Change From the Inside Out with Scott Shute

The Evolving Leader

In this episode of The Evolving Leader, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender are in conversation with Scott Shute. Scott specialises in combining the practicalities of leading in the modern business world with the wisdom of ancient traditions to help individuals and companies be leaders in conscious business. His goal is for businesses to thrive financially while providing their customers long-term value and leaving employees feeling inspired and whole. When done consciously, work can be a part of the collective healing that needs to take place in the world.
Scott has been studying and practicing mindfulness and related wisdom teachings since he was thirteen years old, and teaching since he was in college. Scott started his career with twenty-five years of customer-oriented leadership and executive roles, culminating with three years leading Mindfulness and Compassion programs at LinkedIn. In 2021 his book ‘Full Body Yes, Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out’ was published and he now works as an executive coach, keynote speaker. In 2022 Scott formed ‘Changing Work’ which he describes as ‘creating a collective of conscious business practitioners to help elevate and amplify their work’.
Referenced during this episode:
‘Full Body Yes, Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out’
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. You talk about a period where you were battling with the desire to bring your spiritual wisdom into the boardroom. Tell us about that. (00:03:44)

3. What struggles have you experienced in practising mindfulness and what do you believe it enables in you? (00:07:09)

4. What’s the ‘why’ for bringing this practice into organisations? (00:13:30)

5. You cite research suggesting that companies that operate using basic conscious business practices are 1,400% more profitable than the S&P average. Can you tell us why that is? (00:17:17)

6. Can you give us the pitch for your book ‘The Full Body Yes’? (00:20:03)

7. When you take the book or your work to executives, what reactions do you receive? (00:22:05)

8. The prioritisation piece is particularly interesting. What practices have the most impact on high performing teams and how can people break free from cyclical procrastination? (00:24:32)

9. How should an organisation that is planning to introduce any of these practices set the stage to maximise the chance of it being successful? (00:29:50)

10. Thinking about the leaders listening now, how can we make this actionable for people who find themselves in a culture where this may not be accepted or seen as a priority. What would you say to that leader? (00:32:14)

11. We can see that you have truly embodied this, it’s apparent in you, but many people aren’t because they’re living in that survival world and they’re in the struggle of trying to embrace it. (00:37:23)

12. Can you tell us about some of the work that you’re doing on the inner MBA programme and also the community of experts that you’ve created? (00:41:12)

13. Have you got a picture of what work might become in that period of time? (00:45:07)

14. How is this work changing you? (00:47:34)

15. How in your vision of consciousness does AI play a part? (00:49:22)