Alain Hunkins helps high-achieving people become high-achieving leaders. Over his twenty-year career, Alain has worked with tens of thousands of people in over 2,000 groups of leaders in 25 countries.

Clients include Wal-Mart, Pfizer, Citigroup, General Electric, State Farm Insurance, IBM, General Motors, and Microsoft. In addition to being a leadership speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach, Alain is the author of the book CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders. As 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.

Highlights

• What leadership means to him - 2:42
• All of us are leading every day - 4:08
• The right mindset that you need to have - 4:43
• Connection, communication, and collaboration - 5:03
• The unnecessary connection - 7:42
• The basis of connection is empathy - 9:38
• Not feeling comfortable - 13:48
• What’s the goal of communication? - 20:01
• Step beyond the comfort zone - 24:44
• Bad leaders vs. good leaders - 29:10
• Being efficient and effective - 29:57
• It’s about you helping other people - 34:08
• The goal of feedback - 37:40
• Becoming a better leader and connector - 41:40

Episode Resources * Connect with Raul Hernandez Ochoa * https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogoodwork * https://dogoodwork.io/work-with-raul * https://dogoodwork.io/podcast * Connect with Alain Hunkins * https://www.alainhunkins.com/cracking-the-leadership-code * www.alainhunkins.com * www.linkedin.com/in/alainhunkins * alain@alainhunkins.com