#39: Leadership Lessons Learned with Susan Hobson and Rob Kalwarowsky
Susan Hobson is a High-Performance Leadership Coach, published author, Founder/CEO of Elite High Performance Inc., and a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. Susan’s science-based Elite High-Performance Coaching process draws on her first hand experience competing at some of the most competitive environments on the planet – Princeton & Harvard Universities and The National Women’s Hockey League.
Rob Kalwarowsky specializes in helping leaders become high-impact individuals who turn their teams into happy, high-performing units that achieve their goals. He believes that traditional leadership coaching methods are not always enough to bring about the change that today's dynamic work environment demands. That's why Rob has taken a unique approach, blending together neuroscience, mindset coaching, high-performance leadership strategies with cutting-edge technology and data to provide a clear path to building a high-performing team.
Susan and Rob’s podcast, the Leadership Launchpad Project, explores groundbreaking leadership strategies with top experts worldwide in the fields of leadership, business, management, psychology, mindset and sports.
Top 3 Takeaways
- Get in there. The real work of leadership is the inner work. Make the time to get to know yourself in order to step into your full potential.
- Lead at every level. Executives chart the course and individuals do real work while managers in the middle connect the dots. Each layer requires its own leadership capabilities.
- Everybody hurts. Hurt people hurt people. We have to commit ourselves to healing our wounds and emerging stronger so we can better serve our mission and those around us.
From the Source
“Once we can let all this stuff go and work with ourselves in our inner experience then we can truly step into who we are and be authentic 2.0 leaders.”
“That actually gets the best performance out of not only ourselves but also the business, and the people around them. And those people are happier, healthier, more productive, and the business thrives because of this.”
“‘What behaviors do we need to take to make psych safety improve within our team?’ These things are super important because it's a nice concept and we all love to read books, but at the end of the day, we gotta walk the walk as leaders.”
“The folks at the top talk strategy and goals and values and vision, and the folks at the bottom do the work, but the middle managers are the ones who actually have to create actionable strategies and implementation plans.”
“The leaders who have that 2.0 heart centric, human centric, EQ driven approach to leading their teams are gonna find that managing change is a lot less disruptive to their nervous systems.”
“The parts of us that we avoid are the portals to our next level … to our potential.”
“It's never a selfish thing to examine your experience and to know thyself. Socrates said that was the whole purpose of life because when you know thyself … happy people … we lift other people up and that's the key that we should be looking at here in leadership. What is the damn point of having somebody leading the way if they're not lifting everybody else up that's following them?”
“People are literally dying because the leaders are driving them. We learn as children that ‘hey, if you work hard, if you deliver, if you get an A from your teacher, if you get a pat on the back from your coach cuz you scored a goal … you are something’. That's all bullshit.”
“Who's benefiting? The folks that are at the top. Who's dying? Everybody else. And some of the folks who get to the top, they're doing it because they're truly hurt the most, and that's why they behave in the ways they do.”
Connect with Susan and Rob
LinkedIn (Susan): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jumpstartliving/
LinkedIn (Rob): https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kalwarowsky/
Website: http://www.elitehighperformance.com/
The Leadership Launchpad Project (podcast):
Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-leadership-launchpad-project/id1530978841
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0jmVzYZy8sDDwUgOeqJPSg
Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.ca/podcasts/d12a5b8b-a6b9-4705-9dc4-0f8cf8bafffc/the-leadership-launchpad-project
Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-leadership-launchpad-project
Google - https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8zNDkwNDdkMC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC561W4wZZE_5GK00C0FCSsA
Links to Matt’s Appearances on Leadership Launchpad Project
“Inhuman Leadership Destroys Too Much Value with Matt Poepsel”: https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/inhuman-leadership-destroys-too-much-value-with-matt/id1530978841?i=1000609229916
“Your Last Competitive Advantage with Matt Poepsel”: https://podcasts.apple.com/tt/podcast/your-last-competitive-advantage-with-matt-poepsel/id1530978841?i=1000528567469