J. Jeffrey Spahn is a researcher, executive educator, entrepreneur, executive coach, storyteller and speaker. With over 20 years of experience Jeff continues to design a unique and powerful leadership practice for leaders, executives, teams and organizations. The Leading Leaders Practice is a practical approach to leadership in the 21st Century and is designed to enable leaders to mold complexity and ambiguity into innovation and performance.
Disciplines and insights from business and philosophy, arts and athletics, science and spirituality enliven this practice. A degree in business from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the University of Chicago ground his practice in sound scholarship. After more than twelve years of executive leadership Mr. Spahn taught business graduate students and conducted research on the purpose of business. During this investigation he engaged many of the top executives in the United States.
In response to a publisher’s request Jeff is currently writing a book entitled The Magic of Mutual Leadership: How to Lead and Follow Simultaneously for Exponential Results. His most recent published article by the same title can be found in Developing Leaders Magazine by clicking here
Other published articles include “Leading Leaders: The Art of Peak Performance”, Velocity, vol.4, No.2, 2nd Quarter 2002, “The Leading of Leaders in the Boardroom”, Directors & Boards, Winter 2003 edition, “Honest Boardroom Communication”, Director’s Monthly, November 2002 “A New Capitalist Manifesto?: Re-imagining Business in the 21st Century” Virtual Strategist Spring 2004, “Transforming (Not Overcoming) Objections’, Advisor Perspectives, November 2011, “3 Steps to Empathic Active Listening”, FPA’s Practice Management Solution., March/April 2012.
Board memberships include The Chicago Moving Company, a modern dance enterprise, SCUPE, a nonprofit dedicated to developing urban leaders and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business Alumni Club of Chicago.
Topics
During this interview Jeff and I discuss the following topics:
- What does “We the Leader” mean
- How to determine the best common purpose for an organization
- How to get team members onboard with the common purpose
- Curious conviction - what it is and how to establish it
- Why you “bring a piece” and not “the whole”
- How to establish a team where ego is released
- How to de escalate conflict as it arises
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