![]() When I was about 17, I began to work a start-up that was a residence camp for children called Camp Tawonga which is still in existence now almost 40 years later. The Jewish Community Center started mentoring me and promoting me into leadership roles when I was 15. Tell us a little bit about where you are today-what kind of work you do today, the focus, and where you spend most of your time and then that will give us a good feel for where you came from and where you are today.Įlad Levinson: Well, I am one of these people who got recognized as a leader very early on. Relly Nadler: Cathy and I are familiar with Hans Seyle and we’ll hear a little bit more about the stress theory. ![]() Peter Drucker, the father of modern management science is somebody that I have read since I was very early in my career and have continued to read and somebody who has deeply influenced the way I work with people.ĭr. The second one I would mention would be Peter Drucker. So Seyle would be somebody that I would say would be right up there. That we had so much influence and not really control, but we have so much impact on our own physical and mental health by how we look at things. I read that and I thought, my god, this person is basically speaking from a scientific, medical standpoint, something that I already knew. Seyle said that perception-how you look at things-has an enormous impact on whether a stress is positive or negative. Positive stresses build the immune system, negative stresses tear them down. There are positive stresses and negative stresses.That everybody reacts to stress the only people that don’t react to stress are dead, and.There is something that’s measurable and tangible that we can call stress about which is our reaction to life,.The interview basically was Seyle saying these three things: I read this interview and it changed my life. Up until that point, nobody really had used the term stress in the medical or biological sciences. A lot of people don’t know that Seyle was the father of the Stress Theory. So she gave me a written interview with somebody whose name is Hans Seyle. One of the nurses came over to me and she said, I understand you do relaxation training with patients, I think that you would like this. I was working in a alcoholism facility as the employee assistance person. I was looking at what I wanted to do next. I had already been a co-founder of a camp for children in California, so I’d had this experience of being a start-up entrepreneur at 17-21. We are going to start off a question that we always ask folks just to get a little bit of background on them, is who have been some the key people that you have been influenced by? You have been doing this, it says in your intro here, for 45 years, that’s huge.Įlad Levinson: Well, there was a turning point in my life and I was about 25 years old. His goals are to bring the art of relationship building and creation intention generation to the science of causing tangible, factual results that increase shareholder value and develop highly adaptable culture supporting the best in human spirit and action.ĭr. We’ll be talking with him about the stress theory. He was the first to apply the stress theory to business and leadership at many of these organizations. The course is called, Thriving on Change and has nine modules and video.Įlad also has been a Senior Organizational Development and Learning Development Professional at Agilent, Stanford, and ICANN the domain organization, and several start ups. He is also is going to teach a course that we are going to talk about from our friends from More Than Sound. He currently is the Senior Organizational Effectiveness Consultant at a group called 4128 Associates. He is a trusted advisor to senior leaders and managers significantly improving their ability to lead in a collaborative and engaging manner. We all know that change is that one constant sometimes it’s overwhelming for all of us because there is so much change.Įlad has over 45 years of experience as a leadership coach and organizational consultant. The focus of today is going to be on thriving on change. This week on Leadership Development News we are going to be talking with Elad Levinson who is going to give us a lot of tips and information.
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