In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I'm joined by Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACS, for an important conversation, exploring the complexities of mental health and medicine. Dr. Cunningham is a retired professional tennis athlete, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Section Chief of Endocrine Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Immediate Past President of the Association for Academic Surgery, a mentor, a mentor, and an advocate. Her recent AAS Presidential Lecture, Removing the Mask, courageously shared her journey through depression and substance abuse recovery.

Key takeaways:

- vulnerability is not a weakness, but a strength

- seeking fulfillment from within is key to flourishing

- certainty vs. fallibility

- giving ourselves and others space for grief and emotions

- the value of meaningful connections with others

- self care as a professional obligation

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US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/surgeons-suicide-doctors-physicians-mental-health

Association for Academic Surgery Presidential Address - Removing the Mask - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4OMFcmML4

Arthur Brooks - A profession is not a personality - https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/self-objectification-work/620246/

Range - David Epstein - https://davidepstein.com/the-range/

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Toni Lam, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry, about the topic of coachability and its role in career advancement.

We examine:

- readiness for feedback

- unexpected coaching opportunities

- the role of reflection

- the importance of adaptability

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Toni Lam LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonikalam/

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I sit down with Dr. Joyce DeLeo to examine the importance of coachability as we navigate career transitions and ascend in executive leadership, and the way that a lack of coachability can be a career derailer.

We discuss:

• Examples of high self-awareness, humility, and coachability
• Avoiding career derailers
• Leveraging reflection for growth
• How leaders can learn and improve coachability
• The critical role of active listening in leadership performance

Joyce DeLeo, PhD, Witt Kieffer - joyce-deleo-phd

Joyce DeLeo, PhD, LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-deleo-phd/

Jillian Bybee, MD, FAAP

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a conversation with Dr. Jillian Bybee. Dr. Bybee is a physician, medical educator, coach, speaker, podcaster, writer, and advocate for healthcare wellbeing and fulfillment.

During our conversation, we discuss:

- the role of reflection in coachability and self-coaching,

- the importance of fit in coaching partnerships,

- guiding ourselves toward clarity and contentment, and

- embracing vulnerability and courage in pursuit of growth

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Jillian Bybee website - https://jillianbybeemd.com

Humans Leading podcast - https://humansleading.buzzsprout.com

Squiggly Careers podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/squiggly-careers/id1202842065

You Coach You book - https://www.amazon.com/You-Coach-Overcome-Challenges-Control/dp/024150273X

Ed Batista The Art of Self Coaching Course - https://www.edbatista.com/the-art-of-self-coaching-public-course.html

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down for a fantastic conversation with Kevin Wilde, author of the book Coachability: The Leadership Superpower. Kevin is an Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He retired in 2015 from a 34 year corporate career in leadership and talent development at General Electric and General Mills.

We discuss:

- strategies for improving coachability

- avoiding false finish lines

- keeping company with Truth Tellers (T2s)

- the attributes that most reliably align to coachability in leaders

- tips for managing and expanding your learning zone

Kevin's Website - http://www.thecoachableleader.com/

Follow Kevin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwilde/

Kevin's Book - Coachability: The Leadership Superpower

Amazon.com: Coachability: The Leadership Superpower: 9781643437194: Wilde, Kevin D., Bungay Stanier, Michael: Books

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, I discuss the topic of coachability with Dr. Cara King.

Dr. King is the Section Head of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (MIGS) and Medical Gynecology and the Program Director of the MIGS Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. She also serves as the Director of Innovation for Cleveland Clinic's Women's Health Institute and is a Vice President of the Academy for Surgical Coaching.

We discuss:

• the definition of coachability
• barriers to coachability
• building coaching programs that deliver impact
• attributes of highly coachable surgeons and leaders
• the role of reflection in growth

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https://surgicalcoaching.org

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/how-cleveland-clinic-has-saved-133m-in-physician-retention.html

In this week's Growth Edge leadership podcast episode, I sit down with a long-time friend and colleague, Blake Lawrence. Blake had a stellar college football career, playing linebacker for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and after an early retirement due to concussions, he pursued his entrepreneurial passions. He founded and successfully exited his first company, a social media agency, and is the CEO of a second venture, opendorse, the largest provider of technology in the athlete endorsement industry. Opendorse helps athletes earn more than $100MM each year through NIL deals, and about 125k athletes use the platform every day.

Among the key takeaways from our conversation:

- there are numerous styles that result in great coaching

- not all feedback is good feedback

- the best coaches are selfless - their success is your growth and success

- ego can be a big hurdle for people, both as they're coaching and as they're being coached

- part of coaching is equipping team members to coach themselves when you're not around

- in coaching, consistency and repetition matter

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Opendorse - https://opendorse.com

Adi Kunalic Growth Edge leadership podcast episode - https://growthedge.libsyn.com/adi-kunalic-servant-leadership

In this week's episode of the Growth Edge leadership podcast, we explore the topic of coachability in entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurs are often perceived as uncoachable; perhaps because they're highly visionary, independent, driven, and resolute in their conviction that an idea has viability. To survive the start up journey and build a product or company requires confidence, courage, wise counsel, and high coachability.

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In this week's episode, we explore 12 attributes of highly coachable leaders, five barriers to coachabilities, and times when we need to double down on practicing or assessing our own coachability.

In this week's episode, we explore the business case for coachability, and what outcomes are produced when individuals are highly coachable.

Like most anything that's worthwhile in life, being a coachable leader doesn't come naturally or easily or comfortably. But, the positive impact that's achieved by coachable leaders is worth the effort.

When we think about coachability, I think it's natural for a lot of well-established, successful, intelligent leaders to say "that's not for me", because they're already in a solid or strong position. It's easy to see that station that they've achieved in life as sustainable. But as Jim Collins says, "good is the enemy of great."

Coahability is about realizing that our continued success requires our being open to learning from others, to confronting uncomfortable truths about ourselves, and to working hard to make necessary behavior changes in order to experience next level performance.

The most successful individuals see themselves as an evolving work in progress.

Coaching and coachability result in four primary outcomes; development, behavior change, performance, and promotability, and secondary positive impacts including improved resilience, well-being, innovation, and collaboration.

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