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We all know the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated. But when it comes to leadership, there’s a key word in that phrase that undermines what you’re trying to achieve as a leader: you. The way you want to be treated.
When you’re first launching your business, you can spend time guiding your employees. As your company grows, you’ll have less and less contact with staff members. Yet as Jackie Insinger discusses in Spark Brilliance, you can avail yourself of ways to spark the desire to commit acts of extraordinary achievement throughout your team — even when you’re not around.
Fifty percent of managers don’t set effective employee expectations.
Fifty percent.
That number comes from a Towers Watson survey, and to me, it’s staggering. Half of all leaders out there are trying to drive results with a team that isn’t clear on what they’re supposed to be doing.
“I want to be on the fun team!” Believe it or not, this is something I often run across in companies. Somehow, a narrative forms among the employees that their environment is a drab, monotonous slog, and there’s one particular team, one shiny castle in the clouds, that sticks out as a magical, golden, happy place of fun times and joy.
I always wanted to learn more about people and understand how they think, feel, and make decisions, so I pursued my passion at Duke and got a psychology degree.
Five Steps To Great Workplace Communication
Effective communication is saying what you want to say, right?
This is one of those things that sounds like it should be true, yet it’s not. In truth, communication is only effective when the message is received accurately.
3 Actions Leaders can Take to Ensure They’re not Spreading Negative Energy
Author Jackie Insinger maintains that connection is one of the most powerful leadership tools. Used in the wrong way, though, it only serves to reinforce the walls people build around themselves.
Commentary By Harvard’s Jackie Insinger, Author Of Spark Brilliance
A great communication culture is one where every person on a team is secure in the value of their contributions, and is certain that their leader wants to hear and understand them. If you build it, they will speak.
14 Pragmatic Ways To Become A Better Co-Worker
Working as part of a team can be an enjoyable and rewarding experience, but it isn’t always easy.
13 ‘Right’ Ways For Leaders To Set Expectations With Employees
If leaders want employees to maximize productivity, get projects completed on time and accurately, and help the business thrive, they must ensure that every team member understands exactly what is expected of them.
12 Ways To Beat Monotony And Stay Creative While Working Remotely
For some people, working from home is an ideal situation, see how to beat the monotony and stay creative and energized while working from home.
How To Coach A Nervous Client Through Their First Business Launch
Cutting edge advice they would give to clients who are nervous about launching their first business.
Take A Networking Pitch To The Next Level With These 12 Tips
As your career and skills grow and evolve, so should your networking pitch. To help you take it to the next level, 12 Forbes Coaches Council members provide their best advice below.
14 Challenges Every Solopreneur Will Face And How To Solve Them
Solopreneurs are flexible, dedicated individuals who are so passionate about their business that they’re willing to go it alone. To find success in their endeavors, they must often assume every role in their companies.
Here, you’ll learn some of the biggest challenges every solopreneur will face and strategic ways to avoid or solve them.
Jackie Insinger Selected into Forbes Coaches Council
Forbes Coaches Council Is an Invitation-Only Community for Leading Business and Career Coaches.
Jackie Insinger (Insinger Insights), Executive Coach and Team Dynamics Facilitator, has been selected into Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches.
Jackie’s unique approach with leaders and teams combines positive psychology and neuroscience research to increase connection, motivation, communication, and accelerate performance and team dynamics.
Featured Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Jackie shares her own sparks of leadership inspiration with John Kiker, president of Medium Giant, including:
Why having a rich diversity of perspectives — individual stories — can influence better decision-making, greater innovation, and bigger outputs
Why we can’t manage through change in today’s VUCA world — and what to do instead
The critical impact of psychological safety — and why encouraging courage is necessary for innovation, growth, and success
What “Ted Lasso leadership” can show us about the intersection of transparency, authenticity, and positivity
How the “power lead” technique can help set a positive tone
Why creating smaller finish lines is a game-changer for maintaining momentum
For Jackie, the theme of the next five years is going to be pivoting through disruption and evaluating how to lead through the tornadoes of change — including generational change. Four generations are active in the workforce right now — and by the end of 2025, 30% of the workforce will be Gen Z. She knows better than anyone that the way we used to lead isn’t going to work for future leaders.
That’s why she’s so excited about what she and her team are able to deliver via Spark Brilliance, which develops extraordinary leaders by increasing connection, motivation, and communication and honoring cognitive diversity and individual stories.
In this episode, Carl is delighted to welcome Jackie Insinger, a distinguished psychologist, leadership expert, and author of the book Spark Brilliance. In this chat Jackie shares her inspiring journey, highlighting how a deeply ingrained value for education shaped her path. Growing up in a family that prized learning, Jackie was naturally driven to pursue higher education and apply her knowledge to improve both individual lives and business outcomes. She emphasizes her people-first approach to leadership, illustrating how effective work with leaders can enhance individual well-being and overall company performance.
Discover how neuroscience and positive psychology can transform your leadership style. In this episode, Adam Hill speaks with Jackie Insinger, a leading expert in neuroscience and positive psychology in business leadership.
Jackie shares her innovative approach to leadership, blending cutting-edge research with practical strategies. Learn how to create psychological safety, harness cognitive diversity, and manage workplace anxiety.
Jackie combines the science of positive psychology and neuroscience with current global data to simplify the messiness of leadership in today’s complex climate. Always results-focused, Jackie’s programs are designed to measurably impact the leader, their teams, and the company – leveraging soft skills for hard results.
Jackie’s signature Spark Brilliance Leadership Accelerator has created a powerful movement in the corporate world, leading to measurable increases in productivity, positivity, performance, belonging, psychological safety, and engagement within an overall enhanced culture. And in turn, a positive ROI to the Company’s bottom line.
This episode delves into the complexities of creating a psychologically safe workplace, featuring Jackie Insinger, an expert in cognitive psychology and the author of ‘Spark Brilliance: How the Science of Positive Psychology Will Ignite, Engage, and Transform Your Team’. The conversation explores the varying perceptions of psychological safety, the importance of adapting leadership styles in the face of rapid change, and the implementation of positive psychology in leadership through the Platinum Leadership framework.
Jackie also discusses the impact of modern challenges on leadership, such as navigating through a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) and fostering authenticity within teams. The interview highlights strategies for leaders to cultivate a positive and engaging work environment, drawing on real-life examples and data-driven insights.
Jackie elevates leaders through her knowledge of positive psychology, neuroscience, and her Platinum Leadership approach. Today, she shares her deep connection to leadership, authenticity, and insights from her academic journey.
She highlights the Platinum Rule from her book, urging us to engage with others based on their preferences. She offers steps to embrace this principle in our lives.
Jackie speaks on her career-defining moments, the nuances between traditional and positive psychology, and the difference between joy and happiness. She also touches on emotional contagion, offering tools to combat its negative effects and emphasizing the value of practical optimism.
For two decades Jackie Insinger has focused on her life mission of developing Spark Brilliance, a revolutionary approach to leadership and team dynamics that transforms team performance, results, and fulfillment. By leveraging the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology, she designs simple, actionable strategies that individuals can use right away to spark their team’s brilliance. Lou couldn’t resist the opportunity to bring Jackie back on Thrive LouD to catch up and talk about some of the real leadership challenges today.
Jackie Insinger is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, and a sought-after leadership and team dynamics consultant. Jackie combines the science of positive psychology, which we talk a lot about in today’s conversation, with revolutionary tools and programs to help leaders increase authentic connection, performance, and fulfillment. Jackie works with teams to build a culture of trust, while guiding them to become more aligned, communicate more effectively, collaborate with ease, and support each other more efficiently.
As working mothers, our time and attention are increasingly limited. We’re always seeking ways to improve our team’s performance, at work and at home. If you’ve ever wished you could clone yourself, renowned leadership consultant and best-selling author, Jackie Insinger, sees you. In her book, “Spark Brilliance,” Jackie delves into Platinum Leadership, a positive psychology-driven method that focuses on building authentic connections, sparking creativity and optimism, and driving greater results from the people you lead. In this episode, she shares how to apply this unique framework to your life and work, and how this approach has benefited her personally. With her extensive background in psychology and a master’s degree from Harvard, Jackie has positively impacted thousands of individuals and businesses worldwide. Listen to learn how to spark brilliance in yourself and those around you.
Positive psychology expert and best selling author, Jackie Insinger, is on a mission to help us recognize and pursue the upside of what’s possible. Much more than positive thinking, positive psychology – among other things – helps us understand the influence we can and do have over others…and, how to channel how we choose to feel into impact through setting off emotional contagion. After you learn from Jackie’s approach, you’ll truly be ready to go viral!
Jackie Insinger is a psychologist with over two decades of experience coaching leaders through her positive framework, Platinum Leadership. She is an official member of the Forbes Coaches Council and Harvard Business Review Advisory Board and is also a best-selling author.In this episode, Jackie talks about authenticity, treating others the way they want to be treated, taking incremental steps towards your goal, and knowing the importance of laughter in your life.
Throughout her career, Jackie has brought her expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Interpersonal Dynamics to the business world as a sought-after Leadership and Team Dynamics Coach.
Using her research-based, action-oriented methodology, Jackie helps leaders and teams focus on unique strengths and authentic connection in order to increase performance, results, and fulfillment. Her Positive Psychology-led framework, Platinum Leadership, has been a game-changer for thousands of people and businesses throughout the world.
Jackie speaks to us today about her book ‘Spark Brilliance,’ what led her to write this book, and her journey leading up to it. She helps hundreds of organizations today reach their “Brilliance.”
Jackie Insinger takes leaders from great to extraordinary by teaching them to make their brilliance contagious.
Leadership is not just a work thing, it’s a life thing. I’m fascinated by the science of positive psychology and how to leverage it as a leader.
Jackie discusses her framework of “platinum leadership”, treating other people how THEY want to be treated. And I love this quote – “brilliance is who you are and how you choose to show up”.
Ready to Spark Brilliance (it’s also the title of her new book on Leadership)? Jackie Insinger is your source.
Listen in to discover what the Platinum Rule is and how to really create massive outcomes in the workplace.
Over the past couple of years, we have been aching to “get back to normal.” But what if instead of aiming for, “normal,” we aimed for “Extraordinary,” “Fulfillment,” and “Happiness?” Would that make a difference in your organization?
In this episode, Leadership Expert Jackie Insinger uncovers simple, actionable steps to ignite your brilliance and spark the brilliance in your team.
In this episode, Jackie talks about self-awareness and how she turned that into a profitable business by teaching leaders and teams to work affectivity together in the workplace. Jackie Platinum rule is to treat others how they would like to be treated. Through her work, she helps facilitate more meaningful and effective relationships by understanding each other and honor the differences we all bring to work cohesively.
On today’s episode of Author Hour, I sit down with author, Jackie Insinger and we discuss her new book, Spark Brilliance. As a leader, you’re always looking for ways to enhance the performance of your team but as your responsibilities grow, your time and attention become more and more limited.
If you’ve ever wished you could simply clone yourself, this is the book for you. In Spark Brilliance, executive coach Jackie Insinger, uses her more than two decades of experience to introduce a revolutionary approach to leadership and team dynamics that will transform your team’s performance, productivity and fulfillment.
Positive Psychology-led framework, Platinum Leadership, has been a game-changer for thousands of people and businesses throughout the world.
Jackie Insinger is a member of both the Forbes Coaches Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. She is the author of SPARK BRILLIANCE – the leader’s playbook we all need today.
Whether at work or at home, YOU are a leader. Today you’ll learn what it means to spark brilliance as a leader and create authentic connection amongst your team and those around you.
In the latest episode of the Transform Your Workplace podcast, host Brandon Laws sits down with Jackie Insinger, author of Spark Brilliance: How the Science of Positive Psychology Will Ignite, Engage, and Transform Your Team. The two discuss the power of Positive Psychology and how leaders can see transformation by “building what’s strong not just fixing what’s wrong.”
In this video, I interview Jackie Insinger on the new strength-based book, Spark Brilliance using the principles of positive psychology to create transformation in personal and professional lives.
Jackie Insinger has brought her expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Interpersonal Dynamics to the business world as a sought-after Executive and Team Dynamics Coach. Using her research-based, action-oriented methodology, Jackie helps leaders and teams focus on unique strengths and authentic connections in order to increase performance, results, and fulfillment.
I’m excited to share this episode with you, because it’s with my dear friend Jackie Insinger. We talk about her new book, Spark Brilliance, and the lessons we can learn about being a kind and empathetic leader.
What’s the ONE thing holding you back from becoming an extraordinary leader? Discover Jackie Insinger’s unique approach with leaders and teams combines positive psychology and neuroscience research to increase connection, motivation, communication, and accelerate performance and team dynamics.
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Positive psychology expert and best selling author, Jackie Insinger, is on a mission to help us recognize and pursue the upside of what’s possible. Much more than positive thinking, positive psychology – among other things – helps us understand the influence we can and do have over others…and, how to channel how we choose to feel into impact through setting off emotional contagion. After you learn from Jackie’s approach, you’ll truly be ready to go viral!
Throughout her career, Jackie has brought her expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Interpersonal Dynamics to the business world as a sought-after Leadership and Team Dynamics Coach.
Using her research-based, action-oriented methodology, Jackie helps leaders and teams focus on unique strengths and authentic connection in order to increase performance, results, and fulfillment. Her Positive Psychology-led framework, Platinum Leadership, has been a game-changer for thousands of people and businesses throughout the world.
