What is Leadership?

In conversation with Leslie Williams, Master Certified Integral Coach, and President of LeaderShift Consulting, a global executive coaching practice. Leslie works with leaders who see their own development as the next step to greater impact and are working on behalf of social/global good. We explore the concept of aliveness as power, wellbeing as foundational for sustaining multigenerational missions and confronting the massive growth that's required within and around us navigating the pandemic. Listen in as Leslie drops serious wisdom about the role of grief and humility when leading in times like these. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

In dialgoue with Kelly Diels, Feminist educator, writer and coach, who brings fierce insight and strategy to what it means to bake justice into your business practices. Chela and Kelly look at the ways that we all exist in and perpetuate the culture around us, and where we have influence that can be leveraged for justice. This includes finding alternate business practices that allow us to thrive and take up space, especially in a culture that tells us that we shouldn't.

Discover what the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is, why it's not a good thing, and how to be a culture maker in what you build and how you buy. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

In dialogue with Sebene Selassie, teacher, author and speaker who explores belonging and identity, deep diving into these topics in her forthcoming book, You Belong. Sebene offers up paradoxes for us to grapple with, inviting a reckoning with culturally created separateness and the ultimate truth of our belonging. Sebene and Chela explore many themes of belonging including the pathology of productivity and punitive self-development and the complex and messy territory of social justice, spirituality and cultivating community. Sebene brings thoughtful, deep and fiercely compassionate insight and practice to what it means to lead and to belong to all of this. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

In dialogue with Rachael Maddox, trauma resolution educator, author, coach and guide. Chela and Rachael jam on domination and control versus co-creation and adaptability, hierarchy and its role inside of cooperation. Examine links between leadership and white supremacy, anti-Racism work, how to take care of yourself without bypassing, while learning about leadership from others. Explore what it takes to align with your own needs and health first and notions around competition, sharing responsibility, trusting in everyone's unique roles. Rachael offers "What if the greatest leadership we can do is followship?" Tune in now for this powerful transmission of what's possible in co-creative forms of leadership where hierarchy doesn't get tossed aside. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

Welcome to the very first episode of What is Leadership?! Chela invites you into the ongoing conversation that this podcast is initiating. She begins by asking questions she finds daunting, unanswerable even, the questions guiding her leadership, unique contributions and this podcast. Exploring how stories embed themselves into identities and approaches to leadership, she asks how we may tell co-emergent new narratives for a more life-affirming world. From grappling with the daunting complexity of contemporary existence, to how culture creates what we give our lifeforce to, this episode asks what it means to participate in evolution lays out the potential territory this podcast endeavours to seek out, unearth and curiously explore. For links & show notes go to: cheladavison.com/podcast

What do you think of when you hear the word 'leadership'? Who do you picture when you see a leader? Announcing the August launch of my new podcast What is Leadership, where we explore this very question. It's an invitation into a conversation about how we are creating a new world while navigating new and unknown territory. This is a claim that leadership is not just for those who wield power or the inside circle. We'll examine what we need to be capable of to meet what's coming, to evolve together, especially when we see things differently. Join me with amazing guests who span a whole variety of perspectives, industries, cultures, scales, approaches and expression, as we explore leadership together.