Leadership skills are deeply personal
What happens when you’re a professional athlete and you get knocked around by two car accidents and a blood disease and you can’t do sport anymore, ever? How do you reorient yourself in a useful way to grow stronger? Author Jennifer Eggers shares her personal experience and research in a powerful framework.
Why you should listen: a practical leadership framework for resilience
3 characteristics of resilient people and organisations: firm grasp on reality, ability to improvise, and the ability to find meaning in any circumstances
How a leadership mindset helped Jennifer survive another crazy car incident
How we might need to just cope before we build resilience
We explore leadership mindset for organisation and personal resilience
Where to start when we find ourselves in disruption: it’s about who we are
Attitude and authenticity as key leadership qualities
From water skiing to bluegrass bands: how chasing what lights us up can help define success
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About Jennifer Eggers:
Author Jennifer Eggers on leadership frameworks for resilience
Jennifer Eggers is the founder of LeaderShift Insights, Inc. The firm works with leaders and organizations facing disruption who want to increase their capacity to adapt so they can emerge stronger and more effective faster. A professional speaker, coach and consultant, Jennifer is an innovative leadership, talent and organization development executive with a passion for creating insights that drive business results. She is known for facilitating high-stakes meetings with challenging stakeholders. Jennifer is the creator of RapidOD, a revolutionary approach to organizational restructuring and her groundbreaking workshops have lead clients to say, ‘she turns everything you know about corporate training upside-down.’ Her book, coauthored with Cynthia Barlow and titled, “Resilience: It’s Not About Bouncing Back,” is an international best seller in several categories and has a five-star rating on Amazon.
Jennifer has coached teams, officers and directors of both smaller growth organization and Fortune 500 companies. She is known for helping leaders demonstrate visible leadership fast. She is a former Partner with Cambridge Leadership Group; Vice-President, Leadership Development & Learning for Bank of America; and has held several other senior roles in Learning, Organization & Leadership Development at AutoZone and Coca-Cola Enterprises. She is an advance practitioner in adaptive leadership, a member of the Adaptive Leadership Network at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and holds a Marketing degree from Penn State’s Smeal College of Business.
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.