Leader Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence

In this chapter we will explore the background to the growing interest in mindfulness; what we know about the nature of mindfulness and its relevance to organisations; what has been found in terms of leader mindfulness; and how it can aid the process of implementing change in an organisation. We will then explore its relationship to emotional intelligence as well as the LDQ that we discussed in Chap. 8 , doing this through the exploration of a recent relatively large-scale study of leader mindfulness in change.