Everyday Leadership

A Title Will Only Get You So Far Personally & Professionally with Omar L Harris
EPISODE 53 • SEASON 00:47:06

About Omar L HarrisOmar L Harris is the founder of Intent Consulting and TYMPO.io, prior to that he has 20+ years of global pharmaceutical senior leadership executive experience building teams in 4 continents (U.S., Middle East, Asia and Latin America) for Pfizer, Merck, Schering-Plough and more. He was the youngest senior marketing director in Schering-Plough history. He is also a Gallup certified strengths coach, speaker, award-winning bestselling author of 5 books, including: 

  • Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss: Leadership in the Era of Corporate Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • The Servant Leader’s Manifesto”
  • Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams”

He is passionate about leading teams, high-performance coaching, and inspiring the future leaders of today and tomorrow to adopt the servant leader mindset and stop toxic leadership behaviours. 

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https://www.omarlharris.com/ https://www.intentconsultants.co/about

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

  • Johari Window & Self Awareness
  • Dealing with unexpected language roadblocks that defined his mindset
  • How being people first can overcome cultural barriers for leaders
  • The importance of modelling the behaviour you want to see
  • How to deal with the resistance leaders will inevitably face when making change positive changes to the culture.
  • Trust equation and why it is so important to your leadership credibility
  • Balconies and Basements (Strengths & Weakness Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin)
  • How a rejection led to an opportunity 10 years later
  • The distinction between a boss and a leader and how that has lead to the great resignation
  • J.E.D.I. Leadership (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion)
  • Organisations dedicated to holding businesses accountable
  • Why leaders need to change the way they lead
  • Powerful leadership lessons from his mum

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