Feminine Intelligence
How Visionary Leaders Weave Feminine and Masculine Intelligence to Reshape Business for Good
Feminine intelligence is the key to running some of the world's most successful companies ― with greater joy, authenticity, purpose and profit.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with billionaire philanthropists, unicorn founders, and happiness pioneers, Feminine Intelligence uncovers the most powerful, often-overlooked traits that are driving the future of business. Through vivid storytelling and insightful research, Teboul shows that the future of leadership lies in embracing feminine strengths.
Whether you're leading a global enterprise or navigating the early stages of your career, Feminine Intelligence serves as a powerful guide for you to unlock a newfound wholeness. It will optimize your decision-making, expand your vision, fuel your creative genius, and empower you to reshape capitalism with love, compassion, and consciousness.
- The transformative power of congruence and authenticity in building sustainable success.
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How nature connection, spiritual awakenings, and safe and intentional use of psychedelic
medicines are emerging as tools to foster visionary leadership and personal growth. - The journey from unconscious capitalism to conscious capitalism fueled by love and compassion.
- Traits often overlooked as soft or intangible are revealed to be the true superpowers of visionary leaders.
A Seat At The Table
Excerpt from chapter one
Faith in Nature is a UK-based startup that makes soaps and other beauty and household items. In 2022, they became the first company in the world to bring someone to the company’s board specifically to speak on behalf of the natural world. With this one simple action—although it took a great effort to get there—the company has effectively done something no one else in the world has done—they have given the Earth a formal vote in company decisions. To this company, nature is deemed as having enough standing and enough meaning to warrant a seat at the table.
This is a momentous act. Keep in mind that, in the U.S., such an action would be considered illegal. U.S. laws require that directors of a corporation abide by fiduciary duties and act in the interests of “shareholder value.” And while there is great debate as to the meaning of “value” in such laws, in the U.S., it is interpreted as referring specifically to shareholder returns. Not surprisingly, that means, once again, that shareholder interests must be prioritized over and above all other stakeholders.
A Spiritual Awakening
Excerpt from chapter TWO
It wasn’t until I returned to Columbia University for my master’s degree in psychology that my journey into expansiveness and awakening truly began. It was there that I had a chance to explore consciousness, spirituality, and psychospiritual states induced by various breathing techniques (some of which were practiced in the university basement, cocooned in a sleeping bag, in the dark, with very loud music!). These experiences sparked my curiosity and prompted me to delve deeper into the therapeutic applications of psychedelic medicines, such as MDMA and LSD, which expanded my mind, body, and spirit even further. As a result, I came to realize that I was a part of a larger collective energy and felt more connected to myself and the world around me.
The culmination of these years of exploration was life changing. I could tune out the chatter, judgment, and limitations of the masculine-infused mindset that previously dominated me. My heart was open. I felt expansion. I uncovered the feminine intelligence inside me. But perhaps just as importantly, the shift inside me drove home the power of congruence. I finally knew the power of having one’s heart, mind, and spirit aligned with one’s purpose. And Iearned that through the power of congruence, authentic leadership “presence” is achieved.
A Forgotten Gift
Excerpt from chapter THREE
To guide us toward a prosperous and healthy global landscape, we must take a look at how the various aspects of ourselves further or impede the realization of our highest visions. As Albert Einstein once said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” And a gift it is.
Unfortunately, ours is a culture that chooses to elevate Einstein’s “servant”—the rational, linear, goal-oriented mind—rather than the gift. We are blindly submissive to the rational mind and have learned to close off receptivity to our intuition and imagination, our physical bodies, and our humanity. We’ve been indoctrinated into a masculine mindset and attitude, and we assume that the perspective we’ve been raised with since birth is the only way to go.