Leading Change and Transforming Organizations with Sara Junio

Celeste Cuffie sits down with the ever-inspiring Sara Junio, a Transformation Executive and Strategic Leadership Coach, best-selling author, and Organizational Change Management Consultant at Trissential. Sara has dedicated her career to guiding companies through significant changes using technology and data governance. If you're seeking wisdom on understanding behavioral patterns and improving organizational change, this episode is brimming with valuable insights.

Sara highlights the importance of discerning the intentions behind actions, along with the role of technology in today's business environment. She shares personal anecdotes about resilience, from her humble beginnings on a farm to overcoming personal and professional challenges, all while maintaining an unwavering sense of hope and empowerment.

What motivates someone to shift from agricultural pursuits to becoming a top-notch transformation coach guiding executive teams? Tune in to discover Sara's compelling journey and learn actionable advice for your own career transformation.

Episode Highlights

30:49 - What I do is business transformations, typically involving technology or data, data governance, data management. And a lot of that is companies are coming in with this whole industrial revolution and recognizing in order for us to do more with data, we have to have systems to collect that data, and we have to have more automation. And so, I get involved in those business transformations, either leading the technology initiative as a program manager or specializing in, if it's a large company, how do I help them let the technology people implement the system, but then how do I work with the business to accept that and adopt that technology? 

38:57 - I think I'm trying to tell myself that asking for help and I think it's okay now. I'm that sandwich generation where with my parents, they don't ask for a lot of help. That's just not natural for them. The younger generation, my kids, who are in their 20s, almost to 30, it's very natural for them to ask for help, and it's very natural for them to say, "Hey, we're a team. How do we do this together?" 

48:10 - Evaluate your actions in anything that you're doing. And if you don't like the result that you're getting, understand, you can change an action, but you've got to get to the root cause. And your actions are derived from your thoughts. Your thoughts are derived from your belief system. So what is the limiting belief that's creating your thoughts, that's driving your actions? And ask that question, who says I can't do that? At the end of the day, if you get frustrated or you're not far enough along in something or you're telling yourself no, no shouldn't be in the vocabulary. It should be like not now or something like that. Ask your question. Well, who says I can't do this? 

Guest Bio

Sara Junio is a seasoned expert in Strategic Leadership, Transformation, Organizational Development, and Customer Experience, with over 20 years of progressive experience. She partners with mid to large-sized organizations, guiding executives, senior leaders, and HR managers through business transformations that drive growth and success. Sara specializes in cultivating highly engaged teams, resolving conflicts constructively, and developing strategic solutions to overcome challenges. Known for her empowering approach, Sara has authored "The Identity Effect" and is working on a new book focused on organizational change.

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