Episode 24 – Leslie O’Connell – Empowering Greatness in Others [Video]

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https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-gnrgy-13418e8

Season 2 Finale  
After 17 years at the same company, Leslie found herself looking for a new path, she is now the Founder and Principal of Team OC3, LLC where she is an executive coach working with C-suite executives and senior leaders. She is also an author, blogger and so much more. This was an amazing conversation with a brilliant, strong woman dedicated to empowering greatness in others.  
 
Leighann Lovely  00:19
If you are an HR professional, business owner or at the operations level trying to understand what people want. You may be struggling; our systems have been shocked practices have been questioned and culture is the leading conversation. Let’s learn how culture is created, sustained, and why it should be the leading conversation when discussing hiring, training and retention. This is the foundation of any business and it’s time to address it. So tune in to Let’s Talk HR Humanizing the Conversation. We tackle topics that influencers of change need to understand and struggle to overcome every day, such as where to start, and what the new workforce wants and how to attract and keep positive momentum going. I’m your host Leighann Lovely.
 
Leighann Lovely  01:08
Leslie O’Connell ignites the purpose, potential and performance of leaders and teams. As founder and principal of Team OC three. Leslie is an executive coach, communications counselor, and catalyst. She works with C suite executives, senior leaders and rising leaders of progressive midsize and growing organizations to envision the culture they want to create, adapt and innovate through nonstop change and empower greatness in their people. Leslie coaches leaders to grow their emotional intelligence, amplify their competence, and break through barriers that are holding them back. Leslie built a successful career as a senior Corporate Communications leader for Fortune 100 companies and a large global agency leading teams as large as 45. In addition to executive coaching, Leslie is an author, blogger, workshop facilitator, and speaker on leadership and professional branding. Beyond work, Leslie thrives on power walks, working out yoga, volunteering, to fight food insecurities, and to adapt the arts and planning her family’s next travel adventure. This is going to be an amazing, fun conversation, and I’m looking forward to it.
 
Leighann Lovely  02:33
Welcome Leslie, I’m so excited to have you join me today.
 
Leslie O’Connell  02:37
Oh, it’s just a pleasure to be with you, Leighann.
 
Leighann Lovely  02:40
So why don’t you start off by telling me a little bit about yourself?
 
Leslie O’Connell  02:45
Sure. Well, I think of myself as a believer in best days at work and creating more best days at work for leaders for employees, for teams for companies. And what that means is both the experience of day to day work and the performance, the potential the purpose of organizations. I’m an executive coach and communications consultant. Today, I run my own firm called Team OC three. And I also work with a firm called Cavendish Vernal as an executive coach and consultant. However, my career has spanned more than 25 years as an executive communications leader in Fortune 100 organizations also with a large global agency. And I’ve led teams from a few people, to as many as 45. So I’ve been where leaders have been, and I bring that perspective to what I do.
 
Leighann Lovely  03:51
That’s, awesome. And I love that you start off by saying, How did you say that, bringing best days, every day.
 
Leslie O’Connell  04:00
I believe there are more, there can be more best days at work, because when it comes down to it, you know, we all want to be productive at work. But we want to feel good about what we do. And you know, when we go home and talk to our partner or kids or dog, you know, we want to say hey, you know, I feel good that you know I did this today or we did that today or that this week we delivered that.
 
Leighann Lovely  04:27
What is that? You know, oh, it’s it’s Monday, you know, I It drives me crazy. Like what is it like the case of the Mondays? It drives me crazy when people say that, because I’ve never experienced that. I look forward to Mondays like I love my job. I love my I love what I do for a living. And I always wondered when people were like, God, Monday’s coming work is coming and I’m like, Wait, do you not like what you do and if you don’t know Why? Why aren’t you changing it? Right?
 
Leslie O’Connell  05:04
Yeah, we have choice for sure. And I know what you mean, I have a former coworker who you know, had like the Sunday sads, you know, it would get to be five o’clock on a Sunday night. And he would, you know, sort of like, go into this slump of, you know, the work week is ahead, and you know, that would only then the work, the week would get better as it went on. But truly, if we are living into our strengths, living into our talents, if we’re in an environmen