How Great Leaders Become Extraordinary with Jackie Insinger

In Episode 5 of ‘The Powerhouse CEO’, your host Kelly Fidel speaks with Jackie Insinger, CEO and Founder of ‘Insinger Insight’. Jackie brings her expertise in cognitive psychology interpersonal dynamics to the business world as a sought-after Executive and Team Dynamics Coach. She helps leaders and teams focus on their unique strengths and authentic connection. Jackie shares her views on ‘How Great Leaders Become Extraordinary’.

Episode Highlights:

• Jackie answers the one question that inspired her to help great leaders become extraordinary.
• Leadership and managing people isn't a natural skill to 90% of people, it is learned so it is teachable.
• Jackie’s inspiration of helping people become great leaders came from using the incredible research tools that she has written about in her new book, and how to understand discover, connect, motivate, communicate and help people grow.
• People are born with influence and they can also learn it.
• We have to be very intentional about how we show up because it disseminates throughout the whole organization.
• Results and great things happen when the people feel valued and connected, so team dynamics are essential.
• Jackie talks about her NEW book - ‘Spark Brilliance’ and how to join the waitlist.

3 Key Points:

1. Jackie helps high-achieving great leaders become extraordinary.
2. This idea of ‘it begins with you’ in the first line of the book is based on the neuroscience of emotional contagion, which is where we mirror the mood, the impact behaviors of people around us. A leader has increasingly more impact on contagion, than people who are at other levels in a company.
3. When you show up with an optimistic outlook using the prefrontal cortex, part of your brain that shows possibilities and positivity, that is contagious and that spreads throughout just as fast as the negative does.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “There's no cap on growth, there's no cap on potential, that's inherent in the word itself - potential” - Jackie Insinger
• “A book’s like your baby, it's your creation, it's vulnerable, it's nerve-wracking and it’s exciting.” - Jackie Insinger
• “I love that you always incorporate fun to write because if it's always just business, it will get boring and when it gets boring, we all punch out.” - Kelly Fidel
• “We take on secondhand stress and we also take on positive emotion.” - Jackie Insinger
• “It takes the consciousness and the learned skill of a leader to create that First Team.” - Kelly Fidel
• “Through very specific action steps it just makes the world an easier and a better place to live” - Jackie Insinger
• “I love how connections happen in moments, not meetings, and that is for life, not just business.” - Kelly Fidel

Resources Mentioned:

• Jackie Insinger: Website
• Kelly Fidel:
• • Kelly’s Website
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  • Kelly’s LinkedIn
  • Kelly’s YouTube