--- title: Research - Dr Elizabeth King description: Explore resources on mindful leadership, team resilience, and navigating uncertainty to enhance performance and well-being in today's complex business environment. --- # Current Research ## Ongoing projects Dr. Liz King is currently exploring the role of mindfulness in decision-making, team performance, and organisational wisdom. Through ongoing research, she aims to develop reliable ways to measure these concepts and better understand their impact in real-world settings. ![Mindfulness in the Boardroom](https://47244296.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/47244296/hubfs/u7215795838_Close-up_of_a_grand_boardroom_table_made_of_rich__cc9e34ec-48d9-4a68-b118-a520f1b357cd_3.png?width=300&name=u7215795838_Close-up_of_a_grand_boardroom_table_made_of_rich__cc9e34ec-48d9-4a68-b118-a520f1b357cd_3.png) TOUCH 01 Mindfulness in the Boardroom 01Mindfulness in the Boardroom This project explores what mindfulness can offer boards of directors striving to navigate their extensive responsibilities skillfully. A robust mindfulness diagnostic can be used to guide directors and boards in how to practice individual and collective mindfulness that will foster wise decision-making. Mindfulness allows directors to understand the inherent uncertainties, ambiguities, and contradictions between goals and the means for their attainment along with the inconsistencies between narrow institutional interests, economic imperatives, and social/ecological concerns and objectives. ![Mindfulness at Sea](https://47244296.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/47244296/hubfs/u7215795838_Elite_sailing_crew_navigating_a_sleek_high-perfor_699c52ad-2828-4a0b-bdd2-ff3c88bbbd3d_1.png?width=300&name=u7215795838_Elite_sailing_crew_navigating_a_sleek_high-perfor_699c52ad-2828-4a0b-bdd2-ff3c88bbbd3d_1.png) TOUCH 02 Mindfulness at Sea 02Mindfulness at Sea In an era of global uncertainty, understanding how teams effectively navigate risk is crucial. This study explores team mindfulness—how groups maintain awareness and non-judgmental processing during high-pressure situations—through an ethnographic study of an elite ocean race. By analyzing real-time interactions, it contributes to both empirical research on team mindfulness and theoretical insights into decision-making in fast-paced, high-risk environments. ![ Wise Organisations](https://47244296.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/47244296/hubfs/u7215795838_two_middle_age_business_people_looking_at_a_white_6b6558e2-d767-43a6-9951-a6bace3e3b1a_3.png?width=300&name=u7215795838_two_middle_age_business_people_looking_at_a_white_6b6558e2-d767-43a6-9951-a6bace3e3b1a_3.png) TOUCH 03 Wise Organisations 03Wise Organisations Organisational wisdom research requires **academic and commercial organisation partnership **to validate a wisdom assessment tool applicable in the real-world.  This will enable future research to: 1. Assess impact of wise organisations; and  2. lucidating mechanism to cultivate wise organisations. **Wise Organizational Cultures **could unlock human capital because current evidence suggests that wise organisations result in associates experiencing: - Greater degree of **accountability** to work-related tasks; - Greater genuine team **collaboration; **and - Greater physical and mental **well-being.** ### Mindfulness vs Mindlessness in Governance In the challenging landscape of corporate governance, mindfulness emerges as a pivotal tool for effective, ethical, and sustainable decision-making. The stark contrast between the potential benefits of mindfulness and the dangers of mindlessness underscores the imperative for boards to foster a culture of awareness, focus, and consideration. Read More Here ![Mindfulness-vs-Mindlessness-Appendix-1](https://47244296.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/47244296/hubfs/images/dr-liz-king/images/Mindfulness-vs-Mindlessness-Appendix-1.webp?width=300&name=Mindfulness-vs-Mindlessness-Appendix-1.webp) ![2023-DR-LIZ-KING28463-1-copy](https://www.drlizking.com/hubfs/2023-DR-LIZ-KING28463-1-copy.webp "2023-DR-LIZ-KING28463-1-copy") ### Mindfulness in the boardroom By consciously embracing mindfulness in the boardroom, organizations can cultivate adaptability, resilience, and stakeholder consideration, promoting not only their own prosperity but also the greater good of society and the environment. If you or your board are interested in finding out more, I’d be delighted to chat. ###### [ Contact Liz](https://www.drlizking.com/contact/?hsLang=en) ![Ebook-Download](https://47244296.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/47244296/hubfs/images/dr-liz-king/images/Ebook-Download.png?width=300&name=Ebook-Download.png) #### Read Dr Elizabeth King’s influential book, Buddha in Pinstripes: A Model for Leadership in Uncertainty **How to integrate personal performance, business profit and societal progress while preparing for disruption.** Based on many years of study and extensive experience at senior levels of international business, this book is designed for people who are leading in the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world of business with a desire to generate profit whilst contributing to social purpose. ‘Buddha in Pinstripes’ provides both the theory and the practical steps that you and your organization’s leaders need to take to prepare your organisation for disruption, generate sustainable profit and social purpose, and allow your people to be peaceful. 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