The Transformational Leader

The heartbreak of leadership is a function of the fact that, as a leader, your job is to have a little more altitude than those whose leadership you are developing. Altitude is the ability to see a little bit more of the picture, like a coach, than the players on the court can. With this altitude, the leader can see a little bit more of a bigger picture. As a leader, you will be able to see someth...

Conversation for transformation and conversation for survival are two important distinct conversations valuable when leading, coaching, and supporting someone. In this episode, we will see the distinctions between these two types of conversations. Some distinctions include conversation for transformation is different from our default conversation or the conversation we operate regularly in our dai...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is live coaching Laura Camacho, around the topic of how to make more money without working harder, and all of the layers that are at play around this topic.

There are two types of investment for yourself. The first type is where you make an investment that does not cost you much financially and is not of too much concern. This type of investment is common for most people. But what happens when you invest in something you couldn't afford to fail? This is the type of investment that arrests you. In this episode, we will talk about the ontology of invest...

If you ask people who are high performers how they experience disappointment, they will tell you that they don't have a lot of disappointment in their life. Disappointments are uncommon for these people. What is going on is that people learn to perform and put out some excellent work, and they constantly try to outrun the specter of disappointment for themselves and other people. There is a patter...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, we talked about the Ontology of Patterns, the nature of a pattern, and how we stay stuck.  The nature of a pattern is that over time, we do something and are rewarded for it. We learn a particular set of thoughts and beliefs, and we learn to take a specific set of actions from those thoughts and beliefs. We are rewarded for those actions. As time goe...

On this week's mid-week episode, Adam is breaking down all things related to the topic of Empathy. You'll hear him discuss What is in the way of our empathy, How empathy is related to our aging process, How empathy can provide access to our own blindspots, What the consequences of opening our heart empathetically are, and more.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the danger of the typing model. The trouble with the typing systems is that they are ostensibly in service of helping people transform and grow, but what they do is diminish possibility. They take it off the table because if you relate to yourself as low emotionality, you will not bother investing that much time in it. You lea...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney talks about the Ontology of Indecision.  If you find yourself indecisive, what often happens is you conclude "That's just the way I am, I am indecisive." It doesn't give you any other options but to label yourself indecisive. Looking at it ontologically, we are looking at how this way of being comes to be and discern the depth of being av...

In this week's episode of The Transformational Leader by Adam Quiney, we will talk about the interaction of ontology and other models. It is the ontological layer and how it interacts with various models.  Once you work with people ontologically, it's not so much about a model as it is about cultivating in ourselves, the ability to deeply feel, see, listen, and speak to someone who is being below...

The ego has one straightforward job. It is to keep you safe by keeping you where you are. It is not geographically keeping you where you are, but it's keeping you surrounded by circumstances and experiences on how you currently know them. It keeps you playing the game that you are already playing. The ego allows us to move forward or backward. It provides two directions, and they seem radically di...

Growing up, we learn of particular ways to survive our circumstances. When we reach the capacity of willingness to keep doing the stuff or experience a growing level of resentment or frustration, external circumstances will occur to us like they are the issue.  We are fixated on the issue that we can see externally. We aren't aware that what we see is a mirror or reflection of ourselves projected...

There is a tremendous amount of proximity between cults and leadership.  In this episode of The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney, he talks about the NXIVM cult and other cults. NXIVM is a cult led by convicted racketeer and sex offender Keith Raniere. It started as a group called "Executive Success Program" that taught a lot of ontological work. You will learn about the concerning facts of...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney dives deep into the ontology of the legal profession. The starting point for the legal profession is that people get into this profession with a really big heart and brain. People want to make a difference in the world, care so much about it, and want to see positive things happen. They also have brilliant minds and are very good at strat...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, you will learn about the ontology of taking time off. What does it mean to take time off? Going on vacation is an interesting practice because when you go on a vacation, you are halting what you regularly do. With this, you are permitting yourself to do something different. When you go on vacation, what you are doing is you are ultimately creating a...

On this week's mid-week episode, for Part 4 of Adam's series on Ontological Leadership. In this episode, Adam will be teaching about the concept of context, which is arguably your most powerful tool in deepening your leadership and those you lead. He'll explain how our beliefs create our reality, and then how our reality reinforces and reifies our beliefs. 

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney is on a series of discussions about the energetic laws. Today, he discussed Energetic Law #6: "Love and power." The energetic law of love and power states that your power as a leader is proportional to the amount of love you can hold. The lesser the capacity to express and allow love, the lesser the capacity to express and allow power. Th...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam continues his discussion on Ontological Leadership, and shares how our context or lens for someone is determinative of our capacity to lead them.

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, Adam Quiney will open a series of discussions about the energetic laws. These laws are things that you have spiritual or folk wisdom that leads to them.  Today, Adam discussed Energetic Law #5: "That which you resist, persists." The wisdom that follows this energetic law is that if you can let something be, it will let you be. This fifth law provides...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses leadership through the lens of Ontology, specifically focusing on How You Ended up the Way You are. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of yourself, and those you lead, how to lead in a way that is transformational in scope.

Auto-immune diseases are diseases that are of many different varieties. It includes lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and more. In this episode, we will look at auto-immune disease ontologically or its way of being.  Our immune system protects us from foreign objects that can cause us harm. When someone has an auto-immune disease, what is happening is that the system is attacking itsel...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam begins his discussion on Ontological Leadership, so that you can cut through the noise of ordinary leadership and lead transformationally.

In this episode, we will talk about the ontology of the nursing profession. We will discuss what is happening in the profession and how we can change it up and go differently. In the medical profession, especially in the nursing profession, we see a lot of the qualities of generosity and contribution. A lot of people have a great deal of quality of generosity or contribution. These are people for...

Typically, micromanaging is when you have someone good with the tools, and they move to a higher position. Once they move to a position where they are managing other people and their job is to support people to do their work, they have a degree of derivation or removal from the issue they have. Later, they delegate stuff and tell you what you need to do more or ask if you have done it every 30 sec...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader, we talked about confidence. How does a leader gain confidence? A lot of leaders would relate to themselves as having confidence. What we get is a lack of self-trust and confidence. What a leader needs is a deeper level of confidence. A level of confidence that we call sovereignty. The ability to let feedback in and find our true north in the midst of...