Decision-making is not just a cognitive exercise; there are benefits to approaching it as a whole person. To talk more about this, I invited Amy Day, decision educator and executive director of the nonprofit Clarity for Action, to my podcast. Amy likes to say that she grew up in a decision laboratory, surrounded by giants from the field of decision science. She's certified as a decision educator, coach and advisor through Stanford, continuing studies.Over the past 20 years, she has combined her native background in decision quality, with insights, from social emotional learning, in order to teach emerging adults and parents to integrate whole person decision making into their lives in order to get clarity and take purposeful action.Today, Amy explains how to check one's decision fitness with a simple acronym, the four components of whole person decision making, and what parents and adults can do to cultivate decision skills and the young people they support.Topics Covered2:49 Whole person decision making4:27 Growing up in a decision laboratory7:24 Working the emotions that arise in decision making8:34 Decision fitness and my internal operating system14:10 Four areas of whole-person decision making14:20 Values: Who am I16:02 Internal Operating System: How am I, decision fitness, and HALT18:36 The importance of putting on your own oxygen mask first19:37 Decision Process: What could I26:53 Action: What are my action steps27:55 Quality of decisions, quality of outcomes32:11 Decision aftercare36:00 Decision classroomAbout Amy Day’s nonprofit, Clarity4ActionOur goal at Clarity4Action.org is to support people in moving from feeling confused and stuck to calm clarity and effective action in their choices. We teach and coach whole-person decision making to young people as they emerge into adulthood and the people who support them.Resources Clarity4Action website Clarity4Action.orgThe Four Outcomes GuideSign up to receive our weekly email for integrating better decision making into your life. https://clarity4action.org/thoughtful-thursday-blog/To learn more from Michelle about decision making, check outThe Ask A Decision Engineer websiteHer Stanford Continuing Studies courseHer self-paced course Decision Toolkit for Personal DecisionsHer Decision Toolkit for Coaches and Counselors virtual workshop on Maven
About Michelle FlorendoMichelle Florendo is a Stanford-trained decision engineer and executive coach who is on a mission to teach people how to make decisions with less stress and more clarity. Over the past decade, she has coached and taught hundreds of leaders across tech, healthcare, and financial services, in organizations ranging from pre-IPO startups to major tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.  She's been an adjunct lecturer at Stanford, helps train coaches as a faculty coach for Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, and hosts the podcast, Ask A Decision Engineer. She earned her engineering degree from Stanford and her MBA from UC Berkeley.For those interested in exploring Michelle's coaching and speaking services further, additional information can be found on her professional website at poweredbydecisions.com.

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