E149 - Deborah Cadman: Why walking in the shoes of others can make you a better leader
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This is the third episode in our CEO Series, in which we will be deep diving into what it takes to be a CEO.
Deborah Cadman OBE is the current CEO of Birmingham City Council, Deborah has worked in public services for over 30 years and was appointed OBE for her services to local government. In this episode they discuss how crucial mentorship and building a supportive community is. Deborah shares the importance of walking in the shoes of others to understand how you can be a better leader. Leadership is a theme covered throughout the episode as Deborah discusses her key principles and how she utilises them in her personal and professional life: bravery, curiosity and truth.
She reflects on her moral purpose, why issues need to be dealt with from a long term outlook and how crucial perspective is…
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| 0:00.0 | No, there I'm Jake Humphrey. This is High Performance, a conversation for you every single week. |
| 0:07.7 | You're listening to the podcast that reminds you that it's within your ambition, your purpose, |
| 0:12.0 | your story. It's all there. We just hope to unlock it by turning the lived experiences |
| 0:16.8 | of the planet's highest performers into your life lessons. And this is the third and |
| 0:21.7 | latest episode of our CEO series in partnership with PWC. And the whole point about this series |
| 0:28.0 | about being a CEO is that we want to tell the truth about leadership. I think there are |
| 0:31.7 | so many toxic messages out there at the moment about saying, work harder, find your passion, |
| 0:38.1 | use every minute of every day that, you know, the new generation don't know what hard work |
| 0:42.2 | is and they're not good for the workplace. But here's the truth. You can be a leader and |
| 0:47.1 | be happy. You can be a CEO and still be mindful. You can be successful and still put your |
| 0:54.0 | mental health and your wellbeing and yourself first. We need to change this conversation around |
| 0:59.4 | toxic working cultures and I really hope that this CEO series can help us to do that. And |
| 1:04.3 | today I'm really excited actually to bring you someone who isn't a multi-billionaire, |
| 1:08.4 | isn't someone who had entrepreneurship coursing through her veins from the age of 11 and |
| 1:12.3 | set up 15 businesses and exited them for inordinate sums of money. Today we speak to someone |
| 1:17.7 | who is at the front line of improving our society. And these are also the leaders that |
| 1:22.6 | we should be celebrating. Today we welcome to high performance someone who's just been |
| 1:26.9 | integral to helping deliver the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. This episode of the CEO |
| 1:32.2 | series is with the current interim chief executive of Birmingham City Council, Deborah Cadman, |
| 1:38.8 | OBE. There will be decisions in your career and in your life where it's unknown and it's |
| 1:45.6 | scary and but instinctively you'll know that it's the right thing to do. I'm regularly |
| 1:51.7 | kind of taught to young women because I think that's really important. You know, I talk to |
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