Transcript of a keynote-style video featuring Sonya Shelton reflecting on her departure from the Walt Disney Company (June 15, 2007), describing how organizational culture affected her leadership, health, and fulfillment, and arguing that leaders can scale impact beyond a single company. The clip includes third-party testimonials about her coaching and consulting work.
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On Friday, June 15, 2007, I walked out of my executive office at the Walt Disney Company for the last time. You see, I was the director of Employee communications worldwide during a time that the company was having an experience that nobody in my position had ever experienced before and no one will ever again.
Songa is a top executive coach and a business consultant, CEO of Executive Leadership Consulting, the author of the number one Amazon on best selling book, International leadership.
Speaker and consultant, member of the Forbes Council Group.
Sonya Shelton, One of those coaches who said, yes, I am that coach.
When I talk about vision, I use the word right. When we say vision, we mean vision.
You can see it.
And I saw the impact that culture can have. It impacted my own personal leadership and it impacted my physical health and it impacted my mental health. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.
There are decisions that I've made that I would never have been able to make had I not been working with Sonia.
She has incredible insight and the system.
She showed was so simple and so straightforward. Thank you very much, Sonia. I really, really appreciate your help. Feel so strongly about the impact that she has had on my life because.
I believe that success happens when we work together to create a bigger impact. And it was because of that that I wasn't fulfilled at Disney. Because when I realized the power of culture, I was only impacting one company and I could actually impact many.