🎙️Change Leader Insights: Teri Schmidt, Executive and Leadership Coach

In this episode of Change Leader Insights, Jessica Crow speaks with Teri Schmidt, Executive and Leadership Coach at Strong Leaders Serve, about how to be an effective, compassionate-driven leader (without burning out) and lead through change.  

Teri is passionate about human connection and the leadership potential within each of us. Her career has spanned the educational, corporate, and nonprofit sectors but has had a consistent thread throughout: In each role, her focus has been either on developing others' potential or working to remove barriers to help people express their potential. She transforms overwhelm into impact using her 20+ years of coaching, leadership, and performance improvement experience. Teri also hosts the Strong Leaders Serve podcast, inspiring and empowering leaders who want to make their workplaces more compassionate and just through their leadership without burning out.

During the conversation, Jessica and Teri discussed the risks of neglecting your well-being as a leader and why this approach is counterintuitive to being effective. Says Teri, “Leaders feel that to serve, they need to put others’ needs in front of their own. Your effectiveness as a leader of others is directly related to how well you know yourself and how well you are able to, in a sense, put your oxygen mask on first which allows you to serve others and help them put their oxygen masks on.” 

Highlights from the conversation include: 

☑️ 3 traps compassionate leaders fall into (and how to overcome them)

☑️ Strategies for successfully shifting your identity as an individual contributor to a manager 

☑️ The costs of being a “rescuer” as a leader 

If you want to learn more about compassionate-driven leadership, be sure to tune in and hear what Teri has to say!  

Learn more about the leadership self-assessment Teri mentioned during the episode here: https://www.strongleadersserve.com/resources  

👀 To watch the video: https://youtu.be/zXSa2nIumqQ 

👂 For streaming options: https://www.apogy.biz/podcasts/change-leader-insights