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Lessons - Unlock the Hidden Power of Conscious Leadership | Talia Fox - CEO of KUSI Global · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  amazing gummies. In this lessons episode, discover the transformative power of conscious connection.
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  Learn for practical habits to enhance self awareness, align with your values and master the
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  art of listening, observing and engaging with others to create meaningful change and influence
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  in any setting. Some of the some of the work that you've done in the past has been on DE and I,
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  but I'm very curious as to how you sort of took lessons from working in that space for a period of
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  time and then it's sort of led to what you're working on right now, which is communication. So
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  conscious communication because I'm sure there's some threads from conversations you've had about
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  DE and I psychological safety in the workplace. All the different sort of leadership lessons that
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  you teach over to organizations and then how that's led you to actually focusing on communication
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  and you have like a framework for communication now and that's just not just between companies.
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  It's more interpersonal. Yes. So let me just track back a little bit. So our company
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  is we say the DEIA space because it's a it's a hot word right and however it's cultural transformation.
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  We do strategic plans, communication plans and we do mass training one of our big trainings that
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  we do is called conscious equity. So it's a two and a half hour virtual training. We've also done
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  it live. We've trained thousands and thousands of executives on how to how to get really sharp
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  about making decisions when they don't know what to do right and how to deal with all the complexity
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  that is in the social, political, the organizational space, the diversity, equity, inclusion,
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  accessibility, reside right really important. So culture transformation is what we are about a
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  Kusaiwa mission and that is to improve the condition of humanity once skill at a time. I do
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  truly believe that when we know better as Maya Angelou has said we do better and so being able
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  to know and understand better right we can do better. So the book that I have written it's called
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  the Power of Conscious Connection and there are four habits to transform the way you live and lead.
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  So these four habits have taken if you can imagine 10,000 hours of leadership training if you can
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  imagine reading every leader from Mandela to Alexander the Great leading all these books. I have
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  spent my life I'm a reader there's probably 223 books a year. I'm constantly reading I wish I could
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  show you a picture of my bedside right I love reading I always have and all of the books have all
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  these stories and there's so much information to take in and I have had the luxury I feel just like
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  the blessing of being able to invest that much time I realize people don't have that much time.
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  And so similar to what we did with Kusai that stands for knowledge understanding strategy
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  implementation I turned all of my life experiences and my leadership experiences all those hours
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  of reading and time that I spent at Harvard and all these different things into four simple things
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  that we can do on a daily basis that can change everything and this is also something that is
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  connected to what you were just sharing about how companies are pushed yeah and then we see like
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  this this lacks so the four habits require us to and and for you the four habits it's the conscious
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  connection is not necessarily communication that's why I was actually just going to say I totally
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  misspoke because I was I had communication and I had again again again but connection is so much more
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  yes and connection this is about being conscious so aware of what's going on in the world
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  and what's going on around you and connected to your power to change it so within that it is
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  about connecting with each other but it's really about being so present in the world that you tap
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  into this goodness in you and this power in you are where you can influence an impact change the
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  reason I want to quickly before I give you the habits track that back to what you were saying is
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  that it is a daunting thing to see you know change happen and then change go flat I know a lot of
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  people in organizations are exhausted by trying to push and push and push and then things just go
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  flat priorities change on a regular basis the the goal here is to be conscious of what's happening
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  so that you can develop a strategy to tap into your power to influence that change and so the more
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  people that can do this not only do you become the sharpest smartest person in the room which is
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  can be fun but you become this highly intelligent strategic person that is the I will I promise you
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  this is a promise if you can master these habits I'm about to tell you you will be the sharpest
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  person on your team whether you're at the CEO level is an entrepreneur but the sharpness that you
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  will get will nobody will be able to kind of live in your light but the goal is to get everybody
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  to do is that we have more light together right so it's so this is a massive amount of self-awareness
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  it's that we're focusing on well that's one piece let me give you the habits okay I don't have it
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  don't get away from this yeah so self-awareness is important but that's kind of an internal thing
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  that's that's great to do and and it's also I know people talk a lot about self-awareness it's it's
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  good but it you only wanted to look at yourself for wearing a silly extent that it's going to help
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  you do something of course so some people like they kind of say yes I'm I'm rude yeah maybe
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  the self-awareness is like there but they're not worth they're not doing anything good with it yet
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  so it's like today if you know you're an asshole it's not wealthy anyway you're jerk you just say
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  something nice like right now yeah um so let's go here to habits right so it's listen
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  so listening goes far beyond just what we think about active listening it's being able to tap
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  into your intuition and listening to what's going on in yourself but it's also giving the world a
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  gift of your listening attention and what that is is for you to be able to come out of your mind
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  and really listen with this clean slate in your mind right so really be able to take in everything
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  that someone is saying without any plans around it right no plans around it listening is actually
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  connected to your mental health so if you are spending too much time in your head if you notice
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  my uncle he suffers from schizophrenia and so the final step of is when you hear voices in your
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  head and you're trapped and you can't connect with other people and so listening is not only a
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  strategy for being more strategic and understanding things listening is also a strategy to keep
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  you well right your mind must take in it's the only portal to wisdom so many people they enter
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  experiences where they just want to they want to be heard so badly but they forget that they are
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  accessing this amazing magical portal wisdom where you get to take in so much information and so
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  much stuff to help you strategize your life it's magical so listen the first habit the second
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  habit is observe so observation is this opportunity for you to be completely and totally present
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  in the world and it's connected to a skill called systems thinking so you're not just observing
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  stuff right I'm not just saying oh sky you're a great looking guy right just not but I'm
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  observing the connections right so I'm observing you have such a connectedness in your eyes right
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  I'm looking at the world and I'm seeing how you know how is this ocean view connected to a business
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  strategy now how as I'm looking at if anybody's ever heard of bio mimicry so you can look at a bird
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  if you look at a bird how how could human beings create flight from the observation of a bird you
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  have to really observe the bird and the wings and the shape and so how do we use that same
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  intense connectedness right in order to to expand how we think so if you go to I'd like to give
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  everyone a challenge from next time there are any team meeting I want you just to pause and
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  really look at things listen to what people are saying observe and and just just really pay attention
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  like never before we are in a world where people are so distracted that by just listening and
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  observing the edge is going to be just exponential because so many people have completely stop
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  listening and they're not observing because they're stuck on their phones stuck an email or they're
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  worried about what they're having for dinner and so the presence is important and then two other
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  skills so that by the way this these habits make up the word love L-O-B-E that was on accident really
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  yes that that was not at first it was made into this word like olive and then my young son said
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  that spells the word lamb oh that's very funny oh you're on accident that amazing good I don't know
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  if it's on accident but okay so two more habits so value so value is aligning with your values so
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  that means allowing what's important to you drive your choices right and I I say make bold
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  decisions about your values um if you're in an organization and you see something that doesn't
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  sit well with you you speak up make some choices around that strategically speak up right fine
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  find a way where you think they can hear you if you want to be a champion for change um
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  align with who you are what what your identity is there there's this movement in the world
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  and Renate Brown talks about it about being authentic and I love the movement about being
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  authentic the only caveat I have to say about authenticity is that I think a lot of people are
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  still trying to figure out who they are without kind of their trauma and different things going on
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  and so who we are I think our authenticity is when we sit in those quiet moments and we say what's
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  important to me and then after you decide what's important to you do you make choices aligned
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  with who you really are which is like what what is important to you like I love people
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  and and I love connecting with people and I love goodness and so I make a lot of business decisions
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  based on that that inner knowing that when you're good to people that things will work out
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  right and then the last strategy which is aligned finally what you've been waiting for connection
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  is engagement so engagement is this ability to master asking critical questions and even having
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  small talks so you know Scott we might talk about what's important for you in the world what are
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  your values um what do you see as a couple of ways that you think you want to be in this world
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  right so I love talking about the weather I love talking about sports don't know as much about
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  sports that I'd like to but um I use sports analogies all the time in my company and they wish I
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  would stop because they don't they don't make any sense but I refuse I will use them and so the
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  end of time because they're so sports are so great I argue my my I need to better if they don't
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  make sense yeah they're better one time I said we're batting a hundred but I realize this should
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  be batting a thousand you're like that's not very good it's not good at all but it's fun it's fine
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  but I learned right so engaging is being able to tap into the kinds of questions that you want to
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  ask the powers not always in the answers but the questions and so just being this curious person
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  that inquires um and engaging around how we inquire and get to know who people are and what they're
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