Episode 23: Creating a vision of the future for today
With Kate Ebner
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Key Takeaways
In this season finale of the Leading Real Change podcast, we wrap up this season focusing on culture change with Kate Ebner, CEO of the Nebo Company, a leadership development firm.
Kate shares how she takes leaders through the process of leading culture change. It starts with vision exercises that includes admitting what is not working right now, as well as highlighting our strengths that can be built upon. The willingness to admit where we are vulnerable allows us to face that fear head on.
Next she helps leaders to build a bridge to the future by preparing for change, building capacity for change, and then integrating change into corporate culture.
Kate talks about being able to simply share your change story so that you can communicate the purpose of change to others.
She also shared her belief that we can be more flexible in our leadership styles if we pay more attention to whether we need to be talking big picture or problem solving on daily tactics. And as leaders we need to be able to operate at multiple levels.
We also talked about learning from the process of change. Acknowledging that what we thought at the start was important or true didn’t turn out to be. So that we make change a more creative and fluid process, where being curious and compassionate helps us to keep learning and evolving as the world around us changes rapidly.
Guest Bio
Kate Ebner is the CEO & Founder of The Nebo Company, a premier leadership development firm. Kate helps people see the future, even in uncertain times. As a nationally-recognized leadership coach, she guides CEOs and visionary leaders to lead with purpose. Kate's two decades of research and experience have developed a transformative visioning process that translates desired futures into focused strategies. Through her work at Nebo she defined and developed a model for transformational leadership – The Transformational Leadership Framework™. Kate is the author of “Coaching for Leverage,” a chapter in On Becoming a Leadership Coach, and Holding Space: A Guide to Mindful Facilitation.
