What is Leadership?

In conversation with Leslie Williams, Master Certified Integral Coach, and President of LeaderShift Consulting, a global executive coaching practice. Leslie works with leaders who see their own development as the next step to greater impact and are working on behalf of social/global good. We explore the concept of aliveness as power, wellbeing as foundational for sustaining multigenerational missi...

In dialgoue with Kelly Diels, Feminist educator, writer and coach, who brings fierce insight and strategy to what it means to bake justice into your business practices. Chela and Kelly look at the ways that we all exist in and perpetuate the culture around us, and where we have influence that can be leveraged for justice. This includes finding alternate business practices that allow us to thrive a...

In dialogue with Sebene Selassie, teacher, author and speaker who explores belonging and identity, deep diving into these topics in her forthcoming book, You Belong. Sebene offers up paradoxes for us to grapple with, inviting a reckoning with culturally created separateness and the ultimate truth of our belonging. Sebene and Chela explore many themes of belonging including the pathology of product...

In dialogue with Rachael Maddox, trauma resolution educator, author, coach and guide. Chela and Rachael jam on domination and control versus co-creation and adaptability, hierarchy and its role inside of cooperation. Examine links between leadership and white supremacy, anti-Racism work, how to take care of yourself without bypassing, while learning about leadership from others. Explore what it ta...

Welcome to the very first episode of What is Leadership?! Chela invites you into the ongoing conversation that this podcast is initiating. She begins by asking questions she finds daunting, unanswerable even, the questions guiding her leadership, unique contributions and this podcast. Exploring how stories embed themselves into identities and approaches to leadership, she asks how we may tell co-e...

What do you think of when you hear the word 'leadership'? Who do you picture when you see a leader? Announcing the August launch of my new podcast What is Leadership , where we explore this very question. It's an invitation into a conversation about how we are creating a new world while navigating new and unknown territory. This is a claim that leadership is not just for those who wield power or t...