The Leader you want to be

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For almost two decades, Amy Jen Su has partnered with investment professionals, CEOs, and executives to sustain and increase their leadership effectiveness as they drive organizational change and transformation. She is the author of the Harvard Business Review Press book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles to Bringing Out Your Best Self – Every Day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amy and I dive deep on leadership, and how who you are as a person affects the organization you're leading, for better or worse. This means that self-leadership and mindfulness are essential for leaders, and we unpack Amy’s approaches to these dimensions of leadership. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants to strengthen their center and be a more balanced, more effective leader. And as Amy says in the opening quote,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">there is no one way</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for everyone to lead...we each need to find our own north star and our own thread to follow in the story of our own leadership development.</span></p> <p><strong>Cultivating Our Inner Conversation</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One insight that I was so glad to have Amy “yes and '' is my feeling about the deep importance of our inner conversation - the parts of ourselves that</span> <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45086/sonnet-15-when-i-consider-everything-that-grows"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">cheer and check us.</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">As Amy says, </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“some of these voices no longer serve us, and in fact disempower us”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She suggests that we stay updated with our current selves, and know when it's time to let go of voices that no longer serve us.</span></p> <p><strong>Cultivating an outer conversation: Finding mentors and supporters</strong></p> <p><