Being Better Leaders (Jerry Colonna)
Jerry Colonna is the founder of Reboot and one of the most sought after CEO coaches in the world. Before he began coaching executives, Jerry was a burnt out VC, convinced that there must be a better way to impact the world\u2014and also convinced that if he could influence the upper reaches of corporate structures, if he could help leaders heal, he could vastly improve the lives of all the employees. After all, he had observed the ripple effect of unhealed emotional wounds being taken out on other people\u2014specifically people with less power. This is the focus of Jerry\u2019s two great books about leadership: His first one is Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up and his second is Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong, which takes a probing look at power and privilege and how it can alienate those who already don\u2019t feel like they belong. In today\u2019s conversation, we talk about all of this and specifically one of Jerry\u2019s main queries. This passage is from Reunion: \u201cWhile necessary, it\u2019s not enough for us to do the inner work of unpacking our childhood wounds and, with fierce radical self-inquiry, free ourselves from the need to reenact the old stories of our pasts. Radical self-inquiry that stops at the question of how we have been complicit in creating the conditions we say we don\u2019t want\u2014a core tenet of my coaching and my book Reboot\u2014is insufficient if it fails to look out to the world as it exists and ask how it could be better.\u201d \n\nMORE FROM JERRY COLONNA:\nReunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong\nReboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up\nReboot Coaching\nFollow Jerry on Instagram\n \nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\n \n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices