Finding Clarity: How Compassionate Accountability Builds Vibrant Relationships, Thriving Workplaces, and Meaningful Lives

Written by Marc Lesser

Narrated by Christopher P. Brown

A SURPRISING PATH TO BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS

For Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability-a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Numerous examples include:

- facing rather than avoiding conflict for the long-term benefit of all.

- working with and through difficult emotions with clarity, care, and connection.

- understanding the stories we live by and evaluating whether they're serving us well.

- learning to listen and lead in ways that align with our mission and values.

Marc works from the premise that problems are inevitable and that the success of an enterprise or relationship relies on how they are resolved. This applies to any joint effort-in a workplace, a family, a civic organization, a community, a country, or the world at large.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: May 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9781663729040

Marc Lesser

Marc Lesser is a founder and CEO of SIYLI: Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, a nonprofit company whose vision is creating enlightened leaders worldwide. Based on programs that Marc helped develop within Google, SIYLI accomplishes its mission by employing the tools of mindfulness and emotional intelligence to help leaders and organizations achieve more productivity, leadership, effectiveness, and happiness. For more than twenty years Marc has been integrating mindfulness and awareness practices with business, strategy, and leadership practices. He has been practicing and studying Zen for more than thirty years and is a Zen teacher in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for ten years and in 1983 served as director of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the first Zen monastery in the West. Prior to his position with SIYLI, Marc was founder and CEO of ZBA Associates, a management consulting, coaching, and training company. Clients included Google, Genentech, Twitter, Facebook, as well as leading nonprofit organizations. Before founding ZBA, he was the founder and CEO of Brush Dance, an innovative publisher of greeting cards, calendars, and journals with distribution throughout the world. Marc has an MBA from New York University and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Rutgers University. He lives with his family in Mill Valley, California. You can learn more about Marc and his work at www.marclesser.net and www.siyli.org.