60. How to Grow as a Leader and Create Lasting Change | Anton Gunn

Anton Gunn is a Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and the world’s leading authority on Socially Conscious Leadership. He has a Masters Degree in Social Work from USC and was a Resident Fellow at Harvard. He is the bestselling author of The Presidential Principles and has been featured in TIME magazine, the Wall Street Journal, BBC, NPR, and on Good Morning America. From playing SEC football and being the first African American in history elected to the SC legislature from his district early in his career, to now working as a C-level executive for an academic health system and serving on multiple boards, he has spent his life helping people build diverse high performing teams and world class leadership culture.From years of experience and insight, Anton Gunn knows what healthy, world-class workplaces cultures look like. More importantly, he knows how to achieve them. Leaders want a strategy to cultivate a culture that creates engaged employees, low turnover, increases optimal outcomes, and deepens impact. But leaders are busy and carry a lot of responsibility. Thats why Anton has developed simple, implementable strategy that will set the foundation for your organizational culture—taking it from status quo to state of the art.

Takeaway Questions from the interview:
1. Who has been a catalyst for change in my life? 
2. Do I value people’s success over my own? Why or not? 
3. What opportunities have come to me through service?
4. How have I used my darkest moments to help others?
5. As a leader, do I answer YES to the THREE Questions with my actions?

Highlights
1:30 - College football talk
5:00 - Hip Hop Influences
7:40 - His Call to Leadership in college
12:05 - Four Values to be an Impactful Leader
17:45 - Service leads to an opportunity 
23:45 - Leaders are experts on people
28:10 - At 27, losing his brother from a terrorist attack
32:30 - Catalyst to Running for public office: Times Article
37:40 - How to get out of the Victim Mindset
41:20 - Helping others in the healthcare industry
45:15 - 3 Questions every employee is asking at work
48:00 - Become An Admired Leader

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