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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Janet Foutty, Executive Chair of the Board of Deloitte US on Creating a Positive Work Enviorment

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Janet Foutty, Executive Chair of the Board of Deloitte US, shares her insights on: [4:58] - How to identify the practices that matter most to your personal development [5:51] - Why you need to take an intentional approach that combines reflection and introspection in order to become your best self [7:10] - Why being a “visionary leader” does not mean what you think it does [11:05] - How leaders can create an organization that empowers their team to show up as their authentic self Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some of the best leaders at laying out and driving a vision are not the ones that wake up with a brilliant idea, but they do things that women are really good at.

0:10.8

This is the flavor.

0:12.4

I am so excited. I love having people on that are making significant changes in the world. Janet Fauty is the executive chair of the board of a small company called Deloitte in the United States. Welcome to the playbook Janet.

0:27.2

Thank you so much, David. It is wonderful to be here with you today.

0:30.4

Well, I had to have you on because I have a five to thrive system and your new book is truly aligned with my system of five to thrive.

0:41.9

You have a book called Arriven Thrive and it's seven impactful practices for women navigating leadership and I think it's so important for a woman to understand and to teach and to communicate how to navigate leadership more than, you know, a man or or anyone else and let me tell you why historically I was a sports agent and I worked with Jackie Robinson Foundation.

1:09.8

We represented the Clemente family. My business partner was Warren Moon and, you know, as a middle-aged white male as much as I had great intention to impact others and especially the minorities that needed to see what they could do by seeing someone do it that looked like them and thought like them and came from where they came from.

1:33.3

My intentions always fell short and I think it's really important for someone like you who has worked their way through a lot of challenges and a lot of disparity in order to really inspire my three daughters who can look at me no matter what advice I give you give the exact same advice as I give but it will be more impactful and so I'd love to start with that idea of arriving first and then we'll get into thriving.

2:00.9

You know, how difficult is it today for a woman, a young woman, to at least arrive, let alone thrive?

2:09.9

David, thank you so much. There was a lot packed into that opening. So maybe a few things. First of all, hopefully no, no, we've just borrowed your idea of, of thriving, no more than that whatsoever. Certainly a word that we feel really passionate about.

2:26.9

Don't worry, don't worry about Dave Meltzer. It's Kaiser that uses that five on the side, right? Exactly, exactly.

2:33.9

You know, I think your point in terms of where the voice comes from is really important. I've been thinking a lot over the last couple of years around all the orthodoxies that we really need to flip.

2:42.9

Frankly, as a society, and one of them is to be thoughtful around what voices are leading conversations. So we can probably do a whole nother podcast conversation on that, but I really appreciate your sensitivity and thoughtfulness to that topic.

2:57.9

Let's talk about why we wrote this book and then I want to pull that into this idea of arriving and thriving.

3:03.9

There's been a lot written about arriving for women executives and how you sort of climb the ladder and get there, but not nearly as much about once you get there on how are you wildly successful and how do you thrive?

3:17.9

A couple of, a couple of stats to share with you on the, on the, to get to your question on the arriving front.

3:23.9

Think about women starting in the business sort of ecosystem broadly. It's about 50 50 between men and women who start their careers in in the broader business community.

3:35.9

By the time you get to middle management is down to less than a quarter. And though we're at record highs with Fortune 500 CEOs, we actually lost one as a woman this week is just below 15%. So incredible progress.

3:50.9

But with 50% starting their careers, but the 25% or a little bit below middle management number says it is absolutely very challenge challenging for women to arrive.

4:03.9

What we're focused on is how do you thrive at every step and how do you live in a continuous cycle of arriving and thriving. This is not a once and done.

4:13.9

I myself continue to challenge myself on the next place I'm arriving and what do I have to rethink in order to thrive in that environment.

4:21.9

And to that point, you talk about seven impactful practices. And I love the word practice because I mean, obviously coming from your background, you understand the significant of aggregate effect and compound interest of behavior.

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