Leading the Next Generation - a Conversation with Stephanie Christopher of The Executive Connection

Rawthentic Leadership

A lively conversation with Stephanie Christopher CEO of The Executive Connection, an organisation I speak for.

Our conversation begins with a question I’ve never asked my previous podcast guests and takes on a journey of Stephanie’s carer and her passion for leading the next generation.

An early turning point for Stephanie came as her father suggested she would make a good PA and her mother retorted that she would make a better boss! Stephanie shares how she, like many of us, was ‘a product of the times’ – she then goes on to share how she changed that trajectory.

Here are a few of the golden nuggets gleaned from our conversation:-

• How we are influenced by stereotypes
• Why you can’t be a ‘one man band’ as a leader
• What’s your lens of talent through the whole organisation?
• The advent of ‘choose your own career pathways
• Why you need to slow down to speed up
• The best question to ask a person starting on their first day of a new job!
• Acknowledge your bias when it comes to leading intergenerational teams – look in the mirror
• Be open to not having all the answers – experience can count for much…or it can count for nothing

The Executive Connection website

TEC Live Podcast

Stephanie on LinkedIn

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