Conscious Leadership with Fred Kofman
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ever wonder if you have what it takes to be a good leader? Fred Kofman is here this week to tell us his thoughts on how to be “awake” to your own potential as a leader. Fred is the newly appointed advisor for leadership development at Google and was formerly the vice president of executive development at LinkedIn. His life passion now is to help people become transcendent leaders. Fred believes that leadership cannot be bought. and that it requires you getting in touch with ourselves, finding our life mission, committing to our values (and the courage to stand for those). He gives practical and helpful insight as to how to look within ourselves to discover our mission and purpose, and true life examples of how to put conscious leadership into practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand Noonday |
| 0:07.1 | collection. Welcome to the Going Scared Podcast. Welcome to today's show. going scared podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to today's show where I had the honor to interview Fred Kaufman. |
| 0:20.6 | Fred is the newly appointed advisor for leadership development at Google and was formerly the |
| 0:28.0 | Vice President of Executive Development at LinkedIn. |
| 0:32.3 | I don't have a corporate background. I'm a scrappy |
| 0:34.8 | entrepreneur so I definitely did my homework so we could have a really great |
| 0:39.2 | conversation but what I quickly discovered is that you don't need to come from a corporate background in order to dive in deep about a conversation around leadership. |
| 0:51.0 | In fact, when I asked him about his new position with Google, he said, well, I don't work for Google. |
| 0:57.0 | Google works for me. And you're going to learn a lot more of what he means by that on today's show. We started off talking about his |
| 1:07.2 | growing up years in Argentina. I'm actually a Latin American Studies major and know about Argentina's history and I wanted to give you a bit of a background. |
| 1:17.0 | Fred grew up under a military dictatorship there and everything seemed perfectly under control. |
| 1:24.2 | He went to school every day, the economy was stable, and it wasn't until the late 70s when |
| 1:29.6 | he was older where rumors began to circulate about kidnappings and concentration |
| 1:35.7 | camps, tortures and murders and as it turns out there were 30,000 missing people during this time called the desiparousidos. |
| 1:46.0 | It was really a challenging time when the truth came out about Argentina's history. |
| 1:51.6 | For Argentinians to wake up to the reality of what the military regime had |
| 1:56.4 | been doing during this time. This idea that Fred had grown up and this peaceful, what he thought was a peaceful time, which was in fact not, |
| 2:06.8 | led him to a deep sense of shame. |
| 2:10.2 | He had been so unconscious. |
| 2:12.3 | How could he not know? How could he have been so blind? And after years of wrestling with these questions, he accepted that he had done the best he could in the moment. But in order to redeem himself, he committed to learn from that experience so it wouldn't happen again. |
| 2:28.4 | The best way to deal with the reality that you possibly have not been conscious is not to judge it but to touch it with compassion and awareness. |
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