Lifting Leaders Podcast
Lifting Leaders Podcast
Podcast Description
Elevating leaders’ capabilities, to positively leverage the impact they have on the World’s most critical challenges through energizing and unleashing the power of every voice.
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The podcast covers key themes such as personal development, workplace harmony, and human flourishing. Episodes typically address challenges such as navigating burnout, creating positive workplace cultures, and exploring the notion of human flourishing, with specific examples including discussions on the Common Good with Peter Block and strategies for fostering empathy in leadership through interviews with various experts.
Leadership Coaching & Transformation for a Better World. The Lifting Leaders Podcast is dedicated to transforming leadership for a better, more hopeful world. We believe every leader has the possibility to grow, inspire, and make lasting impact. Through engaging conversations with experts, visionaries, and changemakers, we explore leadership growth, sustainable solutions, and the mindsets that fuel purpose-driven leadership.
How do you know when to stay the course, make a career change, or take a new direction when the future is uncertain?
In this episode of the Lifting Leaders Podcast, Kristal Roberts and Tricia Rhine welcome back Jack Schlosser – executive coach, leadership advisor, speaker, author, and lifelong surfer – for a conversation about leadership, career transitions, resilience, decision-making, and navigating change and uncertainty.
Drawing on more than three decades of advising CEOs, boards, and senior executives, and a lifetime spent surfing, Jack uses the ocean as a powerful metaphor for navigating work and life. Surfers can’t control the waves, but they can learn to read the conditions, make decisions, adapt, recover after a wipeout, and recognize when it’s time to paddle toward a different wave.
As we continue our Lead the Change journey, Jack explores how leaders can move from waiting for the “right” conditions to recognizing where they have agency and taking action.
Listen in for practical insights on:
- Navigating career transitions and unexpected change
- Knowing when to stay the course or change direction
- Leading through circumstances and systems you can’t control
- Moving forward when you feel stuck or uncertain
- Building resilience, adaptability, courage, and sound judgment
- Recovering and learning from setbacks
- Making decisions when there is no obvious “right” answer
- Sustaining curiosity, purpose, and possibility throughout your career and life
Jack also shares what surfing can teach us about timing, balance, adaptability, resilience, and courage and why navigating change isn’t about controlling everything around us. It’s about paying attention to the conditions, understanding what we can influence, and deciding how we want to respond.
Whether you’re considering a career change, leading through organizational change, facing a leadership challenge, recovering from a setback, or wondering whether it’s time for something new, this conversation offers a powerful reminder:
We don’t have to control the ocean to move forward. Sometimes leading the change begins with recognizing the wave in front of us—and choosing to paddle.
Why I’m writing this series – and what the ocean taught me about careers
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jack-schlosser_surfyourcareer-activity-7495943343563005952-MTGg
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