This week I share a great conversation I had with Brenda Harrington. Brenda is the founder of Adaptive Leadership Strategies LLC, and the author of ACCESS DENIED: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination. As a Certified Executive Coach, she works with leaders globally across a variety of sectors to help them develop the professional habits needed for them to achieve their goals.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Trying to fit into an archetype not your own limits your impact
• The continuum between influence and authority
• The need to create a space of psychological safety for people to be confident to be their whole selves
• Gaining confidence by taking small steps into something new
• We have to move away from thinking of diversity, equity and inclusion as a tick-box exercise
• Companies need to hold people accountable for desired and expected behaviour
• Having  diversity does not automatically assume inclusion 
• Using story to get out ouf your own head and try different approaches
• Setting the right expectations for yourself
• Taking ownership and thinking strategically about what you have the power over to do differently

Weekly Challenge : Do something which makes you uncomfortable and find comfort in being uncomfortable

Power of Music : I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Links:

Brenda’s LinkedIN

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