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Powerful Leadership Skills

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Katharine White, R.N., M.S, CPHQ, CAC, President of Lighthouse Performance Strategies, is a member of the most trusted professional group in the United States and author of Powerful Leadership Skills: Ideas and Tools from Business Coaches to Help You Achieve Success. She disucsses how she helps leaders adopt a powerful leadership mindset that catalyzes new leader behavior to bring out the best in themselves and their organizations, while continuously seeking original, novel and unconventional approaches to day-to-day challenges.

Episode Segments

Positive Living: The Leadership Mindset

Katharine White tells Patricia about the Leadership Mindset; what it is exactly, and what the steps are to get there. Plus Katharine tells us why we are afraid to be good leaders.

Positive Living: Micromanaging

Katharine talks more about on the leadership mindset, and discusses the importance of delegating responsibility. She also discusses why micromanaging is never a good thing.

Positive Living: The Five Cs

Katharine reveals the five Cs for life & leadership. She also talks about what you need to look for when you are searching for a leadership coach.

Positive Living: Not Entrepreneurs But Intrapreneurs

Katharine discusses the importance of being an intrapreneur at your place of employment. She also reveals more of the 5 Cs, and discusses her contribution to the book
Powerful Leadership Skills
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Guest(s) Appearing on this Episode

Katharine White

Katharine White, R.N., M.S, CPHQ, CAC, President of Lighthouse Performance Strategies, is a member of the most trusted professional group in the United States. Built on years as a psychotherapist, psychiatric consultant, and organizational development specialist, she applies psychology of change principles to help people make behavior shifts toward optimal outcomes. In her career, she was continually promoted to stretch positions, often without seeking promotion, and learned quickly the strategy of getting strong as a leader through a strategic process she has coined the LeadStrong™ method. As a patient care executive, Vice President of Quality Management, and Senior Vice President of Organizational Development, she created her own leadership renaissance from years as a front line worker through positions of educator and consultant to executive. Formerly adjunct faculty at Northeastern University and University of Rhode Island, adult learning principles are part of her business approach to building leadership strength. As President of her company, LPSI, deriving experiences from industries including health care, real estate, retail, financial services, insurance and the academic setting, Katharine utilizes her unique background to forge strategic partnerships with clients to achieve results while balancing work with personal life. As a board vice chair of a non profit and a mother of five in a blended family, she knows how to achieve win- win outcomes with diverse constituent agendas. By facilitating teams through planning processes that get to the “starting line” well prepared, focused, and on time, LPSI helps clients navigate through uncertain “waters”.

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