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Katherine LaVelle

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Shep Hyken

Tim Staples

Nir Eyal

Roger Firestien

Jurgen Appelo

David Marquet

Guy Kawasaki

Tom Peters

Gary Vaynerchuk

Jason Treu

Seth Godin

Yuri Elkaim

Jake Dunlap

Chris Brogan

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Today’s interview is with Katherine LaVelle, Managing Director and North America Lead for Talent &amp; Organization at Accenture Strategy. Katherine joins me today to talk about a new piece of research (New Rules for Engagement) which is based on interviews with 200 C-suite executives and a survey of more than 11,000 employees and consumers globally and explores the hypothesis that proactively reskilling the C-Suite can lead to both personal and bottom line benefits.  This interview follows on from my recent interview – The secrets behind Airbnb’s customer experience – Interview with Joseph Michelli – and is number 324 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Today’s interview is with Katherine LaVelle, Managing Director and North America Lead for Talent &amp; Organization at Accenture Strategy. Katherine joins me today to talk about a new piece of research (New Rules for Engagement) which is based on interviews with 200 C-suite executives and a survey of more than 11,000 employees and consumers globally and explores the hypothesis that proactively reskilling the C-Suite can lead to both personal and bottom line benefits. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The secrets behind Airbnb’s customer experience – Interview with Joseph Michelli – and is number 324 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders that are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees.

Pathfinder customers and employees are demanding more of senior leaders - Interview with Katherine LaVelle of Accenture

Let’s face it: To be a good, effective leader in today’s complex and crowded marketplace, leaders need some new skills, and they are skills that we don’t normally talk about or associate with the traditional viewpoint of leadership — things like empathy and intuition. Apart from just the “right-brain” skills, leaders need to tap into their “left-brain” skills and put them all together in the form of Whole-Brain Leadership. Katherine LaVelle joins me on this episode to dive into just what this means.   Katherine LaVelle is the Managing Director and North America Lead for Talent and Organization at Accenture Strategy. She helps organizations develop and implement workforce transformation programs to improve employee performance and deliver bottom-line results. As an expert in Whole-Brain Leadership, she helps leaders to augment their traditional skills like critical reasoning, data analysis, making tough decisions with skills like creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, empathy, negotiation, intuition, and innovation.   Why don’t the traditional styles of leadership fit into the modern workforce? Katherine shares more about a unique group of people, “The Pathfinders,” and how they are disrupting the workforce, and why empathy and negotiation are becoming critical skills for leaders to develop. She also reveals a surprising skill leaders need to cultivate — intuition, and how to approach re-skilling yourself as a leader. Whole-Brain leadership can drive a culture where innovation thrives across the organization — find out how you can implement that in your organization!   If you are ready to:   get buy-in from key decision makers on your next big idea   be a high-impact, high-value member that ignites change   foster a culture of innovation where everyone on your team is bringing innovative ideas that tackle challenges and seize opportunities…   Join us on LaunchStreet — gotolaunchstreet.com    Mentioned in This Episode:  IQE  Assessment Katherine LaVelle on Twitter  Whole-Brain  Leadership Accenture Strategy StitchFix 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen Covey

Let’s face it: To be a good, effective leader in today’s complex and crowded marketplace, leaders need some new skills, and they are skills that we don’t normally talk about or associate with the traditional viewpoint of leadership — things like empathy and intuition. Apart from just the “right-brain” skills, leaders need to tap into their “left-brain” skills and put them all together in the form of Whole-Brain Leadership. Katherine LaVelle joins me on this episode to dive into just what this means. Katherine LaVelle is the Managing Director and North America Lead for Talent and Organization at Accenture Strategy. She helps organizations develop and implement workforce transformation programs to improve employee performance and deliver bottom-line results. As an expert in Whole-Brain Leadership, she helps leaders to augment their traditional skills like critical reasoning, data analysis, making tough decisions with skills like creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, empathy, negotiation, intuition, and innovation. Why don’t the traditional styles of leadership fit into the modern workforce? Katherine shares more about a unique group of people, “The Pathfinders,” and how they are disrupting the workforce, and why empathy and negotiation are becoming critical skills for leaders to develop. She also reveals a surprising skill leaders need to cultivate — intuition, and how to approach re-skilling yourself as a leader. Whole-Brain leadership can drive a culture where innovation thrives across the organization — find out how you can implement that in your organization! If you are ready to: <ul> <li> get buy-in from key decision makers on your next big idea </li> <li> be a high-impact, high-value member that ignites change </li> <li> foster a culture of innovation where everyone on your team is bringing innovative ideas that tackle challenges and seize opportunities… </li> </ul> Join us on LaunchStreet — <a href="http://www.gotolaunchstreet.com/#intro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">gotolaunchstreet</a><a href="http://www.gotolaunchstreet.com/#intro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.</a><a href="http://www.gotolaunchstreet.com/#intro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">com</a> <a></a> Mentioned in This Episode: <a href="https://www.gotolaunchstreet.com/innovation-training-programs/whats-your-innovation-type/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> IQE</a> <a href="https://www.gotolaunchstreet.com/innovation-training-programs/whats-your-innovation-type/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Assessment</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kdlavelle1?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Katherine</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kdlavelle1?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LaVelle</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kdlavelle1?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kdlavelle1?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a href="https://www.accenture.com/dk-en/insights/strategy/whole-brain-leadership-for-c-suites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Whole</a><a href="https://www.accenture.com/dk-en/insights/strategy/whole-brain-leadership-for-c-suites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">-</a><a href="https://www.accenture.com/dk-en/insights/strategy/whole-brain-leadership-for-c-suites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brain</a> <a href="https://www.accenture.com/dk-en/insights/strategy/whole-brain-leadership-for-c-suites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Leadership</a> <a href="https://www.accenture.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Accenture</a> <a href="https://www.accenture.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strategy</a> <a href="https://www.stitchfix.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StitchFix</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Habits</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">of</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Highly</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Effective</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">People</a><a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">,</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen</a> <a href="https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Covey</a>

1858: Whole-Brain Leadership with Katherine LaVelle