Stephani Roy McCallum is a leader who helps people have difficult conversations. In this conversation she navigates a deeper of understanding of what leadership really is and how to be an effective leader.
Conversation Highlights
- Bigger Game Live put on by Rick Tamlyn
- Leadership is needed to move forward after a conflict has been resolved
- Taking complete ownership is necessary, however to be fully effective you have to go somewhere (lead)
- “Leadership is an inside job” — Rick Tamlyn
- Leadership is available to everyone
- Leaders inspire others to take action towards positive change
- To lead you must stand for something and lead from it
- Personal leadership often starts with a “reckoning”
- What do I stand for?
- Who am I?
- Questioning the status quo
- Self-awareness is key to becoming a leader
- Stephani’s own reckonings
- The different faces and forms of empathy
- The path to courage and being brave is owning your fears, short-comings and inadequacies and being honest about them
- The combination of bravery and vulnerability creates connection which then encourages others to take action
- A vision isn’t anything unless it’s tied to the essence of who you are
- The interplay between our thoughts and feelings and notion that each can originate in either direction
- Leaders inspire and empower others to make positive change because the believe in something and lead from that
- Stephani’s real world examples of leading courageous public conversations
- How to have difficult personal conversations
- The stories we tell ourselves and how unproductive they can be
- The value of telling a new story
- The power of combining a new story with choosing
- A productive story is not necessarily the opposite of the unproductive version
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