Kate Lanz is the founder and CEO of Mindbridge, a UK-based global leadership company specializing in the power of modern neuroscience and releasing latent brain potential. She is the lead author of All the Brains in the Business: The Engendered Brain in the 21st Century Organisation.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest thing as a working woman was the guilt of actually starting a business when I had two small babies and thinking actually maybe I should be staying at home and be a full-time mum. So that was a biggie. In fact, if look at it in terms of the energetic cost to me that was the hardest. And then I think just putting in the hard yards to get the right qualifications because I don’t think you should do this kind of work unless you are properly qualified to do it. So, I have done a lot of training over the years to make sure that I’m well qualified to do the job ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life Book by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin ZanderFavourite Quote:
“Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, and vision with action can change the world.” Nelson Mandela
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“get yourself a good personal board of directors. And those people can obviously change over time and over circumstance. Let other people help you make that something that you constantly have around you”…[Listen for More]
More About Kate Lanz:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” Joyce Brothers
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kate Lanz:
- “I would have got myself a business mentor earlier and just been less independent. I am ferociously independent which is why I love running my own show. And I think in the early days when you are just gung-ho often up and at ‘em I didn’t do enough stop and think time. And I think having a mentor, an older wiser head would have helped me create that stop and think time. And you make better decisions when you create the headspace”
- “dogged determination… So just keep going and keep being endlessly curious about why things are working and why things are not working is a biggie”
- “really valuing relationships and actually going into the world that you want to work in focusing on relationship ahead of task because ultimately it’s all about relationships”
- “really enjoying what you do because you will have a lot of tough days when you are starting out and you have got to really see the big picture and love why you are doing it just to keep going”
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