Alycia Sutor – Managing Director, GrowthPlay

This week on Everybody Leads, Tim Lupinacci welcomes Alycia Sutor, Managing Director at GrowthPlay. Alycia has spent the past 25 years helping lawyers and other professionals build their capacity to accelerate ongoing profitable practice growth by developing sales, leadership, and teaming skills. Prior to her work at GrowthPlay, she oversaw business development at Goldberg Kohn and McDermott Will & Emery.

You'll learn about Alycia’s leadership journey and influences from people who spoke into her life and saw things in her that she did not see in herself. She also provides advice about embracing different opportunities in different seasons of life. Other topics include:

• Alycia’s leadership journey and development stemming from both nature and nurture
• How leaders supporting others with potential can help them flourish
• Learning to let go of certain responsibilities and embrace new opportunities
• The importance of having a community of colleagues who support and challenge you for personal and professional growth
• Building strong relationships, which takes time and requires trust and commitment
• Legacy as leaving a gift for future generations to believe in
• Inspiring resources
• Cultivating the interior aspects of leadership, such as self-reflection and curiosity
• Daily practices that help rejuvenate her
• The importance of giving yourself grace and accepting that it's okay to be average or below average at times
• An inspiring story of a young man who adopted leadership from a young age and inspired a scholarship fund for his village

Additional Resources:

Podcasts:

• Re: Thinkingwith Adam Grant
• Hidden Brainwith Shankar Vedantam
• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Books:

• The Womenby Kristin Hannah
• Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way: Adopted from the Official Army Leadership Manualby the U.S. Army

Charity:

• This episode is in support of Alycia Sutor’s designated charity, Batwa Empowerment Village. We have made a donation to Batwa Empowerment Village as a thank you to Alycia for joining Everybody Leads. To learn more about Batwa Empowerment Village, please visit https://batwauganda.org/.

Contact Alycia Sutor:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyciasutor/
• Facebook: Alycia Sutor
• E-mail: asutor@growthplay.com

Growth Play:

• https://www.growthplay.com

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Producer: Jason Plank
Intern: Claudia Bonney Amamoo