E101: Expand Your Leadership by Expanding Your Awareness Quotient with Brian Cunningham
The Inner Edge: Leadership, Self-Mastery, and Reinvention for a New Era · 2025-04-17 · 24 min
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“It all starts and ends with our awareness.” - Brian Cunningham You’ve heard of IQ. Maybe EQ. But have you considered the importance of your AQ? In this episode, I talk to Brian Cunningham, an author who went from working as a parking lot attendant at a hospital to being the hospital’s CEO for over 10 years. You'll hear Brian talk about why IQ and EQ are not enough–he introduces what he calls the Awareness Quotient (AQ) and its importance to our success. In this episode: How Brian’s study of leadership took him from parking lot attendant to CEO The different expressions of leadership based on levels of awareness Defining awareness How to leverage your attention Using intense focus to better serve others as a leader How being intentional will help you expand your leadership Applying AQ in the four key domains of our experience in life Leadership Presence | Mastering the Inner Work of Leadership is your guide to leading with Less Ego and More Soul. Your host is Janet Ioli, leadership and human development expert, sought-after coach, advisor to global executives, and former executive with experience in four Fortune 200 companies.