Future-proof your leadership with High Octane Leadership, a place where business leaders—whether by title or aspiration—share cheat codes for unlocking workplace excellence, lessons learned along the way, and insider tips for future generations of next-level professionals. With a career rooted in building people and businesses, Donald Thompson is an award-winning CEO, speaker, and author who empowers leaders to scale with purpose. Over the last 25 years, he has helped startups and enterprises alike drive cultural change, unlock performance, and deliver exceptional results through strategic leadership.
Find him on LinkedIn, and listen here to learn how you can become future-proof too.
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Future-proof your leadership with High Octane Leadership, a place where business leaders—whether by title or aspiration—share cheat codes for unlocking workplace excellence, lessons learned along the way, and insider tips for future generations of next-level professionals. With a career rooted in building people and businesses, Donald Thompson is an award-winning CEO, speaker, and author who empowers leaders to scale with purpose. Over the last 25 years, he has helped startups and enterprises alike drive cultural change, unlock performance, and deliver exceptional results through strategic leadership.
Find him on LinkedIn, and listen here to learn how you can become future-proof too.
Turning Personal Insight into Collective Team Brilliance | Emily Best
High Octane Leadership
54 minutes
4 months ago
Turning Personal Insight into Collective Team Brilliance | Emily Best
Transforming workplace learning and leadership through the power of storytelling and shared experiences.In this episode of High Octane Leadership, I connect with Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, to explore how her company is revolutionizing both creative funding and corporate learning through Film Forward, an innovative platform that uses short films to drive meaningful behavioral change and team development.What You'll Learn:- How to transform psychological safety from concept to practice through specific behavioral frameworks- Why traditional online learning fails to build team cohesion and how shared experiences drive lasting change- The critical difference between empowerment and actually understanding power dynamics in the workplace- How women leaders can navigate workplace expectations without falling into the "comfort provider" trap
High Octane Leadership is hosted by The Diversity Movement CEO and executive coach Donald Thompson and is a production of Earfluence.Order UNDERESTIMATED: A CEO’S UNLIKELY PATH TO SUCCESS, by Donald Thompson.
High Octane Leadership
Future-proof your leadership with High Octane Leadership, a place where business leaders—whether by title or aspiration—share cheat codes for unlocking workplace excellence, lessons learned along the way, and insider tips for future generations of next-level professionals. With a career rooted in building people and businesses, Donald Thompson is an award-winning CEO, speaker, and author who empowers leaders to scale with purpose. Over the last 25 years, he has helped startups and enterprises alike drive cultural change, unlock performance, and deliver exceptional results through strategic leadership.
Find him on LinkedIn, and listen here to learn how you can become future-proof too.