The Transformational Leader

Did you ever think that you could fully commit to be a better leader if only your superior is not in the way? Or you can be able to showcase your leadership effectively but you're being hampered by someone above you? But, stepping into the being of a leader has nothing to do with them changing in any way. Leading up starts with us taking responsibility and not letting ourselves off the hook and we...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses topics including forcing the breakthrough versus allowing it, generating momentum as an entrepreneur and mapping out spontaneity.

You may have heard the aphorism "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room" a hundred of times. It does sound like empowering wisdom that should be shared to others but I would like to believe otherwise. In today's conversation, we would tackle this famous saying as we dissect this phrase down and would look at how brilliance - as a quality of being - creates this experie...

Being committed to transformational growth and stepping beyond your own limitations means that you'll have to work closely with your possibilities and most especially your fears. Our fears will always resurface in new ways and will always be there at every step of the journey. Today's conversation will not be about how you can overcome your fears but rather how you can practice keeping a good rela...

We can't identify our own blindspots. We may have tried to explore it but let's admit it, we can't see what we're blinded to so we have to let go of that belief that we can do it all by ourselves. As a sequel to last week's episode, I'll discuss what you can do to discover your blindspots and why you should be responsible for them. We'll continue our conversation on blindspots as I'll share how yo...

The need to identify and understand our blindspots in order to develop our leadership further is natural. We also tend to struggle to accept the idea once we learned our blindspots and that's also normal as we are indeed blind to our weak points. In today's conversation, we'll discover your blindspots by knowing how it gets created in the first place. I'll discuss why our blindspots are a function...

Everyone has a certain philosophy to live by - their perception and beliefs on how they should act and show up with the world. Your worldview will be the one that will help deepen your capacity as a leader but will also be in the way of developing your leadership. In another episode of the Leadership Sandtrap series, I'd be tackling how your viewpoint is actually where the sandtrap lies. This conv...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discussed a myriad of topics, including creating from ambition and/or devotion, the reflex of competitiveness, and standing for people, and what it costs.

Being 100% responsible for the impact you have created is a struggle in itself. The reality is that leaders would always be responsible for the experience that they've unknowingly created. This episode focuses on bringing leadership conversations, and how being aware of your impact would create more power to bring change to you and to others!  In this episode, I'll discuss everything you need to k...

The need of feeling free normally results in resisting structure and limitations in our work that tends to lead into this leadership sandtrap. In this new episode of the Leadership Sandtrap series, it will focus on the need for freedom and how empowering structure doesn't destroy our freedom but actually helps in achieving it. I'll discuss how resisting structure doesn't benefit the leader and its...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam live coaches Anna Huwiler around cleaning up messes, coaching, and diving in deep together.

We tend to approach someone who we think understands us the most for assistance and support. As future transformational leaders, we should embrace the idea that working with diverse people than partnering with those who are almost similar to us is more efficient and this episode will tell you why! In this episode, I'll discuss why the philosophy of "fish trying to pull each other out of the water"...

More often than not, we neglect our own well-being as we prioritize our work more than anything else. What we don't realize is that there are always chances to improve ourselves and how neglecting it provides a domino effect on the team's work environment. In this episode, I'll provide you new opportunities to be more consciously aware of your well-being as we'll tackle how it provides a big impac...

Let's get one thing clear: transformational leadership is no walk in the park. It will require you to see things from different perspectives, sometimes from angles that might seem unconventional for most. With that said, in this episode, I'll tackle an integral component of transformative leadership that's a challenge for many to navigate—authenticity. What is authenticity really? How do you use i...

In today's episode, I'd be tackling something even the most brilliant of leaders have difficulty dealing with—acknowledging their role in the way people under them are showing up. Understandably, if something is wrong with the team, it's always easier to deal with the people and issues involved rather than examining your role as a leader in creating that clearing. If you want to feel more empowere...

Responsibility always comes hand-in-hand with leadership. But, responsibility has nothing to do with blame which is a common mistake for leaders that makes them resistant to growth. In this episode, the focus will be on growing your leadership by growing your responsibility. This episode will highlight the aftereffect of being under-responsible and being overly responsible, how responsibility is y...

Leaders tend to get attracted to external factors and thus get disempowered once it is gone. They were driven from outside motivation and not enrol on the possibility of getting motivated from within themselves. In this episode, the focus will be on differentiating attraction and enrolment, why attraction is a trap for leaders and coaches, and how enrolment helps you to be continuously driven. Thi...

In this episode, the topic at hand is on 'the leader as coach and coach as leader', a unique form of leadership and coaching and transformational in nature. This is a way for leaders to develop trust and create more followers. Along the topic its differences, similarities, and overlaps will be discussed. Discover your blind spots and embrace them as a leader. Do not miss this chance to learn how t...

In this episode, the focus will be on defining distinctions, what it is used for, and how it ends up getting used incorrectly. This episode will be full of notable insights as it will be a discussion on the foundation of distinction, the nature of transformation, and why transformational results are different from growth. It also explains how distinction in leadership is being misused: when it is...

In this episode, the focus will be on the need to teach, the struggles to trust, and the efforts you can make to make it work. This episode highlights how your actions and beliefs become your own reality and the nature of limiting beliefs. It also discusses why attachments are one of the major hindrances to build trust. Learn and define your role as an effective leader when it comes to releasing a...

In this episode, the focus will be on Feedback as a weapon and a shield for leaders and how to deal with it. As a side bit to this episode, the phenomenal program, The Forge courses, is plugged to the listeners. The training is expected to develop leaders as coaches and a coach who leads. It comes with a retreat somewhere awesome. It will indeed transform and change the life of those who will be j...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam live coaches Angela Philip around all things possibility, life, coaching, leadership and so much more.

In this episode, the focus will be on the Impact You Can't Get Present To as a leader. It is a discussion along with how your blindspots work and expanding your range as a leader. Also in this episode are these discussion points: What does the phrase the Impact You Can't Get Present To means?, What blindspots mean, what it does, and ways to get feedback, the distinction between leadership and ther...

How does a leader ideally complete things at a personal and professional aspect? A lot of things come to mind talking about it. In this episode, the focus will be on completing things as a leader. Thus, default examples of how a leader completes things and undistinguished ways for a leader to complete things will be discussed. Along with the topic, the following will also be included in the discus...

What does the phrase "You Have to Let It Come Up to Let It Go" mean? There will be concepts that go along with it, being a leader, especially on understanding anger and judgment and dealing with this as a leader. In this episode, a discussion will be done on the topic at hand -- what is it and what it means. Aside from that, there will be a discussion about the following: Addressing the warnings o...