Leadership Recommendations from LR:

1. Give 100% eye contact (when culturally appropriate to do so) and *see* your people. Say their names.
2. Possess insatiable curiosity and suspend the judgements.
3. Be proactive.
4. Be open to learning.
5. Get comfortable with offering a genuine " I"m sorry'.
6. Don't say 'my door is open' if it isn't.
7. Create and maintain a consistent CEO time for yourself.
8. Commit to life-long learning and personal development.
9. Prioritize your family relationships.
10. Remember to phone your mom.
11. Do the work to 'manage your  mind'.
12. Drop perfectionism and workaholism like a hot potato, every single day.
13. Maintain enoughness in sufficient sleep, bmovement, and hydration.
14. Dance as often as you can. If you don't prefer dancing, then laugh as often as you can.
15. Befriend grief.
16. Blend grit and grace with every goal, standard and aspiration.
17. Develop a small group of trusted others.
18. Show up prepared and on time.

Spoiler alert: personal leadership growth is a life-long commitment to meaningful work with a life that works.

Lead yourself well.

I believe that all people matter.

I believe that all people have a right to experience the context and environment to life safely and experience human dignity.

I believe that all people need to face, and will face, tough conversations and gut-wrenching circumstances that require long seasons of grit and grace by others, and by themselves.

I believe that actualizing core values and meaningful purpose are what provides satisfaction of a life well lived.

I believe that the right people at the right time are MUCH better together.

I believe that sound, safe, successful, sustainable leadership is the ever-expanding personal capacity to guide, inspire and invite others to a mutually beneficial mission, while fostering a positive and values-based environment for all.

I believe that leadership is more than a title, status, position or designation. I believe it is a result of personal integrity, of acting and interacting with others that generously integrates the betterment of all participants.

Here's how leadership evolves in cultural and individual transformation - by leading one's self well.

Yes, it begins within you.
Notice. Name. Choose.

Lead yourself well.

People who really want to make a difference in the world realize that how they lead themselves is one of the greatest ways to influence a better future for all.

All growth is personal growth.
We are not islands or robots or machines to be programmed and reprogrammed. We are not vessels rife for the latest trends or beliefs according to the input we choose.
There is work to do.
Serious, fun, life-giving, transformative, meaningful, and intentional work.

Lorraine Richmond Leadership Coaching is committed to holding gutsy, authentic, accountable space for individuals or teams, who are willing, ready, and able to embrace the discomfort of personal growth and development SO THAT they can actualize the difference they want to make in our messy, beautiful world amid the stress, chaos and all-things beyond our control.

Lead yourself well.

Studies using brain imaging such as functional MRI suggest that our minds spend approximately 50% in time travel to the future.

If we spend up to 50% of our waking hours projecting the future (especially in light of politics, climate change, polarizing values, rising costs of shelter and food, ever-present loss, wars and rumors of wars etc) the dread and negative bias or conscious worry and stress will influence the health of our body, mind and brain (which will directly influence our leadership capacity).

Perhaps we might eek out a bit of wisdom from Charlie Brown's philosophy about our chosen thoughts for 'one day at a time'.

What we think about grows.
Thoughts that we nurture wire together to create default highways of thinking, being and behaving - all of which directly impacts our desired leadership outcomes.

Notice. Name. Choose.
Lead yourself well.