ABSTRACT
Mindfulness at work has garnered empirical evidence that supports its positive impact. Organizations have added mindfulness training to their workplace leadership programs as though the use of mindfulness for leaders was something new. Yet, there are leaders already fully engaged as organizational leaders for whom mindfulness is not new. These leaders have yet to be heard and little researched. Their long-term practice experience is from 10 to even more than 40 years. The study was designed to obtain new information from titled mid- to senior-level organizational leaders for their lived experience’s impact of mindfulness upon their leadership. The qualitative phenomenological research study data was collected through in-depth interviews with 14 leaders of diverse industries, locations, and types of mindfulness practice that shared the common use of a minimum of ten years of continuous mindfulness practice. A qualitative seven-step analysis framework was utilized to determine all themes and findings. The results indicated that mindfulness is perceived to contribute to the development of awareness that is associated with improved leadership capabilities and growth.
