Special Encore Presentation: Realize Your Vision: Designing for Growth with Tim Ogilvie
June 11, 2012
Hosted by Kate Ebner
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Episode Description
In business, we often start the growth conversation with a discussion of constraints. As a result, we get results that are only incrementally better than our starting point. This week's guest, Tim Ogilvie, reminds us that breakthrough results come from envisioning an inspiring future and asking "What's missing?" instead of "What's wrong?" Design thinking marks a sea change in how businesses create value, and it relies on empathy, exploration, and iteration, skills that connect deeply to what makes us human. As CEO of Peer Insight and co-author of the book “Designing for Growth”, Tim's philosophy is to help clients and collaborators discover their innate competence at these critical skills for the future. It's part mindset and part methods, and it represents a proven approach to make your vision real. Join Host Kate Ebner and Tim Ogilvie to explore the four essential questions that shape the design thinking process, questions that can catalyze your business -- and your life.
Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life
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Top leadership coach and change guru Kate Ebner teaches leaders in business, education, government and non-profits how to create compelling and inspiring visions that lead to extraordinary results and outcomes. Each week on “Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life,” Kate introduces you to the amazing visionaries who are shaping our future. She’ll show you how to create your own motivating leadership vision – and how to make it real. Discover the simple, yet powerful steps that add up to a great vision and an extraordinary life. Explore how real visionaries are using vision to drive exceptional results. Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life features guests who open our eyes to new possibilities and whose stories inspire. Tune in and learn how and why to create your own vision. Join Kate for practical tips, wisdom, and knowledge that will take your leadership and your life to a new level.
Kate Ebner
Top leadership coach Kate Ebner invites people to be visionary. Founder of The Nebo Company, a leadership consultancy based in Washington, D.C., Kate teaches leaders how to use vision as a powerful and practical tool for manifesting the important changes they want to see. Kate works with senior executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits, social entrepreneurs and government agencies who are leading significant change, helping them to thrive in their careers and find greater fulfillment and satisfaction in life.
Kate specializes not only in how to create, live and lead from vision, but also how to make it real through effective implementation. She gained more than two decades of firsthand experience in envisioning, leading and implementing major change while serving as a dean at Middlebury College and as senior vice president of an international strategy consulting firm. Her own journey from executive to master coach is a story of vision and personal transformation. As faculty and co-director of Georgetown University's Leadership Coaching program, Kate authored of "Coaching for Leverage,” a chapter in On Becoming a Leadership Coach. Kate Ebner is frequently quoted in publications and speaks at conferences about leadership, vision, and empowerment.
