14. Dina Coppel: From lawyer to founder to community leadership

In this podcast we are trying to learn lessons from leaders with different backgrounds. From corporate to military and beyond.

This episode’s guest is Dina Coppel who started as a high flying lawyer who decided to follow her passion and took a hard left turn and became an entrepreneur and a founder.

As life progressed she became a parent and a partner and found herself living in different parts of the world and ended up founding a community to help others.

In this episode Dina shares:

• What made her realise she was working in her first leadership role
• How she struggled communicating to employees in retail after transitioning from a corporate role
• The hurdles of trusting employees when one senior staff member stole from her
• What made her realise she needed to pivot and move to other employment
• The lessons she learnt on leadership when she took a step back from leadership herself
• Her transition to coaching and why she did it

 

Key Quotes

“Telling doesn’t work, asking works.”

"I realised that they're not walking their talk and that’s what’s holding them back.”

“If you keep trying, there'll be a path, the thing that will not get you moving is if you don't try anything.”

 

If you want to find out more about Dina Coppel

You can follow Dina on linkedin: linkedin.com/in/dinacoppel

For her other business you can find it through the websites:

https://1000coffees.net/

https://www.elev8advisory.net/

 

If you want to find out more about what Wayne does, check out his business via the website:

http://engage4performance.com/

Or you can follow him on socials:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-reuben-engage4performance/

 

 

 

 

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