The key to our failures and successes always lie within us. Aiming for the latter, we have the CEO and Executive Leadership Coach at Velocity Leadership Consulting, Karen Brown, to talk about how the science of words or neuro-linguistic programming gives a window into what is going on in us that hinders our greater success. Karen guides us to find the blind spots in our behavioral patterns and address the limiting beliefs that hold us back from taking action. She also directs us to the fears that we keep locked down in our unconscious mind, urging us to overcome them and eventually lead better with the capacity to transform the world.

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Conquering Limiting Beliefs Through Neuro-Linguistic Programming with Karen Brown

I am an expert in behavioral blind spots and identifying them. How they’re hindering greater success and by resolving them, you get greater success

We are so fortunate that we have Karen Brown on this episode. She’s the CEO and Executive Leadership Coach at http://www.velocityleadershipconsulting.com/ (Velocity Leadership Consulting). Karen, thanks for coming down.

I’m happy to be here.

Karen, tell me a little bit about your business and who you serve.

In Velocity Leadership Consulting, our mission is to elevate leadership performance and impact with greater velocity and ease. We do that through one-on-one executive coaching using neuroscience techniques. Everything we do is scientifically proven effective.

There’s that E word. In some of the backstory, for you, there’s a journey. Karen was nice enough to let me know she has a book out and I read the book before getting together. If I’m the business owner and I heard you said we help leadership in Velocity, what does that look like when you show up day one at my business?

What that looks like is I’m going to ask you a lot of questions. Most of which I probably know the answer to but I want to hear what you have to say and how you say it. This goes back to something called Neuro-Linguistic Programming which me and all of our coaches are experts in. It’s the science of the words that you use to express yourself and it gives us a window into what’s going on for you. Specifically, what are the blind spots in your behavioral patterns that are holding you back from higher levels of success? We tend to work with either high performers or the person in the organization who is the trouble spot. We also work in areas of succession. Maybe someone’s been identified as the successive candidate and maybe they have some developmental work to do. Whatever it is, it’s going through those blind spots and identifying them. I’m adept and I would say, if I have a special gift it’s that, being able to see behavioral blind spots in an instant. From what I ask someone and how they respond, I can see exactly what’s going on and then ask them a question to open that up even further so that they can see it.

By and large, at some point you pretty much see all the problems that you can see, if you’ve been doing it long enough.

I think that until a new problem emerges and then I go, “I haven’t seen it all yet. I thought I had.”

Is there a typical leadership challenge, blind spot that you see most of the time?

Yes. Number one that every single executive we work with talks about is not having enough time to achieve what they want, which is ultimately a blind spot and a limiting belief. It’s something that they thought maybe it was possible, they tried it. They tried to achieve it, they couldn’t get to it and they gave up on it.

There’s no hope of getting it fixed. I’m your leader and I have more to do than they and you come in and go, “Bob, here’s what I think would be a good remedy.