Profit Vs Purpose- What is your why?
Nathan Dennis
Corporate Diversity and Inclusivity Training | Diversity Consulting | Connecting Businesses with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities | Equality and Diversity Consultant
I was sitting & thinking the other night
Why do I LOVE to facilitate Fun & Creative learning environments? I mean I will literally bubble up inside with excitement like a little child inside a sweetie shop.
Every time I get the privilege to enter a training room with new or known people I first feel humbled then a sense of excitement hits me as I think about the possibilities, changes and impact I can make.
My answer to myself is because I genuinely LOVE people & I want to help people find and unlock their full potential.
I can’t always explain it, but meeting new people hearing their stories, their journey & their truths, their why excites me!
I had to STOP recently to evaluate myself honestly, with true friends and professionals to explore my own why?
The questions I asked myself were:
Are you working just for profit or for purpose?
After reflecting on the question, I realised that I genuinely believe that when you “find purpose, profit will find you. Honestly in the past when reflecting, I haven’t always been this way I had to work hard to discover my leadership DNA & drivers that really motivate, inspire & move me, it doesn’t matter how many tests, tools I have done including our own “Leadership DNA” product that is an interactive game of self-discovery. What came through, time & time again is my love for family and my values.
For years believe it or not I would speak at conferences, facilitate workshops or training but not bring all of who I am into the room, but now I practice the complete opposite. I bring all my diversity, difference, uniqueness to the table. My humour, my passion, my culture, my heritage, my faith, Gender and marital status to the party.
Do you? Or do you hide bits of yourself to please or appease others?
Now it might sound silly I know, but people buy into and connect with genuine people and the more I walk in my uniqueness and originality the more people buy in and connect with me.
Never leave a person’s presence with them having to guess who you, let your authentic self connect with them that gives them, that peace and reassurance that you are who you say you are.
The day I dropped the mask is the day I become more powerful & attractive than I have ever been. Many have heard the famous poem.
Our Greatest Fear
“Our Greatest Fear it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us,
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?..........................Marianne Williamson
Often said to have been quoted in a speech by Nelson Mandela. The source is Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, Harper Collins, 1992. —Peter McLaughlin
We need to be liberated so that we can liberate others to stand, live, work in their truth & this why I am so proudly passionate about the Equal Yours product, it sets people & their organisations free, on a journey of discovery, to be the best version of themselves to improve themselves, organisation and dare I say audaciously, the world.
Nathan Dennis
Founder of First Class Legacy & Business Associate at AKD Solutions
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)7462236868
Executive Director Property Services at Newlon Housing Trust
5 年Great article, Dennis. I see a lot of myself in what you say about bringing the whole of oneself into working to inspire others, through love, truth, honesty and openness. Keep up the great work!
Chief Executive Officer at First Class Foundation
6 年Honest reflection Nathan?