Transformational Female Leadership Amid Revolutionary Global Change | Faisal Hoque & Sabrina Braham | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast #116

Revolutionary changes lead to revolutionary solutions. While we stand at the juncture of evolved, evolving, and outdated leadership philosophies, we’re all determined to find out: what is the right way to go about in a leadership role currently? What does it take to express transformational female leadership in today’s times? Tune in to this important episode of Women’s Leadership Success podcast to find out. What is transformational female leadership and why is it so relevant today? What are some important things female leaders need to develop to become transformational leaders? The steps to becoming a transformational leader What is meant by a disruption? How do you see the opportunities in disruptions? How are businesses changing in these ‘new normal’ times? In this episode of Women’s Leadership Success, Sabrina Braham interviews Faisal Hoque, author of Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change, a powerful book on individual and organizational leadership today. His book explores the intersection of transformational leadership, systemic thinking, and experiential learning?all required to survive the disruptions due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and misinformation trends. Today’s episode has Faisal get into the crux of it and explain how it all began. Faisal Hoque - #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller of LIFT Faisal Hoque’s Interview on Empathy for Transformational Female Leadership ( and Men Too) Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies focusing on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. Throughout his career, he has developed over 20 commercial business and technology platforms and worked with public and private sector giants such as the US Department of Defense, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Northrop Grumman, CACI, PepsiCo, IBM, Home Depot, Gartner, and JPMorgan Chase. He is a 3 times winning Founder and CEO of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards. He has authored several books on leadership, innovation, mindfulness, resilience, organizational transformation, and entrepreneurship, including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change, and Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Fox, CBS, Financial Times, Mergers & Acquisitions, Forbes, and Leadership Excellence, among others. Transformational Female Leadership in Times of Disruption: Show Notes Reflecting on the events that happened during the pandemic, including his son’s rare blood cancer, and writing about it in his book, Lift [2:29-4:50] What does Faisal mean by ‘disruption’? [5:05-6:29] 3 questions to help you get unstuck [10:53-13:12] Becoming a transformational leader [13:20-18:09] How can you be more empathetic? [18:15-19:54] What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation? [20:33-23:04] The importance of being present in the moment to be empathetic [23:33-24:28] Five questions you can ask yourself to assess your empathy levels [25:19-30:00] What is design thinking? What does empathy have to do with it? [30:07-31:25] How accessible are leadership coaches to an average human? How can experiential learning help in the same? [31:26-36:12] Why must you be your own coach to move to the top levels? [36:44-38:35] How can you become a futurist? How does that help? [39:16-44:06] Life yourself to lift others, express transformational female leadership, and practice experiential learning [44:27-50:08] We hope that you have learned something useful from our transformational female leadership episode of the podcast. Women’s Leadership Success #116 Summary: Transformational Female Leadership Here are a few things you can take away from this episode as you leave: Empathy is one of the secrets to transformational leadership. It helps you make sense of what is going on around the world and within your own realm. It allows you to put yourself in others' shoes and find them a solution they need. You cannot practice empathy or conscious empathy if you're not mindful of the person in front of you. Shutting your mind from all other things other than the one you must focus on is what mindfulness is about. There is a deep connection between mindfulness and empathy. Tons of opportunities arise out of disruptions. There hasn't been a better time in the world to learn and grow yourself now that we're in the later stages of a pandemic. To be a futurist, you also must develop the fundamental substitutable techniques required to succeed in your industry, which takes a lot of improvisation to happen. There is no preaching without practice. Experiential learning is about learning on a constant basis. Systemic thinking and execution are about creating systems that allow you to do constant, repeatable tasks easily. Design thinking is about empathy; it allows you to create things people really benefit from. Knowing your domain in and out is a strong leadership skill. Action for Traction: How to Be a Transformational Leader Listening to a podcast or reading a book good is a start. But the way you will change and grow yourself is to take a small action every time you have an aha from what you have heard or read. Here are 3 possible actions you might consider: Be Mindful: “The real definition of mindfulness is being one with whatever you're doing.” Faisal Hoque Practice empathy: Take time when interacting with a person, to stop yourself and look at that other person and try to understand what is going on with that person. Sign up for “Lift’ class. Use coupon code "WLS" for a 50% discount ( see below) Are You a " High Potential Female" Who Wants More Impact, Influence & Income? Put Your Executive Career On The Fast Track to Be Promoted This is a Proven Career Executive Coaching Package for “High Potentials Women” to Help You Stand Out from the Crowd, Turbocharge Your Career & Your Radically Increase Your Income Do you feel stuck in your career? Have you been passed over for promotion? Working hard, but not getting recognized? Getting knocked out of the promotion after your interview? Difficult to ask for what you want? Aspire to C-Suite, Higher or Whole New Opportunity? 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Thanks, Sabrina PS If you like this interview with Faisal, check out my first interview with Faisal on WLS #59 Everything Connects, a Woman’s Career Guide to Personal Success | Faisal Hoque & Sabrina Braham MA MFT PCC | Women’s Leadership Success # 59