Getting Real with Ourselves

January 14, 2025

at 12:00 pm EST

Guest Speaker(s):
Ian McDermott, Founder, International Teaching Seminars
Host:
Klea Harris, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Angel Advocates, PLLC

In the interests of best serving our clients the start of a new year seems a particularly fitting time for us as advisors to focus on how we might further our own development. It’s a smart move to start with ourselves especially when everything we’ll explore is immediately transferable to client experience.

Three questions to use as springboards:

Has our comfort zone become a comfort cage? Whatever the current state of play it’s actually quite easy to stretch ourselves so that small changes can have a big impact 

Are we being direct and honest with ourselves? It’s fundamental to self-leadership so we’ll focus on some particular areas. 

What if we were to say we’re ready enough? Over preparing, hesitancy, trying to get it ‘just right’ and perfectionism all have a positive intention but they can hold us back – or not if we can make friends with good enough.

Introduction to our Guest Speaker(s)

Ian McDermott is Founder and Chief Executive of International Teaching Seminars (ITS). For the last 30 years the mission of ITS has been to give individuals, firms and families the skills to innovate their own solutions.

Based in the US (Connecticut) and the UK (London), Ian is an acknowledged thought leader. A widely published authority he has written fifteen books that have been translated into over twenty languages including ‘The Collaborative Leader: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge’.

In the UK he is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University Business School and External Faculty at Henley Business School. In 2020 he accepted the position of Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London to foster innovation and collaborative leadership.

Ian McDermott is Dean of Innovation & Learning for the Purposeful Planning Institute.

 

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