459: Discover Who You Are, with Hortense le Gentil

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hortense le Gentil: Aligned Hortense is an Executive Leadership Coach and the President and Founder of JAY Consulting. She works with C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies, supporting them in their development and leadership by working with them on the alignment between their personal values and their professional activities. Hortense is part of the Marshall Goldsmith’s prestigious 100 Coaches Project. She has been selected to receive a Thinkers 50 coaching award for excellence in her field. She is the author of several articles about leadership and coaching in such publications as Leader to Leader. She is the author of the book Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be*. Key Points We are often blind to these invisible lines running throughout our lives. Reflecting on the role models others have admired in their lives can provide insight on what they value. Fictional characters, colors, animals, tress, and even countries can also provide insight into values. Wisdom from Peter Drucker: “Tell me what you value, and I might believe you. But show me the twists and turns of your life and I’ll show you what you really value.” Resources Mentioned Aligned: Connecting Your True Self with the Leader You’re Meant to Be* by Hortense le Gentil Book Notes Download my highlights from Aligned in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes Enhance Your Self-Awareness, with Daniel Goleman (episode 353) Three Steps to Great Career Conversations, with Russ Laraway (episode 370) What to Do With Your Feelings, with Lori Gottlieb (episode 438) The Way to Be More Self-Aware, with Tasha Eurich (episode 442) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	We're often blind to the invisible lines running throughout our lives.
0:04.0	In this episode, how to see those lines better for ourselves and for others
0:09.0	to discover who we really are.
0:11.0	This is coaching for leaders episode 459. Produced by Innovate Learning
0:17.8	Maximizing Human Potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your
0:29.8	host Dave Stahovia. Leaders aren't born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you
0:36.3	discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. I know it's such a leading intention for so many of you and the people that you work with
0:48.0	to be so well aligned with your work. It is the dream that so many of us have to be well aligned with our own personal
0:57.4	values and the work that we do professionally. Today's guest is someone who's just an expert at helping leaders to do this well.
1:06.0	It's going to help us with the insight and the strategy to be able to look and think in such a way that will help us and of course to take action to really align well with our work.
1:16.5	I'm so glad to welcome to the show today, Ortance O'Jantee.
1:20.8	Ortance is an executive leadership coach and the president and founder of Jay Consulting.
1:26.1	She works with C-suite executives from Fortune 500 companies supporting them in their development and
1:31.5	leadership by working with them on the alignment
1:34.2	between their personal values and their professional activities.
1:37.8	Hortons is part of Marshall Goldsmith's prestigious 100 coaches project.
1:42.2	She's been selected to receive a
1:43.6	Thinkers 50 Coaching Award for Excellence in the Field and
1:46.4	and she's the author of several articles about leadership and coaching in
1:49.7	and such publications as leader to leader. And she's also the author of the book
1:53.9	Aligned connecting your true self the leader you're meant to be or Tons so glad to
1:59.7	meet you. So glad to you to meet you today. Thank you for having me the pleasure is mine I noticed that on your website in your bio you
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