The Transformational Leader

While assessment tools give leaders the opportunity to get an insight into how they (and others) are, how they operate, their default tendencies, and what might be getting in their leaderships, it also has major downsides. For starters, they can also provide bottlenecks and clogs when you as a leader is not actively doing your own work. Also, while it can help conveniently categorise people, asses...

Feedback is an integral part of being a leader. While providing and receiving feedback can seem straightforward, there is actually more to it than meets the eye. Why? People have different relationships to feedback. And that relationship they provide and receive feedback. This can be extra challenging if you're a leader since you have to be aware of your relationship with feedback. Otherwise, you...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Jana Hendrickson about her transformational journey, the hardships, the things that haven't made sense, and how breakthroughs look.

When something is not working, the human tendency is to do the opposite. This tendency is present in even the most powerful of leaders. However, when you as a leader fail to recognise this tendency in yourself, you won't be able to get the help you need so you can see beyond what is in front of you. In addition, you can offer solutions that seem to work but in reality, won't really accomplish the...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews America Paz about ontology, her journey through the Forge, and how leadership looks in theory vs. how it feels in practice. 

At first glance, leadership and coaching can appear one and the same. However, nothing can be farther from the truth. In fact, leaders who use coaching techniques can run into problems because coaching and leadership are two different things. For starters, coaching is totally client driven while leadership entails supporting a colleague or client to take on a task within the context of the declare...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Andy Hite about his own transformational journey, his work with The Forge, and how leadership has actually been experienced versus his expectations.

You go to workshops and training, and you bring somebody to talk to your team. At first, you become super excited and inspired, but as time goes on, you become more disillusioned. You start to feel that there is no transformation.  You go from initial motivation to inspiration, stagnation, disillusionment, and eventually to resignation. Once you hit the resignation point, it is hard motivating you...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam talks with special guest Annie Gelfand about all things mastery: the journey, what Mastery means to us, and why the upcoming Essence of Mastery Summit will be worth attending.

Most of the time, you are taught that everything is about achieving the pinnacle of success in your profession. Because of this, you keep trying and achieving things. You achieve success, but how many of you really pause, and celebrate that success? You are so focused on achieving more that you forget how to be happy. More of that topics as Adam talks with Annie Gelfand, co-creator and Host of the...

Resistance is one of the most fundamental topics about leadership in a transformational sense. If you are talking about resistance in the context of leadership, it tends to be an annoying thing.   In a transformational context, your comfort zone is everything you are familiar. Your comfort zone is all of what you know how to work with it. Anytime you move out of your comfort zone, you will feel co...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Hans Phillips about the humans (ourselves) in the coaching profession, what they see, what they are challenged by, and so and so forth.  

One of the lessons you often hear is, "You better work hard" or "Make sure you are working hard, do hard work." As long as you are working hard, things are okay. With that belief, you went to create a life that is consistent with it. So you become very good at taking the step that requires hard work. You'll become very reliable on the grind. Listen as you will discover the impact of hard work in y...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Weekly Reviews, Families of Origin, Romantic Relationships, Resolving Team Conflicts, Discernment vs. Judgment, and more!

"I should know better. I should be better." All of us have a process, and what makes it so challenging to have grace for your process is that you have a belief and expectation that you should be able to do better than your current process. Your process is how you get from here to there. You struggle to have grace for other people's processes because you struggle to have grace for your own processe...

There are different subtle acts of leadership. These are ways you can bring leadership into the space that you may step past and what typically most of you do when you start to think about leadership - you look to the growth. Your fear points to you not being a leader or not stepping up. Therefore, you do big gestures that overcome it. One of the subtle forms of leadership is your breathing. By st...

The state that precedes "I can do everything myself" is "I can't do everything myself." In this state, you are reliant on other people and you are seeking expertise from others. That is a challenging place for leadership because it's hard for you to step forward as a leader if you don't trust yourself. You look outside of yourself and look to other people as experts.  The transition from that stag...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Feminine and Masculine polarity, and Divinity.

Eighty-five percent of the coaching and teaching profession is well-intentioned by diluted and not that potent. The bulk of training in the coaching profession follows the traditional model that is more educational and informational. Elementary school, high school, university, or post-secondary education and certification programs are all offered inside the informational or educational model.  Tha...

Transformation is a shift into the unknown. If you think you are doing a transformation, but if you only do better than what you already know, that's unlikely to be a transformation. As you shift into that unknown, fear shows up, and that's when resistance starts to step in. Your resistance or ego are things you already know, that becomes a habitual, automatic pattern behind your consciousness des...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as The Cruelty of our Obliviousness, Finding Grace when it's Hardest, Turning Worry and Anxiety into Joy, Being Acknowledged and Receiving Love, Being Okay with Not Getting, Working with therapeutic issues, Working within Religious Beliefs, and more!

Most of you get to the point where you are frustrated with the results you are creating, and you want the big game, big projects, and more inspired teams. When you get to this point, you start to feel frustrated with your clients, projects, and team. You always hear phrases like, "This person can't play on the team," or "I need to aim toward a high-class client." Over time, what starts to happen i...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Subconscious negative beliefs, finding direction, Professional athletes, Those that lack empathy, Vulnerability hangovers, and more .

"What advice would you give yourself ten years ago from here?"   Have you heard this question? It's tempting to answer that you would go back and tell yourself this and that. The truth is, it just shows that you are not trusting your path. You are holding that there is a different way this could have or should have unfolded if only for these circumstances being different the next time through. The...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Getting what you want, Reading energy, Testimonials, Leadership blocking your leadership, and more .