#81: Coach Yourself to Coach Others with Lisa Kleinhofer

Lisa is a global leader of executive development, organizational change, and strategic planning. She leads visionary work as an executive in Fortune 100 companies as well as in education, nonprofit, and startups for over 20 years. She is also the founder of Take the Risk Leadership Group, a leadership consulting firm that focuses on helping individuals, teams, and businesses thrive. Her expertise in leadership and her passion for leading change is rooted in her unwavering commitment to make this world better through the tenets of courage, curiosity, vulnerability, respect, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Lately, she’s been thinking a lot about being middle-aged, and the vulnerability and bravery it takes to create the life of one's dreams. She loves spending time with her young family, taking them around the globe in pursuit of new adventures and to find the best chocolate chip cookie.

Top 3 Takeaways

1. Give yourself permission. If you find yourself frequently looking to others to validate your choices, why not look inward for permission? Yours is the vote that counts the most.
2. Get still. When faced with a big work or life decision, it’s important to hit the pause button. Give yourself the time and space to quiet down and practice discernment. The answer will become that much more clear.
3. Be a work in progress. What you want and need from your career will likely evolve over time. Match your activities to your current stage by gaining exposure early before getting picky mid-career and then thinking of your legacy much later on.

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From the Source

“Something I've been exploring a lot is this idea of permission and this idea about whether we’re waiting for permission from others to say yes to ourselves.”

“Sometimes we have such limiting beliefs that we don't even go for the thing. We don't even have that conversation. We write something off before we're even there.”

“There is this situation sometimes where either we've been at a place for a long time or maybe something changes in our life or they just hit this pivotal point like it's time to make a change.”

“It is hard to pause in this world. It is hard. We are expected to make all these decisions all the time, and the world is changing faster than our brains and our bodies are really meant to do this.”

“There's something so powerful when we take those moments, especially those pivotal times, we get to know ourselves better. We get to know more. We get more and more in tune with what we want for our lives when we take that time.”

“You're in this job where you do this work and you try to rise as fast as you can. You do the best that you can. You get there. ‘Wait a second. Am I, am I still aligned? Am I still doing, do I want to be doing this? Is this going to work for 30 more years for me?’”

Connect with Lisa

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

Website: http://www.taketheriskleadership.com