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Have you experienced this leadership profile?

Brilliant. Prepared. Committed to results.

Yet the leader is unaware of the silence created in the room that leads to employee disengagement and performance impacts….influencing personal overwork and burnout.

There’s an alternative way to lead as shared in this article.

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Called out.

At a local speaker’s association meeting, I prefaced my response to an audience question with: “ 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬.”

The speaker stopped me mid-sentence. His response, though bluntly delivered, cut to the truth: “𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞, 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞.”

Zinger.

I sat with that and with myself.

The truth is: I AM a first-generation kid. I AM amongst the first in my family to complete high school, earn undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, build a career in corporate America, and now own a leadership and career development practice.

That took grit, gumption, and grace, wrapped in faith and a willingness to keep learning and adapting.

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐫𝐨𝐛 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬.

That’s the work I do with leaders: I help them stop shrinking from the story that shaped them and start leading from it.

𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰’𝒎 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓. 𝑴𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕-𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕. 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮: What are your “I AM” realities? How are you letting them inform your leadership, or are you shrinking from them?