The Gap Between Intent and Impact: Becoming the Leader You Think You Are - 135

Marie Holive reconnects with former NBCUniversal colleague Luca Donati, now an Executive Coach at Proteus International.

After more than 25 years as a senior international media executive, Luca took a very different path: studying counselling psychology and building a second career in executive coaching and advisory work.

Marie and Luca explore the often-overlooked gap between a leader’s intentions and the way they are actually experienced by others. They discuss why honest feedback becomes harder to get as leaders become more senior, what pressure reveals about our behavioral patterns, and how strengths can become liabilities when overused. Luca also reflects on what he now understands differently about leadership after moving from the executive suite into coaching.

It’s a practical conversation about self-awareness, behavior change, and the courage to see ourselves as others experience us — so that our leadership impact more closely matches the leader we want to be.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction to the podcast episode

 (01:40) The gap between a leader's intention and actual impact

(03:47)  How can leaders understand how they are experienced by others?

(07:27)  What leadership behaviors do you understand differently now than when you were an executive?

(13:05)  What have you seen happens to leaders under pressure, and how can they keep their strengths from becoming liabilities?

(16:08)  Tips for leaders to close the gap between how they intend to be and the way they're actually experienced

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