Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Laura Nespoli
On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Laura Nespoli. Laura has spent 20 years shaping brand, marketing, sales, and product stories for leading global brands and nonprofits. As Group Strategy Director at Article Group, she shapes strategic narratives for innovative product companies. Laura also founded Meshin Movement, a story consultancy that operates in the space between strategy, social impact and creative expression. Through Meshin, Laura speaks about the power of story to develop people, teams and leaders and also helps people and orgs develop their purpose stories.5:30 Hear about how discovering the terms empath and highly sensitive person (HSP) unlocked a purposeful life path.11:00 Learn how leveraging agency and creativity can help in finding your authentic story and self.14:36 Hear how sharing your unique and authentic self and story helps to connect and create community as human beings.27:25 Learn how to push the boundaries of creativity by embracing failure.35:00 Learn how resilience and perseverance can be stoked by the flames of borrowing other people’s belief in you and your ideas, even when you’re struggling to believe in yourself.Where can you find more?Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.Find Shawn on Substack, LinkedIn, Instagram and explore their coaching here.Find Laura at meshinmovement.com and on Instagram.
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Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Emily Schneider
On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Emily Schneider. Emily is a visual storyteller specializing in presentation design. Her passion for simplifying complex content has become a bit of a magical knack — blending storytelling with a keen design eye. She’s not just a designer; Emily is a strategic collaborator, dedicated to helping businesses confidently transform their messages into beautiful, effective presentations that truly resonate with their intended audiences.4:10 Learn about how Emily’s passion for storytelling and creative problem solving was shaped by a deep wonder about how things come together to create an emotional connection.8:00 Hear how leveraging our zone of genius, curiosity, and community can help us become more resilient in order to show up at our best and most favorite self so we can lead by example in uncertain times.9:15 Hear about the power of connection, community and vulnerability and how we can strengthen, grow and evolve through failure and learning. 13:06 Emily turns the tables and asks Shawn the question, “When I’m hitting my goals consistently, am I setting the right goals?”17:40 Hear about leveraging external influences for creative input and how boundaries create space to be able to find an edge.20:00 Hear about the three critical things that make a presentation resonate.24:40 Hear about the role courage plays as our personal seasons shift, evolving our relationships with ourselves, others, and our connections to things and ideas.Where can you find more?Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.Find Shawn on Substack, LinkedIn, Instagram and explore Shawn’s coaching here.Find Emily at iamemilyschneider.com and on LinkedIn.The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Klemp
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Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Kerry Ann King
On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Kerry Ann King. Kerry Ann is the founder and CEO of Eluminate Labs, a software development company dedicated to building solutions that decolonize tech, creating inclusive tools for human wellbeing. After more than a decade working inside the tech industry to promote human-centered approaches to engagement, wellbeing and inclusion, Kerry Ann felt strongly that it was necessary to break free from the exploitative foundations of big tech in order to build software and applications that put people and their wellbeing first. Eluminate Lab’s debut offering Fin - Positive Productivity is designed to help neurodivergent adults learn about their productivity style through data and coaching.2:53 Hear about the benefits of self-awareness as a method of data collection to help you better understand yourself and what will bring you contentment in your career and life.12:40 Learn what decolonizing tech means and how it differs from what you might expect.17:37 Hear about leveraging data to provide customers with better information (without taking an extractive approach) and how data can be balanced alongside other humanistic (rather than deterministic) approaches when managing employees. 24:18 Hear about the philosophy behind Eluminate Labs’ product and how it guides product development and the mission of providing value for neurodivergent individuals.27:00 Hear about how to build and foster creativity in problem-solving as a leader.Where can you find more?Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.Find Shawn onSubstack,LinkedIn,Instagram andhere.Find Kerry Ann onLinkedIn, find Eluminate Labshere as well asLinkedIn,Facebook, andInstagram.
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Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Consuelo Ruybal
On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Consuelo Ruybal.
Consuelo has been a Product Design leader since 2001 and is known for supporting and nurturing each designer in successfully growing their career while positively impacting the company's business and clients. Consuelo builds teams from the ground up for agencies and start-ups, recruiting, hiring, and creating the operational environment for those teams through a mix of business strategy, product innovation, product design, design operations, and a focus on customer needs with a solid research and discovery practice. Consuelo is deeply inspired to create user experiences that deliver value to customers and generate results for clients and particularly loves working on large, complicated projects with diverse team members.
1:51 Learn about the different ways that creativity shows up in our lives.
3:15 Hear how Consuelo builds diverse design teams and the importance of different ideas to spark innovation for business success.
5:03 Hear about removing your ego in order to approach decision-making in design (and more broadly) when faced with the tension between artistic vision and practicality.
7:01 Hear about the fear that shows up when we begin in a new medium or domain and how to embrace the discomfort of “beginner mind” to foster empathy.
10:52 Hear about belonging and how to honor and embrace your own style of leadership, even through challenges like layoffs or harassment at work, rather than internalizing those systemic factors.
16:40 Hear about how to navigate and lead a team through transitions in the constantly evolving technologies, trends, and consumer needs by consistently evaluating the trifecta of process, tooling, and situations.
19:29 Hear about helping your teams grow and work together through feedback and how to be courageous and curious in providing it.
23:23 Hear about how side projects and pro bono work can keep your creative energy flowing.
Where can you find more?
-Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.
-You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.
-Find Shawn on Substack, LinkedIn, Instagram and explore their coaching here.
-Find Consuelo at www.consuelo.com, Substack, and on LinkedIn.
-Daring Greatly By Brene Brown
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Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity with guest Tanya Hallett
On this episode of Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity, my guest is Tanya Hallett. Please be aware that this episode includes descriptions of trauma and mentions of stillbirth.
After spending more than 20 years working in education, Tanya founded TIPT (Trauma Informed Practice Training) to create psychologically safe, diverse, and inclusive schools and workplaces where everyone can thrive, not just survive. She has spent much of her career working with children, adolescents and adults who are neurodiverse, from CALD backgrounds or those who suffer from complex trauma and mental health challenges. Tanya is a passionate advocate for play and creativity in improving mental health and human connection, and trauma informed practice in schools and workplaces. She is a LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator. She has lived experience of neurodiversity, PTSD, anxiety/depression and is a Mental Health First Aid Instructor. Tanya strongly believes the future of successful leadership and productivity will need to be trauma informed to meet the needs of our incoming Gen Z workforce.
3:10 You’ll hear about Tanya’s journey from teaching kids in schools to founding Trauma Informed Practice Training.
19:30 You’ll hear what trauma-informed leadership looks like in practice and why it's essential, especially when working with younger generations like Gen Z.
24:00 You’ll hear about using Lego Serious Play in team building.
27:30 You’ll hear about the responsibility individuals have in overcoming their own trauma and where that meets the responsibility that companies have for the psychological safety of their employees at work.
34:00 You’ll hear how leaders can shift their focus toward supporting the well-being and growth of their team members without compromising organizational goals.
36:30 You’ll hear ways that leaders can incorporate more play and creative thinking into their team’s daily work to produce better outcomes.
Where can you find more?
For more information about Shawn Carney Coaching, check out the website www.shawncarneycoaching.com
Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify or using your favorite podcast app.
You can also support the podcast with ratings, kind words, and by sharing with others.
Find Shawn on Substack, LinkedIn or Instagram.
Find Tanya on her website TIPT.com.au or on LinkedIn.
About Leading Beyond Limits: Cultivating Creativity
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. Embrace your inner creativity, and watch as it transforms not only your leadership but also the world around you.
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