Leadership Is Changing

In this episode of ask Denis, hear Denis talk about the accountable coach. Did you know that many successful people and organizations used to have a coach or still have one? In general, coaches guide you and keeps checking up on you whether you are taking steps towards your goals. They help hold you accountable to your commitments, what you’re saying, or what you want to do. 

Surveys show that leadership accountability is a key business driver and tool. So, what happens when there is a lack of accountability?

On this episode:

• What is accountability?
• Hear Denis talk about what happens when there’s a lack in accountability
• Denis discusses the possibilities when there’s accountability in an organization
• Denis talks about taking accountability and ownership
• What is an Accountable Coach?

Key Takeaways:

• Take full responsible ownership of your actions
• Accept personal accountability. Don’t blame others
• People want accountable leaders around the world
• Always bring your ‘A’ game to the table

Tweetable Quotes:

“Surveys have shown that leadership accountability is a key business driver, tool, and capability.” – Denis Gianoutsos

“If we take accountability and ownership, that can lead to success.” – Denis Gianoutsos

“We don’t know when we’re being judged. We don’t know what we need to do at a certain time. But I just know you need to be prepared and actually living every day and bringing your ‘A’ game to the table, to the field at all times.” – Denis Gianoutsos

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Bengu works at HP Inc. as the Head of Services for the Middle East, KSA, Turkey, and East Africa. She is currently leading the Middle East and Turkey hub, responsible for deploying country support strategy in full alignment with business, sales, and category teams in the 21 countries making up the Middle East, Turkey & East Africa clusters since November 2018.

Bengu has held multiple management positions with the CS Customer Relations Team (CRT) at the country and EMEA level. She has led an organization within HP of 120 employees and 5 people managers, supporting all commercial product lines PC, Printing, and Servers. 

Before joining HP, Bengu worked in Turkey in Defense, Software, and Telecom industries.

On this episode:

• Bengu shares how she didn’t strive to be a leader, but rather leadership naturally found its way to her
• Bengu talks about the importance of accountability in leadership roles
• Bengu discusses the leaders that inspired her to become the leader she wants to be
• Bengu talks about why leaders are supposed to be the energizer for change
• Denis and Bengu talks about how employees’ expectations have changed

Key Takeaways:

• Be accountable for your actions
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• You are never too small to make a change and an impact
• Leaders don’t just need to change and adapt, but also needs to be the energizer for change
• We learn by failing

Tweetable Quotes:

“Your actions count more than your words.” – Bengu Altinordu

“You are never too small to make a change, and you are never too small to make an impact.” – Bengu Altinordu

“Growth mindset, I think is more important than ever before and having compassion and empathy for people – it will never go out of fashion.” – Bengu Altinordu

Learn more about Bengu:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengualtinordu/

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Barbara Gustavson, owner of Discover Next Step, trains and equip others to develop new ways to think, respond, engage and lead so they can unleash their inner bold and create a positive impact. She combines personal growth, leadership, and brain-based techniques so her clients can work more efficiently.

Barbara is a Certified Leadership Trainer and Amen Clinic Brain Health Coach, and author of Permission To Be BOLD, and co-author of Breaking Average. She loves being in nature whenever she can. You can often find her in her kayak or hanging out with her rescue dogs and horse

On this episode:

• Hear the story of Barbara’s career where she started as a financial analyst
• Barbara shares how she discovered her talent in leadership roles
• Barbara talks about cognitive flexibility – being flexible about change
• Barbara’s insights on why we should focus on mindset, strategies, and taking care of ourselves
• Barbara shares her personal wellness routine during this “working at home” environment brought by the pandemic

Key Takeaways:

• As leaders, we need to be in tune with the changes that are happening
• Take care of your personal well-being. Give yourselves small moments to be able to maintain and refill yourselves.
• Recognize the importance of managing your and your team’s emotions

Tweetable Quotes:

“If I wait and do nothing, I’m not meeting the needs and demand out there.” – Barbara Gustavson

“You don’t want to wait until there’s nothing left. If we are able to shift our paradigm and able to give ourselves small moments of being able to maintain and refill ourselves. We aren’t left with these completely empty feeling or burned-out state.” – Barbara Gustavson

Resources Mentioned:

• Micro-Resilience by Bonnie St. John

Learn more about Barbara at https://www.discovernextstep.com/

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

In this episode of Ask Denis, hear Denis talk about why you should decide now and buy that bike or whatever that one thing that you're putting on hold. Why do people find it hard to make decisions or take action? A lot of people procrastinate.

Many people are like deers in the headlights of a car – they are stunned, paralyzed, and don't know what to do. Some can decide but couldn't follow through with the execution and not take action.   

On this episode:

• Hear Denis talk about why people don't make decisions or take action
• Denis shares having difficulties deciding on buying a mountain bike for the past four months
• Denis discusses the importance of doing your research before making decisions
• What's holding you back?
• Go out there and make the decision on that one thing you're putting on hold.

Key Takeaways:

• Always take care of your health.
• You need to make a decision. Don't let it get to the point where the decision will be made for you.
• Don't make excuses and reasons. Just go out there, make the decision and take action.
• Do your research. Be well informed and be deliberate when making your decisions.

Tweetable Quotes:

"If you don't go and make a decision in life. The decision will be made for you in the future." – Denis Gianoutsos

"We need to make a decision in whatever you want to do. It's never gonna be perfect, team. You can always adapt, adjust, tweak when you're going out there, but you have to get going, you have to do something." – Denis Gianoutsos

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Patrick Snow is an international best-selling author, professional keynote speaker, publishing, speaking, and book marketing coach. He first discovered his gift for speaking at the age of 17 while giving pre-game speeches to his high school football team. Since then, Patrick has electrified more than 3,500 audiences on four continents to achieve their individual and organizational destinies.

Patrick’s “DESTINY” message has been widely recognized in the media including, The New York Times and Forbes Magazine. His book, story, and family photo were also featured as a cover story in a 2002 issue of USA TODAY.

On this episode:

• Listen to Patrick’s story that was heavily influenced by his parents
• Patrick shares how he started learning leadership at a young age because of youth sports
• Patrick discusses why you need to “learn how to fish for yourself”
• Patrick talks about his favorite leaders and how they influenced his leadership style
• Hear Patrick’s view about leadership
• Patrick’s advice on how to become a successful leader

Key Takeaways:

• If you want what others have, you must do what others have done
• Learn how to fish for yourself
• Family is the most important thing in the world
• Always take care of yourself physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally
• Leadership is not based on words. It’s based on actions.

Tweetable Quotes:

“I learned that to create wealth; you did it by being a business owner, a sales professional, an entrepreneur. Not working for a man and trading time for dollars.” – Patrick Snow

“Build yourself a career in which you don’t need to take a vacation from.” – Patrick Snow

“We got to think it, ink it, believe it, and achieve it.” – Patrick Snow

Learn more about Patrick:

•  Website: http://patricksnow.com/
• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: +1 206 310 1200

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Having started his career as a news journalist, Colin Kennedy is the former CEO of Agritech Inc and general manager of a social and emergency housing company. However, most of his career has been in the reputation marketing space, specifically marketing and sales management, public relations, and content marketing. Nowadays, he helps business leaders become thought leaders.

On this episode:

• Hear Colin talk about his background and how he got into leadership roles
• Colin shares the lessons he learned from his favorite leaders and how it has affected his leadership style
• Colin discusses how the way people deal with people has changed and continues to change
• Hear why Colin believes we need to change the social dynamics in workplaces and our society

Key Takeaways:

• You can’t be a lazy leader. You need to engage with your people.
• Treat other people, your team as your equals
• Do the tough things with dignity and respect
• When making decisions, always put other people into consideration

Tweetable Quotes:

“Nowadays, you cannot be a lazy leader, you know? You need to engage with your people. You need to win them and move them.” – Colin Kennedy

“The people consideration has to be in the forefront of all decision making.” – Colin Kennedy

Learn more about Colin:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/strategicpr/
• Website: https://www.ironroad.co.nz/
• Blog: https://www.ironroad.co.nz/blog/ 

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Njeru Nthigah is the President & Founder of The Business Implementation Academy – an organization committed to empowering digital creators, knowledge entrepreneurs, course creators, and membership site owners to get unstuck so that they can implement and launch their products easier, faster and simple leading to more income, impact, and freedom.

Njeru Nthigah was born in Kenya and grew up through a life of struggle. His life was shaped by the early death of his close family, and this propelled him into a journey of entrepreneurship. He created a very successful freight company and achieved tremendous success at a very young age.

Njeru sold his company and moved to Southern Africa to lead the offices of the Kenyan National Airline – Kenya Airways. By that time, he was already leading two country offices, running a budget of over 40 Million Dollars and teams in both countries. 

But one day, Njeru embark on the most pivotal and life-changing journey of his life. He decided to move to America to pursue a dream of becoming his very best. He came to America with $749.00, to a country he had never been to, to a city he had never been to, and seeking a teacher he had never met! This journey had led to being trained and mentored by the world’s greatest leadership teacher John C Maxwell. 

Njeru Nthigah had been trained and shared the stage with numerous leaders like John Maxwell, Seth Godin, Nick Vujicic, Les Brown, James Wedmore, and many others. Today, Njeru Nthigah works to empower others to grow in their leadership and be successful in their business.

On this episode:

• Celebrating the 100th Episode of Leadership Is Changing
• Hear Njeru’s story of struggles, losing family members at a young age, and left with the responsibility of becoming the head of their family
• Discovering who you are and learning to lead yourself
• What’s holding you back from reaching your goals?
• Hear why it’s important to invest in yourself and Njeru’s secrets to successful leadership
• What it takes to be a successful leader in this fast-moving world

Key Takeaways:

• Successful people get out of their comfort zones, not afraid to take risks, pursues and does everything they can to reach their goals
• There’s always a price to pay, sacrifices to make to achieve your goals
• Successful leaders listen more and talk less
• Allow others to thrive

Tweetable Quotes:

“I was always an entrepreneur, and that’s what saved me when I lost my family.” – Njeru Nthigah

“I like people who are unconventional. I like people who are willing to put the stick on the ground and try something that has never been tried.” – Njeru Nthigah

“When you make up your mind. When you cut out the noise. When you say there is no going back. Everything is possible.” – Njeru Nthigah

Resources Mentioned:

• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

Learn more about Njeru:

• Website: www.thebusinessimplementationacademy.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njerunthigah/?hl=en

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

In this episode of Ask Denis, hear Denis talk about the voice of impact. There was a time when Denis had to go through the possibility of losing his voice forever. He had to undergo surgery and months of rehabilitation without 100% assurance of getting his voice back.

Despite all that, Denis still persevered and fought and eventually regained his voice. He now uses this “second” voice to impact other people’s lives, and hopefully, the world. So, what does the voice of impact really mean? Do you have the voice of impact? 

On this episode:

• Denis talks about the time he had to get a tumor removed to get his voice back
• Denis shares his insights on taking a “time out”
• Fear of the unknown
• Denis talks about the reason why he started this podcast
• How to have a voice of impact
• Denis’s gratitude for all the support the podcast is getting

Key Takeaways:

• Look after yourself all the time
• Your voice needs to be heard
• Use your voice to make an impact

Tweetable Quotes:

“When you take some time out to think, it’s really amazing what can happen or what can come up for you.” – Denis Gianoutsos

“For you to have a voice of impact, you have to be disciplined, focused, and consistent.” – Denis Gianoutsos

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

Joanna Makris comes from and lives in Greece. She is known as “The Inspired 360° Success - speaker, trainer, and coach - who is totally obsessed with mindset and leadership”. Her passion is to share and inspire new awareness and mindset breakthroughs for lasting success in personal and professional life leading to inner harmony.

Prior to choosing this career path, Joanna enjoyed a 15+ yr successful banking career serving from a number of leadership positions in large organizations, such as Citicorp, working with people across the globe, while trying to be successful in all other areas of her life too. She then transitioned to her own business, “Success Link,” became a founding partner with the John Maxwell Team, and for the last 15 years, she has been living her purpose by helping others bring Inspired 360ᵒ Success to their life.

Joanna likes to say: If I made it from “a success juggler” to “an inspired achiever,” then you can too!

On this episode:

• Joanna shares her story of working in a bank to transitioning to starting her own business
• Joanna talks about “split personalities.” The ‘you’ you show at work and the ‘you’ at home.
• Joanna talks about the qualities a leader must have
• Leaders creating their own new normal
• What Joanna would change in businesses today
• Joanna shares what it takes to become a successful leader

Key Takeaways:

• Great leaders aren’t about the names. It’s a type of person
• Create a vision that will be your new reality that will become your new normal
• Don’t dwell on the problem. Think of a solution that’ll get you unstuck
• Leaders should model the art of change and embrace the need for work-life harmony

Tweetable Quotes:

“There’s so many great leaders, right? And I’m sure that most people tell you that they struggle to find one name and tell you who that is. Same is for me, but for me is a totally different approach. For me, it’s not about the name. It’s rather a type of person.” – Joanna Makris

“Anyone who brings the inspiration and transformation who serves, unites, values, and models for others. These are my favorite ones. So, these are the ones that create positive change and positive impact in the world.” – Joanna Makris

“A successful leader is based in today’s reality and already lives in tomorrow’s vision.” – Joanna Makris

Follow Joanna:

• LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3pbQOZN 
• Facebook: https://bit.ly/2LYg7QB 
• Greek Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3o7A6t9 

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/

In this episode of Ask Denis, hear Denis talk about staying calm in the midst of ambiguity and chaos. When faced with new, unfamiliar things and challenges in life, we tend to fear the ambiguities it brings. We become scared of the bad things that might happen and never or seldom think of the opportunity to rise from those challenges.

Amidst all the chaos that might or might not happen, people panic, and there isn’t anything good that comes when we panic. So, Denis’s piece of advice for you is to stay calm and face everything with a clear mind.

On this episode:

• Denis talks about the upcoming 36th America’s Cup
• Denis shares an amazing feat in the recently held PRADA Cup
• Stay calm, calculated, have humor and confidence amidst all the chaos
• What will 2021 bring to you? What will you do, and what will you bring to the table?

Key Takeaways:

• Always have a plan so that you’ll know what to do next
• Do what you need to do to stay calm
• No matter the ambiguities and chaos thrown at you – stay calm

Tweetable Quotes:

“No matter what is thrown at you, stay calm.” – Denis Gianoutsos

“We always learn from the different areas that we work in. We always learn from what’s going on for us in our lives and in our businesses.” – Denis Gianoutsos

Resources:

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ 

Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/

Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/