Leadership Development | Lauren Schieffer, Motivational Speaker

Are You Too Attached To Your Devices To Lead Well?

by Lauren Schieffer | May 16, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

We often hear talk about the importance of disconnecting. Unfortunately, we don’t actually DO it. I was standing in Chicago’s O’Hare airport recently, checking on my gate. I was not in the middle of traffic but far enough out in the walkway that I could see the...

Are You Not Fully Present?

by Lauren Schieffer | May 9, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

Dad said, “You can’t be present unless you’re present, kiddo.” I attended elementary school on two Air Force bases. There are a few things that were different about attending school on the base. Sometimes, the lesson would be interrupted about once an hour by the roar...

Do You Struggle With Empathy?

by Lauren Schieffer | May 2, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

“The only way you can impact anyone is to understand them a little bit. Ya gotta be able to see through someone else’s eyes, kid.” – The Colonel My life’s journey has taught me beyond a shadow of a doubt that there are three sides to every story: yours, mine,...

Are You Closed Minded?

by Lauren Schieffer | Apr 25, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

The Colonel detested prejudice in all its forms. He said, “You can’t be significant and close-minded, kid. The two are mutually exclusive.” The dictionary defines prejudice as: “Unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a...

Are You Culturally Correct?

by Lauren Schieffer | Apr 18, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

The Colonel said, “Prejudice is intentional ignorance. You have to be bigger than that, kid.” I was having a casual conversation with a colleague recently. We were both awaiting flights to different locations and, by chance, had run into each other in the layover...

Are You Planning Your Legacy?

by Lauren Schieffer | Apr 11, 2023 | Leadership, Leadership Development

Your legacy is a choice. One of the things Dad repeated to me often was, “What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you say.” Like so many of his quotes and sayings, it was not original to him. I’ve subsequently seen it attributed to Zig Ziglar as well as at...

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