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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Jerry Colonna on leadership and belonging

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What kind of leader do you want to be? Kind, wise, maybe a little more thoughtful? Our guest today is dedicated to getting you there. Jerry Colonna has been called the “CEO Whisperer,” and prides himself on coaching founders and CEOs to reflect, grow, and ultimately, to create more welcoming spaces within their organizations. In his latest book "Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong," Jerry encourages radical self-inquiry as a path to building more inclusive environments. In this episode, he sits down with Jessi to help us all become better leaders in our communities and workplaces. Follow Jerry Colonna on LinkedIn and check out his book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now available in paperback! Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0

The world needs ways to reduce carbon emissions.

0:06.0

ExxonMobil is working on solutions in its own operations, like carbon capture,

0:11.0

that could also help businesses like yours deliver lower emissions.

0:14.7

Learn more at ExxonMobil.com.

0:16.4

LinkedIn News. From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill and this is Hello Monday.

0:30.6

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work changes us.

0:35.0

Back when I was covering Technologies Rising Stars,

0:40.0

there were certain coaches that founders relied on.

0:43.4

You wouldn't hear their names necessarily when you learned about the startups.

0:47.4

But their advice and their steady presence, it was crucial in helping founders blossom into the leaders capable of

0:56.1

managing big companies as they grew. And if you asked founders, well they'd usually tell you

1:02.0

who they worked with.

1:03.0

And often, it would be folks like today's guest, Jerry Colonna.

1:08.0

Earlier in his own career, Jerry founded a company.

1:12.0

He spent years as an investor. He has

1:15.5

credibility because he's done this work. But Jerry also has a novel approach. In a

1:21.4

hustle culture that has prized grinding it, startups often do,

1:25.4

Jerry asks people to look inward, to chart their feelings, to be vulnerable.

1:32.8

He regularly makes CEOs cry, and they love it.

1:36.5

They come back from war.

1:38.8

I invited Jerry into the studio to talk about leadership. He's just released a new book called Reunion,

1:45.4

Leadership in the Longing to Belong. Jerry's vision of leadership requires us to

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