CD033 Inspiring Hope and Being Real with Holly Dowling

Holly Dowling is a global keynote speaker, inspirational thought leader, and strengths-based leadership expert with over 20 years of experience focusing on leadership, change management, and corporate women's empowerment. As a former vice president of an international brokerage firm, she has combined her extensive leadership and management experience with her passion for helping others achieve their greatness and potential as powerhouse leaders.

Holly joins me today to share why she believes it's an honor and privilege to lead others, the mantras she lives and works by, and how she inspires hopes in corporate and executive leaders. She explains the power of hope and inspiration, the impact that being authentic and honest can have on the people you lead, and the importance of setting boundaries to allow yourself to decompress and refuel. She also shares how personal and professional setbacks have allowed her to grow as an individual and leader and the legacy she wants to build as a leader.

"Hope comes from feeling that we've been given a light at the end of the tunnel." - Holly Dowling

Today on the Creative Disruption Podcast:

• The power of hope.
• How authenticity and honesty inspire respect and trust.
• Her journey to becoming an inspirational leader.
• How your personal and professional setbacks can be positive gifts of opportunities to grow as a leader and individual.
• The mantras she lives and works by.
• How spirituality helps keep her energized and motivated.
• How being authentic allows you to become a great leader?
• The importance of setting boundaries so you can decompress and refuel.
• The importance of figuring out who you really are and breaking out of the paradigm mold of what you believe the world expects you to be.
• What "when you're green, you're growing and when you're ripe, you're rotten" means.
• What future leaders desire most in their careers.
• What the "Not All Men are Monsters" movement is about.
• What she wants her leadership legacy to be.

Holly Dowling's Advice for Global Leaders:

• Be willing to think outside the box.

Resources:

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking book by Susan Cain

Connect with Holly Dowling:

• Holly Dowling website
• A Celebration of You Podcast
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Email: [email protected]
• Grab your free gift with the code word: Celebrate

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