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๐ป TOPICS I LOVE SPEAKING ABOUT
The Importance of Self-Leadership: Higher Level Self Leadership โ Higher Level Leadership as the Precursor to Leading Others Better โ Growth Mindset โ Mind-Body-Spirit Connection โ Steps to Starting and Maintaining the Journey to Higher Level Self-Leadership โ Meditation
Conscious Leadership in the Workplace, Community and Nation โ Consciously Leading from Within โ Becoming a Conscious leader โ The main elements and steps to Conscious Leadership โ Why Conscious Leadership is important for business โ Self-Awareness & Emotional Intelligence in Business โ Leading Remote Teams โ Becoming Learning & Development Advisors โ Actionable and Implementable Strategies
Living a Life of & on Purpose โ Purpose โ The importance of, and how to figure out your life and leadership purpose โ Embracing your global role as a black person / as a woman / as a human being โ The importance of a Deep sense of belonging
๐ป ABOUT MY WORK
Working with high performing business owners, leaders and entrepreneurs, I use my vast academic knowledge and almost 2.5 decades of work experience in various industries, countries and regions to help them create psychologically safe environments for the people they lead, serve and look after, to step in, flourish and contribute at even higher levels.
Hello. My name is Dr. Barbara Mutedzi. I am a Conscious Leadership, Wellbeing and Neuroscience-Based Coach, whose life purpose is to help you harness and control to power you already have within, to live and lead a life of and on purpose.
๐ป MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO DATE
| ๐งณ Webinars and Masterclasses |
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| โ Becoming L&D Advisors: Webinar โ Using Fear as Fuel in Remote Work: Masterclass โ A Global Perspective on Hierarchy: Link Here โ What is and the importance of Conscious Leadership: With the Alpha Group, UK โ Covid and the Youth: Youth and Covid โ Building your conscious and spiritual business practice: Private Masterclass โ Being More Conscious to What Life Can Become: Private Masterclass |
| ๐ก National Radio Programming |
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| โ Heart and Soul Radio Zimbabwe: Using the Mutedzi 3D Protocol to Define, Design & Display all areas of our lives โ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe: Reducing Stress During Covid โ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe: Neuroscience-Based & Leadership Coaching โ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe: Conscious Leadership Coaching: The importance of and how we can stay positive in this time. |
| ๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ Articles Published in Scientific Peer Reviewed Journals |
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| โ Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: Protocol for a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool. 2019: (presented paper at the 2019 African Palliative Care Conference in Kigali Rwanda): https://rdcu.be/bBcMV โ Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: Protocol for a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool: https://rdcu.be/dhrEK โ โWe need more big trees as well as the grass rootsโ: Going beyond research capacity building to develop sustainable careers in mental health research in African countries: https://rdcu.be/b6g90 |
| ๐ Books I Published on Amazon & On This Website |
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| โ Academic Monograph: Advocating for Children & Adolescents Living with HIV in Harare. 2016: Amazon โ Personal Book: Am I Insane, Black or Just a Woman: Amazon โ DYL eBooks: https://designyourlifefoundation.com/e-books/ |
| ๐ Scholarly Works |
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| โ PhD in Conscious Business Ethics Thesis Title: Having a Global Vision for your Business, coupled by Deeply Self-Aware and Conscious Leaders, reduces opportunities for Unethical, Non-inclusive, and Top-Down Leadership that is detrimental to all involved. โ Masters in Metaphysics Title: using Meditation and Positive Thinking to Consciously Live Life from the Inside out |
| ๐ค Private Speaking Engagements |
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| โ Entrepreneurship: Women’s Group Zimbabwe โ Conscious Leadership: Alpha Group Division of Noble Manhattan, UK โ Conscious Leadership: Grow Motely, Global โ Conscious Leadership: Ford, USA โ From Delivered to Accessed Learning: Econet Zimbabwe โ The Science of Learning: Econet Zimbabwe โ Leading Remote Teams Effectively: First Mutual Zimbabwe โ Mindset Shift for Women, in a Male Dominated Industry: Private Function โ Coaching Young People: Local PechaKucha Zimbabwe โ The Importance of Knowing Your Worth, and Living by it: Women of Worth โ Self Discovery: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa โ Finding One’s Life Purpose: Peterhouse Boys and Girls High School โ The Importance of Knowing Oneself: Prince Edward Boys School and Millennial Academy โ The Mentor-Mentee Relationship: Elegant Grind Organization โ Self-Leadership Workshops: Afrikera Dance Arts Trust โ Women and Self-Leadership: Tafara Community and Nduna Girls โ Leadership Workshop Series: Junior Achievement Zimbabwe |
๐ป MY EXTENSIVE WORK EXPERIENCE

Dr. Barbara Mutedzi, PhD:
A multi-faceted professional with a wide-ranging skill set allowing me to take in large amounts of data from many varying disciplines, as shown by my own extensive educational journey (official and unofficial), and be able to consolidate them into actionable and implementable strategies that are sustainable, flexible and agile programs and projects as needed.
A multi-passionate and curious human, whose professional path has seen me working in different industries including the tobacco and cigarette manufacturing industries, to farming, carpentry, ophthalmic and ophthalmology, leadership training, coaching and development, people management and organizational transformation, mental health, psychosocial support and research, women, children and adolescent health, education, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and counseling, grief and bereavement.
I have worked in NGOs including Plan International, ILO and UNICEF, Community Based Organizations, Public Health Organizations, Private and individual organizations in low, middle and high income countries. Companies I have worked for across Africa, USA, Asia and UK have ranged in size from a few people to over 100 people head count. I have worked in positions ranging to Director, Advisor and Board member level.
