The Transformational Leader

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a discussion about the trap of "I know what I need to do, I just need to do it", as well as ontology, dancing and leadership.

Most people market coaching like they're selling windshield wipers; quick, generic, and low trust. But transformational work doesn't work that way. In this episode of The Transformational Leader, we dive into why coaching is a relationship-based business and not a sales-based one. We'll explore how to shift from lead generation to genuine service, and why trust and patience create clients. If you...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney along with his wife and partner in this work, Bay, for an honest conversation about transformation - what it truly looks like, the very real challenges, and the immense rewards on the other side. They'll also dive into The Forge (https://evergrowthcoaching.com/the-forge/), their signature container designed to support people in doing this deep, lif...

Most people say they want transformation, but when it's time to take action, resistance shows up. In this episode, Adam Quiney explores why the path to real change always feels tilted against us, and how our strategies to avoid discomfort often make perfect sense but keep us stuck. Listen as we explore the hidden role fear plays, why you can't outrun it, and what it takes to move forward. If you'r...

Accountability: a common term yet essential for a company and leader. But really, what does it means for leaders, and how can it be developed? What does it mean if someone is held accountable? Let's find out. In this episode, the talk will focus on accountability and developing it in your people -- what accountability is, the relationship towards it and people, what we think of when we have to dev...

Today's show opens up a new series called Leadership Sandtrap. These are ways to get people to show up in their leadership, as the sticky quicksand traps, providing short-term results, compelling for leaders or those practicing leadership. These short-term results make it hard to reflect on what they lack or their breakdown or next-edge leadership, brought about by the fear of what they created wh...

While the zone of genius seems like a straightforward thing, there's more to it than meets the eye. For instance, it's easy to mistake your zone of excellence for your zone of genius. What occurs when this happens? For starters, you get to work more and more with whatever it is that you're already comfortable with. This means you are stuck. There is no expansion. So how do you go about stepping in...

In most cases, the conversations people have with each other revolve around content as opposed to context. Simply put, context is what lies beneath the content. Most people spot the content but miss the context. In this episode, I'll tackle what context really is, how to spot it, and why it is challenging to create any significant shift when you can't see it. I'll also tackle how it impacts your t...

While very subtle, there is a distinction between leadership and the mere performance of leadership. Most people want to do leadership right, they want to look good, do right, and be inspiring as leaders. However, many don't know the distinction between the two. In this episode, I'll discuss how one is different from the other and how it impacts both your leadership and personal life. If you want...

A gradient is the steepness with which we confront you and present whatever work there is for you to do. It's like going into a gym and picking up a 6,000-pound weight. That rate is going to be a high gradient for your muscles to adapt to, while a low-pound weight might be too low of a gradient. In transformational work, we seek to find the gradient that is going to support you. In this thought-pr...

An ontological leader can bring the being of a leader to whatever they are doing. One of the things that an ontological leader does is to perpetually be at choice for what is happening. What we mean by we are choice is that we are choosing what is going on, which allows us to be empowered by what we are up to. In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney dives into the profound conc...

It is an exciting episode to get to know more about Adam Quiney. Today, he shared his story of how he came to be here, his journey through transformation and ontological work, and how he arrived at this point. Adam Quiney as a kid loves to read and the library represents freedom to him. He is very reliable in reading things that will make him better about things. This sets him off on a path early...

Just listen. Why is it important to listen? If you ever take on any recovery work, you'll notice a lot of what makes that so potent, which is simply that people listen. You share, they thank you for your share, they listen, and then they move on.  In this episode, Adam Quiney narrated a scenario he witnessed when a person didn't get the opportunity to feel heard in any of this. What they've got wa...

Humans are incredibly adaptive and tolerant. We are very reliable just like a frog who sits in hot boiling water slowly but surely dying. We can tolerate things and as we tolerate them more, they just slowly shift and become our baseline. It's not until there's an acute moment in our lives that people reach out and ask for support.  This is related to the subject of the regression towards the mean...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a powerful live coaching conversation with Ral West. Ral , an accomplished entrepreneur from Alaska, has built several businesses and is now launching an exciting new mastermind. In this episode, Adam and Ral explore a surprising realization: sometimes, what looks like a gap in our growth or goals simply isn't there. Rather than jumping in to o...

Have you heard of people who complain about people complaining? Why do people complain? In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney distinguished the three categories of people in terms of complaining:  The first group is those who don't care about things. Sometimes they complain, and sometimes they don't.  The next category is those people who complain about stuff.  The third cate...

When you are presented with someone who is boring, the first thing that happens is that you want to stop talking and lose interest in them. You start to turn your attention elsewhere and move away. Therefore, one of the consequences of being boring is that it turns people off to them. You have to ask these questions: Why would someone choose to become boring? Why would someone want me to look past...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney hosts a Live Coaching and Feedback Demonstration with Mounica Veggelam and her client, Brian Piper.

What does it mean to stand? The stand is not a much-talked-about topic in leadership conversations. The art of standing is something that we learn not from a didactic or informational context, or just by knowing. It's more like about riding a bike. The way stand is best learned by having yourself stood for, and by getting to practice standing for people. By this, you get to see the internal experi...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney discusses Theory vs. Practice.  

When people come into coaching or getting into leadership conversation, the starting point is a question of "What do you want to do?" One of the most common things leadership coaches hear is that people want to see their blind spots. The reason that being eager to see your blind spot is problematic is that inquiry allows you to avoid putting any skin in the game.  Listen as Adam Quiney talks about...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the ontology of the empath. What does it mean to be an empath? The idea of the empath has become popular in the last 10 years. It is described as someone with a heightened ability to feel what others are feeling. Society has dismissed or bullied this trait in favor of a more emotionally detached and masculine approach. Listen...

Quiet quitting is when employees disengage and leave without a fuss. Employees seem fine on the surface and everything is good, then suddenly they disengage and leave. Leaders in this situation are often left feeling frustrated and powerless.  In this episode, Adam Quiney dives into the ontology of quiet quitting. What is going on with quiet quitting and what is happening below the surface? Listen...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, we will get to know Donald Trump. Yes, you read it right. We get to know Trump on the ontological level, the service of addressing being rather than doing, being able to see things at a deeper level than just what we are doing on the surface and understanding things with a little bit more (0:22) depth and clarity. Everyone's favorite person at this p...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam Quiney discusses The Ontology of Play in High-Stakes Arenas, The Unjust Nature of Transformational Work, The Ontology of Readiness, Soft Power in Leadership, The Ontology of Motivation, The Ontology of Blame,  The Art of Unlearning, and more!