Finding Success, Happiness and Purpose with Lan Phan

April 19, 2024
Hosted by Wanda Wallace

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Episode Description

This episode addresses one question: How do you come to understand who you are and what matters to you so that you can live the life you want to live and feel satisfied with your life? To answer that key question, we dive into how to define what matters, how to understand your core values, how to understand who you are and who you are not and how to define success for you. Listen in for exercises that will help you answer those questions for yourself.

Out of the Comfort Zone

Friday at 11 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with not having all the information. Develop the skills and confidence to lead in a different way.

For female leaders, subject expertise is usually the source of their confidence. Learning to lead outside your comfort zone is one step for breaking through the glass ceiling.

The show’s purpose is to give you tips on how can you develop the capability to lead – to get out of your comfort zone?

Wanda Wallace

Dr. Wanda Wallace is President and CEO of Leadership Forum. LF helps organizations improve the quality of their conversations to enable them to get what they want and keep it, from leadership and talent to strategic thinking, enabling leaders to deliver better results through better thinking, execution, leadership, teams and diversity.

In her coaching, writing and public speaking, she emphasizes the challenges of building and sustaining effective relationships at all levels in the global corporate context.

Wanda is passionate about helping women get the roles they want, stick with the organization and thrive, as well as engaging managers in the diversity agenda. Broadening the message from that work, Wanda also focuses on the trap for men and women who are expert executors in her latest book “You Can’t Know it All”.

Dr. Wallace has forged close relationships with a number of blue-chip clients. As a consultant and educator who is equally at ease in the distinct worlds of business and education, she has designed a number of highly rated programs that have been enthusiastically received around the world.

She is the author of “You Can’t Know it All: Leading in the age of deep expertise” about navigating the path from an expert leader to a spanning leader. Wanda has also written “Reaching the Top, Factors that Impact the Careers and Retention of Senior Women Leaders” along with two co-authored publications with Corporate Research Forum entitled “Diversity and Business Performance” (2011) and “Developing and Broadening Specialists” (2012). Wanda is also a regular contributing author for Strategy & Business Magazine and Talent Quarterly.

In 2020 Wanda launched a brand new multi-tier subscription membership package to provide practical ways to implement the material learnt in her podcasts to enhance people’s careers. The Membership package delivers diverse special guest appearances and downloadable resources.

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