where boundaries dissolve: Recent Episodes
Helena Arjuna Suter
Hi, I'm Helena. This is my podcast with inspiring change agents on personal, cultural, and organizational transformation and leadership in business and society. We discuss professional and life experiences on overcoming the challenges of transformation. Lovely to see you here!
Brit gives us the science behind HIGH feminine energy to become magnetic, empowered and balanced, again!🤍
As women, we power through so much—mood swings, PMS, cramps, energy crashes at 3PM, insomnia, poor mental health and low self-confidence + low self-esteem—but these symptoms are NOT NORMAL!! They are products of us suppressing our feminine, because we were taught to lean into the masculine to build credibility in this patriarchal system.
Time to reclaim our power with my Hypnotherapist + Mental and Menstrual Coach, Brit. She says: "You're not lazy, or crazy for feeling depressed. It's your feminine energy that is suppressed. It's why you struggle with burnout, low self-worth, confidence, and self-trust. It is ALSO the root cause for many health and hormonal imbalances. All of this is blocking your magnetism!"
*stay till the end for the guided hypnosis to set your magnetism + abundance on 🔥!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:01 Brit's Healing Journey
07:01 Understanding Hormonal Imbalances
09:10 The Role of Hypnotherapy in Healing
12:29 Connection Between Hormones and The Suppressed Feminine
27:15 Practical Tips for Embracing Feminine Energy
37.01 How to Masculine, The Performative Shows Up in Your S3*X Life!
43:35 Guided Hypnosis
57:41 Closing 🌹
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The Self Cervix Wand: https://selfcervix.com/products/wand 😌
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Bye productivity guilt + toxic masculine mindset for us career girlies. Hello abundance, lightness, ease, and purpose.
If you too, have been spiritually gaslighting yourself, telling yourself your meditations and breath work will help you feel less burnt out--welcome to the club. You're in the right place, because we will explore how rest, self-discovery, and personal growth is connected. We'll talk about how taking intentional breaks can rejuvenate your mind and spirit, paving the way for profound insights and breakthroughs.
Whether you're seeking clarity in your career, relationships, or personal aspirations, I hope my insights here will help you find balance and purpose. Don’t miss out on the chance to transform your life through rest and self-exploration. You got this.🤍
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Beliefs and Burnout
01:16 The Importance of Rest and Self-Discovery
01:35 Personal Reflections and COVID Wake-Up Call
02:24 Understanding Productivity Guilt
03:09 Changing Your Relationship with Rest
03:24 Insights from 'Rest Easy' by Ximena Vengorhea
05:42 Manifesting Opportunities Through Rest
07:43 Balancing Work and Personal Life
10:52 Finding Joy and Pleasure in Life
17:55 Connecting with Childhood Activities
20:34 Nature's Healing Power
21:39 Creating a Mindful Evening Routine
22:57 Conclusion and Final Thoughts: You're worth it!!
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A dark night of the soul is the painful process of letting go of the identity that you got you THIS far, but no longer serves you. The process will crack you open, shed light on the suppressed parts of the divine feminine within, giving you access to your deepest desires and the power to ask for what you want.
✨ What You’ll Learn:
- How to alchemize the pain to heal the suppressed feminine
- The importance of feeling into and grounding yourself in the new emotions that arise during this transformative period.
- How to honor your unique timeline and embrace the feminine energy that allows you to flow with life’s uncertainties.
Chapters
00:00 Embracing your path
01:01 Understanding the Dark Night of the Soul (vs. shadow work)
04:18 What triggered my Dark Night of the Soul
10:28 The saint vs. the whore: Collective shame around femininity + desires
12:40 Healing subconscious trauma to free the feminine
22:44 S(!)x + Freedom + Empowerment
26:08 Tools to navigating the waters of transformation
35:07 Conclusion: Chasing dreams w your body, your awakening, your power
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Katrin J. Yuan faced discrimination, because she is a woman and of Asian descent, but she didn't let that stop her from becoming a successful investor, CEO, founder, award-winning executive, 5x board member, and keynote speaker.
Believing in yourself when no one does is a learned skill. Learning to fight discrimination means shedding imposed beliefs and listening to your inner voice to realize success.
Key focus areas:
- Marginalized Voices Need To Build Self-Belief
- Dream big, believe in your potential: Know your why, know your vision
- Intrinsic Motivation + Energy: Do you know what motivates you?
- Adaptability + Environment: Find the right environment for growth.
- Dealing with Expectations + Inner Conflict: Navigating societal pressures requires letting go of wanting to please others
- Embracing Authenticity + Uniqueness: Your uniqueness is your asset.
- Are you listening to the right people?
- Being Ok with Being Alone
- Finding Motivation Through Challenges
- Learning: Trial, Error & Repeat
Chapters:
00:00 Start
02:16 Guest Introduction: Katrin's Accomplishments
02:51 Navigating Success and Ambition
05:23 Balancing Inner Conflict and Self-Belief
06:40 The Fish in the Box Metaphor: Do you want to stay in your box or swim in the ocean?
11:23 Overcoming Challenges and Finding Your Voice
14:29 Embracing Uniqueness and Inner Transformation
21:12 The Importance of Silence and Reflection
26:13 Empowerment and Leadership in Uncertain Times
30:22 Final Thoughts and Advice for Young Leaders
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Have you ever sacrificed your happiness chasing "success" without truly understanding what it means to you? In this episode, we dive deep into HOW we confuse status, material gains, and paychecks with self-worth, only to painfully realize how easily these can be stripped away.
Society defines success as the visible peaks we climb, but true FULFILLMENT comes from connecting with our values and what lights us up. We’ll explore how redefining success can not only lead to a more fulfilling life but also help fight global warming by stepping away from consumerism.
Inspired by insights from Nick Craig in episode #50, it's time to wake up and stop chasing things that don't truly make us happy. Learn how to find fulfillment in HOW you show up in the world, doing what excites you, and feeling successful for who you are and how you contribute.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction: Redefining Success
01:01 Welcome to the Podcast
01:40 Exploring Personal Definitions of Success
03:32 The Role of Purpose in Success
05:14 Practical Exercise: Discovering What Success Means to You Journal Prompts
07:01 Reflecting on Your Journey
07:47 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
09:00 Closing Remarks
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It’s important overcome our imposters, because it feeds our self-doubt and lack of confidence, resulting in you doubting everyone around you. Overcoming your imposter is a gift to deepen your self-knowledge, and heal. When we’re healing, we reach deeper levels of awareness over our gifts, and strengths, making us better collaborators. Being a strong collaborator helps us to tap into the collective intelligence to take our business and society to the next level.
We’ll go into the concept of imposter syndrome, exploring how childhood wounds can lead to feelings of unworthiness. You will learn about the 5 types of imposter syndromes. I share how they’ve shown up in my career and will give you practical strategies to identify and overcome your imposters.
Chapter
00:00 Introduction to Imposter Syndrome
00:42 Welcome to the Podcast
01:06 Understanding Imposter Syndrome
01:35 Personal Struggles with Imposter Syndrome
04:19 Types of Imposter Syndrome
06:17 Overcoming Perfectionism
12:44 The Need for Knowledge and Expertise Imposter
14:26 Childhood Wounds and Imposter Syndrome
19:35 The Hyper Genius Imposter
27:52 The People Pleaser Imposter
31:51 The Soloist Imposter
38:48 Practical Tips and Conclusion
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-Helena
Whats the thing that keeps you believing “it’s gotten you this far” but is actually toxic to your mental health? Do we collectively suffer from this? LMK on socials if this episode is relatable!! Did the solutions her therapist provide inspire you, too?
About the episode: Kelsey Heitzman, a successful model in LA, talks about balancing her success with mental health issues. She opens up about feeling exhausted and leaving the consulting world to be a model, only to feel even more pressure to maintain a perfect image: Is the cost of success in this industry to have an eating disorder? Why does everyone just think that's normal?! We talk about reinventing yourself—how families responds, going to therapy, and why blending the masculine and feminine allow her to express her most authentic, creative, and successful self.
Chapters:
00:30 Tarot card pull: "What Era of Life Are You In, Kelsey?"
01:40 Embracing Confidence and Unapologetic Self-Expression
02:34 Navigating Femininity in Male-Dominated Spaces
05:24 Why Kelsey Left Consulting For Modeling
07:18 The Impact of Career Choices on Family Relationships
12:38 Building a New Support System in LA
16:33 Leveraging Your Authenticity in Toxic Industries
21:34 Mental Health and the Pressure of Perfection in Modeling
23:08 Is Healing From Eating Disorder Mean Sacrificing Success As A Model?
23:27 Group Therapy and Seeking Help
26:26 Healing To Balance: Work, Creativity, and Self-Care
28:39 The Virgo Way To Heal For A Sense Of Control and Productivity
31:00 Reflecting on The Journaling Prompt About “Ways to Connect To Inspiration & Creativity”
34:27 New Ways To Inspire Yourself When Everything’s Been Said + Done On Socials
38:26 Rapid Fire Questions: Fear vs Intuition, Lessons From Anxiety, Morning Routines vs Evening Routines
Please follow and share this with your friends if you love this this convo! <3
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Kelsey: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelsey_heitzman/?hl=en
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/ @daddylonglegswoods8048
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-Helena
We want to do work smarter, but how can we, if we’re stuck in a hamster wheel going 120mph? We need to spend more time with our feminine energy—sitting with ourselves, getting to know what's happening inside, shedding light on our triggers that are influencing our subconscious mind and our decision making. Your triggers are a gift: To know, sit and reflect on your triggers makes you more intentional, connected with your intuition, and it gives you your energy and time back.
I share a journaling prompt that helps me, because we're being invited, as a collective, to learn to self-regulate, regenerate, and be aware of when we're disconnecting by spending more time with our feminine energy.
Chapters:
01:10 Understanding and Embracing Triggers
01:33 Analogy of Therapy and Triggers: A Messy Closet
03:07 Creating Space by Addressing Triggers
04:01 The Pebbles in Our Way: Offloading Stress
06:05 The Importance of Slowing Down, A Very Feminine Trait
06:42 Journaling: A Tool for Emotional Clarity
08:42 Emotions: Fear vs. Intuition
09:32 Shedding Light on Our Trigger Strengthens The Power of Intimacy and Collaboration
10:18 Final Thoughts
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If you feel unseen, unvalued, and unknown this is for you: Find your purpose with Nick Craig. Nick Craig has coached over 20,000 executive leaders and helped them uncover their purpose. He’s transformed executives leaders at LEGO and Ben & Jerry’s. He’s the president of the Core Leadership Institute. And he’s the author of the book Leading From Purpose (the forward was written by Brene Brown!)
Stop trying to be a "bad second version of somebody else" then be surprised about feeling unseen, unvalued, and unknown. If you want to feel seen, valued, and known you have to search for something beyond the external indicators of success. Your purpose is who you are at your core, and how you bring it to life. It’s about self-leadership: If you don’t know how to lead yourself, how can you lead anybody else and make this world a better place?
Chapters
00:00 Redefining Success: Beyond Job Titles and Achievements
01:34 Introducing Nick Craig: The Purpose Expert
03:12 The Power of Purpose in Personal and Professional Life
11:43 Navigating Identity and Purpose in a Conventional World
15:17 The Transformative Journey of Discovering Purpose
26:10 Purpose Beyond Career: A Universal Application
27:28 Our Purpose Works Through Us
28:54 The Discipline and Mastery That Purpose Requires
31:27 Facing Fears and Embracing Growth
32:52 When Your Purpose Is: Thriving Through Adversity
35:15 Purpose is a Guide for Life's Choices
40:17 Learning from Mistakes and Adjusting Quickly
45:26 Purpose Is the Only Thing That Will Give us Peace
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Find Nick:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-craig-purpose/
The Core Leadership Institute: https://coreleader.com/
Nick's book: https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Purpose-Clarity-Confidence-Matters/dp/031641624X
Nick's HBR article: https://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact
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-Helena
You lack inspiration and creativity, and you secretly feel like you don't fit in at work and could do "more with your life"? You want to lead a more fulfilled life and attract better opportunities, but you lack motivation or energy? Then this is for you.
*disclaimer: This is not your typical “romanticizing your life” message as you may know from IG or TikTok. It’s time we take this concept to the next level. My POV will awaken what’s been lying dormant inside of you—so that you FALL IN LOVE with life and work again. Because that’s what romanticizing life is: MAKING it beautiful, LOVING it, FEELING EMPOWERED by HOW you live it! And that means being inspired, creative, and connected to purpose even when you're in a toxic workplace or don't enjoy the task at hand. Let your work be a manifestation of your truest self. 🫶🏼
Chapters:
00:00 Unlocking Creativity and Purpose in Every Aspect of Life
01:02 Welcome to the Podcast: A Space for Healing & Authenticity
04:40 The Real Power Of Romanticizing Your Life & Work
10:04 Navigating Challenges Working With 50+ White Men By Leveraging Your Uniqueness
14:00 What sets you Apart is Your Asset
17:45 Stop Hiding: Those Are Your Assets
20:49 Embracing Your Uniqueness & Overcoming Shame: Healing From Body Shame To Strengthen My Mind
21:32 The Empowered Mindset In Dealing With Rejection
22:20 Transforming Perception: From Shame to Strength
23:01 Living “Fully & Whole”
23:22 Dealing With Fear: You’re Never Alone, Find Partners
24:17 Starting Small: The Key to Feeling fulfilled Quickly
25:40 Making Networking & New Experiences Exciting
28:40 Some Discipline and some Strategy Go A Long Way
29:05 Navigating Workplace Politics & Change
32:07 Transforming Uninspiring Situations into Opportunities—Elevating Your Energy
39:26 You Are The Source
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I used to tell people that my biggest fear was waking up at the age 40 and realizing that I hadn't been living life for myself. That I'd somehow been chasing the wrong things, living in everybody's opinions at work and disconnected from my own desires. We get so stressed out at work trying to be the most for everybody. I don't think we take enough time to be "selfish" and just connect to ourselves.
I've come up with a new format on here to take a moment and connect to ourselves. It's a work in progress, I already have a few new ideas on what to incorporate next time. I'm very excited, because it feels like I can connect more intimately with you this way.
Shoot me a message if you have any topics you'd like me to do a soundbite on to help you feel connected, grounded, reflected and ready to go out and be passionate about life again.
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I manifested my move to LA— I thought I'd figured out the energetic space to live from to manifest my purpose & dream career. Reality hit harder than I thought. My confidence took a massive hit. I'm learning that confidence leads to uncertainty, but that's the point.
If that's true, how can we trust ourselves and feel confident when we're anxious? How can we slow down and take care of ourselves to see uncertainty as a place of infinite possibility instead of living from a place of fear and scarcity?
Key elements I dig into:
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Flexible Mindset: Self-confidence fluctuates. Stay open minded and be compassionate with yourself.
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Self-Care: Extreme “performance” requires extreme self-care—nutrition, physical, and emotional well-being—they all influence our confidence.
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Slow Down: Are you leading from a place of ego and need for validation? Confidence stays when we’re mindful, present, and grounded in who we are.
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Connection: Where are you making decisions from? What’s your intention? Are you trying to impress or are you respecting yourself, your thoughts, your mind?
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Awareness: Being aware of our emotions, energy levels, and cycles can help us make decisions aligned with our personal flow & rhythm.
Chapters:
00:14 The Journey to Confidence and Purpose
00:41 Manifesting a New Life: The Move to LA
02:20 Facing Challenges and Rediscovering Confidence
03:57 Preserving Self-Confidence Amidst Doubt
05:16 Confidence is Dynamic: The day you find it, is the day you’ll lose it.
6:45 We don’t always have the best mindset, and that’s ok
07:03 The Role of Quality Food and People & Confidence
11:04 Connecting to Yourself for Real Confidence
13:07 Slowing Down to Connect and Gain Confidence
16:02 Managing Your Energy and Emotions
23:25 Aligning Work with Nature’s Cycles
25:30 Conclusion
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Feeling stuck or lacking the drive to make this year the best of your life? This is for you: My guest David Ulrich breaks down the secrets to success and staying energized in a world full of uncertainty. David was ranked #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and is recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers.
Whether you're aiming to skyrocket your career, level up your business, or simply upgrade yourself and your life, we've got your back. From aligning your values with your hustle, accelerating personal growth or growing your business, David's insight will reignite that fire within you! 🔥 It's time to step out of survival mode and thrive!❤️🩹✨
Key lessons to live your best life, stay energized & find success:
- In a world full of uncertainty, focus on certainty
- New age leaders focus less on what they want to say, and more on how they make others feel. Self-actualization in isolation was selfish to begin with.
- The future is NOT a linear progression from the past: There's no guarantee that your health or income will keep getting better.
- The mindset for a better future: "When you live in the past you're depressed, when you live in the future you're anxious. The only way to improve is by staying PRESENT by being curious and learning." You learn by leading a life of experimentation.
- Your business' culture should focus on: "What do we want to be known for by our best customers?"
Chapters:
01:33 Introducing David Ulrich: A Visionary in Leadership
04:00 David Ulrich's Philosophy on Embracing Uncertainty and Learning
05:36 The Power of Failure 10:16 New Age Leadership: Listening & Empowering Others
13:57 We Learn More About Leadership in our Families and Relationships Than From Celebrities.
21:35 Research Shows Trend for Personalization in Leadership
25:47 How To Do Work-Life Balance For Real As A CEO
27:03 Balancing Professional Commitments and Personal Values
29:41 Navigating Paradox, e.g. Work vs. Family commitments
31:21 A Spiritual POV on Making Mistakes
34:15 How To Embrace & Learn From Failure
37:24 Cultivating a Purpose-Driven Culture
44:31 Personal Reflections and Practices for Growth
48:20 Concluding Thoughts on Leadership and Self-Improvement
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Connect with David:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveulrichpro/
The RBL Group (consulting) https://www.rbl.net/about-us/consultants/dave-ulrich
Get David's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dave-Ulrich/author/B001K8TGCO?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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-Helena
Key lessons on reinvention from our conversation:
- The worst moment in your life, can also be your best: You can use devastating times to build necessary momentum for change to create opportunities. Adversity can lead to new paths and self-discovery.
- Experimentation over comfort: If you never try, you will never know what works for you. The key for high-performers lies in setting realistic expectations, and embracing self-love unconditionally amid imperfection.
- Confidence despite fear of failure: Your people-pleasing tendencies push you towards perfectionism and hinder you from trying. True confidence lies in owning your uniqueness, celebrating small wins, turn comparison into motivation, and giving yourself grace when you fail. External validation wasn't sustainable to begin with.
- Authentic is strong: Being a successful content creator or a successful model and actor in the competitive market of LA requires standing out. You can't stand out if you're a carbon copy of everyone else and trying to fit in. Dare to be different.
- Happiness is on the Other Side of Fear of Failure: Facing your fears is like finding the keys to doors that lead you into rooms you never thought existed. Reframe your relationship to discomfort and your whole life will change.
Chapters & Timestamps:
04:24 Feeling Lost, Hopeless & Healing
05:07 How To Reinvent Yourself & Choose Your Own Path
08:00 The Problem With Imposter Syndrome & Needing Validation
11:15 Navigating the Challenges of Moving to LA & Starting Over
13:06 People Pleasing Vs. Feeling Confident About Standing Out
15:02 Don't Let Them Put You in A Box: We're Multifaceted Humans!
18:59 Stop Wanting to Be Perfect & Being Somebody Else
21:54 The Key To Success: Finding Comfort in Uncomfortable Situations
23:43 Embracing Imperfection & Self-Acceptance
26:11 Manifesting Good Energy vs. Toxic Positivity
28:00 Trusting Your Intuition
34:21 Your Vulnerability With Friends Mirrors The Relationship to Yourself
34:25 Self-Discovery: Knowing Yourself Gives You Confidence To Stand Out
36:33 Discovering Who You Really Are One Experiment at a Time
39:15 Why Chasing Your Dreams is The Best Move
45:23 Rapid Fire Questions: Do You Tip If It's TO GO coffee?
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10 tips that highlight my key take-aways:
- Discern between what you want vs what you think you want because of others
- What’s causing imbalance is disconnecting you from yourself
- Shame & guilt drain you of energy and focus
- Perfectionism, another clear indicator for lack of self-worth
- Selectively use your energy, not everything deserves 150%
- Where is your self-talk creating imbalance in life?
- Opinions are like elbows—everyone’s got one
- Self-love is everything related to how you treat yourself
- Cultivate self-love by getting to know yourself, seeing yourself as the whole human that you are— flaws and all, accepting and forgiving yourself, but still showing up to do the work.
- Fear of rejection is your gateway to your next level
Timestamps
00:11 The Harsh Reality of My First Night in LA
01:33 Navigating Loneliness and Dating in a New City
02:19 Confronting Job Dissatisfaction and Finding Purpose
04:33 Embracing the Soft Girl Era: Less Hustle, More Intuition
10:36 The Journey of Self-Discovery and Overcoming Perfectionism
18:35 Learning to Slow Down and Embrace Life's Flow
24:07 Finding Balance: Embracing Change and Self-Love
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Chapters
00:39 Drina’s Creative Journey Writing A Children's Book
01:18 Overcoming Childhood Traumas through Writing & Creativity
02:43 The Struggle with Self-Doubt and Procrastination In Life and During The Creative Process
03:14 Reflecting on Childhood Dreams and Aspirations
04:11 The Challenge of Acknowledging Success
04:58 The Constant Pursuit of Achievement
06:05 The Importance of Self-Acknowledgement
06:29 Exploring Cultural Heritage and Identity
09:56 The Struggle with Acceptance and Self-Expression
11:38 The Power of Resilience and Perseverance
20:04 The Role of Support and Encouragement
25:39 Navigating the Challenges of Hollywood
34:49 Future Goals and Aspirations
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Key Insights & Topics Discussed:
- The interplay between fear-based and strength-based parts in decision-making. And how to uncover YOUR parts!
- Wendy's powerful tool, rooted in Freudian Theory, to rewire your subconscious minds for success.
- The transformative process of turning fear-based coping strategies into strength-based ones.
Chapters & Timestamps:
00:02 Introduction: My Quest for Power, Confidence, and Energy
00:09 The Struggle: Feeling Stagnant and Confused
01:01 The Turning Point: Meeting Wendy and Discovering her IFS model, rooted in Freudian Theory
01:34 Understanding Fear-Based Parts and Their Impact
02:54 The Power of Self-Healing and Uncovering Trauma
03:26 The Role of Wendy's Tool in Self-Healing
03:57 Personal Revelation: Identifying the 'Submit' Part
05:05 The Importance of Self-Healing in Daily Life
05:41 Taking Control and Creating Your Own Life
07:08 Introduction to the Interview with Wendy
07:55 Understanding the Concept of Internal Family Systems
09:57 Exploring the Strength-Based and Fear-Based Parts in Helena's Life
14:45 The Process of Identifying and Understanding 'Submit' Part
39:17 The Role of Self-Healing in Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
50:21 Final Thoughts and Conclusion
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5 Key Take-Aways:
- Team First Philosophy: Tom advocates that the team knows more than the individual, pushing for a collaborative approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
- Equal Systems for Success: We explore the importance of equal pay, fixed salaries based on experience, and loyalty as a strategy to create a psychologically safe environment and foster team success.
- Crisis Leadership: We discuss the challenges and benefits of self-organization, why it's crucial to fight for decentralized structures, and we debate the role of leadership in times of crisis.
- Diversity Beyond Background: Shift the focus from diversity in backgrounds to creating a system that ensures psychological safety, equal opportunities, and rewards structures, promoting a culture of inclusivity.
- Lessons from History: Gain insights into how historical and political systems, such as those observed by Tom, can inspire leadership and organizational views, shaping the way businesses are structured.
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Key take aways:
- Say "I Am" instead “I will be” to step into that "future you energy"
- More micro-habits reduce decision-fatigue
- Planning is great, but useless without understanding your current emotional state
- Being adaptable requires more discipline
Topics Discussed:
- Embrace the Power of "I Am": Act as if you have already achieved your goals, embody the energy and confidence of your future self. This mental shift can significantly impact your actions and outcomes.
- Micro Habits for Success: Establish routines, especially in the morning, to create a structured foundation for your day. Limiting the number of daily decisions allows you to focus on priorities and higher-level thinking.
- Reflection and Goal Planning: Identify recurring challenges and limiting beliefs. Plan for the future by setting clear goals, both personally and professionally, and create a roadmap for success.
- Prioritize Health and Well-being: Recognize the foundational importance of health in reaching your goals. Prioritize habits that contribute to well-being, including adequate sleep, nutrition, exercise, and mindfulness.
- Adaptability and Discipline: Acknowledge the need for adaptability. While external factors, such as having children, may introduce unpredictability, maintaining discipline and having anchor points in your routine allows for flexibility without sacrificing progress toward your goals.
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Key Insights & Topics Discussed:
- What got you here in the first place may also be causing your suffering.
- Lean into what hurts as well as your passion when you hit rock bottom: Beginnings start with endings.
- Choose an ecosystem that matches your personality.
- How to shift identity and embrace the imposter syndrome that comes with it, an opportunity for learning.
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We can unleash our potential without sacrificing our health, if we're open to
- uncovering how labels influence and limit us,
- learning about the different systems and games at play in life,
- prioritizing who you want to become rather than fixating on milestones.
Key Insights & Topics Discussed:
- Redefining Self-Worth Beyond Work: Our self-worth should not be solely tied to our work or achievements. The world brings uncertainty, and our identities should transcend traditional career definitions.
- Shifting from Finite to Infinite Games: Recognize the difference between finite and infinite games in life. Traditional career paths represent finite games with winners and losers, while embracing an infinite mindset allows for continuous personal growth. Shift your mindset from pursuing finite achievements to enjoying the journey and embracing the infinite possibilities for personal and professional development.
- Building Trust for Meaningful Relationships Fosters Growth: Meaningful connections in the workplace require trust. Superficial relationships hinder growth, and trust is crucial for opening up, sharing, and navigating challenges together.
- Balancing Growth and Patience: The pursuit of growth is essential for happiness, but impatience can lead to stress and burnout. Finding the right balance involves slowing down, being patient with oneself, and making choices aligned with current life situations. Strive for growth but be mindful of pacing.
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5 key take aways on the transformative power of facing challenges, embracing uncertainty, and continuously growing:
- Build Trust In Yourself: Doing the hard thing builds confidence and the trust in yourself. This comes from persevering through challenges and staying true to yourself.
- Authenticity Comes From Ego-Death & Transformation: Embracing the unknown leads to a shedding of old skin, ego-death, a painful but crucial part of becoming an authentic leader.
- Relationship Change When you change: Not everyone will understand the path you're on and that's ok. Nurture yourself, and stay compassionate. Find your tribe, the people that support your growth.
- Adversity Is Part the Process: It gets easier if you're open to new experiences, and reframe your definition of success, and learn to give yourself what you need in order to feel more comfortable as you work through adversity.
- Ideas For Extreme Self-care: The quality of the seed dictates the quality of the tree it will grow into. Learn what tools, e.g. self-awareness, energy management, exploration, that enhance your learning and transformation process. I share mine in this episode.
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Line's decision to move abroad was driven by a need to align with her true self and find where she could operate at her best. This act of honesty and self-awareness led her to embrace change and adapt to new realities, making her more equipped to lead LEGO through the uncertainties of digitalization.
5 Key Takeaways:
- 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻: Listen to your heart, be true to yourself, and make decisions that align with your values and passions
- 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝗱𝗴𝗲 "𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗲": Acknowledge that you may excel in situations that require pushing boundaries, and adapting to new challenges.
- 𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗚𝗼 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 & 𝗕𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁: Don't let your drive to produce results get in the way of being present and picking up on the signals to sense yourself and others.
- 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳: Moving abroad is hard, but it can make you resilient and adaptable. Change grounded Line in a way that allowed her to thrive in new, uncertain environments.
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Our 5 Key Take-aways:
- Focus on caring about people and letting go of your world-view to mobilize people in a more meaningful way.
- Embrace the energy of the situation, like water tortoises, and surrender to context during downturns.
- Stories are tools that help us convey how we feel, unite as teams and increase customer focus, all key to navigating uncertainty.
- Let go of emotional burdens and focus on what you can control.
- Reflect on the busyness of modern work life and aim for balance for more intentional collaboration.
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In this episode, we delve into Dany’s journey of building the startup, Soapbox, that defied all odds and achieved remarkable success with a diverse and young workforce and a culture of learning. We explore the mindset, skills, and values for trust, transparency, autonomy, and perpetual learning.
5 Key Takeaways for Leaders:
- Trust in Vision: Building a successful startup begins with finding individuals who trust in your vision and are committed to realizing it. Trust is the cornerstone of a thriving team.
- Diversity of Thought and Shared Goals: Embrace diversity in your workforce, as it can lead to innovative solutions. Ensure everyone shares a common goal that unites the team in pursuit of success.
- Invest in Professional Leadership Training: Prioritize leadership development within your organization. Investing in your team's growth and skills can lead to remarkable outcomes.
- Individual Autonomy Breeds Collaboration: Granting individuals the autonomy to learn and grow fosters a collaborative atmosphere. When team members are empowered, they contribute more effectively.
- Perpetual Learning and Transparency: Encourage a culture of continuous learning, where everyone acknowledges mistakes and learns from them. Transparency breeds accountability, as people take ownership of their actions and the company's future.
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Our 5 Key Takeaways:
Accept Grief & Its Transformative Nature: Experiencing grief can drastically alter one's outlook on life, making them realize the impermanence of existence and the need to live in the present.
Feel Your Emotions: Resisting pain will only make life more painful. Acknowledging our feelings and sitting with our emotions--going all in--accelerates our healing journeys, no matter whether we are mourning a parent or enduring change at work.
Respect Your Boundaries: It's crucial to set realistic boundaries and expectations for yourself, especially when dealing with personal growth and life challenges.
Embrace Self-Love: Acknowledging and accepting your mistakes and setbacks with self-compassion is an essential part of personal growth and resilience.
Adjust Inputs & Self-Discipline Based on Reality: It's essential to adapt your goals and expectations to align with your current life circumstances, allowing for more sustainable personal growth.
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Key Take Aways
Joy Amidst Burnout: For workaholics, relaxation can be challenging. Cultivating joy and letting in the light is a conscious practice to counteract the burnout cycle.
Validation Beyond Work: Your worthiness and validation go beyond your work or achievements. Recognize your innate worth, independent of external accomplishments.
Activating Imagination: Imagination and dreams are vital for shaping the world we desire. Embrace the lens of possibilities to co-create a better reality for yourself and the planet.
Honoring Yourself: Self-love and self-respect involve giving yourself what you desire. Activate your life force energy through play, exploration, and experiences that nurture your spirit.
From "Need to Do" to "Getting to Do": Shift your mindset from scarcity and fear to one of abundance and presence. Words matter, and how you describe your situation influences your reactions and actions.
Regeneration Starts Within: To create a sustainable planet, personal regeneration is paramount. Understanding and nurturing yourself is the first step toward nurturing the world.
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We get real about our limiting beliefs during change, idealizing other people’s lives, the limitations of self-reflection, the illusion of dream jobs, and why it’s a bad idea to choose money and comfort over making change in life. Because when life hits you hard, you learn a few lessons on how to grow. My co-host, Philipp lost a family member a few years ago. And our jobs moved us from Europe to the US and we both work at startups. We sit down to talk about handling change in life.
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Key Points That Tirza Talks About:
1. High Performance vs. Future Readiness: High-performing teams are like finely tuned machines, but they can become brittle and inflexible. Future-ready teams focus on performance and learning, making them more resilient in the face of change.
2. The Need for Learning AND Innovation: Dedicate time for learning without fearing a decrease in output. Efficient use of time learning can lead to more effective output in the long run.
3. Measuring Output and Value: Shift the focus from measuring time spent to measuring output and value created. Reward efficiency and effectiveness, not just busyness.
4. Building a Culture of Feedback for Team Learning: Foster psychological safety by encouraging feedback both in group settings and one-on-one. Embrace challenge and criticism constructively.
5. Understanding Culture: Recognize that organizational culture is not just about team-building exercises but how work is done. It plays a significant role in driving strategy and outcomes.
6. The Importance of Continuous Development: Continuously develop foundational cultural capacities before diving into innovation processes.
7. Psychological Safety and Feedback: Psychological safety and feedback go hand in hand in creating an environment where experimentation and exploration are encouraged.
8. Striking a Balance: Strive for a balance between delivering efficiently on known tasks and experimenting with new ideas for the future.
What I love about these LinkedIn lives is that they are so closely connected with what I talk about on my podcast: focus on people, the rest will follow.
If you too want to reduce the stress on your team, and set yourself and your people up for success in a world that's constantly changing, reach out and we can talk about how developing leadership capacities, skills, and mindset helps you manage uncertainty and ongoing change with more ease, enabling faster innovation and collaboration. LUMAN's been transforming people at companies like Siemens for +7 years now to develop profitable new portfolios, accelerate time to market, and enhance customer focus during digitalization.
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Self-empowerment paves the way to speak up when others speak over you, to assert yourself when denied a voice.
Selina's approach isn't about dominance, but connection. Her strategies ensure her counterparts feel respected, not attacked. As we delve into confronting workplace injustices, Selina emphasizes the transformational potential within these challenges. Each encounter is a chance for personal growth, fortifying our resilience and strengthening us. We talk about what's in our circle of influence that can make us potent leaders, amplifying the significance we find in our work. We all have the power within us to transcend existing narratives.
Our Key Take Aways:
- Navigating Male-Dominated Environments: In a world of loud voices, your courage to speak up can reshape the narrative.
- Self-Expression and Empowerment: There's a power in sharing your truth. Authentic self-expression is the key that unlocks your empowerment.
- Transitioning from Corporate to Startup: Stepping from the familiar into the unknown takes strength. Embrace change as the catalyst for your growth.
- Empathy as a Leadership Tool: True leadership isn't about dominance; it's about empathy. Listen to understand, not to respond.
- Self-Worth Over External Validation: Your value comes from within. Don't seek approval from titles or norms.
- Creating Meaningful Relationships: Meaning at work stems from genuine connections. When we relate with authenticity, our workplace transforms us and others. Personal growth and development can transform the meaning and fulfillment that we experience at work.
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Dan boasts impressive titles, but his true impact speaks louder.
Learn from his setbacks and his collaborative and empathetic leadership approach that united stakeholders. Learn from his mindset that set him on the path to drive positive change in global warming and to give communities what they need, contributing towards closing the societal justice gap.
Key Take Aways:
- True humility is the foundation of successful problem-solving. And being self-aware, connecting to purpose to co-create can drive impactful change.
- The mental shift needed to change the world is to shift from being the source of great answers to being the one who asks the best questions.
- Purpose and energy are intertwined; tapping into your purpose can recharge your energy to drive meaningful change.
- The future hinges on communities working together to make changes that bridge political gridlocks and address global challenges.
- Collaboration, empathy, and humility are crucial in achieving common goals and building bridges between stakeholders with different agendas.
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Dan on Linkedin or visit https://parkhill.com/
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Here are my take aways:
- Ownership & Accountability: It goes beyond mere participation; it involves a deep sense of commitment and dedication. Accountability is built on clear commitments and the fulfillment of those commitments. Organizations should foster a culture of commitment making and keeping, where individuals are held accountable for their promises. The focus should be on learning from missed commitments and improving future outcomes rather than placing blame or punishment.
- Empowerment: Traditional notions of empowerment can be disempowering as they imply that power is granted by someone else. True empowerment comes from within and should be cultivated through a self-management mindset. Leaders should empower their team members by providing them with the power to learn, acquire resources, build relationships, and collaborate effectively.
- Continuous improvement is at the heart of self-management and organizational success.
- Talent with Self-Management skill set: When hiring, look for individuals who demonstrate a self-management mindset and a willingness to take ownership. Assess candidates' self-awareness, collaboration skills, and ability to work autonomously. Seek individuals who are adaptable, embrace change, and are motivated by personal growth and the success of the organization.
- Decision Making: Distribute decision-making authority to individuals closest to the action. And foster a culture where decisions are made based on expertise and input from those affected by the decision. Embrace decision rights and empower individuals to make decisions within their areas of responsibility.
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Doug on Linkedin
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Key Takeaways::
- Pursue Your North Star: Gain the confidence to pursue your dreams by aligning your decisions with your passions and surrounding yourself with supportive people who encourage growth. Embrace failures as stepping stones to success and persevere until you achieve your goals, both personally and professionally.
- Embrace Risk: Overcome risk aversion by reframing its perception and understanding that calculated risks are vital for growth. Allocate a portion of your efforts (e.g., 10%) in business and in your personal life to pursue ambitious, innovative endeavors while safeguarding core operations. There is no success without failure. No failure means mediocrity.
- De-Risk Ventures With Customer-Centricity: Re-risk by speeding up the time it takes to test, fail, learn and try again. Prioritize customer feedback over pride and predetermined plans. Embracing this mindset fosters disruptive innovation and separates market leaders from the rest.
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Philipp on Linkedin and go follow him on his youtube channel
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Key Insights We Touch Upon In This Conversation:
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SaaS companies need sales skills along the entire customer journey to manage digital touch points on social media to building long lasting relationships to retain customers. Susan shares how Siemens DI SW built a sales hub to manage all touch points.
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Change happens when leaders understand what market challenges sales faces. Susan built connections and dialogue between the sales organization and leadership with reverse mentoring. This helped leadership understand and support the sales hub's evolution by addressing frontline workers' real challenges instead of just creating awareness presentations around their meta-level WHY.
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Transforming a traditional sales organization into a sales hub that covers the customer journey requires collaboration among the different sales roles, which requires a focus on designing team culture, first.
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The future of sales lies in automation. And the question becomes: Can you shift sales people out of a fear of job loss and enroll them into a future where they can seize more opportunities as automation frees up their schedules?
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Susan on Linkedin
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I share my journey towards understanding my purpose and creating from a place of authenticity. I also talk about my partner's approach to creation as an artist and what I’m learning from him about the process of creating from a place of uniqueness without getting in our own way, and finding peace in uncertainty.
Key aspects I talk about:
- Embracing Change: I share my intense six-month journey, from leaving her corporate job to embracing the entrepreneurial world. She discusses the higher stakes, faster pace, and overwhelming nature of this shift, while also acknowledging the opportunities it brings.
- The Artistic Influence: My partner, an artist, becomes an essential source of inspiration. I admire his ability to let creativity emerge without forcing it, leading me to question how this concept applies to my own business world. I explore the power of getting out of my own way and allowing my true self to shine.
- The Sweet Spot: I’ve always strived to find the sweet spot where mu skills, strengths, and passions intersect to make a meaningful impact. I share my experiences interviewing corporate leaders and I reflect on the importance of aligning personal purpose with the organization's mission.
- Peeling Back Layers: I emphasize the significance of introspection and self-discovery. And I delve into the process of shedding limiting beliefs, understanding strengths, and recognizing areas for personal growth. By following my heart and stepping into the unknown, I learn to challenge societal expectations and embrace my true self.
- Embracing Uncertainty: I discovers the power of embracing uncertainty and surrendering control. I realize that despite my best efforts, I cannot control every aspect of my entrepreneurial journey. By reframing uncertainty as an adventure rather than a challenge, I learn to navigate ambiguity with grace and resilience.
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Living and working abroad teaches you lessons on leading people with different cultures and background. And it teaches you what it takes to lead authentically in a Silicon Valley start-up that embraces failure.
Stefan and I share our abroad experiences on:
- Learning to build trust with transparency
- The role of authenticity and the power of personal stories for promoting a failure culture, as it requires leaders to be honest, transparent, and accountable for their mistakes and shortcomings
- Balancing personal and company values: Maintaining integrity as a leader
- Embracing cultural differences, as hard as it may be
CEO Stefan's intercultural journey of living and working in multiple countries also helps you understand:
- Why Living Abroad is Good for Your Professional Development
- The Importance of Being Multilingual in Today's Global Business Environment
- How Experiencing Different Cultures Enhances Your Leadership Skills
Have fun and make sure to connect with us:
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"When we have a clear vision of what we want, and we hold that vision with conviction and with belief, that's when things start to shift."
What you'll get out of this episode:
- The intersection of spirituality and business
- The power of manifestation in business
- Balancing intuition and strategy in decision-making
- The importance of employee care and company culture in business success
- How to identify and overcome limiting beliefs
- The role of authenticity and vulnerability in leadership
- The benefits of a holistic approach to business growth and development
- The impact of mindset on personal and professional success
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Brian on LinkedIn
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I think Millennials and Gen Z don’t have exaggerated workplace expectations. And I get, few of us are CEOs, setting company priorities, shaping company values, etc. for highly attractive workplaces. We may not have all the agency, but we have some.
Tune in as I talk about why I quit my job, my experiences being led by leaders with a modern leadership style, back in Switzerland, and why younger generations' outcry is an opportunity for dialogue to create healthier and engaging workplaces for all, and how to have that dialogue.
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What you'll get out of our conversation:
- How to build a feedback culture
- The importance of cultivating deep relationships with your teams and the value that comes from it
- How to make failure part of success
- How to avoid change fatigue in the organization
- How to increase change adoption in the market
- What it means to integrate a startup into a multinational conglomerate like Siemens
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Stefan on Linkedin
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Downsizing office space, repurposing the space, or implementing hybrid work concept are opportunities to improve collaboration. I led the change management for developing and executing the Hybrid Work strategy and concept at Siemens Smart Infrastructure's. Our team was to merge the global and European headquarters, downsize and repurpose the office space. Seeing this as an opportunity to improve how we collaborated, I needed to include the voice of the employees and apply an agile, human-centric approach to change management to co-create the office space vision and solution, increase change adoption, and motivate people to go back to work.
Here's why change management is critical to success and here's what to focus on:
- Make change management part of your hybrid work strategy and project team. The change team will act as a sounding board between employees and leadership, grow a change community, communicate, and create the change story to inspire people and help move people into action
- Develop an agile structure that allows for co-creation of the office space vision, solution, and change story
- Employee engagement requires regular communication on the change progress but also continuous communication on the vision. Use storytelling to inspire people on the vision
- Change ambassadors enable bottom-up change, but focus on enabling the frozen middle, management/team leads also. These questions may help:
- Are there team leads that can be recruited as change ambassadors? What will you do about the other team leads?
- What training and toolkits do team leads require to break down the change with teams, "make the change actionable" ?
- Teams will realize they have knowledge gaps to improve how they collaborate in a hybrid setting with, e.g. digital tools, or creative problem solving techniques. How are you capturing the knowledge gaps?
- Up-skilling requires more investigation, time and resources. Use the insight you gain from implementing hybrid work strategies to strategies on up-skilling your employees.
When done right, hybrid work concepts / back to office strategies are opportunities to foster collaboration. But they're just the beginning. Fostering more collaborative work environments is a learning journey. Incorporating a change management team with time and resources will help you lay the right foundation.
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Leaders ask the wrong questions when they digitize: “How can we dissolve silos to be more innovative? Build a “trust culture” for more ownership? How can we be agile, faster, and more competitive?” Leaders tackle symptoms instead of identifying root causes that hinder speed, innovation, collaboration, and growth.
Key insight from the conversation on where our thinking goes wrong when we don’t understand:
- The market problem: What’s changed? What new market problem is the organization confronted with?
- The type of problem: Do we face a complicated problem? Or a complex problem?
- The structure to solve the problem: If it’s a complicated problem, process and knowledge will solve it. If it’s a complex problem then group intelligence and smart experimentation is required, which can be attained through agile, scrum, and/or self-organized teams.
Answer these questions to empower your teams by providing the right structure.
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Nina on Linkedin
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Experiences and stories I talk about:
- LA attracts people who are willing to put themselves out there and try on a new skin: many people here have skin in the game, they go out and just try, they learn to pivot, and learn how not to crack under pressure
- Driven by a go getter mentality and seeing the need to fail forward: people allow themselves to just start and figure it out as they go
- Having skin in the game produces anxiety: you’re always thinking "What’s next?" It’s easy to not relax into the now, because there is no finish line, no certainty. Progress requires work and repetition and a strong network of people that will help you work towards progress, success and collaboration. People in L.A. really rely on that network, it's all about who you know, and being like-able to do business with.
- Detach to reduce stress: the highs are high, the lows are low. Surrendering and acknowledging that part of the process is to let go of this feeling that we are in control of everything, and to trust that the right thing will happen and come our way, eventually.
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Amelie on Linkedin
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My Key Take Aways from this conversation:
- Saboteurs have many origins: our childhood, upbringing, and what people tell us. Working through them can help to build character and resilience
- Build confidence and trust in yourself to reduce the effects of external sabotage. Remember small successes and give yourself credit for them.
- Spot a saboteur by paying attention to when you use “should” or pay attention to when you feel regret or shame. Swap your “shoulds” with “coulds”
- Educate yourself and take the saboteur test by Chizard Chamine: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/ or read his book on positive intelligence / saboteurs: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13221308-positive-intelligence
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Margo on Linkedin and Irina on Linkedin
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Creativity is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Here's how to get a good sweat in and love the process:
- Disruptive innovation requires us to value and focus on “how” (team & problem solving), less on “what” (product)
- Spend digging into a problem and get comfortable in that space by letting go of perfectionism, and being ok with the discomfort that arises
- Ideas arise from being in stand-by: Slow down, and use play and relaxation so your subconscious mind can push ideas into your consciousness
- Seek environments where you aren’t the expert, be curious and open, accept people who are different to you, this will heighten your/team’s creativity
- Don't wait for a perfect plan, scenario, environment, or reason to do / create. Start and allow your first few steps to be wobbly
Connect with us:
Tobi on Linkedin, his website, and check out his TedTalk and his podcast on creativity
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This episode’s invites you to reflect on:
- What’s your intention when you face conflict and need to negotiate? Try to set the intention to listen to find similarities, and use the differences to expand and build bridges between parties
- Do you have a common purpose that drives the agenda? Or is your own agenda running the show and blocking your ability to learn or find consensus?
- Get curious about people's interests, their backgrounds, their experiences, and ask yourself, how can we pursue a common purpose that contributes towards an outcome that’s better for the greater good of society/this team and not just benefiting me/them?
- What’s your approach to diffuse conflict? Can you ask for help? What about trying to ask the other person you’re in conflict with for help to resolve the problem? Vulnerability is a powerful tool that disarms people during conflict
- How do you invite others to embrace conflict? Are you as a leader publicly rewarding people that oppose your opinion?
Throughout the episode we refer to Friedrich Glasl's Nine-Stage ModelOf Conflict Escalation.
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Franz on Linkedin
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How are we enabling people and the business to stay relevant and resilient during transformation and change, and to succeed? Empowerment leadership and culture are tools to ensure resiliency, relevancy—success. But, developing empowerment culture requires a shift in mindset: "Your success is my success." Ma Qing elaborates on this. Here are my key take aways:
- Ensuring the success of others ensures my success
- I work to stay in touch with the people I work with, so that I know what matters to them. The feeling of togetherness is powerful, it brings us closers, and allows us to succeed together.
- Empowerment is about empowering every person in the ecosystem, not just my employees
- I work on becoming the best version of myself, so that I do a better job at empowering others
- Self-development means I am open to learn, and I use self-compassion to stay motivated when my confidence takes a hit from making mistakes
I hope you enjoy!
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Ma Qing on Linkedin
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"It's not about what we have, it's about what we do" Barbara says. She understands how creating a culture of empowerment to advance electrification, automation, digitalization and sustainability requires her to become the best version of herself, first. It depends on how you view your role as a leader and that of your people–not as mere resources, but as individuals who can grow.
Here are my top take aways on personal growth to foster the best version of ourselves:
- Know your strengths and that of your team–learn to rely on and trust your experts. You have to give trust to build it.
- Uncover your subconscious biases to enable inclusiveness in diverse teams. You want people to feel like they belong, feel comfortable speaking up, and bring their full selves to work.
- Keep your ego in check: Where are you engaging in someone’s process or someone’s business? Where are you undermining someone’s ownership?
I hope you enjoy!
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Barbara on Linkedin
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My take-aways on how to own our uniqueness and deliver your story to drive change:
- Leaders speak to inspire people not inform them, you do so with story
- Embracing storytelling to inspire requires that you tap into your personal story--what makes you unique?
- Understanding our uniqueness often requires us to do some work on accepting what we often are ashamed of, because that sets us apart from others, but that's what we need to learn to embrace
Olivia shares loads of practical speaking advice when you find the courage to share your story. Tune in to discover how to cultivate your energy and inspire others.
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Olivia on Linkedin or find her at Spectacular Speaking.
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Look at all the yoga classes, spiritual retreats, meditation apps that are booming to experience momentary states of bliss and consciousness. How can we keep this state of consciousness and connection–stepping out of auto-pilot–to lead more authentically?
My take-aways that we discuss deeper in the podcast:
- Tune in to areas that are out of balance emotionally, physically, and mentally to address the imbalance. Tuning in helps to cultivate inner peace and shift out of victimization
- Imbalance can occur in different areas. Nicole discusses 7 leadership dimensions from her book “Leadership Intelligence” that she uses to coach leaders on heightening their authenticity. The first step is to increase consciousness, balance and connection in order to work on each dimension.
- Keep your batteries charged helps you manage your saboteurs, work towards imbalance and progress. It will also help you work through the emotional triggers that arise when you grow more conscious.
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Nicole on Linkedin or her website.
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Renée shares her experiences enabling leaders who lead digitizing firms in different industries. We discuss:
- How leaders can show up and hold space for people during change
- How to engineer the plane as it flies with trust
- How to lead constructive dialogue to help establish a speak up culture
My top 3 learnings on how leaders can build trust for a speak up culture:
- Reflect on your role as a leader and ask yourself: How can I better be of service to my people? What's my role during change?
- Earn trust by working on your relationship with people: show up, and build security during change--people need to see you, feel your emotions, and know that you’re there for them if you want them to speak up
- Stay in consistent, in presence and in speech, and combine this with a willingness to be authentic and expose yourself--model the behavior you expect of them
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Renée on LinkedIn
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Insights from philip on following your purpose and creating your future:
Birds fly in the sky, fish swim in the sea: What feels natural to you? What are you supposed to be doing?
1 Make life your own: What are you here to do? Answering these questions will help you kick-start your journey to finding your purpose (or your Dharma):
- What do you enjoy doing? What would you do for free?
- Are you good at it? What does it take to master your craft?
- Who will benefit from this?
- How can you do this sustainably?
- Follow your intuition and synchronicities
2 Eager to transform: A journey of emancipation and transformation awaits you, where you question socialization, detach from key figures and attain a new level of consciousness that allows you to find your purpose and create a meaningful life.
2 Find the courage, and be ready for rejection: The odds are stacked against you when you do things differently, it can be scary. Find the courage, do it anyway, and get ready to face failure, setbacks, and rejection.
3 Speak about the challenges: The journey of self-discovery is tough, but rewarding as you learn so much. Dealing with failure, setbacks and rejection is easier if you open up and share your struggles; it allows you to connect with others who may experience the same. We musn't journey alone.
4 Enable others: Leaders in any field have the most important jobs: help people connect to their purpose. They can do so by focusing on what's there and already works, and amplifying that by creating further fields of purpose and permission.
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philip on LinkedIn , or LUMAN
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How does cybersecurity help leaders to take more risk? How do you unite industry players to drive digitalization in an industry and increase digital adoption? And how do you build a culture that allows each individual to unfold and contribute to innovation?
Natalia speaks on overcoming the fear of implementing digital products and services, how to increase adoption by building trust, and the inner work required to become an inclusive, industry leader.
My Key take-aways and Learnings from Natalia:
1 Cybersecurity is complex and not easy to grasp: Educate your stakeholders by stepping into their shoes—ask more questions and listen—to understand their reality and to close the knowledge gap.
2 Create a catchy, compelling value proposition to connect your stakeholder’s reality with cybersecurity or any digital service or solution and use storytelling to drive your message home.
3 Think collaboration over competition: There’s no time to reinvent the wheel—partner up and collaborate! Focus on your strengths as you unite players to contribute under a common goal, and focus on small wins to spur momentum .
4 Build a culture of belonging for equity, social justice, and innovation: The change starts within yourself. Inclusive leaders enhance satisfaction, and collaboration. This requires that we connect with our emotions, share our feelings, be honest to ourselves on our shortcomings, yet focus energy to build our strengths, and build trusting relationships with the people we work with through honest, respectful feedback.
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Natalia on Linkedin
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Digitizing companies struggle with finding the right solution for customer ecosystems or socio economic challenges. Why is it so hard? Because we are trying to reduce complexity alone and in silos. We need bridges across silos to collaborate and find ways break down complexity to serve ecosystems and create interrelated solutions and services.
Insight from Julia on Leveraging Silos And Build Bridges
1 Learn to Leverage Silos: We need silos, but we also need to build bridges across silos to leverage the expertise inside silos
2 Which Silo is right? All views are right. The challenge is to get silos to focus on the customer's ecosystem and to guide conversation and value creation along the customer journey.
3 Closing the Skill-Gap to Work Across Silos: We often work in silos, because we don't know there are smarter ways to collaborate. And hiring one Design Thinker with human-centric problem-solving skills won't change the culture alone.
4 Resiliency: Are you able to ask yourself: Have I chosen the right approach? Will a silo approach suffice to solve this customer's problem? Putting our egos aside, reflecting and challenging ourselves and our intentions is key to working across silos.
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Why do we vicitimize during change? Many learned they have little control over change, as it happens for the betterment of the firm's economic value. How we invite people to change has to be rethought if we want them to participate and own the change.
Insight from The Storytellers on Inspiring Change Ownership with Story:
1 Change Cynicism: Many don't believe the company will actually change. Storytelling helps convince people of the changes.
2 Stories Connect Change to People's Reality: Stories provide insight on the journey and they help people understand how the change connects to their job.
3 Participation in Change: We participate in the story when we relate with the story's protagonist and their journey of overcoming the change-challenges. This participatory experience teaches us learn how to own the change.
4 Enabling Middle Management for Change: Managers receive strategy slides and a high-level story, but they don't embrace it, because they lack the time to make it relevant to their teams. Managers must be equipped with tools to quickly break down the story for their teams.
5 How Story Works Top-Down: Leaders connect with people when they embody the story, let go of polished speeches, and speak from the heart. This requires a strongly aligned leadership team with consensus on how to overcome the hardship the company will face for consistency and conviction in messaging.
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The Storytellers on Linkedin , connect with Alison or Robert (my podcast guest), or check The Storytellers' website .
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"I create my future, because I’m willing to learn and take risks" is the mindset of thriving employees. At Baloise, leaders struggled to inspire employees to adopt this mindset. The insurance company faced a dying clientele and desperately needed employees to take risk to acquire younger, high-risk customers. Beat shares how to change the culture to adopt a new growth strategy.
Key Take Aways:
#1 Identify change roadblocks: For people to shift into “I can create my future” mentality requires cultivating an understanding of where the company stands and addressing the underlying uncertainty.
#2 Mobilize people for change: Change requires a bottom-up and top-down approach. The company's strongest influencers are inside the organization, tap into them to develop the change narrative to take people on a journey and move them past uncertainty.
#3 Use story to bring strategy to life and inspire change: Fact-based presentations don't achieve buy-in, stories will, as they inspire people to interact with the strategy and change narrative.
#4 Inspiring leaders are relatable: Sharing a personal experiences on overcoming obstacles related to the change allows leaders to break the glass ceiling between the ivory tower and the people.
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Beat on Linkedin:
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My Key Learnings
1 There's no conceptual blueprint of “fit for purpose workplaces” and it's a constant work in progress.
2 New work is about bringing out the best in people by considering their needs and engaging with them to understand them.
3 Considering needs requires being vulnerable: Feeling ok with not having all answers and having the courage or confidence to reach out to your people to find them.
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Nik on LinkedIn
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#11 in short:
Do you ask yourself: "How can we nurture creative environments for innovators? How do we foster creativity and innovation in work spaces that are designed to execute? " Then this episode is for you.
5 Key Take Aways for Nurturing, Creative Environments:
.1. Test ideas as much as you can before building the business case.
.2. Establish a culture of experimentation by focussing working sessions around producing prototypes. Start small and with the end in mind. Let the prototype test results guide your decision-making on the next steps.
.3. Mindfulness is staying open and curious by exploring your feelings, accepting them, and moving on, key to creativity and empathy.
.4. Transformation starts at the individual level: nurture mindfulness within yourself first and develop self-compassion to alleviate fear and reduce pressure from inner judgement. This helps embrace the learnings during experimentation in the creative process.
.5. Apply mindfulness to create safe spaces for others to feel comfortable with the learning process during experimentation. Listen and invite people to discuss insecurities.
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Flo on Linkedin or visit zukunftbureau.org
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#9 in short:
Change is tough and at times confusing. How can we make it fun?
We discuss the importance of doing the foundational work to find consensus on the problem to be solved—defining a strong why—, and how mindset ensures sustainable transformation. Through our conversations it becomes clear that including our emotions is paramount to innovation, whether it's in workshops or in daily work activities. He provides insights and tools to develop growth mindsets, and leverage emotions for creativity, making change a more fun and inviting process.
Take Aways to Make Change Fun:
#1 Strong Why: Engage people to discuss "Why are we digitizing, innovating, or changing?" Consensus and clarity help avoid frustration.
#2 Growth Mindset: Get excited to learn and take others along with you by modelling openness and growth mindset behavior.
#3 Mindfulness: Tap into emotions to uncover doubts and insecurities to un-block fear and heighten creativity: Lego Serious Play is an option inclusive of emotions by storytelling; another are meeting check-ins, allowing for "emotional offloading” to reduce cortisol and cool our brain.
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Dejan on Linkedin:
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Helena
#8 Episode in a Nutshell
Who are you? And what do your customers need?
–Yours, IoT
Everyone provides IoT–it's a buzzword, and with today’s global challenges, it’s key to create a purpose-driven IoT business.
Victoria and I discuss how to create a purpose that motivates employees to change the world, why companies must focus on customer challenges and less on technology, and how honing experimental skills helps us manage complexity and accommodate moving targets.
Key Take Aways for Leading the Change
1 Tap into the hearts of the employees and customers & acknowledge the past to move transformation forward
2 Learn about what drives your customer's business and co-create the future
3 As you build experimental capabilities start with small steps and work on yourresilience to better manage your expectations and setbacks
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Victoria on Linkedin:
me on Linkedin or Instagram , or visit my website for more inspiring change stories
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Helena
Change programs fail when economics are the main driver. Is there an alternative to “hard-drive” change? How about a “heart-driven” approach based in trust that considers the agents involved?
Questions to Leaders Who Seek to Heighten Trust and Change Buy-in:
1 How are you modelling behavior that allows people to trust you?
2 Are you putting your employees' needs first?
3 How are you showing that you're working on yourself?
4 Is your leadership team modelling desired behavior changes?
5 How are you helping people recognize the need to do the inner work?
Visit my website where I release a blog post per episode, summarizing key learnings and reflections a few weeks after the release of the episode.
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Bianca on LinkedIn and check her podcast "Be Wise, Be Wild"
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Helena
Hey Fellow Change Enthusiast,
On this show, Mariana and I discuss how she leads the digitalization of a business unit and how it must foster innovation to keep up with market changes. The first step to successful digital transformation in tech is to understand there’s a need for leadership and empowerment of diverse teams, enhanced collaboration, and heightened emotional intelligence skills to drive innovation.
The key take aways:
1 Value-based leadership for effective diverse teams
2 Balance compassion with value-based leadership for effective collaboration
- Listen more than you speak to dismantle hierarchical barriers
- Make sure your team are challenging your perspectives
3 Build A Learning Culture to Empower Teams
- Manage emotions and give feedback to enforce a learning culture
- Critically reflect on your behavior and challenge your beliefs to learn from failure
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I'd love to hear from you,
Helena
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Connect with Mariana on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariana-porley/
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https://www.instagram.com/whereboundariesdissolve/
Check out more content on my website: www.wbdissolve.com
Hey Fellow Change Enthusiast,
The issue we discuss: Traditional tech firms seek to improve how they accommodate perpetual change. They explore the agile frameworks to strengthen decentralized decision-making. This challenges employees to take more responsibility and leaders to let go of control. Building an inclusive leadership culture that embraces leadership diversity and bridges the old with the new way of leading is key.
How can you empower yourself and your team and build inclusive leadership culture?
Key take aways:
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Inclusive leadership bridges old and new ways of leading with empathy
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Learn to trust your team with experimentation and observation
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Leaders guide their teams and help make difficult decisions
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Embrace your uniqueness so you can empower others
Can't wait to share my next story with you!
Helena
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Connect with Robert on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-neuhauser-b5387b59/
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https://www.linkedin.com/feed/
https://www.instagram.com/whereboundariesdissolve/
Dear Fellow Change Enthusiast,
Tune in to find the answers to the following questions
- How can I increase employee engagement and collaboration?
- How can I overcome initial fears around engaging with my employees?
- How can I motivate my team for change -- make it exciting and desirable?
Fouad Alame, seasoned change agents, gives us lots of change-goodies. We recorded the session during a car ride through Basel, Switzerland. He shared his personal story and linked it to his change management journey and experiences.
Please rate and review me if you enjoyed the show. Feel free to drop a comment, as I'd love to hear what you'd be interested in listening to on the topic of change and transformation in business. And, finally, subscribe or follow me for more amazing interviews.
Take care,
Helena at 'where boundaries dissolve'
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Guest: Fouad Alame
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fouad-m-alame/
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Imagine changing how software of your company is brought to market. You hope to find change agents who share your excitement. You find indifference. Managing the effects your transformation projects has on the organization is not part of your scope, but dealing with roadblocks is.
How does Kristina build commitment for change projects? How does she keep momentum? How does she endure change with equanimity? Tune in and find out!
Here are my key take-aways from my conversation with Kristina:
- Set the stage: Give purpose and get commitment
- Stay curious and keep a beginner's mindset to understand the ripple effects of your project
- Find and build on success stories to motivate cross-functional teams
- Cultivate growth mindset and compassion in your team to increase your understanding of the problem at hand and take in different perspectives
Listen on to find out more.
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Connect with my dear Krisitina at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristina-schreiner/
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Connect with my dear guest Irina Koitz at https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinakoitz/
About the episode:
Irina started with a vision. She wanted to build a smart product to improve customer decision-making, and she wanted to co-create it. Her vision was as new to the market as it was to the organization. Under her leadership today, the global data analytics team is developing the intelligence to deliver smart buildings. Find out how she learned to navigate change while co-creating the first smart product, and how she leads and motivates a global team building the company’s future data analytics competencies.
Key take-aways:
- Cultivate authentic leadership to push an organization outside its comfort zone
- B2B co-creation Starts with sales buy-in and selecting the right customers
- Include your customers into your R&D iteration cycles
- Foster courage with belief in yourself and your idea when you face resistance
- Navigate politics with authentic leadership to push an organization outside its comfort zone
Listen on to find out more!
Cheers,
Helena
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and connect with my dear Franziska here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franziskadolak/
Franziska's story:
Traditional tech firms face digitizing markets. Their engineers, masters in technical innovation, encounter endless data-driven solutions and struggle with finding focus. When Franziska entered tech, she questioned the inherent technology-driven, problem-solving approach. She believes human centricity can lead to successful next-gen products and services. Change seems inevitable—identities crumble and must transform.
How does Franziska change mindsets, behaviors and processes?
How did Franziska become a change driver?
You'll find all of that good stuff and the answers in this episode.