Alain Hunkins helps high achieving people become high achieving leaders. Over his twenty-year career, Alain has worked with over 2,000 groups of leaders in 25 countries. Clients include Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Citigroup, General Electric, Microsoft, among many others. In addition to being a leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach, Alain is the author of CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders, which was endorsed by leadership luminaries Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner, and Marshall Goldsmith. A faculty member of Duke Corporate Education, Alain’s writing has been featured in Fast Company, Inc., Forbes, Chief Executive, Chief Learning Officer, and Business Insider.
Inside This Episode
- Can you really “Fake it ‘til you make it?”
- The Importance of Performing as a Leader
- Why only 23% of employees think their leaders lead well
- How We Inherit Our Leadership Style
- The Need to Get Out of Industrial Age Leadership Practices
- The First Step to Cracking the Leadership Code
- The Future of Leadership
- Why Organizations Need to Become More Human-Centered
- The 3 Secrets of Effective Leaders
- Why We Need to Start with Connection
- The Difference Between Knowing and Doing in Regard to Empathy
- Embracing Emotions in the Workplace
- Overcoming the Bias of Self-Affirming
- Why Leaders Need to Actively Manage Perceptions
- The Real Business of Leadership
- A Powerful Question to Ask to Transform Your Culture
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