Episode #1

Wendy Born - The Languages of Leadership

Wendy Born is an author, facilitator and coach, who helps Senior Executive Teams achieve high performance, by mastering team interactions. In this episode we talk about how team’s work, and the simple but impactful steps leaders can take to create high levels of personal and team performance.

Episode 1 - Wendy Born

Wendy Born has more than 25 years experience working in corporate and management roles, including 10 years in senior leadership positions in finance, IT, retail, financial services and communications. She is also a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School.

In this conversation, we talk about some of the critical skills and behaviours leaders need, to maximise their talent and build highly effective people and teams. Like what matters most when you decide to make a leap of faith, or how as a leader you can positively push people into new levels of confidence and capability.

We also discuss Wendy’s new book The Languages of Leadership where she shares some practical ideas on how leaders, including people leading without authority, can be more effective by leveraging the six different languages of modern day leadership.

If you lead a team, or work in a team, and want some different ideas that could drive higher team engagement, this episode is well worth a listen.