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Inner Mastery, Outer Impact
OCTOBER 21, 2023
About the Organizer: Siegfried is a firm specializing in financial and accounting consultancy for Fortune 1000 companies, as well as other businesses. The firm is renowned for its approach of hiring seasoned CPAs and professionals for client engagements, placing a strong emphasis on leadership development and career progression. Their employees, who typically work on-site with clients, embody the firm’s culture, which is deeply rooted in the philosophy of aiding interested individuals—those passionate about continuous improvement and leading an examined life—in transforming into more effective leaders.
Scientific research reveals that our personalities and behaviors are fluid, influenced by the context, thoughts, feelings, and the people around us. Leadership, therefore, is not a fixed trait but a dynamic state that evolves with the situation and environment. But how can we invoke the right state at the right time?
Based on his research, teaching and experiments at Columbia Business School and the Mentora Institute, Dr. Hitendra Wadhwa shared some very positive new findings on how we can help people accelerate their path to exemplary leadership and achieve breakthroughs in performance by approaching exemplary leadership not as a trait to be acquired but as a state to be activated, by shifting the focus from learning on the sidelines to leading in the flow of work.
