The Power of Coaching, and Leveling Up in Life and Career

“Success is when I add value to myself. Significance when I add  value to others.” 

 -John C. Maxwell

Would you describe yourself as successful? Think for a moment about that word. Consider what it means to you. Try to define it. 

When you really start to unpack it, success rarely looks like a destination with an endpoint. As we accelerate in our careers, the goal line continues to move forward. First, you aspire towards a promotion, and once you’ve earned that promotion, another point appears on the map ahead of where you are. Maybe your next destination is hitting that six-figure threshold. Once you’ve achieved it, perhaps the next goal is to make partner in your firm. It goes on and on. Success is a journey along a continuous course that motivates us to keep the engine charged. 

As we drive further and further along Success Highway, it’s pretty easy to understand the skills and qualifications that got us behind the wheel. But new heights require new insights. Growth, like success, isn’t a destination. It’s a journey of constant reckoning with ourselves, with our level of knowledge, and yes...with our limitations and failures. So how do we recognize and face those things that we should know about ourselves as leaders in order to become better, more effective versions of ourselves? That requires help, whether we feel comfortable admitting it or not. 

Professional career coaches are increasingly in vogue among today’s high caliber leaders. While it might sound terrifying to open ourselves up to the idea of critique, it’s a necessary process if we’re actually serious about growth. Leadership models reveal that effective transformational leadership requires senior leaders to guide their teams with empathy and inspiration rather than ego and perceived omnipotence. Career coaching has been recognized as an invaluable part of the growth process for current and future leaders. 

My guest today is Dr. Richard Osibanjo. He’s the Organizational Development Partner and a trusted advisor to executive leaders at Intel Corporation. His role is to help senior leaders energize the organization with bold transformational strategies, unlocking human potential, and new market growth. Dr. Osibanjo is a highly successful certified leadership coach, trainer, and speaker with an impressive track record in his field. 

He calls Portland, Oregon home, along with his wife and two sons. Dr. Osibanjo also started an educational foundation called CLG, an acronym for Connect-Learn-Growth. Through CLG, he partners with local professionals and underrepresented minority youths in Portland to accelerate their leadership journey.

In this episode, we talk about how Dr. Richard Osibanjo found his calling as a professional coach, and why coaching and transformational leadership are so important. We also discuss how you can get prepared to engage a coach and get the most value out of that experience. 

Some Questions I Ask:

Who were some of your biggest influences growing up? (4:13) How did you get into coaching as a profession? (9:44)  How do you perceive the value of coaching in a leader's life? (13:09)Which types of coaches should leaders look for? (16:08) Is there a stigma associated with coaching? (18:03) What are some of the powerful transformations that you've helped other people achieve? (20:08)What are some things that you've done to help the individuals that you coach, develop the right mindset for growth? (22:41) Who are you drawing inspiration from today? (36:49) Can you tell us about your nonprofit, CLG? (38:16) 

What You’ll Learn About in This Episode:

How the right message at the right time can change your life (6:15) Why your work should be an expression of love (9:58) The trifecta in life that you have to get right (10:52) The Law of the Lid  (13:13) Why investing in the growth of leadership will ultimately make or break your business (14:13) Why our “do-it-yourself” western cultural values are self-defeating (18:44) The tangible power of performance-based coaching (21:50) The 3 characteristics in a leader that make them the best candidates for coaching (24:04) Nuggets of wisdom from legendary executive coach Marshall Goldsmith (27:11) The pro’s and con’s of a successful mindset (27:27) The seven things you need to do when involving stakeholders in the journey (27:51) Nurturing the seed of self (33:28) 

Connect with Dr. Richard Osibanjo:

LinkedIn

Twitter

Resources:

Website: Dr. Richard Osibanjo

Organization: Grow Learn Connect

Book: In Pursuit of Purpose: The Key to Personal Fulfillment by Myles Munroe

Book: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith

Book: Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science by Edwin Olson

Recipe: Jollof Rice

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