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What happens when the traits that made you successful start working against you?

In this episode, Claudia Beck, founder of Better Together Group, shares her journey from a 30-year corporate career to coaching senior executives on conscious leadership. After reaching senior leadership and experiencing a forced exit, Claudia was confronted with a fundamental question: who do you want to be when you are no longer operating at full speed?

Claudia now works with highly intelligent, high-performing leaders who want to improve their relational capacity and lead more intentionally. Her work focuses on helping leaders move from automatic behaviors like control, perfectionism, or shutdown into conscious choice.

This conversation explores the tension many leaders face today. Organizations reward results, speed, and competition. But as AI accelerates execution and automation, the differentiator is shifting toward human connection, awareness, and emotional intelligence.

Claudia also shares the personal realities behind her transition into entrepreneurship, including grief, identity loss, and the mindset shifts required to trust uncertainty without a steady paycheck.

Inside this episode, we cover:

• What “conscious leadership” actually means in practice
• Why high achievers struggle to slow down
• The difference between automatic behavior and intentional choice
• How AI is reshaping the role of human connection in leadership
• The emotional and psychological transition from corporate to entrepreneurship
• Practical ways leaders can reconnect with their inner wisdom

Claudia introduces a progression from intellectual intelligence to emotional intelligence to what she calls systems intelligence, where leaders understand how their behavior impacts others and the broader environment.

She also shares simple but powerful practices, including questioning your first thought, reconnecting with your body, and learning to say no to what is not aligned.

This episode is for leaders who are successful on paper but sense that something deeper needs to change.

Connect with Claudia Beck:
Website: bettertogethergroup.co

Instagram: 

@amyschutte_

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