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Leading with Curiosity with Leigh Howes

54m · Inspire and Connect; Your Podcast for Life and Business · 03 Apr 06:00

Leigh Howes is an Executive Coach with over 20 years’ experience in observing, partnering, and advising high performing business leaders and founders. Over this time, she has been trusted to hold space for many wonderful emerging and established leaders from start up to board. She is also the best-selling author of Foundations to Lead From™.

Leigh specialises in supporting these service-based businesses to develop their leadership and business without compromising their priorities and boundaries along the way. She is passionate with empowering greater curiosity, consciousness and communication to uplevel performance and impact.

Leigh is on a mission to spread a ripple of ‘happy’ leaders & next generation CEO’s with more joy, energy, freedom and alignment to their business model. Meaning, there’s more of a focus on ‘happier’ higher levels of performance without working around the clock. 

In this episode

• Diagnosis of breast cancer and the impact on her life and business

• The importance of critical illness cover

• How community and connection got Leigh through some of the most difficult times in her life

• How we learn to be more curious

• What questions we can be asking when we meet new people

• The conditioning we are in working 9-5

• The four corner stones of critical thinking

 

Connect with Leigh here;

https://www.instagram.com/leighahowes/

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/leighhowes1/

 https://www.facebook.com/growwithleigh

 

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