The Thoughtful Leader

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Ep 069 A System that Works for Women Jun 16, 2022

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Dr. Marisol Capellan is the CEO of The Capellan Institute, a coaching certification and training & development company. Dr. Capellan has extensive experience creating and leading leadership , diversity, equity & inclusion and coaching programs and trainings for corporations and academia. She is an internationally recognized, award-winning educator and professional & executive certified coach. Dr. Capellan is a former educator from the University of Miami. She is also a TEDx and keynote speaker. As an Afro-Latina, she has witnessed many of the institutional and systemic barriers and biases that Black women face in their career trajectory to leadership roles. Dr. Capellan is redefining the word leadership in her upcoming book, Leadership is a Responsibility, where she highlights the importance of inclusive leadership and the need to increase the representation of women in positions of power.

Highlights include:

Why we need leaders who can take action to make a change for women in the workplace

What pink collar professions are

What the glass escalator is

Why women have more expectations than men in the workplace

How women can be entrepreneurs

How the pandemic changed the way we work, especially for women who want to work from home

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisolcapellan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/profcapellan

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Ep 068 The Importance of taking care of your Employees Jun 09, 2022

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Sarah Piddington is a Health & Safety, Wellbeing & Mental Health expert who provides services as a consultant, trainer and speaker. She has worked with 100+ corporate and public sector organisations helping them to transform their workplaces and improve organisational performance through improved Health and Safety, Wellbeing & Mental Health strategies.

Highlights include:

Why the workplace is safer when a person is well

Why management should have training to provide support for employees struggling with their mental health

How to start discussions on providing resources to improve the mental health of employees

The future of working from home

Why we need to look at organizations as individuals

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://safeandwelltogether.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahpiddington/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/safe-and-well-together/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVOs4_MTP9geF9Qp6O7MCw

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Ep 067 Think, then Think Again Jun 02, 2022

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Graeme Codrington is a futurist and scenario planner specialising in the future of work. He helps companies around the world understand the forces that are shaping our lives, whether it's the current Covid-disruption or the disruptive trends that will define the rest of the 2020s. Graeme is an author of six best-selling books and lectures at a number of top business schools. As one of the founders of the strategy consulting firm TomorrowToday, he works with a global research team to ensure his insights are constantly updated and relevant to each of his clients. He now works with clients around the world from his fully equipped home video studio in Johannesburg.

Highlights include:

How Graeme decides what to post on his social media accounts

Why he allows long debates in the comments of his social media posts

How he juggles keeping his social media page a safe place and a place for people to vent

Why it is important to provoke thought

Why you shouldn't be scared to think again

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Website: https://www.graemecodrington.com/

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Ep 066 Where do Ideas Come From? May 26, 2022

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

In this episode, Mindy gives her perspective on owning your emotional energy, enjoy and employ it! And if someone tells you to calm down, remember that only you can control your emotional state.

Mindy's thought-provoking ideas include:

What to do when ideas come to you

Why you need to ask yourself if your idea is truly unique

Why you should sift through the many ideas that may come to your mind throughout your day

How social media can overwhelm you when it comes to people's opinions

How you can use your creative mind when starting a business

Why you should say "what else" when coming up with ideas

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Ep 065 Learn to Level Up May 19, 2022

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Paul Avins is an award winning business coach, speaker and mastermind mentor who is highly sought after in the UK by entrepreneurs and business owners to help them breakthrough the Scale Up Ceiling to create real Shareholder Value.

With an impressive 17 year track record of helping business owners generate hundreds of millions of pounds in additional sales, profits and shareholder value, Paul is the catalyst business owners seek out when then feel frustrated, overwhelmed or want to accelerate their growth for a potential exit.

Paul's Grown Up Business System is designed specifically to help Founders and Family Owned Businesses to successfully Level Up, Team Up and Scale Up - the three keys to a Grown Up Business.

He's coached over 550 UK companies through this business growth system with many clients selling their businesses for life changing sums, giving them the time and money freedom they wanted.

Highlights include:

How to level yourself up to become a better leader

Why everyone is a leader

The 3-step tool to help you improve as a leader

Why one of the best leadership skills is reflection

The importance of determining what you can and can't control in situations

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Paul:

Website: https://www.paulavins.com/businessgrowthcoach

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulavins

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Ep 064 Stop Searching for Happiness May 12, 2022

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Gaia Ferreira helps business owners and entrepreneurs avoid breakdown. Through deep inner work, she addresses the values and belief systems that create the fear and courage from which we operate. Her work focuses on discovering your inner purpose, gaining clarity into the unconscious patterns that hold you back, and creating new ways to lead with authenticity. The goal is to align your mind, heart, and soul to the way you show up to lead your Self and your team to do good things and be great people.

Gaia is an author, speaker and coach on personal fulfilment and heart-focused leadership and the creator of the Total Intelligence® Method. She has shared the stage with Brian Tracy, Harrison Klein, Dr. Demartini, and spoken at a Tony Robbins event. She's an expert hugger, sings loudly in the shower, and starts and finishes everyday with snuggling her kids.

Highlights include:

How the pursuit of happiness can make people unhappy

How the competitive nature of human beings sets us up for disappointment when accomplishing goals

Why striving for achievements will never feel like enough

The importance of 'lighting your soul' to feel alive through your passions

Learning to be joyful and at peace with yourself

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Gaia:

Website: https://gaiaferreira.com

LinkedIn: ie.linkedin.com/in/gaia.ferreira

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaiaferreiratitans/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaiaferreiratitans

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Ep 063 New Ways of Working and Thinking May 05, 2022

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Jane Piper

– The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 063 New ways of working and thinking with Jane Piper, Organisational Psychologist

Jane Piper is an organizational psychologist who helps mid-life individuals and teams enjoy both their career and personal lives. She studies the intersection of humans and technology and challenges people to look at the impact that technology is having on work, well-being, and happiness.

Jane is a best-selling author of Focus in the Age of Distraction, which looks at the impact of digital technology on our wellbeing and ways of working. Our conversation concentrates on changes in the workplace over the past few years, employer advantages and opportunities of working with remote teams.

Highlights include:

Focus and do the things you are good at and delegate some of the rest.

The pandemic may have given us more time, but instead of enjoying it, people just started working more.

The culture shock of working from home and life changes.

Working from home is here to stay.

Tips, including a hybrid team working agreement and respecting people's time.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Jane:

Website: https://pipsy.ch/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janepiperpipsy/

Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Focus-Age-Distraction-tips-focus/dp/1784521264

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Ep 062 The joy of attention, Stuart Harris, Coach and Mentor Apr 28, 2022

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Stuart Harris

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Episode 062 The joy of attention, Stuart Harris, Coach and Mentor

Stuart Harris is a coach that is quick to point out that 70 percent of people at some point in their lifetime will get that overwhelming sensation of Impostor Syndrome. As a coach and mentor, Stuart helps people, including high achievers, how to overcome those feelings with a simple but profound process of understanding the path to clarity, confidence, and connection.

Stuart helps by using a powerful combination of body and mind techniques that helps clients develop simple strategies for greater productivity. His coaching gives clients immediate insights into how they should proceed and assures them that the practices he teaches are techniques that can be learned and applied quickly.

Stuart's strategies are simple, yet powerful. In our conversation, we discuss:

The misconception that an intellectual thinker isn't a physical person.

Reflection doesn't have to take a lot of time, but it's a skill that must be practiced.

We need to stop instant reaction.

The importance of paying attention.

Staying with an idea when meditating.

Don't sleepwalk through life. Pay attention to your intentions.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Stuart

Website: https://attention-space.com/

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Ep 061 Enjoy your Energy, Employ your Energy Apr 21, 2022

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Mindy Gibbins-Klein

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Episode 061 Enjoy your energy, employ your energy with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Mindy Gibbins-Klein is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant who teaches leaders on how to be thoughtful and to create a culture of thought leadership in organizations.

In this episode, Mindy gives her perspective on owning your emotional energy, enjoy and employ it! And if someone tells you to calm down, remember that only you can control your emotional state.

Mindy's thought-provoking ideas include:

Only you can choose your emotional state and if you want to shift it.

Be aware of how you are feeling.

Be intentional with your energy.

Understand how compassion works in managing your emotional state.

Thoughts about humor and managing your emotional state.

An exercise on working with others - understanding your energy and triggers.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

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Ep 060 This is me Apr 14, 2022

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Liz Carney

– The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Episode 060 This is me, with Liz Carney, Professional Woman's Coach

It happens more often than one thinks. Women in mid-life may work in corporate or have a great career and, just like that, the rug is pulled out from under them. Not only have they suffered from career loss, but they may also find themselves with changing home life situations such as divorce, being an empty nester or taking on the role of being a family caregiver to aging parents.

Liz Carney is a Woman's Coach who understands women who are going through these changes, and she points out that women in those positions are not alone. Liz is an accredited Master Coach with a BA in Communication Studies and a MSc in Education and Training Management. She also has a diploma in Business Analysis and is a Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Black Belt.

She has over 25 years International corporate and consulting experience and is an expert in improving processes, but it's her personal story that benefits the clients she serves. Her best piece of advice is "Follow your dreams."

In our conversation, we discuss:

The commonality of mid-life women who feel a sense of embarrassment, failure, or loss of self-worth.

Helping people in crisis, or those needing guidance to work through bumps in the road.

An opportunity to work with Liz in her Italian safe haven.

People need to find their quiet space to chill before they can open up and create a new path.

The road trip to Italy.

Liz's toolkit to help each unique individual.

Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey!

Connect with Liz:

Website: https://elizabethcarney.co.uk/

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