Program Description
The Athletic Leader:A Balanced Approach to Leadership Development
Our current culture recognizes the benefits of physical and mental health and its relationship to success. Leaders are faced with complex environments, high stress, and decision making, in addition to long hours and extensive travel. These factors impede a leaders ability to make well thought out decisions and maintain a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
In this interactive program, Dr. Kress encourages leaders to understand the ROI of leadership development that focuses on strength, flexibility, endurance, focus, and emotional control. It is obvious that high-level leaders can produce successful results even if they smoke, drink, are overweight, do not exercise, and lack emotional control or purpose for their leadership role. However, they cannot produce optimal results at their fullest potential without a cost over time. A cost to themselves, families, and the organizations they are leading. The best long-term top performers have a balanced approach to their leadership style.
Dr. Kress approaches leadership development from a holistic perspective. She provides her participants with simple techniques for balancing mind, body, and spirit improving their leadership performance and well-being. Other leadership development approaches focus only on primary leadership behaviors such as communication, strategic planning, and decision-making skills. Dr. Kress’ approach focuses on secondary leadership behaviors such as endurance, strength, emotional control, and focus allowing leaders to produce long-term results at their fullest potential.
Dr. Kress believes that leaders should be trained like corporate athletes. In order for leaders to maintain a high level of performance over a long period they need to develop their leadership skills on the same multi-levels as professional athletes develop their athletic skills. A balanced approach to leadership development will dramatically improve leadership performance, enhance health and overall happiness.
Biography: Dr. Dionne Kress is the President of D.M.Kress, LLC, Performance Exceeding Possibility. She specializes in leadership development from a holistic perspective. She herself is leadership professional, fitness trainer, and wellness coach and has worked with leaders on holistic development. Dr. Kress has 16years of business experience and has personally experienced the positive impact of engaging in the practice of developing a healthy, mind, body, and spirit.
