Episode #65: Tim Collings on Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders

The Discomfort Practice

In this episode, I talk to Tim Collings, CEO of 4I leadership. Tim is also a leadership coach, guiding on strategy and organizational design to help individual leaders and organizations create a sustainable future. Tim is also a fellow podcast host, producing the “Better World Leaders Podcast”, on which I appeared a few episodes back. On it, he speaks to leaders on a quest to make the world a better place.

Tim talks about current leadership styles, many of which are based on authority or hierarchy, and how this type of leadership fails to have the impact society and our planet desperately need. He posits (and I agree) that anyone can be a leader, because leadership is a set of qualities and capabilities, rather than a position in a hierarchy. Valuable leadership traits include foresight, flexibility, resiliency, and taking responsibility for the system each is part of.

Tim observes that emerging leaders often have a sense of interconnectedness which helps them innovate to tackle the pressing issues of our world/ systems. We talk about rediscovering old wisdom in the form of ancient societal constructs, which are based on relationships between beings and the land.

Tim gives listeners a great laundry list of authors basing their work on systemsn design and leadership on insight into nature.

Tune in as we speak about the need for innovation, leadership, and sustainable growth that doesn't crash our planet or exploit humans.

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Key Points:

• Do we have the right leaders? (06:00)
• Enable individuals as leaders (07:00)
• I am the part of the problem; it is the privileges that have made me successful (08:50)
• The real feudalism (10:50)
• Wisdom gained from our ancestors (11:50)
• Ancestral frameworks (15:30)
• Qualities of a right leader (16:20)
• Do we have leaders who can change the dysfunctional system (19:40)
• Emerging leaders and the hope of innovation they bring in (21:07)
• Book recommendations (25:03)
• Permaculture and regenerative food systems (28:00)
• Defining slow work (30:22)

Connect with Tim Collings:

4i leadership

LinkedIn

Connect with Betsy Reed:

Betsy on Instagram

Betsy on Twitter

Betsy on Linkedin

Betsy’s Website

Resources Mentioned:

A Better World Leaders Podcast

The Australian Financial Review

Active Hope: How to Face The Mess We're In Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy

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