Leading with Intuition and Insight with Richard Atherton
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to break free from leadership stagnation and truly inspire your team?
Join us as we welcome Richard Atherton, partner at First Human, who shares his profound insights into achieving leadership breakthroughs.
Richard encourages leaders to step away from their routine and rational mindset to make room for intuition and deeper insights. Through practices like journaling, spending time in nature, meditation, and seeking counsel, Richard explains how to unlock new perspectives and solutions, fostering a more dynamic and inspired leadership style.
In this episode, we also delve into the transformative power of focusing on "being" rather than just actions and strategies.
Richard reveals how embodying future success in the present moment can lead to astonishing results. He shares a touching personal story about a camping trip with his son, highlighting the magic of staying open to possibilities and battling the ego.
By maintaining a visionary state and an inspired mindset, leaders can attract the necessary resources to overcome everyday challenges and achieve significant business goals.
Don't miss this episode packed with valuable lessons on maintaining momentum and creativity in leadership.
Key Moments:
5:53 Exploring Liminal Spaces for Creativity
12:31 Core Principle
15:45 Embodying Future Success
Richard is a Partner at FirstHuman, a business coaching firm that helps CEOs, leaders, and top executives achieve leadership breakthroughs and organizational goals with a human-first approach. Its clients include Adidas, Volkswagen, Heineken, PwC, UNICEF & the Olympics.
FirstHuman’s award-winning business transformation at the BBC is among its best success stories. Richard led a 6-person team that built a new global operation from scratch in just 3 months for the broadcaster, which wanted to launch a News Desk for 70+ journalists.
Richard has nearly 10 years of expertise in leadership development and has helped numerous clients achieve significant personal and professional breakthroughs. His own background of overcoming multiple addictions and personal traumas has been crucial in shaping his passion for humanizing the leadership culture within organizations.
He was notably involved in helping leaders at the logistics company CEVA close a $400M profitability gap. He is also the host of the Being Human podcast that provides insights on leadership and well-being, and reaches 11.9K subscribers.
Connect with Richard: https://www.firsthuman.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardatherton-firsthuman/
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