Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity

Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity

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  • Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Julie Pham

    In this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, Julie Pham, Phd joins me to discuss the intersection of curiosity and creativity, why optimizing your team’s energy instead of their time brings better results, and how to leverage failure as a growth propellant. 

    Julie is an author, TEDx Speaker, curiosity connoisseur, CEO of CuriosityBased, and founder of “7 Forms of Respect®”. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Seattle. Dr. Pham earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and she graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley, where she studied history. She earned her real-life MBA by running her family’s Vietnamese language newspaper during the 2008-2010 recession. She has worked as a journalist, historian, marketer, nonprofit executive, community organizer, and management consultant. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership. She lives in Seattle, Washington. 

    • 1:51 You’ll hear about the elements of curiosity as a practice, including self-awareness, relationship building, and clear communication.
    • 4:20 You’ll hear how setting learning goals, not just revenue or growth goals, provides value even when things fail and how important it is for leaders to model the behaviors of embracing failing and learning in public.
    • 8:30 You’ll hear about how leaders can create a culture of learning together as a team by intentionally creating structural practices for relationship building to get to know and connect with one another. 
    • 13:20 You’ll hear about creating spaces of trust that foster accountability in shared work environments by leveraging personal expectations and stories of highs and lows.
    • 16:30 You’ll hear about time blocking, making time for deep thought, valuing rest, four day workweeks, and other tactics to prevent burnout and make space for creativity.
    • 18:30 You’ll hear about how moving away from managing time and moving towards managing energy and being curious collectively as a team can optimize a team’s capabilities.
    • 20:30 You’ll hear about how, as an entrepreneur, taking the unconventional path of bringing on employees early in your business can propel growth, build energy, and bring joy.
    • 23:18 You’ll hear about the intersection of curiosity and creativity, how to address the fact that 70% of people feel they face barriers asking questions at work, and how to navigate external pressures that often stifle creativity, like focusing on certain outcomes, false urgency, not making space for rest, and perfectionism.

      • Where can you find more?

      • You can support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.
      • For more info about Shawn Carney Coaching, the podcast, and ways to support, check out the website www.shawncarneycoaching.com and subscribe on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, or using your favorite RSS app.
      • Find Shawn on LinkedIn/in/shawncarney or Instagram
      • Find Julie on her website, LinkedIn (individual), LinkedIn (company), YouTube, her book’s website,  Free digital crash course on 7 Forms of Respect 
        • 28 min
      • Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Sam Drauschak

        In this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, Sam Drauschak joins me to discuss process science - the study of change in systems, becoming a conscious business, and how the accumulation of process debt can impede your capacity for creativity and innovation.

         

        Sam Drauschak is the Co-founder and Chief Process Scientist at Truvle. He leads a mission to empower businesses in curbing wasteful activity through innovative tools, software, and expert content. With over a decade of management consulting experience across financial services, resources, legal, media, and digital sectors, Sam leverages business science fundamentals to streamline and enhance operations. His authored work, Becoming A Conscious Business, explores the efficiency of biological systems and their modern business applications.  


        At Truvle, he spearheads initiatives to optimize business processes and energy flow, having pioneered the Truvle Mapping Language (TML), a universal process mapping standard adopted by major enterprises worldwide. Sam is a distinguished speaker at IIBA and Columbia University, recognized for his process consulting expertise. Featured in Top 100 Magazine and Marqui’s Who’s Who, he’s celebrated for his exceptional contributions to process mapping language development.


        • 2:16 You’ll hear how self actualization and fulfillment can be outputs of the study of process science by turning the lens of building efficient systems on yourself.

        • 2:57 You’ll hear how being open to pivoting, flowing, and trying different things can be part of an efficient process, even if it sounds counterintuitive.

        • 4:40 You’ll hear about the importance of automating and delegating the routine processes to get out of the mire of the everyday in order to make time for creativity. 

        • 7:40 You’ll hear about the valuable messiness of the creative process.

        • 9:00 You’ll learn how failure could look like the right idea at the wrong time and how the process of life unfolding can create opportunities and fertile ground.

        • 11:25 You’ll hear how being vulnerable and authentically sharing your passion can attract collaborators, connectivity, and energy. Like puzzle pieces, we have to combine to create different things together.

        • 14:05 You’ll hear how we’re not being present or sustainable in our business when we intentionally leave the tech, process, and operational debt cleanup for the future knowing it will eventually slow us down.

          • Links mentioned in this episode:

          • truvle.com

            • Where can you find more?

            • For more information about Shawn Carney Coaching, the podcast, and ways to support, check out the website www.shawncarneycoaching.com and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Google, Apple, Amazon, or using your favorite RSS app.

            • You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.

            • Find Shawn on LinkedIn or Instagram  

            • Find Sam at truvle.com and LinkedIn 

              • 23 min
            • Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Meri Williams

              In this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, Meri Williams joins me to discuss being an inclusive tech leader, leveraging risk to unlock creativity, and how to redesign your leadership role and team for greater impact and enjoyment. 

              Meri Williams is an experienced CTO and technology leader. She particularly enjoys helping others to level up as technical leaders and managers of organisations, and works as a CTO coach and tech advisor to various companies in this capacity through micro-consultancy ChromeRose.

              She has led teams that scale in size from 30 to 300, in a range of organisations from Procter & Gamble, to the Government Digital Service, award-winning online print company MOO, mobile-first challenger bank Monzo and patient-inspired AI-driven rare disease treatment discovery company Healx, amongst others.

              A published author and international speaker, she is the chair of The Lead Developer conference, and a tech advisor for Kindred Capital. She’s also a trustee at Stonewall, the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ rights charity, and together with her wife runs micro-charity One Goes Up to help young women & enby folks pursue STEM education & careers.

              • 3:05 You’ll hear how reflecting on your role, staying curious, identifying what you love doing versus what to partner on with others to leverage their strengths, and how redesigning your role can reduce your stress and increase your impact as a leader.
              • 10:33 You’ll learn how Meri got involved with Lead Dev, the power of soft skills, and how those skills can be cultivated and grown.
              • 12:45 You’ll hear about the power of networking and serendipity in regards to collaboration and opportunity. 
              • 13:20 You’ll hear about middle managers as a force multiplier and the cost to productivity, innovation, and creativity of treating people poorly.
              • 20:10 You’ll hear about how staying agile in order to design for change and leveraging experimentation as a propellant for change can also enable creativity and fun.
              • 23:23 You’ll hear how to model and address risks in the context of business continuity in order to unlock creativity and problem solving. 

                • Links mentioned in this episode:

                • shawncarneycoaching.com
                • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
                • Pleo
                • Lead Dev
                • Chrome Rose

                  • Where can you find more?

                  • For more information about Shawn Carney Coaching, the podcast, and ways to support, check out the website www.shawncarneycoaching.com and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google, or using your favorite RSS app.
                  • You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.Find Shawn on LinkedIn or Instagram
                  • Find Meri on X, Instagram, and LinkedIn 
                    • 30 min
                  • Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity Teaser

                    Leadership is about being in service of others, your customers, your employees, your communities, your partners, your stakeholders, and your shareholders. The level of complexity in the world requires creativity in how we navigate uncertainties, identify challenges and opportunities, and create innovative products and services that meet ever-changing conditions and needs, disrupt the market status quo, and delight the customer. To achieve all of this, creativity isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have. It's not just about artistic expression; creativity is a powerful force that can propel innovative thinking, out-of-the-box problem-solving, and visionary direction. So, how can you cultivate creativity for yourself and your teams? In this podcast, Leading beyond limits: Cultivating creativity, we talk with leaders from different industries and company sizes, solo entrepreneurs, managers, and CEOs in order to offer tactical strategies to help you tap into your creative potential and inspire your teams to do so as well. If you’re looking to create an impact, to make a difference that matters, to set yourself apart from the crowd, to inspire those around you to greatness, then you’re in the right place. Subscribe, embrace your inner creativity, and watch as it transforms not only your leadership but also the world around you.

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                  In this podcast, Leading beyond limits: Cultivating creativity, we talk with leaders from different industries and company sizes, solo entrepreneurs, managers, and CEOs in order to offer tactical…