On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Jennifer Speciale about career transitions and leadership, cultural agility, and how we should handle the barriers during transition periods.
We also dive deeper into the essence of building psychological safety in the workplace, imposter syndrome and how companies should execute recruitments.
Jeniffer Speciale – Career Transitions and Leadership
Jennifer Speciale is an Executive Leadership Specialist, Transformation Advisor and Founder of Speciale Executive Leadership.
She has a Bachelors Degree in pre-clinical Neuropsychopharmcology from Indiana University Bloomington, Masters Degrees in International Business and International Relations & Diplomacy from Seaton Hall University. Her work has included recruitment, talent, change and transformation roles at Google, Bloomberg, Indeed, Fjord, McKinsey & Company and Amazon. She also recently became a Board Member for the Women in Leadership program at Mercy University.
Jennifer Speciale talks about:
Growing up interested in language and culture
How to build trust and relationship with different cultures
Observation and empathy go together
Qualities that make you a leader
Building psychological safety
Being interested in neuropsychopharmacology and helping people
Key things to keep in mind during recruitments
Behavioral based questions during the recruitment process
Staying close and being true to your passion
Career trajectories
Obstacles encountered when shifting into new roles
The imposter syndrome
Handling internal and external handbreaks
Tweets
“If you can empathise and mitigate your own frustration and see it for what it is, the only way to turn it around is by making it a safer environment and letting them feel that you genuinely want them to succeed. And that’s the only way to calm the nerves.” Empathy and frustrations by Jennifer Speciale on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“Not everybody is a strong leader, but they still deserve and should move up in their career.” Jennifer Speciale talks about career trajectories on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“Leadership is something that can be learned, taught, and practiced.” Jennifer Speciale talks about becoming a leader on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Chuen Chuen Yeo about Leaders People Love, imposter syndrome and having an agile mindset as a leader.
We also dive deeper into building a culture that can withstand conflict, vulnerability in leadership and increasing your resilience.
Chuen Chuen Yeo – Leaders People Love
Chuen Chuen Yeo is a pioneering figure in shaping agile leaders skilled in navigating the complexities of the business landscape. With a focus on leadership agility, she is the acclaimed author of “8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility” and “Leaders People Love,” in addition to being a sought-after agile leadership coach and international keynote speaker.
Recognized for her outstanding contributions, our guest has earned prestigious titles, including “Woman Super Achiever” and being named one of the “Top 101 Global Coaching Leaders” at the 28th World HRD Congress. A distinguished academic, she holds a degree in Computer Engineering and a post-graduate Diploma in Education from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Notably, Chuen Chuen Yeo is the visionary force behind ACESENCE Agile Leaders, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, and a recognized LinkedIn Top Voice in Company Culture, Singapore.
Chuen Chuen Yeo talks about:
Discovering her passion for developing people & elevating leadership all around the world
Being a follower during her formative years
Imposter syndrome & the amplification of mistakes
Leaders People Love
Having a heavy fear of failing
Behind arrogance is the fear of failure
Building trust in relationships as a leader
Learning to have patience and slow down
Approaching leadership with an agile mindset
Constantly comparing yourself to others increases mental pressure and stress
Working on being more resilient
Using your insecurities to drive you forward and not hold you back
Creating an environment where people feel safe to fail and make mistakes
8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility
Building a culture that can withstand conflict
Authenticity and integrity in leadership
Tweets
“Great leaders have to be great teachers. We have to understand each individual and give them the right support to bring them up.” Chuen Chuen Yeo talks about the importance of knowing your people and supporting them the right way on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“We cannot achieve anything if we are alone. We have to learn to enlist other people into our cause, our mission. To do that, we might have to choose to slow down. When I look at things like speed vs. performance, a lot of leaders can do with more patience because in their hurry to get to the end state, they compromise things and they may lose a relationship that they can never repair.” Importance of relationships built on trust in leadership with Chuen Chuen Yeo on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
“Performers have found a way to minimize chances of failure, but in their hearts, they have not embraced the truth that failure is part of any equation and learning experience. It doesn’t mean you are bad. It only just reflects that their approach is incorrect and it has informed you to do things differently. That’s a truth that people need to embrace to increase their resilience.” Chuen Chuen Yeo talks about working on being more resilient on the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast.
On this
episode of the active CEO Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Lisa Tamati
about relentless leadership in life as we go all in on saving her mums life,
overcoming the toughest ultra-marathon races in the world, the GRIT to overcome adversity, and
going above and beyond medical advice to
find a solution for her mum. We also talk about imposter syndrome, the
importance of hope, optimising your DNA, and learning how to pivot and change
direction in life.
Lisa Tamati – Relentless Leadership In Life
Lisa Tamati is a
professional adventure athlete, best author, crazy super human being,
motivational speaker and mindset coach, who goes beyond the human limits. Over
the past 25 plus years, she has taken on and conquered the world’s toughest
endurance events and expeditions including the Sahara and Gobi deserts,
Himalayas and Niger, however none of those extreme events even come close to
her greatest life challenge, where it took a relentless approach to saving her
mums life. She is an absolute force of nature and true warrior leader, in every
essence of human kind, who loves to put the body armour on and take GRIT and a
Relentless approach to life to a whole nuther level.
Her education includes a
Bachelor of Applied Management in sports Management from Otago Polytechnic,
National Certificate in Business Studies for Carrington Polytechnic Auckland
and a Certificate in Counselling & Human Relations (social work) from
Western Institute of Technology.
Imagine the University of
life you gain when you cover over 70,000 km of running across some of the
poorest, most dangerous and challenging stretches of earth including a
life-changing argument with your partner while illegally in the Lybian desert,
losing your mind in Death Valley one of the hottest places on earth, running
the length of New Zealand, that’s 2,200km, and pushing your mind and body
beyond belief every single day.
Lisa talks about:
Growing up as a curious kiwi in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Importance of learning the skill of situational compartmentalisation.
Why attempt the toughest race on the earth, Marathon De Sables.
Developing Relentless Leadership In Life.
The battle of the lion and the snake in your head.
Running Death Valley in 57 Degrees Celsius, Badwater Ultramarathon.
Being tackled to avoid a rattlesnake, in the coolest race on the planet.
Why is it that what you believe dictates your destiny?
We cannot control all the variables in the world.
Relentless, the story about bringing her mum back.
Why check for sleep apnea during a severe neurological event.
Studying functional neurology, neutrophics and epigenomics.
We live in the time we have access to the greatest minds on the planet.
When you have no hope, you take weak action, because you don’t think it will be useful anyway.
The challenges of self-publishing a book.
Pushing The Limits Podcast
Active
CEO Performance Tip
Own The
CHOICES You Make
– The world is constantly challenging us through disruption,
competing priorities and competition for our attention; therefore we must take
control of our own story and influence. Your have to own your own life and
realize that life is not a dress rehearsal. How much of your life do you really
own and take full responsibility for? You are the sum total of your decisions.
You own the choices that you make.
Tweets
“All that I can control is my reactions to it and
the decisions I make from here on in.” Managing fear and hysteria, with Lisa
Tamati, on the active CEO Podcast.
“It’s not about Talent, it’s about GRIT,
determination and an ability to suffer a lot. When times are tough the ability
to keep hurting and keep moving forward.” Lisa Tamati talks about her
RELENTLESS approach to life, on the active CEO Podcast.
“If we crashed in a jungle in an aeroplane and I had
to run 200km to save their life, would you stop, would you quit right now, if
there life depended on it?” Creating the right mental state with Lisa Tamati,
on the active CEO Podcast.
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