The mission of the KTS Success Factor® Podcast for Women is to bring proven ideas female business leaders can use to increase their ability to achieve big goals and become happy, successful, and understood at work. All this in 25 minutes or less. Sarah E. Brown, Ph.D. is an expert on personalizing work to the unique interests, strengths, and needs of the workforce. A former Managing Director at Accenture, she is now on a mission to reach 250,000 women with knowledge of their unique gifts and the tools to be happy, successful and understood at work.
http://sarahebrown.com/podcast
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Leadership with Lisa Levy
In the fast-paced business world, change is not just an option, but an ever-present reality. Embracing innovative ideas is essential to propel a business forward. However, amidst this constant change, significant challenges arise. Overcoming these obstacles and introducing transformative solutions requires the implementation of effective and efficient frameworks.
Lisa L. Levy is the Founder & CEO of Lcubed Consulting. She helps companies align people, processes, and technology to utilize agility as a strategic advantage and acknowledge change is a business constant. Her secret sauce to success is leveraging key elements of Project Management, Process Performance Management, Internal Controls, and Organizational Change Management to build teams with the skills and capabilities to drive strategic results.
In this episode, Lisa shares about her adaptive transformation framework, which aims to empower women leaders by fostering clarity and enablement in their roles. She highlights the significance of women leaders venturing beyond their comfort zones to foster change and innovation. Additionally, she underscores the crucial role of a continuous innovation process in forging businesses forward.
What you will learn from this episode:
- Discover how women can gain clarity, communicate effectively, and step into empowered leadership roles that bring about their brilliance
- Explore an innovative four-step transformation framework to streamline your organizational processes
- Find out a key strategy for gathering innovative ideas to bring about the change you want to happen
"We need to swing bigger and take those leaps and step into uncertainty because that's when we grow, that's when we thrive, that's when we shine."
- Lisa Levy
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Topics Covered:
04:09 - Client problems she helps solve: We are helping our clients be effective and be efficient so that they don't feel stuck.
05:24 - What is this tool set called 'innovation engine'
06:24 - The biggest challenge women face: Being willing to step slightly outside of our comfort zone.
09:05 - How these four disciplines help women leaders with their challenges
11:51 - What a 'conference room prototype' is and how does it help with innovation
13:35 - How easier can entrepreneurs pool innovative ideas more than larger companies
14:57 - How to learn more: Join and watch my podcast, Disrupt and Innovate.
Key Takeaways:
"If we understand the change process and build awareness and desire and train and educate and practice, and then create the change, we are moving people through that whole cycle and minimizing the friction, resistance, and everybody understands their parts." - Lisa Levy
"If we are continuously ideating, prototyping, and creating our new products and services, we are driving business forward." - Lisa Levy
"I'm willing to wager that a woman looking at that job description is far more qualified at whatever level of confidence she has than a man who is sitting there and applying for the same position. We hold ourselves back and we have to stop." - Lisa Levy
Ways to Connect with Lisa Levy:
- Website: https://lisallevy.com
- Podcast: https://disruptandinnovate.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisallevy-disruptandinnovate/
- Book: https://lcubedconsulting.com/future-proofing-cubed
Ways to Connect with Sarah E. Brown:
- Website: https://www.sarahebrown.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/knowguides
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahebrownphd
- To speak with her: bookachatwithsarahebrown.com