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Liz Bentley – How Leaders can evolve and grow

Liz Bentley is the founder and president of Liz Bentley Associates, a leadership consulting firm. She uses her background as a psychology major, competitive athlete and her 10-year’s experience working in the corporate world to help executives become Olympians. She is fascinated by human behavior and what makes people tick.

In this podcast she talks about the importance of play, the traits that is most important for leaders to have and how failure is an important part of being a leader.

Show Notes:

• How Liz uses play to balance life and work (00:00)
• How her kids encourage this playfulness in her life (02:05)
• How travelling fits into her life and what she has learned (02:59)
• What knowledge does Liz gains from the people she meets (03:54)?
• The importance for leaders to be evolving and growing (05:24)
• How self-awareness and resilience can be the most important traits for leaders (08:14)
• How failure has helped her to become a better leader (12:08)
• The 3 things that sets her business apart from other consulting firms (16:13)
• The importance of treating every one of her clients individually (19:20)
• How Liz reinvented herself and bought different parts of herself into her business (19:56)
• How she found her calling for this line of work (20:57)
• What drives her to do the work she does (22:23)
• How Liz would describe her leadership philosophy (24:08)
• The struggles leaders can have with teams and the keys to building team cohesion (26:20)
• What Liz would put on a billboard (28:42)

Links:

http://www.lizbentley.com/

BIO: LIZ BENTLEY LINK:

http://www.lizbentley.com/our-team/liz-bentley

Quotes:

We cannot stop the evolution of life. Our choice is to evolve with it, which feels great and when we fight it, it's fruitless.

By knowing who we are, we know how to grow our business, we know how to create a culture. If we're evolving ourselves, everyone around us is growing too.

You can't be a great leader without failing. In order to lead you have to take risks.

Failure is critical to growing confidence.

More about guest:

Liz Bentley is a sought after executive coach, leadership consultant and career development expert. As President of Liz Bentley Associates, Bentley and her leadership development consulting firm offer leadership seminars, team coaching, sales boot camps, retreats, and facilitation to both individuals and corporations.

Through her work with a variety of clients, and her personal background, Bentley provides great insight into workplace/employment trends;

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