Sonya SheltonCEO of Executive Leadership Consulting

Insight from the CEO of ELC

Name: Insight from the CEO of ELC
Uploaded: 2022-04-08T01:30:50+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Sonya Shelton
Description: A brief interview excerpt in which Sonya Shelton (CEO of ELC) explains that she has a natural talent for simplifying complexity into a few key points…

8 Apr 2022 · 1 min

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A brief interview excerpt in which Sonya Shelton (CEO of ELC) explains that she has a natural talent for simplifying complexity into a few key points. She recounts a personal anecdote about her 26-year marriage: her husband perceived she dismissed his ideas, but she realized her automatic response is to immediately think how to improve an idea rather than reject it.

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What is it that's different now that you know your yos that you didn't have before?
I think there's a couple of things. One is I knew that I had a natural ability to simplify, so I started my career in journalism and then communications. And I've always had this ability to take a lot of complexity and drill it down to the three bullet points, right? And people are always amazed, like, how do you do that? And it just comes naturally to me. So my husband and I have been together for 26 years, and when I read the description, and I was like, oh, he thinks. He's always said, oh, you never like my ideas. Like, whenever I come up with an idea, you always want to do it your way. And I was like, no, I don't want to do it my way. And I was. And I was like, I do like your ideas. And I couldn't understand why he felt that way. And then when I read it and I explained it to him, I was like, oh, I did my yos. And it's not that I don't like your ideas, but as soon as I hear your idea, my automatic response is, how can I make this better?