Kristi Hedges is a nationally recognized expert in leadership communications. She coaches CEOs and senior executives at leading global companies, and her workshops and keynotes have reached thousands of leaders in various industries, from the Fortune 500 to the United States government to nonprofits. She is the founder of The Hedges Company and the author of THE POWER OF PRESENCE and the new book THE INSPIRATION CODE. Kristi writes about leadership for Forbes.com and is regularly featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Entrepreneur, as well as on programs such as the BBC and CNBC. She is a teaching faculty member at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. Kristi lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“Naivety, not really understanding what it meant to run a business to get one set up, now it’s so much easier to set up business than it was then 20 years ago, there was an overwhelming amount, a lot that had to get done on the front and when I look back I’ll say it was a blessing and a curse, naivety keeps the entrepreneurial way going, if we knew how hard it would be people wouldn’t start businesses in the first place”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- The Trusted Advisor Book by David H. Maister, Robert Galford and Charles Green
Favourite Quote:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
Recommended Online Resources:
The Hedges Company – Live a happier, healthier life with just a few minutes of meditation a day on the Headspace app
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Running a business is full of uncertainty and we never know what’s going to happen, on one hand one bad situation can change a company dramatically and one great situations can change your company dramatically so we don’t know what’s around the corner and if we’re always trying to tamp down the uncertainty then we’re going to tamp down our growth and our possibility at the same time”…[Listen for More]
More About Kristi Hedges:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“For every why he had a wherefore.” Samuel Butler
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kristi Hedges:
- “If you know that you can do it, if you know that there’s no one better for this than you, who else should do this than you, if we really embrace that it really makes a difference”
- “What we’re good at doing isn’t necessarily what we enjoy doing all the time and being able to look at both of those as being important so here’s one for me, I’m pretty organised, I can organise things, I don’t enjoy organising things, just because I do it, I know how to do it, I don’t like to do it so if I had a job that required detailed organisation I would do it just fine but it would crush my soul”
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