A Note on Leadership Development & The Current State of Leaders + Executive Coaching in Corporate America

Executive coaching & leadership development is

• too stuffy

• too formal

• too redundant

There is too much executive presence

and not enough human.

Which is precisely what many organizational reports share about their leaders — that they aren’t authentic enough.

People want to work for real people — not robots, not perfectly articulated, PC all the time, careful, precise, know-everything machines — but people.

Human beings.

Yet, we hire executive coaches who speak the language, who have executive presence, who rotate the same fail-safe content again and again.

& we train our up and coming leaders on concepts that further disconnect “leaders” from workers within the organization (and the world).

We widen the divide between leaders and people, and then new leaders struggle because they haven’t learned how to recognize the humanity within their teams and organizations.

They haven’t learned the skill of SEEING others and helping others see themselves.

We’ve intellectualized empathy, but have we experienced it in the working world? Is it a corporate practice that any of us are truly familiar with?

True leadership is rooted in humanity. Not executive presence.

True leadership sees itself in all those who work within the organization.

Not just the best or highest performers.

And true leadership knows how to move the needle through clear, authentic communication. Not overly formal, perfected, rotated & empty messaging.

If you are interested in developing skills that grow you as a leader,

Begin by learning skills that grow you as a human.

Recognize your connection to everyone, and take accountability for the impact that you have on the world.

True leadership isn’t posturing. It’s humanity.

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