The New Leaders of Change: How Next Generation Leaders are Transforming Themselves, their Businesses and the World with Purpose and Empathy by Maitri O'Brien

Author:Maitri O'Brien [O'Brien, Maitri]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: PCL
Published: 2022-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

Part 3: Change

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE REVOLUTION

Chapter 6

LEADERSHIP IS A JOURNEY NOT A DESTINATION

How New Leaders of Change embark on the inner journey of self-growth

‘I think sometimes I forgot about myself and would give 100 per cent to my people and give 100 per cent to the clients. At some point I kind of lost myself… I had to change myself and learn to bring more balance into my life.’

Debbie O’Neill, VP Domestic Partnerships, Honey

When Adrian Locher successfully sold the company he co-founded, he found himself with several options. He could continue with his entrepreneurship activities – start another company, invest in a joint venture, and quickly move into the next thing. Or he could do nothing and enjoy being financially secure at a young age and spend more time with his kids.

Locher decided to take a sabbatical and reflect on what he should do next to bring meaning and purpose into his life.

‘I realized this is now a big milestone I have achieved,’ he says. ‘And I really want to spend some time thinking before I move on to the next thing, because I knew myself enough that I can fall in love with things quite quickly.’ He laughs – he knows himself too well.

‘My biggest concern was that I would actually just do the next and most probable thing and not the most important thing. Now I had the means to focus on the important thing.’ But he needed to find out what that was.

‘I was quite bored with the industry I was in and I really didn't see a purpose in what I was doing any longer. I had the strong need to find something that is more important, more purposeful to work on to spend my life. Perhaps it really was as simple as spending a lot more time with my kids.’

So he allowed himself time to work out his priorities.

‘If I wanted to do a new project, I want to be sure that it's a worthy cause. I forced myself into a year of sabbatical. I did not allow myself to sign any contract to do any larger investment – I wanted to basically spend time studying.’

He went to Stanford University to study and lived in San Francisco for six months.

Over time, he developed a way of working out what he wanted to do. ‘Eventually I developed a framework that helped me choose my next steps,’ he says. ‘I asked myself three questions to narrow down and filter the opportunities I was seeing.’ And he shared them with me.

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