Tag: Identity Leadership

‘How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, And Overload To Find True Success’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When you manage yourself, you manage your life. When you manage your life, you manage yourself.

When you can manage yourself, then, only then, can you manage your work.

To overcome stress, guilt, and overload, according to Meghan French Dunbar,

‘A holistic approach blending numerous healthy ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ traits has been proven to be far more effective, driving better employee engagement and retention; decreasing the likelihood of burnout; increasing employees’ feeling of thriving outside work; building more trust with the team; and increasing innovation, creativity, and team member growth.’

‘Before heading into significant meetings, presentations, events, or even one-on-one conversations, review your values and reflect on how they could guide you in this interaction.’

‘Cultivating authentic leadership means doing the work necessary to feel comfortable in your own skin– to value the experience regardless of who else is in the room and offer it freely, knowing that it benefits you and those around you.’

‘When following the crowd means stifling your truth, compromising your values, or holding your true self back, you’ll never be able to fully step into your authentic power.’

‘Trying to assimilate by changing yourself has been linked to loss of identity and increased depression, mental illness, burnout, and chronic disease.’

‘… If you regularly give your limited energy to things that fall outside what you claim to value, you can’t genuinely live according to your values.’

‘Optimized leaders understand that being overextended, stressed, or depleted stands in the way of being their best selves.’

‘When you’re exhausted, depleted, and overextended, you can’t tune into yourself and show up with intention.’

‘Difficult as it might be, part of optimizing yourself might be releasing people from your life who aren’t aligned with your values; consistently drain your energy, feel exploitative; lead to frequent unnecessary drama…’

‘When you insist on controlling everything in your life ... you put unnecessary stress on yourself and deny the people around you the opportunity to step up and grow.’

Source

Meghan French Dunbar (2025). This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success

The Power Of ‘Identity Leadership’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Real leaders know who they are. They are self-aware. They don’t pretend to be perfect. They are who they say they are. And they are in charge of their lives.

If you want to be like them, you must be comfortable with yourself. Because ‘identity leadership is self-leadership.’

‘If you want your life to get better, then take control of it. It is up to you and no one else.’

‘Without a strong identity, we are more likely to be carried by the influence of our environment into a future requiring very little reflection or development.’

‘A lot of people go through life without ever discovering who they truly are. They fall into a pattern, a routine, a job, probably a series of jobs, and they do all of this more or less on autopilot, like a leaf floating downstream, going whichever way the current takes it.’

‘We all have the potential for greatness. Every one of us. The problem is, most of us don’t know what our potential is, much less how to unlock it.’

‘Knowing your core identity means living a life where you fulfill your potential by doing the things that you do best and that energize you.’

‘It’s very freeing when we realize that our success in life is based on our ability and willingness to be the creator of our own future, to take ownership of our life.’

‘Success flows from understanding success is the end result of becoming clear about your identity, discovering what you love to do, and learning how to do it so well that you create value in the world.’

‘A leader sees the potential in people and calls it out, helping them to develop to their full abilities.’

‘True leaders are not looking for posture; true leaders are looking to make a difference and to fulfill their mission in life and business.’

‘Identity leadership is the highest order of leadership.’

Source:

Stedman Graham (2019). Identity Leadership: To Lead Others You Must First Lead Yourself