Walk away with actionable strategies to amplify your impact, and learn how compassionate business tactics can transform your organization from the inside out.
Courageous empathy. Yep – it takes courage and strength to break existing leadership paradigms and embrace empathy in our world today. We don’t acknowledge that often enough. Embracing empathy as a leader is as much a self-development exercise as it is a leadership style! Today I speak with Sanela Lukanovic about courageous empathy, how the identity of empathy gets in the way of embracing it at the top, how it can be used against you, and how to practice empathy while avoiding burnout by starting with self-compassion.
Sanela shares how her knack for coaching difficult people without blocking change can enable you to deal with the person rather than the problem. And why we sometimes swing too far between polar opposite paradigms of cold dictatorship and submissive chaos before we can land on what works right for us.
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Key Takeaways:
- Be brave enough to be the type of leader that is required in our workplaces and our world.
- You must set boundaries around empathy. If you don’t, you are risking burnout, people-pleasing, and submission in your leadership. You don’t want to wall yourself off, but you don’t want to be walked all over either.
- Boundaries allow you to see and allow a back and forth (like over a fence). Barriers impede progress.
“It takes a lot of courage to sit across from somebody and be open and willing to hear their perspective.” — Sanela Lukanovic
Episode References:
- The Daring Greatly Programme, based on research by Dr. Brené Brown: selfdom.life/daring-greatly
The Empathy Edge podcast episodes:
- Daina Middleton: How to Do Layoffs with Humanity, Inclusion, and Compassion
- M.E. Hart: How to Have Honest Conversations at Work
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About Sanela Lukanovic: Transformational Coach and Daring Way™ Facilitator
Sanela Lukanovic is a Transformational Coach and founder of Selfdom. With over two decades of experience, Sanela empowers individuals to lead with authenticity, purpose, and courage. She is a public speaker, thought leader, and expert in coaching women leaders to overcome unique challenges and create value-aligned change.
Using somatic and neuroscience tools, Sanela helps clients achieve holistic personal growth. Her impactful talks and group programs focus on building courage, empathy as a shame resilience tool, perfectionism, boundaries, and self-compassion.
Her background in management consulting and cross-sector experience in leadership development enrich her coaching approach.
Connect with Sanela:
Selfdom: selfdom.life
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sanela-lukanovic-682927
Instagram: instagram.com/selfdom_life
Connect with Maria:
Get Maria’s books on empathy: Red-Slice.com/books
Learn more about Maria’s work: Red-Slice.com
Hire Maria to speak: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-Ross
Take the LinkedIn Learning Course! Leading with Empathy
LinkedIn: Maria Ross
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Maria Ross
Failed product launches. Furious customers. Dysfunctional teams. Many of the problems we face in the business world (and frankly, society) stem from the same root cause: Lack of empathy.
Speaker, author, strategist, and empathy advocate Maria Ross shares keen insights and inspiring interviews that prove empathy and compassion are the new paths to market-winning performance. Leveraging both inspiring stories and hard data, Ross connects empathetic leadership, cultures and brands to innovation, engagement, and bottom-line results. You’ll walk away with actionable strategies to amplify your impact, and learn how compassionate business tactics can transform your organization from the inside out.
The Empathy Edge podcast provides a quick dose of motivation, wisdom, and practical actions that executive leaders, entrepreneurs and changemakers can use right now. Ready to infuse YOUR organization with more empathy? Tune in to learn why cash flow, creativity, and compassion are not mutually exclusive.
