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Tell me about your vision in all of this and where did it come from? I've heard a few things

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That maybe had brought this up. But what is what's your vision?

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So my vision for my own company, but really for leaders as a whole is to get to a place where they

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Feel that they're authentically showing up that they're capable of leading people

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But that doesn't that comes with a set of responsibilities and skills, but it's not an exclusive of

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What their other what you know what their teams would be doing?

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My vision is to help inspire leaders to be their authentic selves

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to

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Be better at that and so, you know my my little story. I was a 30 plus year corporate

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Transformation person. I started my career at Accenture. I ended my career at IBM

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I did all kinds of technology transformation business transformation

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organizational transformation throughout all of that and

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When I decided to go out on my own, it was really about helping empower leaders

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To embrace the kinds of change for themselves

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But even more importantly to inspire that change in their people to inspire them to follow

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And the leaders that I have worked with through without question have been really all about

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Buying into the change is not something that it's while it's hard. It doesn't have to be

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Personally hard it can be something that is a really amazing growth opportunity

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And I've I have loved the last almost three years

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working with

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Primarily women because that's some of the networking that I've been part of but women that are

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interested in in stepping into their own

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ability

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Impact and grow other people and individuals

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And as it as entrepreneurs, I often talk with women that are doing just that because I

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Contributed to a book that was all about becoming an unstoppable woman entrepreneur

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That my little my little chapter

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And I I just love talking with other women that are looking to do and don't get me wrong

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I love talking to other men too. It's just different opportunities different barriers

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So lots of times women entrepreneurs are struggling just like leaders are struggling to feel like they have

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Opportunity or they they deserve the opportunity or they know how to follow through on

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Opportunity they're presenting to themselves and it's so interesting you

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you speak about the diamond dynamics of

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differences between men, you know who are getting into the

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The field of being leaders and women and we do have a big difference and I go back to

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When I was younger, that's often what you've seen wasn't white-collar men

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You know and they were the the leaders they were the CEO

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See, they're the only ones with the acronyms in the company from what I visualized when I was younger

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And so now that that things are changing and life is changing

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And we see as women that we have the power to be in the same position

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Just with a different, you know a different

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Innate thing that we have called emotions, but we could still do the same thing

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So I love that with all that being said, what's your why?

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My my why has always been about

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Being authentically myself in helping others

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Even when I was a corporate executive I

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Joked that I didn't get the IBM blue lobotomy, right? I never really the same way

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That was standard that was taught

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Because for me, it was really about showing up as an authentic leader

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Helping others to understand build belief right build belief in where we were going what we were doing

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and then taking that that strong belief and helping to

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Embody that in a change create some capability and people create

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Encouragement and engagement and then making sure that I was sustaining that so

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What's funny is my my wife from a business perspective has always been that way

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Going out of my own didn't change that why it just changed who my why impacted

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But ultimately, you know, my wife has always been my family

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I have

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Three children all of whom grew up with a you know, strong independent for a long time single mom

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It was very very committed to making sure that they not only succeeded in what they wanted to do

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But they saw that success was possible

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And so many lessons from business overlapped into parenting

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Parenting overlapped into business that that driver of why you show up every day is

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Going to far outlive anything that i'm going to do and and being you know generous in the ability to share those lessons

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Model them for my children model them for for my my leadership, you know in company

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I I spent a lot of time leading our local school board for that same reason

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It is about bringing all of your capabilities to whatever the role that you have whether that be parent leader

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Board member, what have you?

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I love that. I love that and you you mention often authenticity

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And I don't want to do our audience a disservice

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Explain to the audience and even myself what authenticity means

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As a whole and to you as well. It's often

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It's a used word wide used word around and I want some of the the new leaders or the entrepreneurs to understand

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what authenticity means

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for me it it

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It really truly means what do you hope?

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That you be and deliver and and show up as lots of people will think well

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This is what i'm supposed to do. This is what i'm expected to do my c-suite title

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expects me to do these things and it doesn't feel

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Like who you are

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And showing up for yourself being and I and I i'm very careful about this

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Lots of times leaders will say i'm i'm authentic. I shared my whole morning and it was terrible and

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I I often say to leaders specifically being your authentic self does not mean

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That you are burdening your organization with everything you think of it's not about

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Dumping all of the woes and the sorrows and the things that the leaders responsibilities onto someone else

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There there's an authenticity that says how is it that I want to be seen?

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And how is it that I want to be heard and experienced?

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That's different than being full kimono, right? You're not supposed

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If you can stand there naked, that's not necessarily authentic unless you can stand there naked

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Being very comfortable with how you're being seen and I think that's a balance because too many leaders think that if i'm going to be authentic

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I'll just you know be able to just be

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It's not all of that. It really is about how what is the effect? I want to have I I often say to leaders

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When we're talking about communication, there's three questions that you ask yourself before you press send or post the blog or or even get on to a conversation

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When you're done with this exchange of communication, what do you want people to think?

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What do you want people to feel and what do you want them to do as a result of your communication?

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If you can think about that from a level of authenticity, what do I want people to think feel and do with my leadership?

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Presence today. Yeah, that's a level of helping you to be authentic

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Leave you in a leadership role and not necessarily be full burdening of everyone, you know of everything you've ever thought

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And it's a balance not not everyone does it very well

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There's plenty of those leaders what we can probably all think of those that you're just like why did he say that or she say that like

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That doesn't help me. It just makes me feel bad for you as the leader

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But too many leaders think that that's what they're telling you

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Go be authentic. Go be vulnerable. It doesn't mean they have to know everything about you

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Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward

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This is going to get more and more fun

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We'll have more and more engagement as well

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We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and be part of it

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Yourself