Leadership Secrets with Steve Tappin. Your leadership skills are almost as important as your work ethic. Learn how to be a better leader and get more out of life with Steve Tappin, an expert on leadership, mindfulness, and human behaviour.

As parents, friends, mentors and coaches, we are all leaders in life, and many are leaders in their careers. My question to you is this. Do you work to be a better leader? Steve Tappin is a leadership coach to CEOs, entrepreneurs, political figures and cultural icons. He is the co-founder and CEO of Beyond Unity and co-author of The Awareness Code and The Secrets of CEOs. Steve hosted the BBC World television series CEO Guru and was a LinkedIn global influencer. Steve’s goal is to help create an incredible world through transforming leadership and what he has to say in this episode of Chatter that Matters has the potential also to change how you lead your life as a parent, partner, friend, and throughout your life and career.

Steve believes that leaders are made, not born and that the foundations for leadership begin with your upbringing. Steve shares the lessons he learned from his Mother, the heart of his family, who said he could do anything, and his Dad, a maverick entrepreneur who valued relationships above all. His athletic ability led him to sports and taught him to never settle for second best and that the best coaches have strong emotional intelligence and work in fellowship with the sport. A mentor taught him some invaluable lessons in critical thinking. 

In his twenties, Steve Tappin interviewed CEOs and learned that each meeting was a learning opportunity, not just a selling opportunity. By his mid-thirties, his insatiable appetite for life took him all over the world, fuelled by an addiction to work, coffee, and a complete lack of respect for nutrition and exercise that led him to hit a wall when he had a stroke.

This wake-up call let him reprioritize his life and team up with Wayne Linton, a trained psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience. Together they write the Awareness Code, a ground-breaking guide to help you increase your human awareness. Steve shares how the Awareness Code can work for you to transform yourself to become an incredible leader and to create a fellowship where everyone is working together.

Steve also talks about BIG, the beyond incredible group. To date, they have invited ten people to come together to help them reach the highest level of awareness and help them prepare to lead, unite society, and solve some of our biggest problems. They plan to grow BIG to 100 future leaders. 

I was also interested in the decades he has spent working in China. Steve shares why leaders there are so different. They are exceptional entrepreneurs; they think far beyond annual or even five-year plans and collaborate and work together to better society and their business, and each other.