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How wise leaders manage their ENERGY,
INFLUENCE others and create positive IMPACT

 Ready to achieve more positive impact with less stress and struggle?
And influence others to support your projects?

The sustainability and social change challenges that we face in business and society today can be difficult to even think about. It is easy to lose optimism and hope. The amount of work to be done is overwhelming and…urgent!

Uncertainty, complexity and change are a constant and many

leaders are exhausted and frustrated by the lack of progress. As a result, performance and wellbeing suffer.

Naturally Successful is for leaders who want to create positive change for people and planet…and be well at the same time.

You will learn how to:

  • Optimise your personal energy levels and mindset
    to be fully in charge and thrive

  • Connect more deeply with ‘difficult’ people and
    influence them without authority

  • Understand the influence of different environments
    and contexts on your work

  • Be a wise leader who can channel natural energy flows
    for better results

 
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Drawing on decades of connecting organisational leaders with ancient wisdom traditions, the natural world, modern psychology and a systems view of life, Ingrid Messner guides us through a

comprehensive leadership roadmap offering new perspectives and tools that enable leaders to face the mess we are in - in a calm and effective way.

Discover the Naturally Successful processes that will support you to feel energised, influential and impactful.

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Discover ‘Wise Leadership’ that makes you naturally successful.

It’s time to remember some timeless truths and go back to basic human wisdom and the laws of nature by bringing together the three key elements of the Wise Leadership Universe:

Self.

Being aware of what is going on in your body, mind, emotions and spirit — at any moment throughout the day — has to be your top priority. Your energy levels need care and management.

Stakeholders.

Deeply understanding how another person ticks, what motivates them and what will make them change their course of action only happens when you take the time to listen deeply and with the right intent.

Systems.

Understanding context and important connections in a system supports you to find an effective focus on relevant details.

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  • Understand the four challenges that negatively impact performance and wellbeing of far too many well-intentioned leaders like you..

  • Discover a holistic perspective for effectively leading yourself, leading others, and leading in a system that will give you the energy to create more positive impact with less stress.

  • Explore the Wise Leader’s Skills Map that will serve as your guide to becoming a wise leader who is naturally successful.

Meet the Author

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Ingrid Messner leverages timeless wisdom to optimise performance and wellbeing. She supports leaders to better manage their energy, enabling them to develop greater influence and impact.

Ingrid is a leadership expert with over twenty-five years’ experience working with clients from diverse countries, cultures and industries.

Her portfolio includes roles in corporate and management consultancy and running leadership programs and wilderness retreats, and she has accreditation as an executive coach as well as an MBA.

Her business acumen, deep connection to nature, and firsthand insight into over fifty cultures worldwide provide an innovative approach to success.

She creates stimulating spaces that inspire leaders to discover new ways to be, think and do. They are equipped to thrive sustainably, achieve goals effortlessly and become naturally successful.

Ingrid was born in Germany and moved with her family to Sydney, Australia, in 2004. When she is not coaching, mentoring or facilitating, she can be found somewhere in nature— bushwalking, camping, hiking or meditating.

At the heart of everything Ingrid does is a fundamental belief that healthy people need a healthy planet. Our connection to nature is unbreakable — we are part of the same system. A fact that is, unfortunately, too often overlooked in today’s economies and society. Ingrid works with people who want to change this and create services and products that have a positive impact on humanity and planet.

What others are saying about Naturally Successful…

Testemonial

I found it quite topical reading this book this week. On Monday I got asked to take on additional responsibilities for a large transformational project and whilst there is a significant chunk of systems change, the bigger and more challenging part is the required change in people’s mindset, so everything written in this book is completely relevant!

Many of the leadership ideas and concepts in this book might not be radical or new, but Ingrid has been able to pull them all together in a clear & cohesive way and I found her way of bringing in examples from nature very relevant and meaningful.

For me the one key learning is that we all have to slow down to speed up.

Rachel Anderson, Head of Shared Services

This moment in our history as a species is loaded with immense challenges, but they are not insurmountable and in fact there is great hope. Humble and harmonic leadership, rooted in nature's wisdom, will set the foundation for more harmonic actions to protect our planet for future generations.

Ingrid has practised opening this wisdom for me, my team and many others in her journey. She's now crystallised this wisdom into the book (printed on a gift from our Earth) you now hold in your hands. Treat this book wisely and with love as you would treat your mother. In doing so, we create greater hope in a sustainable and just future for all.

Mikey Leung, Co-Creator / Cofounder / Director, Digital Storytellers – Stories for Impact

‘Naturally Successful’ is an absolute godsend in a time of re-assessing how we can best lead our businesses and, most importantly, our people. This thought-provoking book shows us how we can be phenomenal leaders and have maximum impact, while also enhancing our natural energy sources and looking after ourselves. It's a game-changer!

Victoria Black, Multi-award-winning entrepreneur

Winner Australian Businesswoman of the Year (Optus/MyBusiness awards 2016)

Winner Australian Start-Up Business of the Year 2018

Naturally Successful is a thought-provoking read for leaders, aspiring leaders, or anyone curious on how to create a more abundant life of purpose. Ingrid has packed Naturally Successful with such insight and wisdom that it is one of those books that you will just want to keep coming back to.

Alan Riva, Guide & Advisor: Living, Leading & Growing through Presence & Purpose

‘Naturally Successful’ directly addresses the challenges faced by climate and sustainability leaders, including complexity, overwhelm and grief. Ingrid Messner draws on traditional wisdom and business excellence to guide the reader through the steps required to become a more effective and impactful leader. As ‘Naturally Successful’ explains, we have the solutions we need, and this book will help more leaders build an environmentally sustainable, socially just and economically viable world.

Ursula Hogben BsC LLB MLM - Founder, Corporate Lawyer, Director & Advisor of sustainable companies

This book teaches us many things: the importance of having a growth mindset; how to gain satisfaction through both achieving bold goals and creating incremental change; how to recognise the dire state of Earth's life support systems while finding hope in things you can control and influence; how to develop meaningful relationships with stakeholders so that they become allies; the importance of spending time in nature.

Ingrid Messner's work has been useful to me and several of my team members in the successful development of our 2030 Sustainability Strategy. I think that many of the ideas in this book can help sustainability professionals be more content and healthier as we struggle to influence others and deliver positive environmental outcomes.

Chris Nunn, Head of Sustainability & Platform Operations | Real Estate, AMP Capital

If ever there was a time to tap into the collective wisdom of previous generations across all cultures, it is now. Ingrid has travelled extensively, read broadly and listened openly. Now she has synthesised her wisdom into a comprehensive and easy to understand book. This is a guide for all those who aspire to be more successful leaders, who work with the grain of nature, not against it.

Julian Crawford, Director, Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute

As leaders in sustainability, we are expected to have many skills– be great communicators, collaborators, influencers, storytellers and systems thinkers, all while being self-aware, agile, adaptive, accountable, passionate, persistent, resilient and authentic. The list can be overwhelming.

The beauty of this book is its simplicity and practicality. Ingrid’s ‘wise leadership’ model provides a framework accompanied by tips and tools to hone these skills for both emerging and well-established sustainability leaders at a time when this style of leadership is more important than ever.

I wish I’d had a copy of this book earlier in my career; it certainly would be treasured and well-thumbed!

Paolo Bevilacqua, General Manager - Real Utilities, Frasers Property Australia

Ready to achieve more positive impact with less stress and struggle?
And to influence others to support your projects?

This book is for you if:

  • You struggle to maintain your energy and want to thrive in a world of stress and competing priorities.

  • You experience frustration dealing with ‘difficult’ people, which limits your potential to influence them without authority.

  • You feel overwhelmed by a long list of big, complex and urgent projects, resulting in inconsistent impact and results.

  • You feel a loss of connection to nature and sometimes lose hope, which leaves you with a sense of emptiness and stress.

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It’s time to discover the Naturally Successful processes that will support you to feel energised to influence the world around you and create positive impact in your life, your organisation, your community and the planet.

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