Why is curiosity so important?

This is what I explore with my guest Dr. Alison Horstmeyer as we explore the importance of curiosity in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

Dr. Alison Horstmeyer is a former Fortune 500 business development executive who now works with executives to operationalize and harness curiosity and to enable agile leadership, innovation, agile experimentation and healthy team dynamics. She is considered one of the pioneering humanistic researchers in workplace curiosity working with clients such as Hulu, Verizon Media, Dolby, Vanguard.Her work is published in various domestic and international leadership and L&D publications including peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Organizational Change Management, Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, and Strategic HR Review as well as mainstream business publications such as Forbes and CEOWorld Magazine.

Alison also serves as the Director of Client Development and adjunct faculty for University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Executive Education and is the inaugural Research Fellow appointed to the USC Annenberg Center for Third Space Thinking contributing to evidence-based soft skills development.

Connect with Dr Alison Horstmeyer

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  • Website

Some topics we cover in this episode:

  • Why CEO’s/Founders should be careful of cognitive biases
  • 4 Obstacles to Creating a Culture of Curiosity
  • The important for leaders to develop an explorer mindset
  • How to recognise and tackle self-preservation mode
  • Practical tools to develop your curiosity
  • Reflection, Leadership and Curiosity - How Leaders get off the “treadmill”
  • The Relationship between your values and curiosity
  • Moving between the Plateaus and Plane Of Possibility
  • Having too much curiosity and how Leaders can help with this
  • Why understanding the different types of curiosity leads to innovation and execution
  • Curiosity: A key to Authentic Leadership

Connect with me

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  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sopeagbelusi/
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  • Email: hello@mindsetshift.co.uk

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