Henna Inam is on a mission to impact one million people by 2030, partly by helping us “Marie Kondo our mindset.” In this episode, you’ll learn about the five shifts in agility we can all make and the antidote to burnout, starting with our built-in neuro-emotional capability for resilience and collaboration.
She is the CEO of Transformational Leadership Inc., a company that helps Fortune 500 organizations grow transformational leaders. A former C-suite executive, Henna drove transformation throughout her corporate career before pivoting toward coaching. She is the author of Wired for Authenticity, and a new forthcoming book, Wired for Disruption: Five Shifts in Agility to Lead in the Future of Work (available June 1).
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Topics Covered
May 2020 started writing the new book in an agile manner - “I’m disrupting myself”
Activate change muscles through motivation and confidence
Five types of agility: neuro-emotional, learning, trust, stakeholder, growth
“We need to develop agility at the speed of disruption”
“You’re Marie Kondo’ing your mindset”
Confirmation bias; confirming what we know rather than listening to learn
The antidote to burnout
When she was six, her grandmother told her she’d be a philosopher; adventurer, business person, entrepreneur, dreamer
"COVID-19 pandemic feels like it is burning down many existing structures and ways of working, clearing space for us to create something new"
What did I contribute? Who did I become? What did I learn? Here’s what’s really important to me, what I want my focus to be
Focus ourselves on being a force for good; helps us be more agile
Empathic neural network: much more agile network in the brain that helps us be more collaborative, curious, ethical
Career ladders will be replaced by skill marketplaces
Fluid teams: we need people
Think of careers like a financial portfolio: invest in a variety of stocks to diversify your portfolio of work
How to disrupt ourselves? Find a way to have safety
Purpose accelerator: what’s your north star? What is the difference we make for others that really energizes and inspires us?
Tim O’Reilly: “Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”
Resources Mentioned
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