Leading with Intention To Create The Life You Want

In this episode of #EverydayLeadership, my guests are Davina Williamson and Dean Forbes. Davina currently serves as the Founder and Director of 6 Degrees Talent and co-CEO at Forbes Family Group and she is a qualified yoga teacher.?

Dean has had a phenomenal 20-year career as a Tech Leader and has orchestrated exit deals of over 1 billion dollars throughout his impressive career. They both talked about personal and professional tactics they use to intentionally and deliberately create the lives they want.

In this episode, we talked about being consistent with our mindset, holistic approach to careers, redefining work, and so much more.

“..what actually happened reflecting on it now as an adult is my kind of identity got snatched away from us. I defined myself as being part of that football group and one of the lads and we all trained and we all socialized. So I kind of lost my identity for a minute, and had to figure out who I wanted to be, I wasn't going to be that person anymore. I had to figure out who I wanted to be. And I wasn't very thoughtful about it.” - Dean Forbes

Key Takeaways

• Holistic approach to work

“I say, look, there is no dream job. Nobody works in their dreams, but you have to find a way to find a sustainable way to live and to have the things that you want in life, and you need to ascertain what success looks like for you. Work is supposed to sustain us, it's not supposed to be everything. And that's my approach to recruitment both for my clients and my candidates. I say to my clients, you're not hiring a PR, you're hiring a person, so holistically how you can help develop this person to be the best employee that they can be in your business.”

• Having a consistent mindset

“Among my peer group, I wanted to be the one who got the longest pro contract for the most money in a positive competitive way. And that mindset hasn't changed at all, right? It just had to kind of pivot and be aimed at something else. Because in business, I'm exactly the same way. And the trick was not to let that get distorted. And I say this all the time when we talk about people from our old area who may have gone down the wrong path. I always talk to him about some of the qualities it takes to be involved in that tragic and unfortunate and incorrect lifestyle. Some of the qualities it takes to do that. Very powerful qualities to apply an aim in business.”

• Defining leadership

“The ability to get others to participate in the calls with, you know, high motivation for willingness. And with complete choice.”

“I think it's about being intentional, and actually doing the things that need to be done. I think that's how I define leadership. It's about having a very strong intention about what you want to achieve.”

• Gathering different perspectives

“Good points of views come from different types of people, including women, including ethnic minorities, including people who have worked in companies like ours in other parts of the world, including people who have worked in companies that supply to us or supply to just get the perspectives around the table. And let gathering those perspectives become normal. And then the other byproducts of having those different perspectives around the table will take care of themselves”

This podcast session with Dean and Davina was quite enlightening with a lot of quotables. It is a must-listen especially as a business owner. Don’t sleep on it! ??????

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Leading with Intention To Create The Life You Want

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Sope Agbelusi is a husband, father, executive coach, Keynote Speaker and Founder of MindsetShift. MindsetShift is a leadership development compact focused on leaders, teams and organisations to create people-centred, inclusive cultures that harness each individual’s full potential ?????https://mindsetshift.co.uk/contact-us/?

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