Innovation Author and Speaker, Soren Kaplan, Ph.D. on ”Experiential Intelligence: The Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs”

“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.” Craig Lounsbrough   Watch this interview on YouTube here https://youtu.be/M45pacbfyqA On this episode we will cover: ✔ Soren Kaplan's background, and how he became interested in helping high level businesses breakthrough to new heights. ✔ How he has met and worked with some of the world's most well known experts in leadership and innovation. ✔ Where his innate strengths, talents and skills emerged from, skyrocketing his career and personal success. ✔ How we can ALL tap into the missing ingredient he discovered that leads to high levels of success and breakthroughs. ✔ How we can use this missing ingredient that he calls EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ) to become better leaders, increase collaboration, innovation and results at home or in the workplace. ✔ How EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ) compliments IQ and EQ. ✔ A simple formula for decoding our own EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ). ✔ How to use EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ) with teams, or individuals. ✔ The research behind EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ). ✔ How companies like Google, Apple, IBM and Tesla are embracing EXPERIENTIAL INTELLIGENCE (XQ). When it comes to closing out an old year, and moving into a new one, goal-setting and mindset is at the top of mind for all of us, to jumpstart our New Year on the right foot. This week, I’m in the middle of writing out our TOP 10 episodes of 2022, and getting my head around the final PART of our book review of the Silva Method and I’m thinking about how I can personally improve where we are now with the podcast, to keep moving us all forward with engaging content and speakers that can us to reach new heights with our brain in mind in 2023 and beyond. I wondered, “what am I missing that I haven’t covered yet, that could help move all of us to greater heights?” We have gone deep on this podcast in the past year with using an understanding of our brain to improve our mental and physical health and wellbeing, especially as this all relates to our learning, and we’re now slowing down the year for the holidays, uncovering some new ways to meditate with The Silva Method,[i] and other episodes that we’ll be releasing over the last few weeks of this year to help us to improve creativity, our intuition and focus, but before we close out this year, I wonder, what else is there that can help drive transformation in our schools, sports environments and workplaces? I’ve been thinking about this for the past few weeks, and then I met our next guest, Soren Kaplan, Ph.D., a bestselling and award-winning author, a Columnist for Inc. Magazine, and an affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have recognized him as one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants.  I was introduced to Soren Kaplan via email letting me know about his NEW book called Experiential Intelligence: (that’s about how to) Harness the Power for Personal and Business Breakthroughs[ii] that follows his other successful books Leapfrogging: The Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs[iii] and The Invisible Advantage[iv]. I immediately thought, “This is it! This is what I’ve been looking for. Something else that we can tap into that can be used to transform ourselves, our teams, and our organizations” and something entirely NEW, giving us that “breakthrough” advantage, or quantum leap that I’ve been mentioning all year with Price Pritchett’s You2 book. When I began reading Soren’s book, I noticed from the praise and testimonials at the start, that his supporters were all high levels leaders, sharing what they had learned from Soren’s book, and how “the ability to understand your inherent capabilities as a product of life experiences is the essence of (what Soren has called) experiential intelligence” and how “leaders can harness XQ to unlock their own hidden strengths and