The Transformational Leader

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest, Hans Phillips.  In this episode, they dive into talking about all things life, leadership and everything in between.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about practicing the fact that you won't always get things right. He also talks about working with the fact that you are not going to get something right, and why not getting it right actually supports you in transforming. Usually, early on, people will explore things that they want to try and commit to move their lives forward and...

What a great opening statement for 2025! In the first episode of the Transformational Leader for this year, Adam Quiney talks about this essential aspect of your journey in leadership. The journey of developing yourself as a leader through the experience of being with someone whose leadership is genuinely something they've worked on and spent time honing. When you work with a leader who has been m...

Simply put, committing to something greater than yourself means having a mission, purpose, and commitment that goes beyond your own human contrivances. However, most people tend to make commitments from their internal state—their moods, feelings, and what their present to at the moment. While not committing to something greater than yourself can seem harmless, it can actually do significant harm....

In this episode, I'll dive deep into the concept of polarity and how it can show up in relationships including your leadership. The ability to distinguish between the 2 energies—the masculine and feminine—can give you a clear idea of how to lead in a way that creates polarity. How do you distinguish and embody both aspects so it benefits your leadership? How can you make awareness of this concept...

To create a truly transformational leadership, you need to have access to new possibilities. Distinctions are tools that can give you access to new possibilities. In addition, distinctions will also allow you to cut through all the thought and make a decision right away as opposed to wasting time analysing things. In this episode, I'll talk about 5 distinctions that will help you lead and how you...

While unfortunate to note, many people (including powerful leaders), assume not honouring their word is harmless. However, if truth be told, not keeping your word has a significant impact not only in your life but in your leadership as well. When you don't honour and keep your word, you end up losing people's trust both in you as a person and as a leader. So what makes honouring your word challeng...

There are three kinds of conversations that we usually see in coaching and leadership. These are neutral conversations, facilitative conversations, and transformational conversations. Transformational conversations are the type of conversation that most people get into coaching for. It is more of seeing your blind spots. Inside a transformational conversation, we are entering into the context that...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a conversation on Resistance —the hidden force that holds us back from our next level of leadership. Tune in now to explore how resistance shows up, its impact, and strategies for transformation.

Do you ever find that e-mails are overwhelming? Do you ever find yourself with a never-ending list of things to do? This system will help you manage that! It is an approach designed to help you stay on top of these tasks.  In this episode, Adam Quiney talks about The Weekly Review. The Weekly Review is a core part of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology created by productivity consultant Davi...

On this week's mid-week episode, join Adam Quiney for a very special conversation with special guest, Kraye Grymonnt.  In this episode, they dive into talking about all things ontology.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney distinguishes between trusting yourself versus being impenetrable. It is important to see the distinction between these two because they can look similar on the surface. A lot of leaders in the world believe that they are showing signs of trusting themselves. But the reality is that they are showing up in a particular way that is actually...

Procrastination is something that most of us have a particular context around, and that context around procrastination is that it is like a problem we have. Statements like, "I just need to overcome my procrastination." What we do is create a separate entity called procrastination that we have.  The idea here about procrastination is that it is simply a form of resistance. There are a million reas...

In this episode, Adam Quiney talks about the ontology of being always right.   Anytime you've been around a leader who always got the answer or is always right, that's the ontology or the way of being that we are going to talk about. It is a way of being that is automatic and unconscious.   The way of being of being right. These are the leaders that if you volunteer something, they are already awa...

How to catch and reflect on someone's impact? How to provide feedback? It is a big issue in leadership not only because a lot of people simply avoid providing feedback but the other thing that happens is that people give feedback, but it does not land. The impact someone is having is the way how they are showing up, and what they are doing lands on other people. We are continually having our impac...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is discussing two topics provided by our community: 1. How to support clients through recognizing patterns in their life, Navigating difficult conversations with colleagues, and taking yourself out of coaching and being fully present with the client (i.e., not leading them based on your own "stuff.") and 2. Relationship with the unknown. Whether it is somethin...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the metaphors of transformation. This episode will help you understand why transformation is challenging and what we are working with, in terms of our human nature when we are up against that. Human nature is to experience a problem and want to solve it. That's what humans do. The trouble is we can't see with much altitude in...

Today, Adam Quiney shared some of the things he noticed and learned from the Intensive. The intention is to create breakthroughs not just for those who attended but also for Adam and the team. Most people see a breakthrough as an insight. The meaning of breakthrough, in Adam and his team's lenses, is access to a new way of being that was previously unavailable while a person's circumstances remain...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is live coaching Amy Armstrong, around distinguishing around where she began versus where she is now, in addition to concepts about boundaries, breakdowns and breakthroughs.

If you had a bad start to the day, you are wrapped up in the story of what a shitty day is. As you go with the rest of the day, you will look at things to justify that it is indeed a shitty day. Generating the event in yourself how you want to experience it requires some energetic input.  Generating as a leader is the act of choosing how we will be and showing up in alignment with that. It sounds...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is live coaching Kacie Martin, around the process of creating Possibility, offering practical insights you can apply to your own leadership journey. Don't miss this chance to see transformation in action!

If you've ever found yourself in a situation where you do a lot of research and try to get the answer but can never seem to find it, this episode is for you! As a child, we are taught to trust our paths and learn by failing. We understand how to move through life by doing crazy stuff.  As we age, we will meet people who want to keep an eye on our future and will help us grow on how most people are...

"My life is already super busy and I have very few precious resources to manage time to practice." Practice is a concept that gets used a lot in coaching, sports and meditation. It comes into play whenever there is something in life that we want to improve, change, shift and develop in ourselves. Before we go to practice, this is not typically our default way of approaching stuff especially when i...

In the concluding part of The Heartbreak of Leadership series, we will discuss a person who doesn't know where to stand in their leadership process. To summarize our previous episodes, in Part 1, we talked about the heartbreak of leadership from your perspective as a leader standing for the people you are leading. In the second part, we talked about the experience of developing your leadership and...

In the previous episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the heartbreak of leadership. The heartbreak of leadership occurs as you are leading someone, and they turn against you, fight with you, and argue with you. Today, we will look at the other angle. We can't see the new dimension. All we can do is pull whenever someone is trying to help us see beyond our current worldvie...