- Pearls of leadership. Hard earned. Being a women on Wall Street for 31 years.
- Some have intellect or experience to successfully complete any activity.
- If all roads lead back to you, your success will be capped by you.
- Leverage – There is not a leader that I’ve come across that can do it all by themselves.
- Leaders job is to create other leaders.
- The secret to growing your power is to give it away. The more you give away, the more power you get.
- Efficiency – must be clear about success looks like. It creates efficiency. If you’re not clear, you create frustration on your team. You must define even when it is unclear.
- As humans we want to know what we’re playing for. Even when you’re not clear, define what it looks like.
- Celebrate your mistakes. A mistake is almost as valuable as a success. You learn more when you fail.
- Authenticity – your authenticity is at the heart of your power. It is at the heart of powerful, impactful leadership. Nobody can be you like you can be you.
- Most people are not comfortable in their own skin. When they see someone comfortable, they gravitate toward that. When you bring your authentic self to the table, people will trust you.
- I am a singer with three CDs and multiple sold out shows at Carnegie Hall. I was embarrassed about that in the market place.. When I saw the reaction of the client, they were fascinated
- Your authenticity is your unique competitive advantage.
- Who are you when things get tough? Who are you when things get easy? Are you pensive? reflective? How can you bring your authentic self to the table if you don’t know who you are.
- Meet people where they are.
- I was up for a big promotion. People asked me to come and sing at the Fixed Income Christmas party. I didn’t want to do it. Met the head of that dept after doing it. We talked for 45 minutes about business afterwards. Turns out he is the head of the promotions committee. That was my Scooby moment.
- Decisiveness & Diversity – The price of inaction is greater than the cost of making a mistake. If you’re a powerful, impactful, leader. At end of day, you can make the decision.
- Where God guides, He provides. If He brought you to it, He’ll bring you through it.
- Every experience will give you one of two things: a blessing or a lesson. Both are valuable.
- Innovation is the dominant competitive issue across all markets. If you need a lot of ideas in the room, you need a lot of perspectives in the room. Ideas come from perspectives. If you need perspectives, you need varied experiences. If you need experiences, you need different people.
- If you want to have a diverse team, you have to have intentionality, accountability, consistency.
- Nobody wants to lower the bar. There is no woman or person of color that wants you to lower the bar.
- If you’re going outside of organization, you have to guard against organ rejection.
- When you bring new people, you have to overindex in making sure they get comfortable. It takes a lot of time and money to recruit senior leaders.
- Hold people accountable. Confront them.
- Millenials care about this. If they don’t see diversity, they are not coming. If they come, they are not staying.
- Engagement – You must be engaged with those you lead. Most people are motivated by money, platform, or affirmation.
- Powerful leaders are inclusive. You need to communicate “I see you…” “I hear you…” Everyone values being heard.
- We have to create culture even outside of proximity.
- Transformative leaders are tenacious, thoughtful, transparent and transcendent.
- Risk-taker – You must be comfortable taking risks. Today information is a commodity. Today you differentiate by being willing to take risk. Why don’t we take more risks? We’re scared. Fear has no place in your success formula.
- When you’re unsure, tell yourself: I know what no looks like. It is the status quo. Why would I not say yes?
- It takes courage to be an impactful leader. It takes courage to speak the truth to power. It takes courage to call a thing a thing when no one wants to say it.
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