Growing Up at Work
How to Transform Personally, Evolve Professionally, and Lead Authentically
Yael C. Sivi & Yosh C. Beier
Do your best “inner work” while you work.
The workplace—whether in-person or remote—is a unique laboratory where personal and interpersonal growth are tightly intertwined. What better place is there to explore who you are and who you want to be?
For nearly two decades, therapists and executive coaches Yael Sivi and Yosh Beier have advised hundreds of employees, managers, and leaders on how to achieve authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and conscious collaboration. They now know that work provides us with a unique opportunity to learn about ourselves, to better understand our core beliefs and assumptions, and to truly see the effect we can have on others. Work gives us the chance to grow up.
Growing Up at Work explores how you can
• transform into an emotionally mature leader and create healthy employees, teams, and organizations—and by extension, enhance your influence;
• achieve authentic, positive, lasting leadership growth through self-awareness and openness to deep personal growth;
• realize extraordinary results if you choose to grow from the inside out.
By presenting inspiring real-life case studies, Sivi and Beier examine how resolving professional dilemmas and leadership challenges can lead you on a dynamic journey of personal growth and evolution.
The lead author of Growing Up at Work, Yael C. Sivi, LCSW, is an executive coach and a Gestalt psychotherapist. Her expertise is helping people grow psychologically so they can lead with greater integrity and relate more authentically to others. Yael’s work takes place at the intersection of professional growth and personal transformation. With an academic background in urban studies from Macalester College, a Master of Science in industrial social work from Columbia University, a postgraduate fellowship in Gestalt psychology from the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy in New York City, and a career of nearly twenty years as an executive coach, psychotherapist, and organizational consultant, Yael lends her expertise to helping people grow, lead, and collaborate with emotional maturity. For two decades, Yael has worked with thousands of employees, managers, and leaders in Fortune 1000 companies and nonprofit organizations on topics related to authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and conscious collaboration.
The co-author of Growing Up at Work, Yosh C. Beier, MSC, trained as a scientist, consultant, mediator, and therapist. He brings a highly interdisciplinary background to his role of executive coach and consultant. Combining analytical skills, systemic thinking, and a deep understanding of human behavior, Yosh speaks both the language of human and organizational dynamics. A native of Germany who moved to New York, he has worked as an executive and leadership coach for nearly two decades—and brings his experience as a global organizational effectiveness consultant and high-performance team coach to his engagements. Intrigued and driven by a desire to better understand how to facilitate and support individual and interpersonal growth, Yosh trained first to become a therapist and subsequently a mediator, executive coach, and Scrum Master. Yosh has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies and various nonprofit, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations. He is a managing partner and cofounder of Collaborative Coaching. Yosh has served as the board chair of a Buddhist nonprofit organization, as well as heading its strategic planning committee, among other roles.
