EEC 427: How Using Your Whole Brain Drives Organizational Performance, with Stephanie Bacon

About this episode

Stephanie Bacon discusses the importance of adult social and emotional competence in driving organizational performance.

Stephanie Bacon, PhD, is an organizational consultant, speaker, and researcher specializing in adult social and emotional competence, nervous system regulation, and human-centered leadership. She works with leaders who care deeply about performance, culture, and impact—and who recognize that strategy alone does not create alignment. You talk about "human capacity" as the missing piece in organizational performance. What do you mean by that? You describe your work as "Embodied SEL." How is that different from traditional emotional intelligence or leadership training? What are the hidden costs organizations pay when adult social and emotional competence is low? What is the difference between having a motivation problem and a capacity problem? Stephanie Bacon Stephanie Bacon, PhD, is an organizational consultant, speaker, and researcher specializing in adult social and emotional competence, nervous system regulation, and human-centered leadership. She works with leaders who care deeply about performance, culture, and impact—and who recognize that strategy alone does not create alignment. Execution depends on the emotional, relational, and physiological capacity of the people…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Katrina Burrus

Guest: Stephanie Bacon

Topics covered

• organizational performance
• emotional intelligence
• human-centered leadership
• social competence
• nervous system regulation

Keywords

• organizational performance
• emotional intelligence
• human capacity
• leadership training
• social competence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Embodied SEL

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