Meet Elizabeth Dean (Part I): Turn up the Volume on Who You Are
Moving forward is easy when you know who you are — that’s what Executive Coach Elizabeth Dean tells us. Most of us are feeling the professional losses of this year and asking: How do I move forward?
Elizabeth Dean’s story and her coaching tips will help you to see the path and take each step to get you to your big vision.
Show Notes
Elizabeth Dean is a Certified Professional Coach with the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and founder of Elizabeth Dean Coaching. Elizabeth partners with Cochran, Cochran and Yale ( named “America’s Best Executive Search Firms 2017” by Forbes) where she provides Leadership Coaching and Career Transition Coaching to executives. In addition to her work with CCY and private Life Coaching clientele, Elizabeth travels the country with her colleague, Steve Layt, a fortune 500 executive and CEO, to deliver workshops on-site to companies focusing on leadership, and personal and professional development.
She is also my life coach and guided me through a big transition in my career. Our conversation was so powerful and relevant to what we are going through as we leave 2020 and enter 2021, that I broke it into two episodes of the StoryMaven podcast. In the fist episode we find out her best advice to Csuite executives and leaders trying to become Csuite level. In the next episode we’ll get personal and help you develop your personal, internal story that will help you move forward. You don’t want to miss these two conversations that will help you see a new way to move forward.
StoryMaven Takeaways
Being fully your self leads to clarity about what you want, your intention, your purpose in the world, what impact you want to make and clarity around your influence.Being available to the next thing will move you to the big goal.
Listen to the story of her journey. It’s not about being in the right place at the right time, it’s about being present in the place you are in that turns that in to the right place and the right time. It helps to be the right size to fit in the fin.
Lack of Striving. How can you find a way to say ‘yes’ to what is and release the striving? It will make your story unfold more easily.
“Getting what you want isn’t the problem. Knowing what you want…” that’s the key to moving you forward.
The path reveals itself before you when you are still and know where you want to go. That’s true in storytelling too. Do you work. Do your research. Then show up at the writing table every more with your pen in hand and watch what happens. Yes, some days it will be dreck. But sometimes, the act of being available will lead to magical, compelling storytelling.
When you’re unsure gather more data. Gathering data will help you see what it is that you want. As a writer, it’s easy to go down a rabbit hole of research, but when you have a controlling idea or a want for your character, you can hone in on the data that provides the path.
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