Ambition Unleashed : Recent Episodes
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In this series from Achieve Breakthrough we’ll unpack eight mindset shifts that are essential for achieving your ambitions. These shifts are universal, so it doesn’t matter if you’re C-Suite, middle management or an individual contributor – or simply a self-identified average human caught up in the busyness of day-to-day life - if you have bold ambition, however buried, this podcast is for you.Our podcast hosts are Breakthrough Thinking pioneer and practitioner, Sara Moore, and Wayne Alexander – a former faith leader turned mindset transformation extraordinaire. Between them they have coached many of the world’s most ambitious leaders, managers and executives at many of the world’s largest and most renowned Fortune 500 organisations. In each episode Wayne and Sara will be joined by a different guest from the business world, academia or beyond to help them unpack conventional leadership wisdom and examine it through the lens of breakthrough thinking leadership philosophy.We won’t be providing quick fixes here, but a way for you to begin the work of a lifetime. Follow the podcast in your favourite podcast app and begin the journey from resilient living to breakthrough leadership.Achieve Breakthrough is a leadership and organisational development consultancy
In this episode we introduce two profiles of human consciousness: “reactive” and “creative.” Todays world is calling for the ambitious to be less reactive and more creative in our way of “being". Seeing ourselves AS our identity versus simply HAVING an identity is often what gets in our way because if we are our identity we need to preserve it to survive instead of play full out. Wayne and Sara explore this topic with Liberto Perada to find out how we can make this sometimes-difficult separation, and why it is important to unleash the full potential of not only yourself but of everyone around you. Liberto is Managing Director of Leadership Circle Europe, and also founder and facilitator at the consultancy Kanvio (for vitality) working with clients all over the world. Liberto is passionate about evolving a world based on trust and personal power. Where challenges, are references, and not obstacles. Where we use diversity to grow and change our reality from the self and throughout all his work is sourced from a belief that within each of us there is a creativity, power, wisdom and courage. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed Further reading/links Leadership Circle Home - Kanvio (for vitality) Review of Robert Putnam’s "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again" | History News Network The Upswing: Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett - Bing video Blog: Acts of Bravery – Part 1 Blog: Acts of Bravery – Part 2 Blog: Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Blog: Unlearn your Winning Moves Blog: Stay quiet, stay safe for a pay cheque. Blog: Breakthrough Thinking Practice 8: Powerfully declare and resolve the inevitable setbacks with the right people
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. Sara and Wayne discuss the natural tension we all hold as humans between staying safe and striving for a bolder vision, mission or purpose. Lots of commentators talk about “leading with purpose”, but this is easier said than done. Striving for our true purpose often comes with inherent risk – livelihoods, relationships, our sense of identity, our ego. This leaves many of us “playing not to lose” versus “playing to win.” It can be toxic to the soul to only ever stay safe, but what can we do to bravely take steps towards living more purposefully? To help them answer this, Sara and Wayne sit down with Bob Anderson, a true pioneer in the field of leadership development and research. Bob has dedicated his career to exploring the intersections between leadership and personal mindset mastery and is the founder of The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), an integrated and innovative leadership assessment tool used by Fortune 500 organisations to develop transformational and more conscious leaders. He's a very profound guy, and as a result their conversation was far reaching – but we encourage listeners to stay tuned, because the insights he offers are extraordinary. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed Further reading/links Leadership Circle Blog: Acts of Bravery – Part 1: Authenticity Blog: Acts of Bravery – Part 2: Willing to be at stake Blog: Consciously Choosing Creativity Leadership Circle books Leadership circle white papers https://beyondthecourse.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Leadership-Circle-Spirit-Of-Leadership-1.pdf Find out more about Robert Kegan
In this episode of Ambition. Unleashed. our hosts Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander dive into the mindset shift of ‘Knower to Learner’ They are joined by Beatrice Bigois of EDF Trading, a female Chief Executive in the male dominated wholesale energy sector who has made this belief core to her leadership philosophy to deliver phenomenally successful business turn arounds. Together they explore why loosening the grip of “knowing” to endlessly cultivate “curiosity”, in yourself and if you are a leader of people in your teams, is critical to unleash ambition and be successful in bringing to life a seemingly impossible future, idea or innovation you may be dreaming of creating. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed Further reading/links Carole Dweck keynote on developing a Growth Mindset Carole Dweck's book: Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential Wonderbag (Founded by Sarah Colins): a social enterprise tackling the climate crisis and empowering communities Blog: Knowing is the enemy of growth Blog: How leaders can open up new possibilities Blog: “Yeah, I know. Now what did you want to tell me?” Blog: The Power of the Open-Ended Answer Blog: Diversity and performance: Why they are inseparable Blog: Unlearn your Winning Moves
The mindset shift we explore this week is from “predicting the future” to “declaring the future.” Bold declarations are the foundation of great leadership and are hugely powerful. In the previous episode of Ambition. Unleashed. our hosts Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander helped listeners understand how they can make the shift from limited to unlimited possibility – to help you first identity a new future filled with possibility. But this is only the beginning. Declaring that possible future in a public arena will inspire, energise and enrol the world to help you deliver it, even if you don’t know exactly how you’re going to achieve it. Imagine declaring the future you want to happen instead of predicting what might happen. How would that change the way you approached your ambitions? Leadership is language and making a declaration is a creative act that uses precise, un-caveated terms to bring a possible future into being. Declarations need to be wholehearted and made publicly to those who will hold you to account – remember JFK’s declaration to get a “man on the moon before the decade was out”. True declarations are acts of bravery that put you and your ambitions at stake. And with the help of leading Executive Reinvention Coach and former Egg Online Banking Executive from its 90s/00s hey day – Neil Rodgers – Wayne and Sara explore the art and anatomy of making a powerful declaration. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed
Further reading/links Charles Handy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Handy Martin Heidegger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Egg Online Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_Banking Blog: Don’t Make Predictions – Declare Your Own Future in 2022 Blog: The Words We Use
In this episode we explore the first mindset shift we believe all ambitious, or ‘like to be more ambitious’, people should make if you want to at first identify your biggest, boldest, most breakthrough ambitions. In this week’s episode we show you why, how and what you can do to shift from a mindset that may limit your sense of possibility to one that un-limits your sense of possibility. With the help of Stephen Carver – a superb storyteller as well as a Change and Project Management Consultant and a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield University School of Management, we discovering the forces that cause even the most ambitious people to strive what they think they can have versus what they really, truly want. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Further reading YouTube video of Stephen Carver keynote discussing the culture at NASA the Space Shuttle Challenger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyrRoKN_kvg Blog: Breakthrough Thinking Practice 2: Listen for what’s missing Blog: Breakthrough Thinking Practice 3: Identify what you’re really committed to Blog: How to be a visionary Blog: How leaders can open up new possibilities Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed
Most people if asked to define an ambitious person would say something like “a person who knows what they want and where they’re going”, perhaps with a big, hairy, audacious goal in mind - probably motivated by money or notoriety. But Ambition is less about knowing where you’re going, but the size of the possibility you can see and would be willing to commit to for yourself and/or your business. This podcast is certainly for the self-identified ambitious, but it's also for those that feel they would like to grow the size of their ambition. In this first episode of Ambition. Unleashed. we introduce you to the mindset shifts we’re going to take you through over the next eight episodes. Mindset shifts we believe - without a doubt - are the essential foundations for helping you to identify and achieve your biggest, boldest most breakthrough ambitions. Bought to you by Achieve Breakthrough – a leadership development, transformational change, and workplace culture consultancy to Fortune 500 organisations. Hosted by Sara Moore and Wayne Alexander, both Strategic Leader Consultants at Achieve Breakthrough. Further reading Blog: Breakthrough Thinking Practice 1: Unhooking yourself from your assessments Blog: Getting comfortable being uncomfortable Blog: The Assumption Revolution Please email us with any questions, coaching you need or to share your personal breakthrough stories or aha moments as we guide you through the mindset shifts. Twitter: @Achieve_BT #AmbitionUnleashed
This is a taster of Ambition Unleashed, a podcast to help you realise your biggest, boldest, most breakthrough ambitions yet. Join hosts Wayne and Sara as they unpack conventional leadership wisdom and examine it through the lens of breakthrough thinking leadership philosophy. Follow the podcast in your favourite podcast app and begin the journey from resilient living to breakthrough leadership.