We help Leaders and Entrepreneurs
Be Successful, Avoid Burnout AND Live a Great Life
By leading successfully in the era of AI
Because we know what matters to you is Professional Success as well as Personal Fulfilment.
The New Leadership Way in an AI-Enabled World
Professional Success and Personal Fulfilment
Are you a high performing leader struggling to maintain work achievements and still control and thrive in your personal life?
Are you someone who knows the potential of AI but gets too overwhelmed to know where to begin?
Are you a business leader balancing the speed of innovation with long-term stability?
Are you often wondering how you can stay relevant in the AI era?
Are you overwhelmed by AI and digital transformation pressures?
You are not alone. Leaders and Entrepreneurs all over the world are struggling to keep pace with the rate of change, particularly digital and AI. But there is something else too. Leadership wellbeing and personal fulfilment levels are a struggle for more and more of us as the world continues to integrate AI into the fabric of work and life. We have this tension between our digital competency - that helps us thrive in business, with an overwhelming struggle to achieve personal fulfilment and thrive in life!
According to one study entrepreneurs average 52 hours work per week, with 63% working longer than the typical employee! Earlier this year the New York Post talked about the 100 hour week in a report exploring the life of executives in high-pressure jobs.
Be honest, do you believe that the harder you work today, the more you compromise your personal life today - the freer, happier, successful you will be personally in the future? STOP! This deep rooted belief so many of us have is all wrong. We can have it all. We can and should thrive in business and thrive in life at the same time. The old paradigm of work your butt off to retire in bliss and freedom has gone. The new paradigm is work smarter now to live a life of bliss and freedom today.
So we have to challenge our MINDSET
Imagine being able to achieve success at work or in your business, whilst living the life of your dreams at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, the accumulation of wealth over time does increase financial freedom - but you don’t need that for wellbeing, mental fitness, healthy social interactions and prioritised quality time for self, family, friends and community. Work should not govern the present with our personal lives relegated to the promise of tomorrow or just later on.
Right about now you may be thinking that this is right and you agree, however, the reality is that you have to find ways to stay on top of all the change that’s around you. You might be thinking - I get it Mel, but I’m more focussed on trying to understand AI in terms of business and in terms of my own productivity. What’s happening here is something that I have been studying for nearly 8 years now, and it’s probably not what you think. This is about how we control and manage our energy - our focus and our attention.
Listen to Mel explain what she means by Professional Success and Personal Fulfilment
So we have to manage our ENERGY
Do you get a sense that the digital technology landscape is changing almost on a weekly basis right now? With the beginning of every week there seems to be another feature, another AI progression or integration holding a promise of opportunity. In equal measure do you feel scared about this? Where it’s all going and what it means for you?
There is no doubt that the pace of technological change and integration is getting faster and faster. Keeping up, Understanding, Experimenting, Adopting…However you want to describe it one thing is clear. Every leader. Every single leader and entrepreneur must become not digitally literate, but digitally fluent. To competently integrate digital into our strategies we have to first have a lived experience of it ourselves. That’s what gives you the confidence and also gives you a sense of the shadow side too. The ethics, the safety, the security aspects that accompany any adoption of technology whether it’s AI or something else.
So we have to become competent around digital TECHNOLOGY.
The Digi-Dabbler!
Are you someone who spends time reading and learning about AI, getting excited about it to the point where you start to explore things like Chat GPT and Co-Pilot, but then something else more important comes along to take your attention. Or worse, you try a few things, get a bit stuck and leave it for ‘another time’. If you can say yes, you are likely what I call a Digital Dabbler. Dipping in and out of digital technologies and new features without ever really getting to grips with the benefit of them for your productivity or the strategic direction of the business. I get this all the time with leaders and entrepreneurs I work with. You know the world has changed, but where do you find the time to fully understand and integrate some of this stuff into your practice and strategies!? The answer is simple, by taking small actions in a routinely manner.
So we have to take ACTION
What I’ve just described to you is what I call META. The combination of upgrading what we do as leaders and entrepreneurs with who we are as leaders and entrepreneurs.
Imagine upgrading your belief system for the world today - MINDSET
Imagine being able to focus on the right things and be present in the moment - ENERGY
Imagine being competent and confident about using digital as well as integrating it into strategy - TECHNOLOGY
And finally imagine these three things being fully integrated into your practice and identity as a leader and entrepreneur so that every day you are taking positive steps forward - ACTION
This is digital leadership 2.0. The new way of leading that is equally about leveraging technology for the good of business and our productivity as it is about maximising our ability to thrive in our personal life today, not tomorrow.
We need to have digital technology fluency to thrive both professionally and personally.
If you develop your digital leadership 2.0 mindset and practice this is likely what you will experience:
Confidence in growing and scaling your business
Healthy boundaries between personal and professional time
The leadership fitness needed to create flow in your life and move with change
A priority placed on self care and wellbeing without the belief of it being selfish
Digital leadership 2.0 gives you professional success and personal fulfilment because they are linked.
The gift of the age we live in is our ability to reconnect with humanity. Where humans can design, deliver and coexist with machines and technology in an ethical, open and responsible way.
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