What does Russell do? Well the opening line on his website says it all "he Supports Leaders Who are Wading Through Treacle to Rediscover their Mojo and make great decisions"
With over 2 decades years of experience in learning, leadership, and organizational development, Russell has dedicated the past 18 years to resilience and navigating the complexities of a VUCA world.
He’s an engaging leadership coach, speaker, and facilitator with a mission to positively impact 100,000 lives by the end of this year. Passionate, pragmatic, and playful, Russell is here to share his insights on resilience, leadership, and helping people rediscover their mojo.
Ross and Russell talk about leadership at The Co-operative Group, restructure, change, defining resilience, bouncing back without learning, surviving, thriving, overwhelm, never add to the 'to do list', reducing stress, purpose & energy, positive effects, playing to strengths, reducing responsibilities, delegating, removing blockage to people performing and feeling lighter. The pair also discuss common understanding, fostering energy, wellbeing, lack of confidence, caring for people, optimism, grounding guiding hope, tough times forcing resilience, adaptability, agility, simplifying new things, permanent openness, burnout, adopting AI, what is working well, emotional intelligence, finding purpose, reflect back on your life and remember being proud, finding ways to be proud, natural energisers, enjoying work, fear, your network, intentional choice and asking for help.
Timecodes:
- 00:16 Intro to Russell
- 00:54 Russell's background
- 01:48 Becoming ‘The Resilience Coach’
- 04:40 Clients journeys with Russell
- 13:06 Giving teams and organisations resilience
- 16:41 Russell's current activities and impacting 100,000 lives
- 19:54 Darker times in the past and accepting reality
- 24:44 Addiction recovery - Genius Recovery
- 25:58 Proactive resilience and building resilience
- 29:10 Suffering a role and identity loss
- 32:23 VUCA and BANI - Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible
- 33:54 Rolemodeling and unlearning
- 35:53 EQ and AQ - Emotional Quotient and Adversity Quotient
- 38:16 Building resilience in the next 10 days
- 42:57 The last time Russell did something for the first time
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