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🎧 Episode 183: The Dance of Head and Heart: Recalibrating Your Leadership Vision

Leadership is a reflection… but what happens when the image looking back at you is distorted? In this episode, I explore how vision gets skewed, the red flags to watch for, and what it takes to recalibrate when you’ve drifted off course. Through personal stories, psychology insights, and practical recalibration tools, I unpack how great leaders balance both the head and the heart to stay aligned with their vision—and inspire their teams to do the same.

We explore:

• The subtle ways vision gets distorted: tunnel vision, echo chambers, busyness disguised as progress, and external pressures
• A personal story of when I had the vision and the people… but the numbers weren’t there—and the hard leadership calls that followed
• Four red flags that signal your leadership reflection may be warped
• The psychology behind why leaders miss distortion: confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger, and availability heuristic
• How imposter syndrome skews your personal reflection and bleeds into how you show up as a leader
• Practical ways to recalibrate: stepping back, returning to values, inviting honest mirrors, redefining success, and practicing radical reflection

🔑 Key takeaways:

• Distorted vision doesn’t scream at you—it whispers, until suddenly you’re miles off course.
• Great leadership is a dance between the head and the heart: too much on the business and you lose people, too much on the people and you lose results.
• You are worthy of where you are, and worthy of where you dream to be—but you must unpack the internal doubts or they will resurface in damaging ways.
• Good leaders notice something is off. Great leaders recalibrate quickly, transparently, and courageously.

A rising tide raises all ships, and I invite you along on this journey to Evoke Greatness!

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