Noelle RussellChief Executive Officer, AI Leadership Institute · 5x Microsoft Trustworthy AI MVP | 3.4+ million students | #1 Thought Leader in Agentic AI | AI-Powered Revenue Growth + Cost Optimization Expert ✨Best-Selling Author: Scaling Responsible AI | TEDx Sp

From Disconnection to Mindful Leadership #Leadership #Mindful #Transformation

25 Dec 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:50

In this opening segment, Speaker B, a minority woman working in technology, shares her frustration with the lack of visible role models and peers in senior leadership positions. She explains how she looks beyond her immediate chain of command to identify corporate vice presidents, executive vice presidents, and CEOs, yet perceives a stark disconnect between the values these senior leaders profess—such as mindfulness and empathy—and the reality she experiences as a director. The conversation sets up a central tension: the desire for mindful, empathetic leadership that is absent in her day‑to‑day work environment.

Chapters

cannot be confused with impact and mindful leadership. That's right. I love that. Why are you fascinated by leadership?
Probably because as a, a woman in tech, uh, and specifically a minority, I have not had great peers or even role models or direct leaders that I could look at and go, I wanna emulate that behavior. So I started looking past my direct line and identifying like, who are the senior leaders? Who are the corporate vice presidents, executive vice presidents, CEOs? What are they doing? And why is there such a big gap with what they're saying and my life? As like, I'm still a director, I'm still relatively senior in my field, but I do not get that same mindful, you know, connection. I don't get empathetic, you know, nobody comes to me and says,