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How do you invest in yourself and utilize your unique skills to become a successful leader? Leading from a unique, curious, and compassionate perspective allows you to create a work environment where everyone in your team feels supported, protected, and advocated for.
On this episode of the She Leads Now Podcast, we’re joined by Mary Hendra. Mary is an executive leader and entrepreneur bringing curiosity, creativity, and compassion back into the workplace and our spaces of adult learning. She works with individuals and teams to create these spaces of curiosity and innovation.
Listen in to hear about her career transitions and how she developed as a new leader with an individual leadership style, and the importance of advocating for your team members and fostering the play culture to keep your organization growing. You will also learn how to cultivate curiosity over being the expert in the room, plus how to model your own leadership style.
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Key Takeaways:
- Shift your mindset around the meaning of negotiating within your job to invest in your learning and growth.
- The importance of protecting, supporting, and advocating for the people you’re leading.
- How to use what you have to model your own style of leadership without copying others.
- How fostering the play culture in your team can lead to innovative and financial success.
What You Will Learn in This Episode:
- [1:55] Mary describes her career journey and transitions before she found her current passion.
- [5:55] She explains her experiences with job transitioning and negotiating for a 4-hour work week.
- [12:56] How grounding in what she needed helped Mary luck with a job and a better salary offer.
- [15:10] How she stepped into her leadership role and became an advocate for her team members.
- [19:42] How she tapped into her skills and inner self to develop herself as a new leader.
- [21:39] How fostering the play culture with her team resulted in organizational growth.
- [25:17] The power of cultivating and staying curious over being the expert in the room.
- [28:25] Mary shares her book recommendations and explains how they relate to leadership.
Books Mentioned:
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
- High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
Get In Touch:
- Website: https://maryhendra.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-hendra/
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