Your leadership matters. Your intentionality about this year -- envisioning all you want it to be -- will bring wisdom and awesomeness to it and to your TEAM. We have seen the best leaders do this. And since you're a leader who gives a damn, you can too. We'd love to be your virtual coaches and sit with you through your Success Map. Get your Success Map free PDF at leaderswhogiveadamn.com and tune in for 5 weeks to start your year off with a vision of success. Episode 5 of 5: The Invitation of Y...
Feb 11, 2021•31 min•Ep. 135
Your leadership matters. Your intentionality about this year -- envisioning all you want it to be -- will bring wisdom and awesomeness to it and to your TEAM. We have seen the best leaders do this. And since you're a leader who gives a damn, you can too. We'd love to be your virtual coaches and sit with you through your Success Map. Get your Success Map free PDF at leaderswhogiveadamn.com and tune in for 5 weeks to start your year off with a vision of success. Episode 4 of 5: Taking Action...
Feb 04, 2021•28 min•Ep. 134
Your leadership matters. Your intentionality about this year -- envisioning all you want it to be -- will bring wisdom and awesomeness to it and to your TEAM. We have seen the best leaders do this. And since you're a leader who gives a damn, you can too. We'd love to be your virtual coaches and sit with you through your Success Map. Get your Success Map free PDF at leaderswhogiveadamn.com and tune in for 5 weeks to start your year off with a vision of success. Episode 3 of 5: Setting the Vision ...
Jan 28, 2021•30 min•Ep. 133
Your leadership matters. Your intentionality about this year -- envisioning all you want it to be -- will bring wisdom and awesomeness to it and to your TEAM. We have seen the best leaders do this. And since you're a leader who gives a damn, you can too. We'd love to be your virtual coaches and sit with you through your Success Map. Get your Success Map free PDF at leaderswhogiveadamn.com and tune in for 5 weeks to start your year off with a vision of success. Episode 2 of 5: Reflecting on 2020 ...
Jan 21, 2021•35 min•Ep. 132
Your leadership matters. Your intentionality about this year -- envisioning all you want it to be -- will bring wisdom and awesomeness to it and to your TEAM. We have seen the best leaders do this. And since you're a leader who gives a damn, you can too. We'd love to be your virtual coaches and sit with you through your Success Map. Get your Success Map free PDF at leaderswhogiveadamn.com and tune in for 5 weeks to start your year off with a vision of success. Episode 1 of 5: Growth Mindset...
Jan 14, 2021•22 min•Ep. 131
Even IF we thought we could silo our Professional selves and our Personal selves pre-covid19, now that our lives have been condensed into one personal-professional balancing act, our wellbeing as the Professional-Personal-You makes all the difference in how you feel and perform in life these days. In Episode 128 Kat Rippy interviews me to talk about what that interplay might look like and what we can do to keep our strengths and sanity at the forefront.
Oct 08, 2020•57 min•Ep. 130
Have you been completely wiped sometime over the past 5-6 months? I know I have. And my biggest energy boost comes by redirecting my strengths. From exercise to getting enough mental space, your strengths tell you what you need and how to get it. In Episode 127, you'll hear Kat Rippy, a seasoned CEO coach, interview me about the power of our strengths to impact our wellbeing. Remember to ask yourself, what is one way I can tweak my strengths to boost my wellbeing?
Sep 24, 2020•51 min•Ep. 129
These days, as everyday uncertainty continues to persist, we are all carrying around an additional level of stress that wears on us. Can you feel it?? It's there. It's an extra weight and it's challenging our feelings of wellbeing on every level. Today, we get to jump into 3 part mini-series on Wellbeing together -- the strengths-perspective, and specifically the CliftonStrengths StrengthsFinder language, gives you a shortcut to a greater sense of wellbeing. Today in Episode 126, I'll share the ...
Sep 10, 2020•33 min•Ep. 128
Wellbeing and self-care sometimes feel like elements that go beyond our control. Our schedules and the un-patterned "routines" that we've gotten into feel so overtaken. Yet, the best leaders are showing us that this is not the case. We can make choices and we can prioritize wellness. This EPISODE 125 marks the end of this 5 part series about Leadership in Lockdown. We at the Isogo team and Murray and his team hope that this series has been an encouragement to you as a leader and that you take th...
Jul 30, 2020•32 min•Ep. 127
As a leader, you have the power to bring great levels of hope and peace -- just by providing even BORING levels of clarity in your team. This is the fourth episode in a five part series, called Lockdown Leadership and the 5 Themes that Shine Through...from the best of the best leaders. Today, in Episode 124, Murray Guest and I are unpacking the fourth Theme: Clarity. We define it, share some stories, pass on the best practices we've seen and even leave you with a couple ways to practice it in yo...
Jul 23, 2020•42 min•Ep. 126
Leaders who individualize are the ones who thrive. It's the way it has ALWAYS been. In crisis and adjusting to continued uncertainty, it is even more important -- and it's what the best are doing. This is the third episode in a five part series, called Lockdown Leadership and the 5 Themes that Shine Through...from the best of the best leaders. Today, in Episode 123, Murray Guest and I are unpacking the third Theme: Leadership Individualization and Flexibility. We define it, share some stories, p...
Jul 14, 2020•36 min•Ep. 125
This is episode two of five in a timely new series called Lockdown Leadership and the 5 Themes that Shine Through--from the best of the best leaders. This series came about by us asking --- what are the best leaders doing right now? In this conversation with internationally renowned leader and facilitator, Murray Guest, on Episode 122, we talk about the importance of Communication -- now especially so. Leadership communication is not all coffee chats and laughter {though it needs that too}. Ofte...
Jul 09, 2020•34 min•Ep. 124
We are kicking off a series today that will run for the month, called Lockdown Leadership and the 5 Themes that Shine Through from the best of the best leaders. This series came about by us asking --- what are the best leaders doing right now? Because even in the midst of it all, the best leaders are still thriving. In this series, I got to collaborate with the internationally known coach and consultant, Murray Guest. The first theme today in Episode 121 is a huge one, that surprised me a bit. I...
Jul 02, 2020•36 min•Ep. 123
Today, you are hearing the closing episode in this series about Strengths in Crisis. We are tracing four themes, like a ribbon of humanity that has risen to the surface of all twelve stories. Why share these themes? To help all of us sear in our memory the impact of this world shift and the good that can result from the struggle when we share our stories and listen to each other.
Jun 16, 2020•19 min•Ep. 122
Here's what we're learning in this Strengths in Crisis series. This season, while it continues to challenge us daily, also has the potential to bring about a pivot point in humanity that leaves us stronger than ever before. Especially as we choose to fixate on strength, instead of focusing on weakness. Today on Episode 119 you get to hear from one of Isogo's very own, Annie Elliott. Annie was in the middle of her SECOND year as a kindergarten teacher when the coronavirus shut down southern Calif...
May 19, 2020•41 min•Ep. 121
Anna Runyan, CEO of a Forbes top 35 most influential career site shares what life in quarantine has meant for her family and her business. As a leader, she shares the huge goal-setting pivot she lead with her team when the second quarter of this year was clearly NOT going to be what they expected, yet continued to propel their business to grow, even in the midst of crisis. And as a mom, she shares what she discovered she needed in order to pull out of the negativity and into a thriving mode agai...
May 15, 2020•45 min•Ep. 120
If you know anyone who is attending college or university right now, you know that their lives have been uprooted. What you might not see so visibly is that the college or university that supports them has been working around the clock --- to do everything it can to help them come out both educated and thriving on the other end of this semester. It is a crazy tough challenge -- a challenge that Kimberley Wiedefeld and the other members of the President's Cabinet at Roberts Wesleyan College are p...
May 12, 2020•53 min•Ep. 119
Our guest works day in and day out in an industry that is at the top of all of our minds right now. Healthcare. Dr. Patricia Beals serves kids and families in her work as the director of the Barrow Cleft and Craniofacial Center at Dignity Health in Phoenix, AZ. And as she shares today, life as a healthcare provider has been life-alteringly affected. Dr. Beals shares today about the strengths she typically calls upon and how those are not necessarily the ones she relied as heavily upon pre-crisis...
May 08, 2020•39 min•Ep. 118
Melissa Jill is a beloved influencer and educator in the wedding photography world and just happens to be pivoting her career as the world flips upside down. She says that she doesn't consider herself thriving, but as you'll hear from her story in Episode 115 today, she is figuring out ways to leverage her strengths to overcome and make it through -- carrying a family and a business with her.
May 05, 2020•40 min•Ep. 117
Murray's life as a consultant and facilitator has been turned upside down, but the truth is, you wouldn't really know that. In Episode 114, in this Strengths in Crisis series, Murray opens up his life to us to share stories of connection in ways that otherwise wouldn't have happened, of the ways he's using his strengths to recalibrate his approach to work, and of promise for leaders who may just feel like this crisis is getting the best of them. Murray's leveled insight and wisdom come at a perf...
May 01, 2020•42 min•Ep. 116
She has always worked from home, but suddenly so do her high school teacher husband and her three little kids. In Episode 113, Amanda shares the reality of what what this global crisis looks like inside a young family with two working parents, who are stretching their strengths, and offering each other extra levels of kindness to make it through to the other end thriving.
Apr 28, 2020•50 min•Ep. 115
In 2016, Rhonda Boyle made the decision to move her business into her house, a move which set her up to feel a sense of thriving, even in this stressful time. Today, in Episode 112, she shares with us through the lens of her CliftonStrengths, which she has relied on more and which she is allowing to take a back seat for now. Let's help each other cope in crisis. We all have the tools we need to thrive, through the power and intentionality of our unique strengths.
Apr 24, 2020•37 min•Ep. 114
Within a few days, much of Erin Passons future client work slipped from her schedule and her energy with it. In Episode 111, Erin shares what it looks like to dig into strength to pull the positive from a dreadful situation, what it is like when her strengths just are not able to live in the energy they usually do, and she helps us all see that it's ok to just let it all out sometimes. Let's help each other cope in crisis. We all have the tools we need to thrive, through the power and intentiona...
Apr 21, 2020•42 min•Ep. 113
Let's help each other cope in crisis. We all have the tools we need to thrive, through the power and intentionality of our unique strengths. In Episode 110, Maureen Monte directs us first toward understanding the root of your fear. Maureen is a beloved expert in the strengths, teams and leadership world, and especially if you are a leader, you are going to draw some poignant takeaways about managing and thriving in crisis. She's like the crisis queen.
Apr 17, 2020•44 min•Ep. 112
Let's help each other cope in crisis. We all have the tools we need to thrive, through the power and intentionality of our unique strengths. In Episode 109, my jaw dropped as TyAnn Osborn described the impact the coronavirus had on her business and her home. And yet then, to hear of her position of grace for her clients and her kids and even herself -- I was so encouraged, and you will be too.
Apr 14, 2020•50 min•Ep. 111
There's change and stress and this sense of crisis all around us, in a new way that very few of us have ever experienced before. Whether you feel hopeful or completely overwhelmed and stressed, YOU have the tools you need to thrive during this time. That's what this series is about -- helping each other see that through our strengths we can thrive in crisis. In this Episode, I get to share my story -- from a crazy transition whiplash (think, moving truck and homelessness) to the anxiety that bui...
Apr 07, 2020•14 min•Ep. 110
Relationships are hard. Which means life at work and at home with family can be...hard! But you can flip that around--by understanding and fixating on the things that are already true and good about you and the people around you. The CliftonStrengths Ideation strength is all about a constant generation of ideas and connections and thinking up the impossible. Where this super-power strength matches with what people around you understand and expect from you, then great --- have at it. Where it is ...
Mar 10, 2020•10 min•Ep. 109
Relationships are hard. Which means life at work and at home with family can be...hard! But you can flip that around--by understanding and fixating on the things that are already true and good about you and the people around you. The CliftonStrengths Consistency strength is all about the pursuit of fairness by processes and procedures that you're a pro at. Where this super-power strength matches with what people around you understand and expect from you, then great --- have at it. Where it is mi...
Mar 03, 2020•10 min•Ep. 108
Relationships are hard. Which means life at work and at home with family can be...hard! But you can flip that around--by understanding and fixating on the things that are already true and good about you and the people around you. The CliftonStrengths Developer strength is all about seeing little steps of progress that others miss and standing by to help those things grow. Where this super-power strength matches with what people around you understand and expect from you, then great --- have at it...
Feb 25, 2020•10 min•Ep. 107
Relationships are hard. Which means life at work and at home with family can be...hard! But you can flip that around--by understanding and fixating on the things that are already true and good about you and the people around you. The CliftonStrengths Communication strength is all about stories and influence. Where this super-power strength matches with what people around you understand and expect from you, then great --- have at it. Where it is misunderstood or perhaps even over-used, now is the...
Feb 18, 2020•8 min•Ep. 106
