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Redefining Leadership: Unleashing the Upstander Within You | My Millennial Career Podcast Excerpt

Name: Redefining Leadership: Unleashing the Upstander Within You | My Millennial Career Podcast Excerpt
Uploaded: 2023-05-16T07:16:46+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Jessica Hickman
Description: In this podcast excerpt, Jessica Hickman argues that genuine cultural change requires leaders to "walk the talk"—to align their actions with their words…

16 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this podcast excerpt, Jessica Hickman argues that genuine cultural change requires leaders to "walk the talk"—to align their actions with their words. She explains that her book, The Upstander Leader, is not aimed solely at people with formal leadership titles; instead, she emphasizes that every individual, regardless of position on an org chart, in a community, or within a family, has the capacity to lead cultural transformation. The core of sustainable change, she asserts, begins with self‑leadership: a deep, honest examination of one's own behaviours, beliefs, and unconscious biases. By shining a light inward, each person can become an upstander who models the values they wish to see reflected in the broader organization.

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So I realized if we want to change culture, we need to walk the talk. We need to walk the walk. And the reason why I called my book The Upstander Leader isn't because it's aimed at people with fancy leadership job titles. In fact, when I go into an organization and workplace, the first thing I say is, I don't really care what your job title is. I care about the human behind the job title. So everyone has the opportunity to lead cultural change, no matter where you're positioned on the organisation org chart, where you're positioned within the community or your family. If we want to see sustainable change, we have to first look inward, and that comes down to a lot of self-leadership and recognising our own behaviours, beliefs, unconscious bias, and looking at ourselves first. Shining the light inwards.