April 27, 2007

Lauren Powers Discusses The Power Of Thinking - Show #88

Lauren Powers ( www.laurenpowers.net) is an executive coach and leading expert in organizational and individual learning.

Powers travels the world speaking and consulting with her Fortune 500 clients on "Self Smarts.” She is also a senior faculty member with the international Coaches Training Institute and is the author of The Trouble with Thinking: The Dangerous Trip from In the Head to Out the Mouth which explores how our perceptions create our realities.

With over 20 years of experience, Powers specializes in assisting her clients in uncovering how their individual habits of thinking do not always move them forward. Powers draws on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology as she illuminates the way that our emotions, judgments, environments and even our biochemistries can affect us. The choices we make, at home and in the office, are based on this "thinking.” When we understand how our thinking works, we have deeper insights, make more balanced decisions, and are powerful communicators.

Powers’ client list includes some of the most respected companies in the world: Marriott Hotels, IBM, Royal Bank of Scotland, CSC, Verizon, BP, ING, and Johnson & Johnson. Powers, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a Master Certified Coach (MCC), supports people in uncovering their “Self Smarts” so they can choose how they interpret information, how they react to other people, and how to own their thinking instead of letting it own them. She lives in San Francisco.

Lauren answered the following questions:

Why did you write this book?

What IS the trouble with thinking?

How is automatic thinking a problem?

How does automatic thinking work? What are the steps to it?

Why do you call it the Rat Brain Loop?

What’s the impact of Rat Brain on us?

How does the Rat Brain relate to ________ ? (work, romance, children, sports, finances, health, etc.)