A leadership coach with 18 years of experience coaching 400+ executives asks: who are you when no one is watching? She says the gap between your performed self and your authentic self is where most leadership problems start.
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Who are you as a leader when no one is watching? I'm talking about the leader who shows up even at 4 PM on a Thursday, exhausted, stressed out, the pressure is on, nobody's giving you credit, and how you handle the next 5 minutes is going to say everything about who you actually are. In my 18 years of coaching over 400 executives, managers to C-suite, that is the question that stops almost everyone cold in their tracks. Not because it's complicated, because most leaders have never honestly answered it, or they never even considered having to address it. Yet that gap between the leader you perform and the leader you actually are, that is where everything gets stuck. And today we're going to start closing that gap.