Good leaders meet people wherever they’re at. One of their top qualities includes staying neutral – that is, accepting of all politics, religions, beliefs, cultures, and races. Joining today is Dr. Elena Pezzini, an executive coach and author who has achieved great success in business and in her personal life. Specializing in leadership development and life coaching, Dr. Pezzini outlines the qualities of a good leader and talks about resiliency, embracing obstacles, leadership in the new normal, and so much more.
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Leadership In The New Normal With Dr. Elena Pezzini
Jeffrey Edwards: We have a special guest. This person is someone I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many years ago. This person is someone that when you meet her, she is full of life and energy. You’ll walk away feeling charged and refreshed knowing that you’ve had this moment with her. It’s people like this that you run into over the course of your career that inspires the idea behind what does a leader represent? What are some of the impacts and the memories that you leave behind with other people? How do they react when they hear your name or when they see you? I thought this was a person that I wanted to bring in here for you to get to know her and to hear her story. Also, what she has done and currently doing in the world is supporting leaders and their organizations, and helping them reach their level of ability and their highest level of achievement.
I’d like to introduce to you our guest, Dr. Elena Pezzini. She is a native of Italy and she immigrated to the States to pursue a PhD in Applied Organizational Industrial Psychology. From her experience, she has achieved great success in business and in her personal life, and achieving the elements of moving forward. Having that vision, clarity and discipline to look at how to overcome obstacles and reach that internal potential that takes you to the next step. She has led millions of individuals and groups through a variety of different organizations, through boot camps and her coaching. Dr. Elena has also been a consultant to Fortune 100 companies. She has coached leaders and CEOs at all levels across the globe. She’s also an author, if you can believe all that she’s done. She writes books and she’s a bestselling author at that. She has worked with some of the industry’s leaders, influencers and names that you’d be familiar with out there in the world. Here she is sharing her time with us. Please help me welcome our guest, Dr. Elena Pezzini. How are you?
Jeffrey, thank you so much for the beautiful welcome. I want to say thank you for that warm introduction that you inspire me as much or more as I inspire you. Please know that. I also want the audience to know that Jeffrey and I are colleagues. We are in the same niche and sector. We are no better than anyone else. We put ourselves out there and that is what makes us more approachable. We have gone through a lot of ups and downs. We’re not perfect and still during COVID, that’s what makes us better, being willing to recognize that if we go down a little bit, there’s going to be an up. We surround ourselves with like-minded and like-hearted individuals who always strive to improve themselves and help others.
That’s what life is all about. Talking about obstacles, there are obstacles every day but I don’t see them as obstacles. I see them as fun challenges. I welcome and embrace them. I love writing and we’ve been co-writing some courses together or at least parts of them. I just want to mention that my veterinarian cousin, Dr. Ferrari, would be writing books to help busy business owners who are also parents and pet parents understand their animals better. It’s called the Gli Amanti Del Cane in Italian. It’s number one bestseller on Amazon and the English version, Dog Lovers, is going to be released very soon.
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