The Transformational Leader

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!

In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney, whose profession involves selling relationships with people, introduced a new concept on how to learn to sell.  A lot of entrepreneurs end up being stuck in the idea of not having to feel the context and pain they have around rejection. They are no longer conscious of these rejections, so instead of creating a breakthrough in what...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with David Hardy about the parallels between functional neurology and ontology.

If you are someone who does a lot of speaking and wants to be able to bring people along with you, this is an exceptional skill to develop, leading people's listening. When we are leading someone's listening, most of the time, we have an understanding of what we want to do, and then we just begin to speak from that place. What often happens is that people sit there listening, and they are stuck wi...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest JoinMichèle Soregaroli, as they talk about all things related to living a fully-expressed life. Come join us.

In this episode, we will talk about politics. Politics is on the ontological side, which is the study and science of being. The being underneath the words that we say and do. Politics is a system by which every four years or so, is that there's an election. In that election, the public votes for whichever party or candidate runs for a specific position. Now, inside the system, the public votes and...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney discusses the ontology of reframing. He will briefly explain what is the ontological thing happening when we reframe. Reframing is about choosing how we want to relate to the circumstances of our lives. Most people frame the way they approach, feel about, and relate to life as it shows up.  What a lot of us want to do is figure out how to...

As a leader or coach, the time you are going to stand up for people to go beyond their comfort zone also means that some might get triggered and confronted. In short, you are going to piss or upset people. The only way we can ensure we never upset people is to keep ourselves quiet. Being upset is part of the abundance of a fully expressed life. In this episode, Adam Quiney tells you why being upse...

Today, Adam Quiney will be talking about one of the big breakthroughs that he had to create for himself along the way; it is about making 'The Path and A Path.'  'The Path vs A Path' is a fundamental trap of leadership. Most people into coaching and leadership are on the wrong side of the distinction between 'The Path' and 'A Path.' The nature of our human experience is that we are prone to arroga...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guests, Seth Drugatz and Maggie Buchana.  In this episode, they dive into exploring the topic of possibility.

Live from a retreat location in Costa Rica, Adam Quiney talks about one of the things they do at the start of the retreat which is establishing breakthroughs. In this episode, Adam revisits the concept of a breakthrough which is often a missed concept and poorly understood.  How do we make breakthroughs happen? What most people think about breakthroughs is the things that they will get or the tang...

The first stumbling block for most of us is that we get very caught off in facts. The facts will be the same, and we can do nothing about those.  Whatever story we tell ourselves, it will have an impact on our energy, motivation, and intentionality, and what we see is possible and impossible. The results we can create, the way we thrive or struggle in life, and the experience we have of life are a...