S12 E46 Getting to the Essence with Gayle Turner & Shelli Jost Brady
- S12E46
- 12:59
- May 29th 2023
"Designing space is more than just designing the space. Shelli Jost Brady shares her journey of alchemy and how she uncovers the essence of businesses to create success."
[Why This Is Important]
Shelli Jost Brady realized that addressing communication, marketing, strategic planning, mission, brand, and cultural issues was crucial to business success. By going beyond traditional architecture, she delved into the core essence of businesses, satisfying unmet needs, and creating authentic spaces. Shelli's approach helps businesses thrive and become worthy of attention.
[What You Need to Know]
- Shelli's firm, Alchemy Consulting, focuses on deconstructing and reconstructing businesses to align HR, PR, and operations for success.
- Creating a self-managing organization requires matching employees' skills to the right job and eliminating processes that lead to inefficiency.
[What You Need to Do]
- Identify the unmet needs and aspirations of your business.
- Deconstruct your current processes and reconstruct them to create a seamless workflow that matches employees' skills.
- Craft your business's essence and align it with your brand, strategy, and operations.
- Explore outside your industry for inspiration and adapt innovative practices to your own business.
[TAKE ACTION]
Start with self-reflection. Assess your role in shaping the culture and success of your business. Take the necessary steps to align your actions with your goals, and lead the change you want to see. Remember, your worthiness and authenticity are invaluable assets that set you apart. Embrace them and let them guide your journey.
Shelli Jost Brady (she/her/hers) is a business owner, social entrepreneur and servant leader since age 29.
She has focused her essence, her efforts and her energy on creating place and belongingness for every community with which she’s worked.
Shelli is a graduate of Virginia Tech. She holds multiple advanced degrees & certificates in design, architecture, business, leadership, trauma, and peace education,
She’s known as a catalyst for transformation. She’s an innovator.
She’s resilient and has used story to overcome adversity, and help diverse and challenged cultures worldwide re-story themselves into sustainable entities.
Enhancing leadership capacity, designing space, developing education programs, facilitating social justice initiatives, and pioneering economic development projects are just a few of the areas she’s been engaged to contribute her magic.
Understanding that Storytelling transcends barriers within our communities as well as in our own minds, she works with people to help them release their old narratives and create new ones.
She encourages us to tell ourselves, and each other, stories worth living
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelli-jost-brady-94b44835/
Gayle Turner is President of The Storytellers Channel, Inc. https://storytellerschannel.com/ For close to five decades he has used the power of story to initiate and sustain change while growing leaders and building productive corporate and community cultures. Check out his LinkedIn profile to learn the rest of the story. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wgayleturner/
If you'd like to explore how clarifying your organization's stories and sharing the stories that exemplify those values can improve performance click here and schedule a time to talk with Gayle.
TAGS
#designing, #Alchemy, #business, #stories, #work, #storytellers, # culture, # authentic, #managing
Stories Matter! - Helping Leaders Transform Lives
Listen to accomplished leaders share how they have transformed lives.
Leaders essentially only do three things.
- Initiate change,
- Sustain change
- Grow Leaders.
Initiating and sustaining change are fairly straight forward activities, but growing leaders seems complicated. It's the process of instilling values.
That activity, too, can be broken into three elements.
- Clear direction - where you explain what you want done and how performance will be evaluated.
- Modeling the behavior - where leaders demonstrate integrity, by behaving in alignment with their stated values.
- Tell stories that demonstrate the values.
Join Gayle Turner and Shelli Jost Brady as they explains how and why stories amplify steps 1 , 2 & 3. Listen as they encourage their guests, accomplished leaders all, to share stories they have used to grow the leaders under their care.
If you'd like to talk with Gayle about how you can use stories to inspire your people to achieve greater results click here to schedule a conversation: https://storytellerschannel.com/stories/talk/gayle/
Gayle Turner is President of The Storytellers Channel, Inc. https://storytellerschannel.com/ For close to five decades he has used the power of story to initiate and sustain change while growing leaders and building productive corporate and community cultures. Check out his LinkedIn profile to learn the rest of the story. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wgayleturner/
Subscribe to The Storytellers Channel’s newsletter by downloading a FREE checklist for crafting Intentional Stories that Influence Behavior and Inspire Results. https://storytellerschannel.com/inspire
