Tapping Into Our Hidden Potential E5

What is the experience being rooted and unwavering? How does it help us lead differently? And how do we practice connecting to our deeper core? Rooted & Unwavering host Hylke Faber and Rick Gage, Growth Leaders Network Executive Director, explore lessons learned from the first four Rooted & Unwavering conversations with Toni Townes-Whitley, NASDAQ Board Member, Zoya Lytvyn, leader of the Ukrainian online school system, Rene Yoakum, Chief People and Customer Officer at Remitly and Erica Schaper, President of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

Core insights include:

* Being grounded in our true self helps us be stronger than our ratio can comprehend;
* Keeping our eye off the ball and on the field helps us access greater wisdom;
* Letting ourselves be supported by our inner teacher helps us to mature in the moment;
* Being humble about what is ours and what is not, helps us to stay true to our purpose.

Spend some time getting to know your inner resources as you listen to this episode of Rooted & Unwavering.

Growth Leaders Network is a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

Rick Gage: Executive Change Agent | Architect Builder of Culture & Community | Leadership Coach & Facilitator.

My passion is unleashing human potential in the workplace and beyond. Very early in life I got to see truly transformational leaders up close and personal.

I became fascinated by the powerful impact they had in the lives of people around them. Since early elementary school I have aspired to be a leader who makes a difference.

In school, I led informally and as an elected student leader. A book about servant leadership was a key influence that shaped how I have approached the role of leader. That passion carried forward into the majority my career where my greatest fulfillment was the positive team environment I could create for my team.

I’ve had the opportunity to lead in some of the great global companies of our time over the last 40 years. Working for companies with deep roots in Japan, Germany, India, France and the United States gave me an appreciation for the powerful role culture plays – both within an organization in the society that surrounds the organization.

After climbing the corporate ladder there came a point where it all shifted for me. What had driven me up to that point no longer seemed to matter. An extended sabbatical gave me the chance to think deeply about what I wanted to do and more importantly who I wanted to be. From that time forward I have been moving into deeper and deeper alignment between my work with who I authentically am.

My father taught me very early that with privilege comes responsibility. I’ve worked hard to use my voice to amplify the voices of those often not fully heard. Advocating for women is something I’ve been doing my whole life. Accepting and celebrating difference has always been easy and natural for me. I just love people. And in recent years, I’m humbled as I learn about the ways I still fall short and how much more there is to do for people of color and all marginalized communities.

My work now with Growth Leaders Network provides such rich and rewarding opportunities to engage deeply with clients who want to grow as leaders, build stronger teams and transform workplace cultures. Beyond GLN, I also am honored to lead mindful communities like the Organizational Mindfulness Network (OM Network) and support transformational teams like the one at A Human Workplace. In all of these ways I can help create the context in which every person can thrive.

Beyond work, being with my sweetheart and six grandchildren is what brings me joy. I’m working to see the world through the wonder of a child’s eyes and the wisdom of grandfather eyes.

Connect with Rick on LinkedIn.

About Rooted & Unwavering

Peace, Compassion, Wisdom, Purposefulness, Creativity and Strength come online in us when we deeply connect with the true, unwavering greatness that lives within ourselves and others.

In this podcast and radio show, Hylke Faber, seasoned transformational coach and author of the award-winning Taming Your Crocodiles series, engages in deep inquiry with leaders from all walks of life about courageously connecting with our true selves, others and the world at large.

How do we stay connected to our true selves and our greatness, especially when we are challenged? How do we rest in the heart, also when our mind keeps us restless? What becomes possible when we truly stay committed to our own and others’ best selves, also when we don’t feel it? How do we practice staying connected to our true selves, in the midst of our busy lives?

Join us and leave inspired to act on your heart’s greatness and that of the people around you.

About Our Host

For as long as he can remember Hylke Faber has been curious about what this life is about. His ongoing inquiry has become his work: helping people individually and collectively to discover what is possible in life and express that authentically and fearlessly.

Hylke started his work life with Towers Perrin as consultant and then as Partner with Strategic Decisions Group, serving a wide range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, consumer electronics and life sciences companies. A major shift occurred during this critical phase of his life. He had become the typical, hard-charging, 16-hours-a-day strategy consultant, and was burning out at a rapid clip.

When he discovered meditation, everything changed. He was so taken by his new discoveries that he chose to bring to business what he was learning: that there is a way we can have it all – we can be fulfilled, do work we love, and create extraordinary results with others. He thinks of it as creating a sense of ease in business.

He learned how to coach and facilitate human transformation completing his coaching certification with Newfield Network and by working at Axialent, the culture and leadership company. After a few years, he founded Co-Creation Partners together with other leaders in the field of transformation and personal development. Then he formed Constancee to help people grow by creating the conditions where deep personal, interpersonal and organizational shifts happen routinely.

He leads Growth Leaders Network, the culture and team development consultancy. He has also taught coaching at Columbia Business School Executive Education and has contributed to Harvard Business Review. He is currently teaching a course on Climate Conscious Leadership at Arizona State University. His award-winning book, Taming Your Crocodiles: Unlearn Fear & Become a True Leader, was published by Dover in 2018.

His next book, Taming Your Crocodiles Practices for Leadership Depth, came out in 2020. Besides helping others grow, which he loves, he is a trained opera singer, enjoys hiking and writing, is an avid reader, in particular of biographies, and is always in the process of growing himself. He integrates all of what he learns in his work with executives.

Connect with Hylke on LinkedIn.

About Our Sponsor

Realizing Your Greatness

We are a team of experienced facilitators and coaches dedicated to helping individuals, teams and organizations thrive by helping them recognize their innate greatness and putting it to work.

- Executive Coaching: we work with clients individually to help them connect to their calling and use every challenge as an opportunity to help them grow more into what makes them great.
- Team Performance: we help teams evolve to their next level of excellence, connectedness and impact by working on the root drivers of team performance.
- Culture Development: we help organizations to evolve their culture by creating clarity about where they aspire to go, and by building role models, coaches and systems that catalyze people being energized to work the new way.

Key Notes: we deliver powerful speeches at conferences and other events that help audiences become energized, more connected to themselves and each other, more open to discovery and ready to commit to the next stage of learning in their career and life journeys.

Growth Leaders Network (GLN) serves Fortune 500 companies, smaller organizations and non-profits globally.

GLN clients report that we catalyze significant business transformational impact and profound shifts in people, team and organizations at the root cause level.

Learn more about the Growth Leaders network here.