What if the future of leadership isn’t about choosing between people or profits—but designing cultures where both thrive together?

In this powerful 50-minute podcast episode of Think Your Way to an Epic Life, Coach Schug and Dr. Ron Stotts unveil The New Leadership Playbook—a proven, neuroscience-backed approach to building high-performing, people-centered organizations that outperform traditional command-and-control models.

This episode is a complete leadership framework for entrepreneurs, executives, founders, and team leaders who want to increase employee engagement, innovation, retention, and long-term profitability—without burnout or toxic culture.

🔑 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why traditional leadership models are failing in today’s workforce
- The difference between transactional leadership vs developmental leadership
- How conscious leadership drives innovation, trust, and financial performance
- The neuroscience behind collective flow states and high-performing teams
- How fear-based cultures shut down creativity and decision-making
- Why self-awareness and emotional intelligence are leadership multipliers
- A 5-step practical playbook to transform any organization from the inside out
- How to build cultures of psychological safety, growth, and accountability

🧠 Based on Research From:

MIT, Harvard Business School, McKinsey & Company, Gallup, Stanford, Google Project Aristotle, Deloitte, Nielsen, and the Center for Creative Leadership.

🌱 Who This Episode Is For:

✔ Entrepreneurs & founders
✔ CEOs & executives
✔ Business owners & managers
✔ Leadership coaches & consultants
✔ HR professionals & culture builders
✔ Anyone responsible for leading people

🎧 About the Podcast:

Think Your Way to an Epic Life explores the inner game of leadership, performance, and personal growth—bridging neuroscience, consciousness, and real-world business results.

📅 Schedule a complimentary discovery call:
• With Kara: zcal.co/karaschug/discoverycall
• With Ron: ronstottsclientscheduling.as.me

In today’s rapidly changing world, high IQ and traditional intelligence are no longer enough. The leaders of the future are the ones who know how to integrate logic and intuition… strategy and creativity… productivity and presence.

In this episode of Leadership on the Leading Edge, Dr. Ron Stotts and Kara Schug reveal why conscious, whole-brain leadership is becoming the new standard for high-performing leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers.

You’ll learn:
🔹 Why relying on IQ alone creates stagnation, stress, and rigid decision-making
🔹 The 3 awareness levels leaders experience as they evolve beyond traditional thinking
🔹 How subconscious survival patterns block your forebrain and limit creativity
🔹 How whole-brain leadership increases resilience, clarity, innovation, and vision
🔹 The neuroscience behind forebrain activation, coherence, and expanded consciousness
🔹 Practices to engage both logical and intuitive intelligence
🔹 How leaders can rewire their brains for presence, purpose, and visionary thinking

This episode includes guided sentence-completion exercises to help you uncover hidden patterns, unlock deeper creativity, and tap into your “Big Mind” — the part of you that leads with clarity rather than fear.

If you’ve been feeling stuck in your head… overthinking… disconnected from purpose… or sensing that your next level requires a more conscious version of yourself, this conversation is for you.

What You’ll Take Away:

✔ Practical steps to shift from reactive, fear-based leadership to creative, visionary leadership
✔ A deeper understanding of the science behind emotional intelligence and whole-brain integration
✔ Tools to strengthen intuition, innovate more naturally, and make aligned decisions
✔ A roadmap for becoming the leader the future demands — adaptable, inspired, and grounded in purpose

Work With Ron & Kara:

If you're ready to expand beyond IQ and step into conscious, whole-brain leadership, Ron and Kara work privately with a select group of leaders committed to deep inner work and meaningful impact.

📅 Schedule a complimentary discovery call:
• With Kara: zcal.co/karaschug/discoverycall
• With Ron: ronstottsclientscheduling.as.me

This is not surface-level leadership training. It’s a transformational process that helps you heal old patterns, rewire your brain, and unlock the vision, creativity, and resilience your next level requires.

In this episode of Think Your Way to an Epic Life, Coach Schug and Dr. Ron Stotts reveal the powerful idea behind “The Maple Tree Moment” — a life-altering experience that reshaped Dr. Ron’s entire meaning of leadership, impact, and legacy.

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, or creator who feels pulled between short-term demands and the deeper purpose you know you're meant to fulfill… this conversation will hit home.

🌱 What kind of ancestor are you becoming?
🌳 What world are you leaving behind for generations you’ll never meet?

In this episode, we explore:
- The Quarterly Trap — Why short-term thinking is crippling modern leadership
- The Japanese Maple Awakening — Dr. Ron’s emotional vision that reframed his entire purpose
- Redefining Success — Why true leadership goes far beyond profit
- The Ripple Effect — How conscious leaders shape humanity through everyday interactions
- Legacy Questions — Practical prompts to align your leadership with long-term impact

Packed with research from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, the Long Now Foundation, and more, this episode blends neuroscience, leadership strategy, emotional storytelling, and ancient wisdom into one of our most profound conversations yet.

🎧 What You’ll Walk Away With

- A new framework for leadership success
- Insight into how your daily decisions shape the future
- Practical reflection exercises to reconnect with your purpose
- The motivation to become an ancestor future generations will thank

🌟 Want Support on Your Leadership Journey?

📅 Schedule a complimentary discovery call:
• With Kara: zcal.co/karaschug/discoverycall
• With Ron: ronstottsclientscheduling.as.me

📚 Research Referenced

Washington University • Harvard Medical School • MIT Sloan • McKinsey • UCLA (Hal Hershfield) • Long Now Foundation • Future of Work Institute • Northwestern (Adam Waytz) • Gallup • B-Corp Movement • MIT Collective Intelligence • HeartMath Institute • Presencing Institute • And more.