Photo of Greg taken from Indianapolis Monthly
Greg Sipes, Ph.D. is a behavioral psychologist with nearly 30 years of clinical experience. He is a founding senior partner of Indiana Health Group, Inc., the Midwest’s largest multidisciplinary behavioral health practice; and founder of nextVoice, a company dedicated to helping others have better relationships for business and for life.
Greg served as a full-time faculty member with IU School of Medicine, was a hostage negotiation consultant and police psychologist with IPD and currently consults with local and national organizations on workplace issues such as safety culture, change management, and recruiting and retaining Millennials. He also volunteers with agencies that serve at-risk kids in Indianapolis.
Greg is author of Lead to Live, Live to Lead: Discovering the Six Principles of Uncommon Sense for Uncommon Success and Soulful Parent/Soulful Teen: Moving from Control to Care, Transformation of the Soul, The Bottom Line: Six Principles to Carefree Living in Complicated Times, and The Bottom Line: Principles of Faith – Simple Truths. Greg has a weekly WXIN/Fox59 segment, “Straight Talk with Dr. Sipes,” is a regular guest on WIBC and WXNT radio stations and frequently contributes to local business publications such as the Indianapolis Business Journal and Inside Indiana Business.
Greg is husband to Markine, father of Chris and Julia, and father-in-law to Jaime and Adam.
Greg on Leadership
For decades, transactional leadership—that is, leadership that’s all about doing things that lead to reward or punishment—has been the subject of countless books, conferences, and workshops. Transactional leadership is about time management and conflict resolution and putting checks in boxes. It has its basis in competency, not in inspiration.
Dr. Greg Sipes is more interested in transformational leadership. It’s leadership based on what you are, not what you do. It’s not about incentive plans, but rather the quality of your relationships. It’s about inspiring people to give extra effort. And it’s as much about leading a life as it is about leading an organization.
Greg is available for consultations or speaking engagements. Interested in finding out how Greg can help you transform your orgaization? Contact julia@drgregsipes.com for more information.
Greg on Right Brain vs. Left Brain
We’ve long known that healthy personal lives are about right-brain functioning, although we don’t usually think of it this way. Right-directed thinking is inclined toward empathy, play and meaning, in other words, relationship — and in our personal lives, nothing is more important than our relationships with family and friends.
But, for the first time in American life, we are encouraged to be relational at work as well as at home because it’s what works best in both settings. No longer does the employee have to put on a different hat at work from the one they wear at home. No longer can we explain non-relational work decisions as “just business” because non-relational decisions at work are just as misguided and self-defeating as non-relational decisions at home.
No longer is success at work about being primarily numbers-focused and making “hard-nosed” decisions while success at home is about being “soft hearted.” No longer can we afford to live in duplicity. We must lead as we live and live as we lead.