Today’s guest introduces us to the concept of capacity: the gap between the effort someone puts in and the impact they get out. You’ll learn why capacity isn’t a fixed container, like a gas tank or battery, but a nervous-system bandwidth that is completely trainable. You’ll discover how a coach’s own dysregulation bleeds into the coaching relationship through nervous system co-regulation, and why two clients can present with identical stated goals. At the same time, one is ready for strategy and the other needs nervous system regulation first, and how coaches can learn to read “the thing beneath the thing.” Join us for practical strategies, a “feel-think-do” framework, and the path to your free capacity report card self-assessment.

Dr. Lizette Warner is a keynote speaker and leadership capacity expert who helps organizations solve the effort-to-impact disconnect so they can build cultures where people make a bigger impact with less effort, while increasing engagement and retention. With a PhD. in Biomedical Engineering, 20+ years of executive leadership experience in science and health technology, and certification as a Master Certified Coach through the ICF, Lizette sits at a rare intersection of scientific precision, executive credibility, and embodied transformation. Her Hashimoto’s diagnosis, an autoimmune condition she now understands as her body’s response to years of unregulated performance, was the turning point that reoriented everything she knew about achievement and performance. Today, she speaks at corporate conferences, leadership retreats, and executive events on topics including leadership under pressure, high-performance culture, decision-making, and workplace resilience.

Show Highlights:

• Understanding effort, impact, and capacity
• Finding the value in data and measurement
• Capacity defined: the gap between your effort and impact (the wider the gap, the better)
• The coach’s capacity shows up in the coaching space (How much more is possible?)
• As a coach, where is your “ceiling”? (How can you lower the “noise”?)
• Lizette’s Feel-Think-Do framework to “lower the noise”
• Helping our clients become more aware of their ceiling.
• Signs to listen for from your clients so you can take the right approach
• Lizette’s free tool, the Capacity Report Card
• Lizette’s biggest takeaway: “Capacity is your nervous system’s bandwidth; it’s not fixed, but it’s trainable.”

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Lizette Warner: Website, LinkedIn, Power, Poise, and Presence book, Free Capacity Report Card, and Episode 339 with Dr. Lizette Warner.

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