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CONOR NEILL
EP.17
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Conor Neill
Choose to be purposeful
In Episode #17 of One More Question, Ross sits down with Conor Neill, President of Vistage Spain, a Senior Lecturer at IESE Business School, and a sought-after Keynote Speaker on Leadership Communication.
Through his experience and lecturing and speaking on leadership, Conor brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this episode of the podcast.
Ross and Conor chat about how COVID-19 is affecting the world and what this means for companies and leadership — from reframing the way we look at being stuck at home to how leaders and companies can plan and decide to react in the current climate.
Highlights
How do we make our values not operational values, but lived values? Lived values means I'm willing to pay a price for the values that I choose to have.
If you play yourself forward to the end of this, how do you think people will look back and how would they describe your company's values and your values as the leader of the company?
These are not painless decisions, you will let some people down, but that is the role of leadership.
What is really tough right now is letting go of the things that we thought we were going to be doing today, letting go of the future that we thought we were going to have tomorrow, in a week in a month. Letting go of that and accepting there's a different reality.
Leadership is never an automatic natural reaction to the world. Leadership is always an intentional decision to not just react to the world, but take in the stimulus that comes to me and decide what's the behaviour that I want to give back.
Before 2008 my greatest fears were losing business, not having money to pay bills, having zero in my current account, not having my family together. By mid 2009, I'd lived all of those and I was still alive.
More about Conor
Conor is a sought-after keynote speaker on Leadership. He teaches Leadership Communications at IESE Business School and is the President of Vistage in Spain, part of the world’s leading CEO organisation. As an entrepreneur, he has founded 5 companies, selling 16 private jets and building the 3rd largest fleet of private jets in Spain. He is a visiting professor at University College Dublin, the University of Montevideo and Permanent Faculty on Entrepreneurs’ Organisation’s Global Leadership Academy.
Conor’s YouTube channel on Leadership and Influence has over 200K Subscribers and over 17 million views.
Conor is the President of Vistage in Spain. Vistage is the World’s Leading CEO organisation with over 24,000 members, operating since 1957.
Conor has been teaching Leadership Communications courses at IESE for over 16 years on MBA, Executive MBA and Senior Executive Programs.
Learn more about Conor’s Programs at IESE Business School
Website | YouTube | LinkedIn | Vistage Spain
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