A leader's unresolved pain rarely stays contained within that leader. It can show up as control, aggression, emotional distance, relentless pressure, or a workplace where people are treated as resources rather than human beings. The organization may still perform, but the cost is often carried by employees, families, customers, and the leader's own health.

In this episode of Extend, I sit down with Raj Sisodia to examine the relationship between personal healing and conscious leadership. We discuss why a company's culture often reflects the inner state of the people guiding it, how purpose changes the way work affects people, and why leadership built around fear, ego, or extraction eventually creates suffering.

Raj Sisodia is a co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement, a business professor, speaker, and author of numerous books on purpose-driven organizations and leadership. His work has challenged the idea that companies must choose between financial performance and human well-being, while his personal healing journey has led him to explore what leaders must address within themselves before they can create healthier systems around them.

What's Discussed:

(2:57) Why self-interest and greed are not the same, and what happens when a business is built around extraction.

(7:18) The four principles behind companies that create value without treating people as costs to minimize.

(13:02) How healthcare loses its purpose when profit is placed above patients and practitioners.

(20:18) The first question every leader should ask before trying to change company culture.

(35:26) Why leaders cannot create healthy organizations without examining their own unresolved pain.

(43:07) How qualities you learned to see as weaknesses may be the strengths you are meant to contribute.

(51:06) Why unhealed trauma can keep driving your reactions, relationships, and leadership without your awareness.

Listen to this episode of Extend to understand why leadership is not only about what you build, but also about what you bring into the room while building it.

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186. Raj Sisodia: The Inner Work Behind Better Leadership

Extend Podcast with Darshan Shah, MD

186. Raj Sisodia: The Inner Work Behind Better Leadership