 existing studies comparing the effectivenessof various relaxation techniques for reducing trait anxiety

Reducing High Blood PressureMeta-Analysis of 28 studies comparing the effectivenessof different approaches to normalizing high blood pressure

Reducing High Blood PressureNIH-funded study of hypertensive African-Americans

11mm reduction in BP, which is about the same as average reductions seen with drug treatment for high BP

Education Control

Progressive Muscle Relax.

Hemisphere, 291-312, 1992

56% Less Hospitalization

Psychosomatic Medicine 49: 493-507, 1987

87% Less Heart Disease

55% Less Cancer

87% Less Nervous Sys. Disease

70% Less for those 40+ yrs

Hospital Admissions for TM meditators aged 40+ is 70% less than for non-meditators

Reduced Physician Expenses

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$205

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TM

NonTM

TM Start

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Longitudinal Study on Reduced Medical Expenditure of over-65s practicing TM

Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 2005; 17: 415–442 p = .0001

Improved Metabolic Syndrome

Effects of TM on Metabolic Syndrome: A Precursor to Diabetes & Heart Disease

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2006, 166: 1218-1224

Improved Chronic Illnesses

Alleviation of Symptoms through Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health

Reduced Cigarette UseMeta-Analysis of 131 studies of various prevention

and treatment programs for cigarette use

Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 11: 13–87, 1994

Reversal of the Aging Process

International Journal of Neuroscience, 1986

Younger Biological Age

Measuring Brainwave Coherence

EEG: Electro-encephalographShows electrical activity produced by the firing of neurons and reveals the level of integration of brain functioning

EEG Brainwave Coherence

Eyes Closed TM Practice

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 116, 1519-38 (2006); Biological Psychology, 61, 293-319 (2002); Consciousness & Cognition, 8(3), 302-18 (1999); Electroencephalography & Clinical Neurophysiology, 35 (1973); International Journal of Neuroscience 14: 147–151, 1981.

Optimal Brain FunctioningHigh EEG coherence significantly correlates with:

International Journal of Neuroscience 13 (1981): 211–217; 15 (1981): 151–157

Increased Neurological Efficiency

The Only Program to Increase IQ

Development of Intelligence in College Students

Personality and Individual Differences 12: 1105-1116, 1991

Holistic Intellectual Improvement

Intelligence 29 (2001): 419–440

Significant improvement in five measures of intellectual performance

The ‘CEO’ of the Brain

NORMAL BRAIN STRESSED BRAIN

FunctionalLesions

Fred Travis, Ph.D.

Bridgewater Associates

Ray Dalio• President, CIO• Founded firm at age 25• #65 in Forbes’ 400 Richest Americans 2009• “TM is the single most important reason for

whatever success I’ve had”

• World's largest hedge fund• Manages $67 billion• Returned 14% in 2008 before

fees, amid market turmoil• Over 100 employees learned

the TM Program in 2008

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Ramani Ayer, The Hartford

Ramani Ayer• Chairman & CEO• The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

• “I have been practicing TM for over 30 years. It has certainly helped me consistently raise my performance levels and maintain a steady state of mind—it has given me equanimity no matter what happens.”

Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D.

Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D.• Women’s Health Specialist• Author, The Ageless Woman

• “When you meditate, job stress affects you less, and that has immediate benefits for your health and happiness. It also naturally follows that you enjoy your work more, are more productive.

• You don’t carry stress from the office home with you. You’ve better relationships with your family and friends.

Bob Jones

Bob Jones• Managing Director, CIO• Major NY investment bank

• “TM gives you the clarity of mind to realize: ‘These are the things I need to do, and these are the things that are less important.’

• By being more settled and focused, you end up with more time than you would without meditation.”

Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons• Founder, Def Jam Music • One of the “Top 25 Most Influential

People of the Past 25 Years”(USA Today)

• “Comprehension comes from stillness. Focus comes from stillness. TM is the practice for touching that stillness for a few minutes twice a day.”

David Lynch

David Lynch• Director, Artist• Author, “Catching the Big Fish”

• “Transcendental Meditation is a simple, effortless way to ‘dive within,’ to experience an ocean of pure consciousness, pure creativity, pure knowingness. I’ve never missed a meditation in 34 years.”