The Transformational Leader

When you take something new, you have the desire to make something happen, resistance shows up. If you try to wake up early in the morning, connect more openly with people, or meditate, all of these might drive up some of your resistance.  Transformation isn't something you can make happen on your own because we will continue to operate inside the circle that you operate in. Your thoughts, your be...

Transformation always starts with awareness. One of the most essential practices in transformational work is to notice the start that you do. Most of the time, it is challenging to distinguish that you create a world designed to avoid what you don't want. Most of you are creating lives that are a function of what you don't want rather than lives that are a function of your hearts and desires. Any...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses What is showing up vs. What you want, Completion, Coaching in a vacuum, 1-on-1 vs Group Work and more.

How did Adam Quinney get caught in "How?" When your vision and mission have grown, there is a demand to do something. Looking for what's next is scary because there is the beauty of what is created and the fear that if you change something, you could screw up, and then you can't go back. When you create a rough vision of good things to happen, you get that wide, open grassy field of possibility. N...

"How do you know you are not just getting addictive?" It is a common question for transformational coaching. The pattern of addiction is one where you take or engage in something and gives you this momentary experience of feeling better and back down to your same baseline. Getting high in transformational work like coaches or workshops is common because the experience it creates is often so powerf...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam is joined by special guest Ruth Arnott, a member of The Forge 2022 leadership team and the first registrant for the Forge 2024 (that's right, she's already registered for the year after this one), as they jam on challenges, difficulties, why we resist transformation and more.

You are predisposed to be like, "This is for someone other than me." Why? Because our society is ironically opposed to the notion of victimhood. This quality is inherited by all of us. There is no way to escape this, and every one of you falls into victimhood.  How do you support people that are in a victim mindset? They are saying they want something, but they are at the effect. You look to someo...

What is deep work? Some people call this "the work of being." These are like asking questions that feel deep or go beyond the surface of one's self. Deep work might cause trouble for you as a leader. It is because deep work can become very masturbatory. It can become very insight-driven and feels good because it gives you insight. The trouble here is it's like going to a cave and meditating by you...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses Shadow work and Ontology, Career Coaching, Supporting Executive Leadership, Bringing out the best in our children, Arguing for our limitations, AI and the future of humanity (keeping it light), The art of distinguishing and more!

"I'm sick of being a leader for people." That expression shows how you are mistaking leadership as just inspiring other people, motivating other people, and getting other people to do stuff.  You might feel exhausted if you do a lot of work to inspire others. You always try to put a lot of effort into encouraging them. Instead of doing much to inspire others with your work, why not become a leader...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses What coaches do that hurt, more than help their clients, Supporting those in victimhood, Doing the deep work, Tony Robbins, Tools, Approaches, NLP and transformation, The Art of Distinguishing and the Problem with the Problem and more!

We have an amazing guest for The Transformational Leader today! It is no other than the Executive Coach, Lord Adam Quiney! Jason Feltman from Impact and Freedom talked with Lord Adam as he shared his great background on how he became a coach and some pain he had gone through. Adam worked for five years as a software developer and project manager. In that span of years, he became really good at man...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Allison Garner about her transformation, including the leadership team on the Forge.

Transformational leadership involves expanding and increasing one's capability to be with whatever is showing up. However, this is often hindered by one's tendency to stop doing something as soon as it is brought to their attention. While not everyone can see it as it actually is, the desire to "stop doing it" is one of the early roadblocks to growth. What impact will this have on your leadership?...

While assessment tools give leaders the opportunity to get an insight into how they (and others) are, how they operate, their default tendencies, and what might be getting in their leaderships, it also has major downsides. For starters, they can also provide bottlenecks and clogs when you as a leader is not actively doing your own work. Also, while it can help conveniently categorise people, asses...

Feedback is an integral part of being a leader. While providing and receiving feedback can seem straightforward, there is actually more to it than meets the eye. Why? People have different relationships to feedback. And that relationship they provide and receive feedback. This can be extra challenging if you're a leader since you have to be aware of your relationship with feedback. Otherwise, you...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Jana Hendrickson about her transformational journey, the hardships, the things that haven't made sense, and how breakthroughs look.

When something is not working, the human tendency is to do the opposite. This tendency is present in even the most powerful of leaders. However, when you as a leader fail to recognise this tendency in yourself, you won't be able to get the help you need so you can see beyond what is in front of you. In addition, you can offer solutions that seem to work but in reality, won't really accomplish the...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews America Paz about ontology, her journey through the Forge, and how leadership looks in theory vs. how it feels in practice. 

At first glance, leadership and coaching can appear one and the same. However, nothing can be farther from the truth. In fact, leaders who use coaching techniques can run into problems because coaching and leadership are two different things. For starters, coaching is totally client driven while leadership entails supporting a colleague or client to take on a task within the context of the declare...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Andy Hite about his own transformational journey, his work with The Forge, and how leadership has actually been experienced versus his expectations.

You go to workshops and training, and you bring somebody to talk to your team. At first, you become super excited and inspired, but as time goes on, you become more disillusioned. You start to feel that there is no transformation.  You go from initial motivation to inspiration, stagnation, disillusionment, and eventually to resignation. Once you hit the resignation point, it is hard motivating you...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam talks with special guest Annie Gelfand about all things mastery: the journey, what Mastery means to us, and why the upcoming Essence of Mastery Summit will be worth attending.

Most of the time, you are taught that everything is about achieving the pinnacle of success in your profession. Because of this, you keep trying and achieving things. You achieve success, but how many of you really pause, and celebrate that success? You are so focused on achieving more that you forget how to be happy. More of that topics as Adam talks with Annie Gelfand, co-creator and Host of the...

Resistance is one of the most fundamental topics about leadership in a transformational sense. If you are talking about resistance in the context of leadership, it tends to be an annoying thing.   In a transformational context, your comfort zone is everything you are familiar. Your comfort zone is all of what you know how to work with it. Anytime you move out of your comfort zone, you will feel co...