The Transformational Leader

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...

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...