Introduction: Reiner Lomb is the founder of BoomerangCoach, an executive coaching firm specialising in leadership and career development, innovation & transformational change. Before becoming a coach, Reiner had a 30+ year career in technology, started and developed software businesses and led leadership development. Bernard is the author of the book APIRE: Seven Essential Emotions for Leading Positive Change. No Matter Where You Are.  Podcast Episode Summary: Much has been written about Leadership Effectives and the behaviours needed to succeed. What is often missing is the discourse on emotions and how they drive leadership behaviours. Reiner shares through his experience & stories the enormous potential for positive change which he believes is achieved by understanding 7 essential emotions and how they marry with 7 essential leadership behaviours.    Points raised across the podcast conversation:  Reiner is the product of a multi-cultural household and identifies as a next generation post war person.  He grew up in the Western part of a divided Germany through the cold war and felt the heartache over his country’s role in the Holocaust and World War II.  He believes the large challenges we face in the world, climate change, social, economic, political can and need to be figured out collaboratively  Reiner has been living in the USA for over 30 years and believes his adopted country is divided by emotions such as hatred, fear, resentment with mass shootings and a big political divide.  Passion & Purpose motivated Reiner to move into the realm of Leadership Development. He always loved learning for himself and gets great satisfaction seeing others grow.  His mission today is to mobilise leaders to help create a sustainable future for all.  Aspire is one of the Leadership Development models that Reiner employs with his clients  The name of his company Boomerang was a metaphor that captured his wish for people to return to their true passion and purpose  He formulated a neat framework, a pyramid of 7 essential Leadership behaviours that people will readily recognise, behaviours that are driven by 7 essential emotions.  Understanding these 7 emotions in a granular way can help further a Leaders effectiveness.  Emotions are a key domain of learning that are the least understood and developed.  We as humans are always in a mix of emotions and by becoming familiar with our internal states we can self-regulate for the kinds of conversations and actions we want to have in the world.  Emotions then are gateways to effective conversations and equally barriers to the same conversations if held in an emotional field that does not serve.  Empathy, Compassion, and Interest are the foundational emotions that drive Care, Serving and Understanding From this foundational platform a Leader can vision, understanding the needs of his stakeholders and people. To vision a leader needs to be optimistic about the future and the kind of future he wishes to create.  Emotions like resentment, resignation keep us mentally and energetically stuck in the past and do not serve when we are trying to Lead.  Inspiration on the other hand mobilizes people to co-ordinate action and achieve realisable visions.  To co-create a future in the world we live requires collaboration and that is fuelled by the emotion of trust.  Projects and plans to proceed no matter how well co-ordinated meet with obstacles and adversity and to survive both requires resilience. Resilience is supported by the emotion of positivity.  Negativity is counterproductive to resilience. The more negative the leader, the environment, and the culture the less resilience is available to the organisation  Positivity is a palette of emotions including optimism, interest, inspiration, joy, awe, gratitude, and hopefulness.  Leaders are well versed in the Leadership competencies required to lead what is missing is the discourse on emotions.  Reiner shares a powerful