Danessa Knaupp is an executive coach dedicated to shifting the global conversation on leadership. She has supported executives across every major industry and is known as a candid, compassionate and courageous leadership partner. She is the author of the best-selling leadership manual, Naked at Work: A Leader’s Guide to Fearless Authenticity.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Bill Gates
- Dan Price Founder/CEO, Gravity Payments
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the internal interference about what if I am not enough? What if I don’t really know it? What if I’m not expert? I get all A’s in school Neil; I am a big checkbox girl. So, the idea that I am going to hang a shingle and there is plenty that I don’t know often interfered for me. And so, the way that I got through that was simply well somebody knows so let me write down the problems and then start thinking about them”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Hard Thing About Hard Things Book by Ben HorowitzFavourite Quote:
- “Know better, do better.” Maya Angelou
- “now we know better so what can we do?”
Recommended Online Resources:
Upwork – You can find The Perfect Freelancers For Your Projects! It’s easy and affordable with secure Payments and will help you to increased your productivity
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“notice yourself, notice your experience, notice when you are trying to stay comfortable, notice what people really respond to in you and then think about how do you structure your work, your business, your life in a way that consistently brings out the best in you”…[Listen for More]
More About Danessa Knaupp:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” Henry Ford
Other Quotes From the Chat with Danessa Knaupp:
- “I tend to look for leaders who continue to move forward when they are daunted, when it seems hard and continue to make progress. I like those kind of scrappy underdog stories”
- “at 10 a.m. I can take on the world but at 10 p.m. I am not so sure”
- “this will always be a volatile experience… Things will always change rapidly and the only thing we get to control is our reaction to that. And so often I find myself returning to this idea of I can focus on action from where I am or I can let something go. And if I had known in the beginning that there is actually lots let go, you can come back to, you can think about later, I think I would have been more comfortable early on”
- “I think resilience is the secret to success… People who are willing to try again, willing to screw up, willing to think well I didn’t know that and now I do, how do I adjust? Willing to really feel like as Brené Brown says they are face down in the arena and to take a breath and then to stand up. I think ultimately that is the key to success, it is simply persistence”
- “I can always know better and I can always start again. The idea of if today went poorly, if I made a mistake, I have an infinite number of opportunities to fix that”
- “we really believe that coaching is the single biggest most powerful investment you can make in yourself, leadership development is the most powerful investment you can make in your team”
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