Release Your Roar
Topics centre around your resilience as a leader in business. How to manage and lead teams effectively in the work place, build good relationships both in your personal life and work. Create an engaged team at work, a good work culture, developing succession in business, managing family businesses, starting a new role at work or new business, work life balance, managing divorce and developing personal wellbeing and wellness.
Release Your Roar
Polar adventures and leadership
Michael Mitten, former CEO of Houghton International and now an acquisitions and merger consultant, explored the Artic North pole in 2009 and Antarctica in 2019. He shares with us his learnings of what Polar adventure taught him about Leadership and particularly Leadership in Business.
In our natural conversation and stories around the theme of the extreme environment, there is the odd adult language contained within:-
Duration time 43 mins and topics discussed:-
1. Why Polar Adventure? 0.50 secs
2. Flying into the North Pole on a Russian Cargo plane 4 mins 50 secs
3. What was it like to be in an extreme polar environment and find that leadership from within? 6 mins 15 secs
4. Planning and Preparation in Leadership. What did your adventures teach you about this. 15 mins and 36 secs.
5. Trust in Leadership is so important and you have a story to tell about this in your North Pole adventure. 21 mins 23 secs
6. Keep on going or turning back? Antarctica. 29 mins 34 secs
7. Leaders taking time away from the business? The Benefit from your experience. 38 mins 30 secs.