Leading with Heart: A PR Success Story

Access Your Leadership with Hakim Lakhdar

Michelle Mekky is the CEO and Founder of Mekky Media Relations, Inc., a member of the Strategic Advancement Committee, on the Executive Council for the International Public Relations Network (IPRN) and most recently a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council. She is based in Chicago, which is where she and Hakim met at an Exit Success Lab two-day conference event. Michelle joins Access Your Leadership to share her incredible story and journey of becoming the leader of an award-winning PR firm and all that it took to get there. She shares personal and professional challenges that she had to face and overcome in order to step into the leadership role she was alway meant to play. Why after all that is her biggest leadership win all that her team has accomplished? What do accolades represent to leaders and team members along the journey? What’s the difference between weight and burden of leadership? How can we hire and surround ourselves with the most talented, most aligned people? Why is feeling good as a leader so important? What’s the main responsibility of a leader? How do acknowledgements of your internal team impact morale and performance? Where do values play a role in hiring and creating a culture? How might getting fired be more challenging or different than finding out that you have cancer? Where does self-belief and self-worth play a role in your willingness to take risks? How important is our truth and the truth of those close to us as we embark on new and unfamiliar activities? Is heart really that important in leadership? What’s the difference between empowerment and delegation? There are so many more questions being answered and gold nuggets shared in this episode. Listen to what authentic leadership sounds like and then listen again. Where’s the opportunity for you?

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