Episode 114: Susan Drumm & Her Book, The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash The Power of Music and Neuroscience to Transform Your Leadership and Your Life

ABOUT SUSAN

Susan Drumm is a CEO Advisor, Speaker, USA Today Bestselling Author and Leadership Coach focused on helping leaders and their teams to develop the capacity and mindsets to lead in today’s disruptive environment. She has personally coached billionaire CEOs, high profile political figures, prominent Fortune 100 executive teams and incredible entrepreneurs that set out to disrupt the marketplace. She is the two-time #1 bestselling author of The Leader’s Playlist: unleash the power of music and neuroscience to transform your leadership and your life. Susan’s YouTube channel and podcast, The Enlightened Executive, is ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally. In the show, she spotlights ground-breaking techniques and strategies to help executives and entrepreneurs get the edge in personal and leadership effectiveness. Susan’s firm, Meritage Leadership Development, works with C-suite executives from financial services, private equity, tech, healthcare, professional services, media, consumer products, consulting and law. She has worked with organizations such as KPMG, Oracle, Viacom, Microsoft, Conde Nast, L’Oreal, A&E Networks, USS Steel and Cisco.

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS

· When it comes to having an eclectic background, each step infuses the leadership development work that we do today.

· Developing a skill set and losing interest in its application.

· Strategy – Culture = Dead In The Water

· Measuring the seemingly unmeasurable.

· “What am I going to do with the rest of my life?“

· How acting taught Susan to deal with her inner critic.

· “It’s okay if you don’t figure it out. It’s about collecting experiences, because if you stay open, the background will come together.”

· “If you keep looking and keep pursuing where that sort of bliss or passion will come from, you’ll find it.”

· “Childhood wounds and experiences…give you a super power, but they also can come with a liability.”

· Returning home to an inherent sense of play: Spirit of Play + Fostering Creativity = Producing Best Work

· Susan’s Super Power: Patter Recognition & Disruption, which lead to Freedom.

· From watching her father: I was never going to suffer in a job I didn’t like.

· “You are who you are in everything you do.”

The MAIN QUESTION underlying my conversation with Susan is, Have you learned about what triggers you in life in order to elevate yourself above it to lead others?

FIND SUSAN

• Website: meritageleadership.com/
• Website: susandrumm.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/susan-drumm
• The Enlighted Leadership Quiz: https://susandrumm.com/quiz/

LinkedIn – Full Podcast Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/episode-114-susan-drumm-her-book-leaders-playlist-john-m–kzjye/?trackingId=zo4vjrH8Rfycz9KvgSFCKw%3D%3D

CHAPTERS

00:58- Introduction & Bio

02:57- Who are you today? Can you provide more information about your work?

04:14- How did your path into your career look like, and what did it look like up until now?

16:16- How does the work you’re doing today reconcile to who you were as a child?

17:57- What is your superpower?

19:42 – What does leadership mean to you?

20:53- Can you introduce us to the book we’re discussing?

23:38- The importance of music in Susan’s life.

25:27- Can you provide a general overview of the book?

28:09- What lessons have you taken away from the book?

37:34- What’s next for your writing?

38:56 – Where Susan’s aptitude for disruption comes from.

42:01- What book has inspired you?

44:55- What are you up to these days? (A way for guests to share and market their projects and work.)

This series has become my Masterclass In Humanity.
I’d love for you to join me and see what you take away from these conversations.

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