Leadership Without Emotional Intelligence Is Workplace Negligence.

Struggling to get your team to buy in?

It’s probably not your strategy. It’s your emotional intelligence.

Your people don’t just hear your words, they feel your regulation, your assumptions, and your blind spots. And if you’re leading without understanding how emotions actually work, you’re asking them to follow you while wearing a mask.

The latest science (from Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett and others) shows that emotions aren’t “universal signals” you can simply read—they’re constructed, shaped by context and prediction. Misinterpret them, and you erode trust.

Learn to navigate them, and you unlock influence.

This Labor Day, I wrote about why leadership without emotional intelligence is workplace negligence and what today’s science tells us about leading in practice.

Read the article here below

To mark this year's Labor Day, I’m offering 3 free MSCEIT² assessments (first come, first served). This is the only ability-based test of emotional intelligence. Real data, no self-report bias.

If you want your team’s buy-in, start by seeing yourself clearly. DM me. Let's talk

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