Rising through the Leadership ranks with purpose, self awareness & gratitude I Simon Haigh

Rivers to Resilience

In this episode of Rivers to Resilience podcast, Martina Witter, podcast host, talks with Simon Haigh, CEO of GCM Consulting Limited and Simonhaigh.com. They discuss the four elements of growth, coping with life, the essence of hope in our darkest moments, and the importance of resilience, gratitude, self-awareness, and motivation in business leadership development.

Tune in to listen to Simon Haigh sharing insights on the meaning of resilience, how to build upon your resilience, self-awareness, and how it builds leadership, situational awareness, how leaders can leverage resilience, and how organisation leaders can unlock, build and, sustain business leadership growth. Simon also explains how resilience helped him navigate through immense pressure and responsibility as a leader.

Timestamps

[03:36] About Simon Haigh

[ 04:36] The four elements of growth

[05:34] How travelling across the globe impacted Simon’s resilience, transition and change

[06:51] The meaning of resilience

[07:13] The three elements of coping with life

[08:28] How to build upon your personal resilience

[12:48] Self-awareness and how it builds leadership

[14:36] What is situational awareness?

[20:14] The essence of hope in people’s darkest moments

[24:44] Leadership and how to leverage resilience

[27:53] The role of resilience in high performing leaders and how to help organisations and leaders to unlock, build and sustain business leadership growth and mindset

[32:25] How resilience helped Simon Haigh to navigate through immense pressure and responsibility as a leader

[36:50] What would Simon Haigh say about his younger self?

[40:35] Simon Haighs final thoughts

Quotes

• It is important to be you because if you are you, the best will follow.
• How you manage your emotional behaviours determines your level of resilience.
• Every human being has a shadow, but some people have gone deeper in the forest than others, and it takes longer to come out.
• In our darkest moments, all we need is one little grain of salt to save our lives.
• We are not on this planet for ourselves. We are here for each other.
• There is no shortcut to recovery or growth. It is hard work.
• Passion, hard work, awareness and hope are important in business leadership growth.
• To excel in life, we need to align with the true version of ourselves.

About Simon Haigh- The Growth strategist

Through his Ireland, UK and Australia based company GCM Advisory, and operating as simonhaigh.com, Simon helps organisations and leaders unlock, build and sustain business, leadership, brand and mindset growth through coaching, consulting, training, publications, speaking and e-learning programs. Simon’s clients include high performing leaders, companies, business schools such as Trinity College- Ireland, Smurfit, UCD -Ireland, Southampton- UK, professional organisations & Government bodies globally. His work is endorsed by world no. 1 leadership thinker, Marshall Goldsmith, nominated by PeopleHum Top #200 Influential Thought Leaders 2021, Thinkers 360 # 4 Sales, #9 Entrepreneurship, #10 Legal & IP, #13 Health & Wellness, #33 Mental Health, & #37 Management, and featured in the PeopleHum Top 100 Thought Leader series for Mindful Negotiation. He has also been featured on the BBC, Australia’s ABC television and numerous radio and podcast channels, including his radio show on UK’s first wellbeing channel, Serenity Radio.

Simon started as a tri-qualified (England & Wales, Australia, Ireland) commercial lawyer who, also as an entrepreneur, has built and sold out of technology, luxury items and travel companies. He has also been a C-suite (NANA Development Corporation, Dell, BHP, Xilinx) executive and has sat on five boards across different industries, four continents over 27 years. He is also co-founder and partner of InclusionInLeadership.com.

Simon’s work and two of his three Amazon 5 Star books – How to be a Better Dealcloser and Dealmaking for Corporate Growth are endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith. He is an associate member of the Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching Organisation.

Simon is an acclaimed Keynote Speaker, including in Australia, US, UK/Ireland, Canada & China: including World Forums; Ireland TechConnect 2019; Northern Ireland Small Business Conference 2019; Brand Forum London 2019; Start-Up, Scale-up Summit - UK 2020; Bogu Investment Summit - China, 2021.

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