Is Your Leadership Style Amplifying or Accidentally Diminishing Your Team’s Potential? with Elise Foster

08/15/24 • 35 min

Join host Susan Quinn as she sits down with Elise Foster, co-author of “The Multiplier Effect,” for an engaging conversation about transformative leadership. Discover how some leaders inspire and elevate their teams while others unintentionally hold them back. Elise shares her unique journey from engineering to executive coaching and reveals powerful strategies for cultivating curiosity, intentionality, and self-awareness. Tune in to learn how you can become a multiplier and create a thriving, growth-oriented culture within your organization.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

The ways in which multipliers enhance intelligence among their teams and in turn inspire remarkable growth and innovation.
How to create an environment where struggling and learning from mistakes is not only accepted but encouraged.
Which types of questions can foster collaboration and growth.
How to use "balcony moments" to step back and gain perspective on your actions and their impact on your team.

Elise Foster began her career as an engineer, managing high-profile global projects. Realizing she wanted to solve different problems, she transitioned to leadership coaching and co-authored “The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools.” With over 15 years of experience in engineering and organizational development at companies like Cummins, Inc. and Harvard University, Elise delivers dynamic workshops and keynotes, helping leaders unlock their potential. She holds degrees in Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master’s in Education from Harvard University. Elise enjoys travel, running, and volunteering.

Ways to contact Elise:

Website: https://elisefoster.com/
Email: [email protected]

Better Experiences by Design is a podcast series produced by circle S studio that highlights leaders across a variety of industries dedicated to delivering exceptional brand, employee, and client experiences. © circle S studio, 2024.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

The ways in which multipliers enhance intelligence among their teams and in turn inspire remarkable growth and innovation.
How to create an environment where struggling and learning from mistakes is not only accepted but encouraged.
Which types of questions can foster collaboration and growth.
How to use "balcony moments" to step back and gain perspective on your actions and their impact on your team.

Ways to contact Elise:

Website: https://elisefoster.com/
Email: [email protected]

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"The way we have to sell today is to be a subject matter expert that freely and generously teaches their expertise and helps people be better at their job."

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The five core elements of running a business better – leveraging strengths, growing a team, attracting and retaining clients, implementing efficient systems, and financial management for sustained growth.
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Ways to contact Drew:

Website: https://agencymanagementinstitute.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewmclellan/
Podcast: https://agencymanagementinstitute.com/agency-owner-podcast/

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In this insightful episode, host Susan Quinn sits down with marketing strategist and research expert Susan Baier, Founder and CEO of Audience Audit, who shares her unique approach to understanding your audience. Through attitudinal segmentation, she gets to the core of what’s most important and how organizations can use this information to better serve their clients.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

The power of research in demonstrating your firm’s thought leadership.
The significance of attitudinal research in thought leadership and marketing.
How to gather feedback and, in turn, better serve your audience.
Real-world success stories of businesses transformed through audience insights.
Practical strategies for creating cornerstone content that resonates.
The pitfalls of making assumptions and the power of asking questions.

Susan Baier is the Founder and CEO of Audience Audit, a research company specializing in segmentation research. Her superpower is her combination of strategic marketing and research expertise that allows each to inform the other on behalf of clients. Susan honed her expertise over 30 years in audience-based marketing strategy on both the agency-side and client-side of market research, strategic planning, and product and brand management.

Ways to contact Susan Baier:

Website: audienceaudit.com
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanbaieraz/

Items referenced:

Book recommendation: https://pamelaslim.com/the-widest-net/
Predictive ROI research: https://predictiveroi.com/the-roi-of-thought-leadership-series/

Better Experiences by Design™ - Is Your Leadership Style Amplifying or Accidentally Diminishing Your Team’s Potential? with Elise Foster

Transcript

Susan Quinn: When you think about the leaders who have left a lasting impact on your personal or professional life, what qualities stand out and were those leaders or mentors just naturally inclined to lead? Or were they naturally dedicated to honing their leadership skills? Today’s episode will explore how some leaders accidentally diminish the contributions and potential of others. While the best leaders, they learn how to multiply talent and make everyone smarter. Elise, welcome to the sh