Ep 22 Alain Hunkins: Cracking the Leadership Code and How it Relates to COVID-19

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moving forward, every guest will not only share their expertise, but also their perspective and help us all grow through the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s guest, Alain Hunkins, is so dynamic that we have three themes to discuss and how all of these are relevant to what we are all going through as we try to stop the spread of COVID-19.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alain is the author of</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cracking the Leadership Code</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where he shares the valuable principles and practices that he developed and refined during the 20+ years he’s worked with leaders. This is helpful to everyone because we are all leaders in some way, whether a parent, an older sibling, or a CEO- and we all need to be leaders in our current crisis. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also delve into one of the many things we have in common and that is his parents are holocaust survivors like mine. We talk through how that is helping us with our current situation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, Alain tells us about his family’s choice to move from the US to the Netherlands and what their experience has been like and what they miss about the USA.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is jam packed! I hope you enjoy it and hope that you and your families are healthy and safe.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have to shift your focus and instead of thinking of yourself as this commander, it’s how can you be more of a facilitator? I love the word ‘facilitate’ because it comes from the same word ‘facile’ which means to make things easy. So how can you make things easier for people?”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For me, it’s just how can we make the most of what we have in the time that we have it.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My life mission is about kindling the fire