Karen Brown is an author, ultra-endurance athlete, speaker, business psychology coach and CEO of Velocity Leadership Consulting, a business psychology executive coaching company offering business psychology and transformational coaching to CEOs, executives and managers who are pursuing greater results in their professional and personal lives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“There were many friends of mine who thought I had lost my marbles, they were saying what are you doing, why are you leaving this great corporate executive position that you have to become an entrepreneur. I think they did think I was crazy, but in my gut I knew I was right, I knew that was the path I was meant for”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike Book by Phil Knight
- Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work Book by David Rock
Favourite Quote:
“Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself”
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too) book by Gretchen Rubin
- Science of People – Level up your career success with science backed people skills. Vanessa Van Edwards will teach you how people work with their anti boring approach
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Learn all you can about yourself, your behaviour, in terms of how you work and don’t work and then align that with the results you want to create. It’s like me saying earlier I don’t get into the granularity of things, I’m not a detailed person, I can force myself to be but it takes a lot of energy and it’s at the expense of other things, I’m more of a visionary big thinker kind of person so if that’s my behaviour then I’ve learned to surround myself with people that are the opposite, that have the opposite skill as a strength because that’s going to align me with the skills that I want to create”…[Listen for More]
More About Karen Brown:
Velocity Leadership Consulting
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.” Lenny Kravitz
Other Quotes From the Chat with Karen Brown:
- “Only 5% of what we repeatedly do is because of how we are wired. So often I hear with clients, through facebook, friends, society, all of it, well that’s just who I am, I’m a pleaser or I’m a type A, that’s just how I’m wired, that’s just who I am, that’s just my personality. Hogwash. That’s what I have to say to that, we only convincing ourselves of that because we’re resisting something”
- “That which we resist, persists”
- “Unlimiting your beliefs. We all struggle and suffer from limiting beliefs”
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