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If you are creating content for leaders, founders, practitioners, or communities navigating genuine complexity – in their organisations, their leadership, or themselves – I bring a rare combination of academic rigor, global lived experience, and a direct, human voice that translates difficult ideas into conversations audiences actually carry with them.

I at the same time, bring depth – grounded, rigorous, and immediately applicable to real leadership and real life.

TOPICS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT

THE Importance of Self-Leadership: Higher Level Self Leadership ⚘ Higher Level Leadership as the Precursor to Leading Others Better ⚘ Growth Mindset ⚘ Mind-Body-Spirit Connection ⚘ Steps to Starting and Maintaining the Journey to Higher Level Self-Leadership ⚘ Mindfulness and Meditation ⚘ Embracing Your True and Authentic Self

CONSCIOUS Leadership in the Workplace, Community and Nation ⚘ Consciously Leading from Within ⚘ Becoming a Conscious leader ⚘ The Key Elements and Steps to Conscious Leadership ⚘ Why Conscious Leadership is Important for business

DEEP Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Agility in our Personal, Professional, and Business Spaces ⚘ Leading Remote Teams ⚘ Becoming Learning & Development Advisors ⚘ Actionable and Implementable Strategies ⚘ Humanizing Workplaces

LIVING a Life of & on Purpose ⚘ Purpose ⚘ The importance of, and how to figure out your life and leadership purpose ⚘ Embracing your global role as the human that you are ⚘ The Importance of a Deep Sense of Belonging

MY MOST RECENT APPEARANCES

Developing and Facilitation Leadership, Business & Entrepreneurship Related Webinars:

PAST PODCAST APPEARANCES

Bringing Solutions to Human, Leadership and Business Challenges through candid conversations across different podcast appearances:

⚘ Thrive: The Agency Resource: How Healing Impacts Leadership – on the relationship between personal inner work and leadership effectiveness.

⚘ Bullying in medical training. Interview at PhysiciansKeepers. We talked about psychological safety, power dynamics, and culture in high-stakes healthcare environments. Watch it on YouTube

⚘ Are Corporate Leaders Traumatized? – examining the psychological weight carried by senior leaders and its impact on culture and decision-making. Listen / watch on YouTube or Spotify or Apple

⚘ 21st Century Work Life: The need for leaders to embrace self-awareness, adaptability, and empathy to create more resilient, inclusive, and effective work environments. Nurturing Team Growth Through Conscious Leadership

⚘ Finding Your Purpose – a conversation on the Professional Presence Podcast: Listen Here →

⚘ You can Find Your Purpose, a conversation on the The Thembe Khumalo Podcast. Listen to it Here→ or Here→.

⚘ Diversity and Consciousness – a conversation on Identity, Conscious Leadership, and Navigating Diversity beyond Performance – a conversation on the The 3rd Way: Foster Thinking: Listen Here →

⚘ Leading Consciously – a conversation on the Podcast – Leaders for Good: Listen Here →

⚘ The Science of High Achievement and How I help my Clients Achieve High Performance. A conversation on the Living Integrated podcast: Listen here→

ADDITIONAL CONVERSATIONS:

⚘ Ideas to Implementation: Transitioning from an 8 to 5 job into working for myself
⚘ So you want to start a Business: My Business Start-up Story and Lessons Learnt
⚘ Curiosity and Consciousness: Following Your Life Purpose
⚘ Warrior Mystery School: Spiritual Beings Living A Human Life
⚘ Spiritual Conversation: Catalyst for Transformation
⚘ Living Your Intentions: Telling my life story

WEBINARS & MASTERCLASSES

Providing simplified, honest and efficient tools, steps and overviews to guide, direct and mentor different audiences:

⚘ A Global Perspective on Hierarchy: Watch Here→

⚘ What is and the importance of Conscious Leadership with the Alpha Group, UK: Watch here→

⚘ Youth and COVID: Replay here→

PRIVATE MASTERCLASS TITLES
⚘ Building your conscious and spiritual business practice
⚘ Being More Conscious to What Life Can Become

MASTERCLASSES FOR COACHES

The Business Behind the Coach: Systems, Strategy, and Sustainable Profit

Why People Should Be Coached By You

Pricing & Packaging Your Coaching products & Services

MASTERCLASSES FOR L&D PRACTITIONERS

▸ The Journey of Becoming an L&D Strategic Advisor – on positioning learning and development as strategic organizational infrastructure rather than a support function: Replay here→

▸ Using Fear as Fuel in Remote Work — on the neuroscience of fear and how leaders can convert fear-based responses into forward momentum in distributed work environments: Replay here→

NATIONAL RADIO PROGRAMMING

⚘ Heart and Soul Radio Zimbabwe: using the MUTEDZI 3D Protocol to define, design, and display all areas of life – conscious leadership applied to everyday living.

⚘ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe: Reducing Stress During Covid – neuroscience-based strategies for leaders navigating sustained pressure and uncertainty: Listen here

⚘ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe:
Neuroscience-Based and Leadership Coaching – what neuroscience-informed coaching looks like in practice and why it matters.

⚘ Capitalk Radio Zimbabwe: Conscious Leadership Coaching: The importance of and how we can stay positive in this time.

LEADERSHIP NEWSLETTER PUBLICATIONS

⚘ Articles in the International Coaching News, Newsletter
– Managerial Effectiveness: A Culture of Conscious Coaching
Pages 21-22.
– Personal Relationships: A Mirror to Who We Truly Are Within
Pages 11-13.
– How to Create the Health, Vitality and Energy you Deserve
Pages 51-53.
– Making your Coaching Work Accessible, Interactive and Memorable
Pages 29-31.
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Conscious & Regenerative Leadership
– Conscious and Regenerative Leadership from a Waterfall
– Consciously Leading through our Values
– Embodying Compassion as a Leader
– Leadership can be Lonely
– Making Time for Conscious Leadership
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Organizational Transformation & Culture Change
– Our collective purpose in business
– Humanizing our businesses
– Transformation & Leadership in Action
– Co-creating the coaching journey
– How can higher level leadership coaching contribute?
– When Eastern, Western & African Philosophies meet, what does leadership look like?
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Creating a Productive Work Environment at Home
– Working from home: surviving burn out & mental health issues
– Retaining & regaining our client’s trust as we use the digital space more
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Leading Remote Teams
– Part 1: Managing Remote Teams: The BluePrint
– Part 2: Practicalities of Working From Home
– Part 3: Managing Remote Teams: Monday Check-ins
– Part 4: Hello Leader, Let’s Check-in on you
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Organizational Management
– How to make your organization fail proof
– Companies exist to make money, not to lose it
– How micromanagement chases away good employees
– As a woman leading your organization, what have you done?
⚘ LinkedIn Articles on Entrepreneurship
– Jumping into entrepreneurship
– Jumping into entrepreneurship: Mental Preparation
⚘ Self-Reflective Articles on LinkedIn
– The beauty of communion
– Embracing your uniqueness
– If you’re the smartest person in the room, it may be time to expand your horizons
– Why planning, goal and intention setting produce better results when paralleled with your life purpose

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

⚘ 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
⚘ Improving bereavement outcomes in Zimbabwe: Protocol for a feasibility cluster trial of the 9-cell bereavement tool: https://rdcu.be/dhrEK
⚘ “We need more big trees as well as the grass roots”: Going beyond research capacity building to develop sustainable careers in mental health research in African countries: https://rdcu.be/b6g90
⚘ Publication contributions listed on Google Scholar→

BOOKS PUBLISHED & AVAILABLE ONLINE

⚘ Book 1 Am I Insane, Black or Just a Woman: a personal narrative exploring identity, conditioning, and the inner journey of a Black woman navigating complex systems: Link

⚘ Book 2 Academic Monograph – Advocating for Children and Adolescents Living with HIV: academic monograph on advocacy, systems, and policy in pediatric HIV care in Harare: Link

⚘ DYL Published eBooks x 7: Explore topics here

SCHOLARLY WORK SUMMARIES

⚘ 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.
⚘ Masters in Metaphysics Title: using Meditation and Positive Thinking to Consciously Live Life from the Inside out

PRIVATE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

⚘ Entrepreneurship: Women’s Group Zimbabwe
⚘ Conscious Leadership: Alpha Group Division of Noble Manhattan, UK
⚘ Conscious Leadership: Grow Motely, Global
⚘ Conscious Leadership: Ford, USA
⚘ From Delivered to Accessed Learning: Econet Zimbabwe
⚘ The Science of Learning: Econet Zimbabwe
⚘ Leading Remote Teams Effectively: First Mutual Zimbabwe
⚘ Mindset Shift for Women, in a Male Dominated Industry: Private Function
⚘ Coaching Young People: Local PechaKucha Zimbabwe
⚘ The Importance of Knowing Your Worth, and Living by it: Women of Worth
⚘ Self Discovery: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
⚘ Finding One’s Life Purpose: Peterhouse Boys and Girls High School
⚘ The Importance of Knowing Oneself: Prince Edward Boys School and Millennial Academy
⚘ The Mentor-Mentee Relationship: Elegant Grind Organization
⚘ Self-Leadership Workshops: Afrikera Dance Arts Trust
⚘ Women and Self-Leadership: Tafara Community and Nduna Girls
⚘ Leadership Workshop Series: Junior Achievement Zimbabwe

MY CONTRIBUTION LANDS BEST IF:

⚘ You are creating content for leaders, founders, practitioners, or communities working with real‑world complexity – not complexity as a buzzword, but as a daily reality.

⚘ Your audience is engaged and curious, reflective – open to integrating inner work with leadership, strategy, and culture.

⚘ You, yourself are willing to go beyond surface‑level tips into the deeper patterns shaping how we lead and design systems.

MY EXTENSIVE WORK EXPERIENCE

Dr. Barbara Mutedzi, PhD. 
Conscious Leadership, WellBeing & Neuroscience-Based Coach.

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.