65: Leading From Within with Stephani Roy McCallum

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
  • Publicly
  • Personally
• 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

Learn More About Stephani Roy McCallum and Leadership

• Website: https://www.bravelylead.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bravelylead/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedheadSteph
• Blog: https://medium.com/@RedheadSteph
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephani.roy.mccallum/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephani-roy-mccallum-b627646/

Credits

• Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund
• Cold Funk by Kevin MacLeod

All songs licensed under Creative Commons

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