Why leaders should embrace ‘multidimensional leadership’

In today's world, people are encouraged to specialize in one area, but this can lead to a narrow and limited perspective. Instead, leaders need to be multidimensional, embracing contradictions and holding tensions. This kind of leadership is necessary for innovation, resilience, and navigating complexity. Many unconventional thinkers feel pressured to conform to traditional leadership molds, leading to disconnection and burnout. Embracing one's full dimensionality means accessing intellect, intuition, logic, emotion, embodiment, and systems thinking. This holistic approach is not new, and was exemplified by figures like Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. Leading from one's full dimensionality requires thoughtful exploration and practice, and can be achieved through a framework of discover, distill, and design. This approach enables leaders to move from reactivity to intentionality, and from exhaustion to resonance. The future will be led by those who are most fully alive and courageous enough to lead from that place.