Breeding Optimism to Stir Change
Fiona Macaulay
Social Serial Entrepreneur, Professor, and Founder – WILD
About Fiona
Fiona Macaulay works at the intersection of innovation, leadership, and global development. She’s a serial social entrepreneur, educator, and field-builder committed to helping strong leaders become even stronger, and great organizations become event greater. Fiona founded WILD – the Women Innovators and Leaders Development Network- to support global development sector leaders to scale their impact, and thrive. WILD convenes the annual Women in Global Development Leadership Forum. The first its kind, this event is at the hub of a movement to increase women’s leadership, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our sector. In the academic world, Fiona is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where she also runs a leadership clinic for MBA students and serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to mentor and coach social innovators and leaders across campus. Fiona is an active member of the Board of Governors for Junior Achievement Worldwide and a past Board Chair for CAMFED USA Foundation.
Take home these learnings
1) Lessons from transformations for leadership
2) How to stay with optimism during times of change?
3) The new currency that creates communities?
4) How to build and bring communities together?
Episode Transcript:
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Dr. Marilyn Atkinson
Committing to your Own Purpose
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Dr. Marilyn Atkinson
Founder and President of Erickson Coaching International
About Marilyn
Marilyn Atkinson is the founder of Erickson Coaching International and the originator of a well-known, comprehensive, Solution-Focused, and Outcome-Oriented Coaching model. Her model has actively contributed to the emergence and expansion of Solution-Focused Psychology, and the development of Meta Program Analysis for effective hiring and managerial approaches worldwide.
As an Industrial Psychologist, she has honed Solution-Focused methods for multiple kinds of corporate engagements, making the tools effective and easy for managers to use. Marilyn has been a dedicated follower of Milton Erickson for decades and gave his name to Erickson Coaching International in 1985.
For the past ten years, she has been developing highly effective and specialized coach training programs (ICF ACTP-accredited The Art & Science of Coaching) that are currently being taught in 45 countries. A former Registered Organizational Psychologist in Canada, Marilyn is also an NLP Master Trainer and specialist in Ericksonian Communications. She began developing formal business coach training programs in the mid-1990s. Since then she has been helping leading global companies and leaders through Solution-Focused and Outcome-Oriented Coaching transformations. She has authored seven books in the field of psychology and coaching.
Take home these learnings
1) How to become a world-class Coach?
2) How to implement the Happiness Success Model in your life?
3) How to thrive in what you choose to become across all paradigms of life?
4) Real-life stories for transformative personality development.
Dan Newby
Time to Strengthen Relationship with Emotions
Dan Newby
Founder of The School of Emotions
About Dan
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Dan Newby is the founder and leader of School of Emotions, working with partners worldwide to elevate emotional literacy, and offering courses for coaches, leaders, and parents to build a foundational understanding of emotions.
Dan is driven by his personal experience of the impact emotional literacy and learning can have as well as its profound importance in professional activities. All human beings are emotional beings which make emotional mastery an essential competence for anyone working to improve services and collaboration.
He is the author of ‘The Unopened Gift: A Primer in Emotional Literacy’ and ‘The Field Guide to Emotions’ as well as co-creator of Emoli™ Emotion Cards, a tool for facilitation and teaching emotional literacy. His background includes training as an educator and twenty years as an ontological coach. He has been CEO of Newfield Network, considered one of the premier coaching schools globally, and has been a business leader for many years.
Take home these learnings
1) A practical definition of "emotions" that produces real effects.
2) Why emotional literacy is critical and the pernicious consequences of emotional ignorance.
3) How leaders can create constructive feelings in their teams.
4) The ultimate emotional categorization that supports setting priorities.
Alain Hunkins
How everyday people can become everyday leaders?
Alain Hunkins
Keynote speaker, facilitator, coach, and author
About Alain
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A sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, coach and author, Alain Hunkins helps leaders achieve performance goals, easier.
His work connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. Leaders trust him to help unlock their potential and expand their influence, leading to superior results, increased engagement, higher levels of retention, and greater organizational and personal satisfaction. He has a gift for translating complex concepts from psychology, neuroscience and organizational behavior into simple, practical tools that can be applied on the job.
With his Master’s in Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theater Training Program, and a BA from Amherst College, Alain is on the faculty of Duke Corporate Education, ranked #2 worldwide in 2019 by Financial Times on its list of customized Executive Education programs. He also serves on the Academic Advisory Board for the New Delhi Institute of Management, and has lectured at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s business school, Pepperdine Graduate School of Education and Psychology, UMass-Boston College of Management and Columbia University. Alain's was invited to Den Helder, Netherlands to give a TEDx talk called "The Basic Truth Most Leaders Neglect."
Take home these learnings
1) Transcending from moments of pause
2) Inner reflections aligning with purpose, beliefs, and assumptions.
3) Sense of lack vs sense of awareness
4) How to create commitment rather than compliance?
5) Managing teams and cultivating leadership
Sangeeta Talwar
Shattering The Unseen Barriers As A Women Leader
Sangeeta Talwar
Global Community Lead at Camunda, Board Member at Signal of Solidarity
Sangeeta Talwar
Sangeeta Talwar is acclaimed as the first woman in the Consumer Products sector in India and has blazed several new trails. In a career spanning over 30 years, Mrs. Talwar has worked across large businesses of European, American, and Indian corporations. She largely worked with the private sector in India & in Switzerland as well as spearheaded the implementation of a national-level, Social sector - World Bank-funded project in Rural India. She has multifunctional exposure across the disciplines of Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and General Management and has built familiarity both with urban as well as rural India.
Take home these learnings
2. Empowering women at work
3. Looking at the world through the lens of a Woman
4. Adding value to people's life
Nathan Farrugia
Miles to go before I sleep
Nathan Farrugia
Entrepreneur, Business Coach and CEO
About Nathan
Nathan Farrugia is an endurance athlete, business performance coach and entrepreneur, and has led organisations in technology, education, healthcare and hospitality. He is also the owner and representative of Vistage in Malta, a TEDx and Motivational speaker and philanthropist.
Nathan has completed some of the world’s toughest extreme challenges, raising thousands of euros for charity. In 2011, he ran a million steps to complete a world first marathon by running 27 consecutive marathons in 27 days in each of the 27 European union countries. He is married to Deirdre and has two children, Robyn and Keira and lives in Malta.
Take home these learnings
2) Explaining why bringing accountability in culture, is important for growth.
3) Defining flow from Nathan's lens.
4) Explaining how playing with your strengths is fulfilling your role.
Leon VanderPol
Exploring the Undefinable: Being, Love, and Consciousness
Leon VanderPol
Founder, Center for Transformational Coaching
About Leon
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Leon VanderPol (PCC) is an internationally known coach trainer, transformational coach, coach mentor, and founder of the Center for Transformational Coaching.
He runs the Deep Coaching Intensive, a professional coach training and personal growth journey developed to help coaches learn the art of deep transformational coaching and to facilitate profound inner growth and awakening. He has over a decade of experience as a coach trainer, and mentor.
He is the author of A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching, a new paradigm of coaching which invites people to drop below surface-level engagement, explore the boundaries
of their existence, and tap into their most authentic self.
Take home these learnings
1) Being aware of our authentic presence
2) Bringing shift in our state of Being
3) Understanding consciousness within the matrix of our connectedness
4) Letting go of self-constructing concepts of fear and ego
5) Keeping a watch on the reactive triggers
