Authentic leadership

I'm looking forward to that.

The Authentic Leadership one with Helen Stokes-Lampard and Nikki Canale, that's in a few minutes.

I'm looking forward to that as well.

Conferences, you'll know.

Today I'm bringing together some of the insights from my last five conversations with some wonderful guests.

Together we explored transformation, love, our fundamental needs, purposeful progress and authentic leadership for women.

Five different conversations, five different perspectives.

Yet, as I've reflected on these episodes, I've noticed a common thread running all of them.

And the more consistently you align your actions with your purpose, the more opportunities you create to learn, grow and make a meaningful difference.

My final theme today is to challenge the barriers that hold you back.

And this is inspired by episode 537, Authentic Leadership for Women with Caroline Lamont.

Caroline and I explored the barriers that can prevent women from recognizing and embracing their leadership capabilities.

There's, you know, there's options.

So what role does authentic leadership play in building that kind of culture where people want to stay and how have you used it?

A big part of it.

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way.

And so that's great questions.

And part of building authentic leadership is for when you ask that question that they trust that you're being genuine and that they can actually answer the question.

Because a lot of times they're not going to give you a real answer.

That's just my nature.

To me, I love your title, Authentic Leadership.

It's just like authenticity, being who you are, acknowledging who you are for whatever you have and don't have.

and then go and do as best as you can.

And such an important piece in terms of, so what is it that what we're doing and what we're saying, how does it align with our values? How does it align with our purpose? And one of the, I had the privilege to collaborate with Alan Mulally on my last book, A Time to Lead.

And his definition of authentic leadership is my favorite, where he said authentic leadership is when your values, your beliefs and behaviors are in alignment.

And the only thing people see are your behaviors and then make assumptions about what your values and beliefs are.

And you touched on the importance of trust.

I've got a lot of fun tools I've been utilizing recently.

And my authentic leaders group, we're going to re-up for 2027 because it seems to be still rocking and rolling.

So got a lot of ways to work with me and support this podcast.

But...

You read books, you listen to podcasts, you create your own board of advisors almost with different mentors.

And along the way, you take those little, little nuggets, and that becomes your authentic leadership style.

Welcome to 15 Minutes with the Boss, a podcast about success, failure, and all the lessons learned along the way.

I'm your host, Sally Patten, and my guest today is Stefan van Muyen, the chief executive of Nespresso in Australia and New Zealand.

Um, when y- y- leadership gets forged, it's, it's not a destination.

You're, you're not like, "Oh, now I'm a leader." So along the way, at least that's how I approached it, is that you read books, you listen to podcasts, you create your own board of advisors almost with different mentors, where you feel like, "Okay, we're very aligned in terms of values and norms," and how you look at what work needs to do in your life.

And along the way, you take those little, little nuggets, you stitch them together, and that becomes your authentic leadership style.

It's not you read a book and I apply all of this and I'm a leader, because authenticity is one of the most important things as a leader.