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Transformative leaders who are struggling with overwhelm and firefighting.

Client

ALU School of Business 

Goal

ALU wanted to create a learning experience for their new class of 58 students to support them with dealing with the pandemic, the responsibilities of taking an online MBA, taking care of their families, AND working full-time. ALU hoped that if the students felt supported while they were in school, they could build better school-life-work integration so they could focus on t…

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Healthcare Facility Human Resources team looking to build and execute their  5-year organizational Culture Plan.  As a Stanford Seed Consultant, I work remotely as a business consultant focused on leadership, team engagement, change management, and organization development with Seed Transformation Network companies to develop customized and creative business solutions.

Client

Nyaho Medical Centre

Elizabeth Arhin, Human Resource Director, reported:

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Entrepreneurship Fellows are currently in the transformative stage, trying to build co-founding teams with strangers within a month.

Client

Jasiri (Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies Program)

Goal

Jasiri brings potential founders (called fellows) from different workstreams, backgrounds, cultures, and personalities together. The fellows need to accelerate their ability to honestly and vulnerably connect to find compatible co-founders to launch a business within a short time frame. A …

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Khloe is a Transformative Leader dealing with internal and external reluctance. She was selected to build a new important department, but not everyone supported her. She needs to learn how to get all her stakeholders on her side while recruiting, hiring, and training a new team.

Imagine what it would feel like to 'fail' at your first leadership attempt. You are given an opportunity to build a new team for a new part of the business, and your first hire wasn't a good fit. It feels like you…

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George is a Transformative Leader who is reluctant. To help his startup reach the next level, he needs to step up, make some tough personnel decisions, and continue learning about his adopted region.

What would you do if you had this amazing product that could transform a region, but you did not have the team or context to make it work?

Meet George, a founder of a technology startup. He moved to West Africa and hired employees he felt weren't always working as hard as he was. His beliefs of…

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Gia is a Buoyant Leader experiencing firefighting and overwhelm. To move forward, they need to learn more about their new stakeholders so they can properly manage them and make the most of their growing team by prioritizing for them. 

Imagine having a larger scope, more responsibility, direct access to the executive team, and a better title but none of the authority or power.

Meet Gia, a newly promoted VP within a global company that has decided to put more emphasis on creating a diverse, …

Executive and Leadership expert Akua is wrapping up her mini-series on expectation setting and goal setting in the workplace. In this episode, you'll also learn about the different resources that Akua has on the subject of expectation setting, including valuable blog posts and podcast episodes where you can just dip your toe or dive head first into the deep well of insights on expectation setting. 

As a leader or manager, it is important to set realistic and achievable goals and to provide the …

Want to improve on goal-setting or expectation-setting? This episode is for conscious leaders who want to enhance their approach to goal setting and create a positive and productive environment for themselves and their team. 

Expanding on her third pillar of leadership, expectation setting/goal setting, host Akua builds on themes from episode 93. She unveils the three overlooked aspects of goal setting, including the "when" or timing of the goal, who is responsible for the goal, and the definit…

In this episode, Akua explores the third pillar in her three-step leadership framework: setting expectations (sometimes referred to as goals setting, OKRs, or KPIs). Akua uses her own experience as a case study to illustrate the importance of setting expectations for yourself, and she highlights the impact of expectations on personal and professional growth.

Whether you're a solopreneur, team leader, or aspiring achiever, this episode will empower you to set clear and realistic expectations for…

This is the first in a mini-series of episodes that will be based on the final step in Akua's three-step leadership framework: setting expectations. Whether you call it expectation setting, goal setting, or utilizing frameworks like KPIs or OKRs, these episodes will transform the way you approach expectation-setting and communication.

Leaders and managers will learn the significance of expectations and their impact on leadership and how to set achievable and realistic goals for their team. Impo…