Illustrating Leadership Lesson: Presence
Today we're sitting down with Carolyn Robistow, a private practice therapist and group offer strategist, and someone who has become a meaningful person in my life over the last year. Carolyn is thoughtful, funny, deeply insightful, and able to move from boat life to brain spotting to leadership wisdom in a way that feels both completely unexpected and exactly right.
Illustrating Leadership Lesson: The Relationships That Matter
In this episode of Illustrating Leadership, I got to talk with with Shoshana Allice, a neuro-inclusive leadership coach and the founder of Decolonizing Leadership.
Shoshana has spent nearly 30 years in leadership development, and her work has become increasingly focused on the intersection of neurodivergence and leadership. Through her own late-diagnosed neurodivergence, her family experience, and her work with clients, she has developed a deep commitment to helping people rethink what leadership can look like.
Illustrating Leadership Lesson: Creating Opportunity
In this episode of Illustrating Leadership, I had the joy of talking with Eboné Bell, a speaker, storyteller, facilitator, and voiceover artist whose work centers on leadership, confidence, allyship, belonging, and connection.
And connection really is the thread.
Eboné chose to highlight Madam C.J. Walker, an entrepreneur and community builder whose leadership continues to inspire her. What stood out most was not only Madam Walker’s business success, but the way she used that success to create opportunity for others.
Illustrating Leadership Lesson: Learning Agility
Learning agility is the ability to learn from experience and apply those lessons to new and unfamiliar situations.
Research suggests it can be more predictive of leadership effectiveness than emotional intelligence or cognitive ability alone.
The most important part is this. It is learnable.
Leadership growth does not come from consuming more content alone. It comes from reflection. From asking better questions after things go well and after they do not.