Andrea Johnson, transformational leadership coach,
intentional optimist.
Tell me about your vision.
Let's hear about it.
Well, it took me at least 50 years to figure out
that I didn't want to play by everybody else's rules.
And once I did, it took me another two or three years
to kind of figure out a general direction I wanted to go.
I spent almost 25 years in higher education,
which is a great pursuit.
I did administration operations, research administration.
I managed people.
I made sure clinical trials got put through faster
so that patients could have access to new medications.
I made sure that post-docs had what they needed
and that all the doctors were supported well.
And yet I still felt completely unfulfilled.
And I realized that part of it was I was born
to be more of an inspirer and more of a leader.
I just don't like to manage.
I have a really hard time sitting down with people
and having them say, yeah, I'm here to punch a time clock.
And if that's where they need to be,
that's where they need to be.
I don't need to be in their circle
because that's not the kind of person I want to be.
So my vision started about seven years ago
where I decided I needed to find out
what I wanted to stand for, who I was,
and how I wanted to move forward.
And about five years ago,
a friend introduced me to John Maxwell
and I became a certified Maxwell team,
disc speaker trainer and coach
and disc consultant speaker trainer and coach.
And I realized that this was an opportunity
to go into the same organizations
that I was trying to work inside
and offer them something from the outside
that would better their communication,
that would help them grow,
that would help them with their organizational structures.
And as I dove even deeper into the coaching side of it,
I realized that for me, for the last 30 years,
I started with Franklin Covey.
And I have from 30 years ago,
my governing values from when I read Steve Covey's book.
And that was the last exercise in it.
And I still have it laminated with packing tape.
And as I looked more at core values,
I realized this is the building block
that everything else is built on.
And so my vision is to help other people understand
that whether or not you live in a way,
as some people do, that already honors your core values
and you're not intentional about it,
or you've allowed your core values to be dishonored
for how many years and you're miserable because of it,
there is something in here for you.
Because if you're on this unicorn side
that kind of like has an idea of what your core values are
and you can live in a way that honors them,
I want you to be able to be intentional about it
because that it's like take it to 11, right?
It's like start at 10 and go to 11.
Whereas with people who are,
and I deal with a lot of people this way,
they're fed up, they're frustrated.
They're just, they realize everything that they're doing
is dishonoring who they are as a person.
Sometimes it means you change jobs.
Sometimes it means you build a different team.
Sometimes it means you have to confront conditioning.
So I talk about my ABCs, my assumptions,
my beliefs and my conditioning.
And starting with that building block,
that's the three-part framework that gives people
the opportunity to make changes,
make changes in their lives, in their families,
in their communities, in their businesses.
And so my vision is to start there
and just see how many people we can touch.
And it's truly empowering someone.
It's truly giving them the tools that they need
to be able to make decisions for themselves.