The Transformational Leader

The advice that we hear non-stop is that you need to be authentic to be a leader. Most people are frustrated because they are authentic to the team, yet it is still not working. There are stages of authenticity a leader walks through. The first stage is when you focus on making everyone around you feel okay. The second stage is you go from keeping yourself to allowing it to be spoken out loud. At...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses what's next for the Live Show, the process of developing leadership, and more!

The leader needs to be humble. We love that as a concept, but what we do is we try to conduct ourselves in a way that we deem humble to avoid being humbled.  The irony is that people will talk about how important it is to be humble as a leader. But then, we are actively taking every possible step to avoid the experience of being humbled. Being humbled is not an easy experience. To be humbled, we m...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses The Art of Possibility, Slowing down and being with our/other's process, Is resistance necessary?, Podcast lessons and takeaways, and more!

Fear is the earliest emotional state. It has been with us from the very beginning. It is essential for your survival and is the primary mechanism by which you've arrived at this point in your life. The role of fear is very simple: It is to do whatever you must do to ensure that you stay in the realm that you are completely comfortable in and familiar with.  One of the ways that fear is effective i...

"I made a mistake, and I'm never going to make that mistake again. I will do my best so that mistake never again occurs." These are the words we say when we make a mistake.  Most of the time, we force ourselves to be a master of something that we don't want to be. When that ability to perform comes from our hearts, and we just love doing it and wanting to be better, that is a beautiful thing. But...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam live coaches special guest Mike Dankert about talking about his thoughts and feelings with his partner.

How do we do Intensive? The underlying format of the Intensive is kind of less important. Most of the time, people are often curious about the curriculum because they are comparing it with what others offer. With an informational experience, the common question is, do you already know this or not? And if you don't already know this, then there is something you can learn. That is very different fro...

Seeing the path versus seeing a path is one of the more fundamental traps we fall into when we are engaging in the process of developing someone's leadership, coaching someone, and supporting someone.  It often happens in friendships, family relationships, romantic relationships, and parent-child relationships. It is a product of a desire to help someone along their path.  You are watching them wa...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses Beneficial discomfort vs. harmful, Clients hiring your mentors/peers, Not making everything in your business about you, Leading yourself behind the scenes when no one is watching, Helping people along their path vs. their own process, Whatever spicy takes comes up in the moment, and more!

We are now on the last part of Adam Quiney's series, 'Anatomy of a Retreat.' He talks about completion. In most events, webinars, sessions, or ceremonies, people end with a small celebration or an afterglow. There's not a lot of care put into the notion of completion. When we talk about the notion of being complete, it is sort of having no leftover energy. No open loops of energy around something....

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses Why bother coming from your essence?, Bringing together different personality types, Leading through breakdowns, The elimination of desire, Working with narcissistic leadership, Leadership of Self, Leading wet noodles, Leadership consent and more!

With an educational retreat, the curriculum is the utmost priority. Without that, there is not much happening. That is how most of the webinars, workshops, and retreats operate.    In a retreat where the priority is transformation, the curriculum is secondary to that. They are using tools and techniques, new concepts, and exercises that people went through.   For Adam Quiney, whatever is going on...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses Navigating your hobbies and your relationship, Benevolent manipulation, Selling what you do, How transformation unfolds, IFS and other modalities, How and when to compromise, Toxic goals vs. Authentic desire, and more.

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler did horrible things and ultimately was a horrible person.    Adam's challenge question for this episode is, "How would you coach Hitler?"   The starting point for working with anyone is to see the light in the face of whatever is currently showing up at the moment.    In this episode, Adam...

In the second episode of the Anatomy of a Retreat by Adam Quiney, he discussed the topic 'Finalizing with the Leadership Team.' He talks about what happens during the retreat proper and the nature of the transformational container.   The nature of a transformational container is that it almost doesn't matter what conversation you are having. If you are holding a container transformationally, you a...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam live coaches special guest Sherry Shannon-Vanstone around funding for her company.

Adam Quiney, who is fresh from Costa Rica, will discuss things about a transformational retreat. In this episode of The Transformational Leader, you will learn about the things that are required to lead a transformational retreat and the idea of what goes into causing transformation. The transformational process isn't really about teaching. Teaching doesn't cause transformation, teaching causes ed...

Adam Quiney covered two topics in this episode of The Transformational Leader. These two topics have a lot of commonalities. The questions that, "When do I no longer need coaching?" and a feeling that some people have that "Coaching is a cult."  No one needs coaching. Not a single person needs a coach. As soon as you impose this idea upon them that they need a coach, it's going to be harder for th...

In this episode of The Transformational Leader with Adam Quiney, he talks about narcissism. The trait of narcissism. It is what people are referring to when they say, "Oh, he was a narcissist." Typically, one of the ways that this trait shows up is when someone always talks about themselves or someone who is always trying to give recognition to themselves. In addition, these are the people who ste...

How you relate to life is just like an event that has happened, and there's nothing you can do about that event. It's either good or bad.  You are not aware of what's going on below the surface of our immediacy and emotionality. Because you don't have access below that, you end up being a victim of that fact. Anything that you can't have any control over, you are a victim of it.  The truth is, the...

While unknown to many, vulnerability is an integral ingredient in any transformational leadership. When you as a leader is not willing to be vulnerable, you cannot expect to create any transformation. And since you also can't model vulnerability for others, you won't be able to encourage them to be vulnerable as well. While your inability to be vulnerable will not destroy your leadership, it will...

While trust is an integral part of powerful leaderships, many leaders (including the smartest people in the room) tend to get it wrong. In fact, many leaders primarily trust only themselves. So what happens is they micromanage everything and find it really hard to delegate. The result? They end up exhausted, burdened, and overwhelmed. So how do you as a leader learn to trust others? And what happe...

To lead powerfully, it is crucial that you are able to allow your emotional range to just be and exist while still being mindful of its impact on your leadership and the people under you. Understandably, this is no easy feat. After all, most people's emotional range is limited, even powerful leaders. So how do you get responsible for your emotional range? What are the challenges you're likely to e...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses Trust vs. Committed Action, Competition, Selling what you do, Coaching couples, and more!