Introduction: Lead Strong with Shelley Moore
Lead Strong with Shelley Moore
Introduction | Purpose of The Lead Strong Podcast
THE LEAD STRONG SUMMARY
It seems leadership across America is failing us. We once had leaders who believed in American ingenuity over their ego. Yet as a country, we are losing our footing. We are losing our global and local positions for innovation, growth, education, experimentation, and freedom. These unique advantages have made America strong and have been the platforms that the strongest leaders in government, schools, businesses, nonprofits, and families have built our country.
We now face the intersection of what built our country and the compromises we made to persevere. Fairness based on race, religion, sex, and gender is rightfully challenged. However, they are challenged in exchange for the American virtues of trust, prudence, courage, justice, moderation, ingenuity, productivity, resilience, and perhaps most of all, freedom.
As America blindly turns its lives and freedoms over to other powers beyond its own, we must explore the role of modern-day American leadership and how much we accept the ease of selling out our personal and national values. Have we given up our ability to fight or fight if we had to save ourselves?
The Lead Strong podcast by Shelley Moore explores how to get back to the leadership that started our great nation with the practical, modern-day solutions that will keep America’s future leaders growing and relevant in the context of the complexities of today’s leadership environment.
Since 1998, Shelley has started two businesses and worked with leaders in over 200 organizations that have achieved almost a billion dollars in growth. She has led high-profile projects for businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and startups, supporting leaders and teams in growth.
These efforts have not been easy. Many leaders won’t admit to needing help building their teams. They can become defensive and not want to be further challenged. Many feel threatened by others outshining them and thrive to be publicly noticed, knowing behind-the-scenes the reality is not the same. As a result, they can easily discount others or self-sabotage their growth initiatives.
As our nation’s risks and vulnerabilities rise, leadership today requires rising above trite insecurities and social decorums. Leadership is about the survival of the fittest—those who have a vision beyond their wealth and status to be committed to achieving a better future for their nation and communities.
America was built on principles that made us a worldwide leader. In a growing global economy where America is now not first, we must refocus and rebuild our position based on American values.
Who are these future leaders that will rebuild our country? What are the leadership practices that will rebuild the future of America? Who represents the next wave of leaders with the courage to step up and grow and fight in very challenging times?
The Lead Strong podcast will include 15-minute Lead Set monologues where Shelley will share insights, methods, and tips to spur stronger leadership practices from you and your peers.
Interviews with leaders and leadership practitioners will also break down the psychology, beliefs, principles, and experiences learned by leaders across all spectrums of government, education, business, nonprofit, and family to achieve community growth.
What is the future of leadership? Join us to explore the characteristics, practices, and principles that will successfully expand the future of the experiment of our democracy for American freedom.
Lead Strong will be available where you listen to your podcasts.
ABOUT SHELLEY MOORE
Shelley Moore, often referred to as “the go-to for results,” is a growth strategist and communicator turned online content creator, and leadership specialist committed to developing tomorrow’s leaders.
Since 1999, Shelley has closely worked with over 200 organizations that have achieved nearly one billion dollars in growth. She has multiple awards for leadership in business, nonprofit, and community sectors, making her sought after for assisting leaders with building teams to implement high-profile projects. Her BLOOM online team feedback and development system, workshops, online courses, podcasts, and blogs provide the strategies, tactics, and tools for achieving intentional growth. Shelley has worked in multiple industries, including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, staffing, distribution, professional services (such as legal, financial, and engineering firms), information technology, non-profits, local governments, and community development projects.
Shelley Moore believes in American values of freedom and innovation, and she believes that leadership is the foundation of growth. She starts with understanding the psychology and mindset of her clients and their passion and purpose. She aligns strategic market strategies with organizational design to ensure that teams are supported with the learning, tools, and process requirement to grow and achieve collective success.
Shelley’s formal education is in the studies of marketing, advertising communications, and international business. She has traveled and lived abroad and was inspired by entrepreneurialism and growth by spending her childhood around her father’s accounting firm. She atests her resiliency to her ability to stand strong in adversity and always remain curious and adventurous about the possibilities.
Shelley Moore is a Kolbe Certified Consultant and has served on various boards and association memberships.
RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE
TRANSCRIPT
Hi, everyone, I'm Shelley Moore. Welcome to the Lead Strong podcast. 23 years ago, at almost 30 years old, I started a leadership strategy practice. What advice I thought I could give to business owners at that age? Well, let's just say I've been, fortunately, fearless. Growing up around various types of businesses in their owners through my dad's accounting firm, I became fascinated with transformation and learning how businesses grow. I've had a great time morphing and developing my leadership role in working with over 200 organizations, small and midsize, that have achieved nearly a billion dollars in growth.
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These organizations have ranged from manufacturers, professional service providers, and nonprofits to community and government agencies. For 25 years, I've worked with great and not-so-great leaders, and I've led successful and not-so-successful teams. I believe being a leader in anything is perhaps the highest form of expression in human creativity. It forces us to believe in something, take action and influence others to jump on board, and there is a great risk. For every failure, there comes another opportunity to take another risk and fail again. Many don't stick with the journey, and it's only through that journey that the best leaders rise.
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Today, after COVID and many economic swings, leaders are challenged to take greater risks and transform their organizations, their people, their strategies, their processes, and their whole business models and apply greater courage to reinvent the parts or whole of their organizations, and they must do it fast. To be given the opportunity to drive transformation in new spaces that an organization has never tried before is exhilarating. It requires checking fear, ego, and pride at the door, and it requires leaders to jump in and take calculated risks. Let's face it, leadership is everything. No change initiative happens without strong leaders who are self-aware, understand people, provide direction, and know how to get out of the way at the right times.
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In this podcast, there will be two formats. 15-minute lead sets where I will share insights, tips, and methods I've learned about what strong leaders do. In 40-minute interviews, I will invite guest speakers who will share deeper intimate discussions about their journeys of self-awareness while leading change and transformation in their organizations. I hope these discussions will help you grow and feel inspired to take more risks and either develop as a new young leader or become influential and wise as a seasoned leader because leadership matters and leadership is learned through experiences. And frankly, we need stronger, discipline leaders. They are too hard to find, especially in these conflicted and polarized times. We need stronger leaders from all walks of life who dare to get a little beat up and earn the credit required to lead strong.
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This podcast drops weekly on Wednesdays, and you can find it wherever you listen to your podcasts. We need more courageous leaders who will push themselves to grow and will fight to stick to the discipline required to lead transformations in their businesses and communities. Follow me now, and let's learn together about how that next strong leader in your community can be you.