On this episode of the Inspiring Great Leaders Podcast, Craig Johns speaks with Andy Brown about the Emotional Overdraft, empathy’s role in leadership and building resilience as a leader.

We also dive deeper into the qualities of becoming a great leader, how to actively listen, the challenges that may arise hindering success, and why curiosity is a driving force to success.

Andy Brown – The Emotional Overdraft 

Andy Brown is a Non Executive Director, Leadership Coach, host of the Exploring Emotional Overdraft Podcast  and the author of The Emotional Overdraft. 

He has a BA Hons in Business Studies from the University of Brighton. Before focusing on business advisory services, leadership coaching, and mentoring, he held Board and Leadership roles in multiple successful marketing, digital, and communication agencies and companies. 

Andy Brown talks about:

• Curiosity as a driving force to success
  
• Starting off as a business-minded person
  
• Organising people is about facilitating people
  
• The good qualities of leadership
  
• The Emotional Overdraft 
  
• Being a good listener
  
• Building resilience
  
• The importance of asking questions
  
• Emotional overdraft leads to a lack of resilience
  
• Managing different generations
  
• The biggest challenge of dealing with several kinds of coaches
  
• How becoming overwhelmed affects your output and behavior
  
• Leadership’s biggest responsibility
  
• Business owners can suffer from overwhelm due to the pace of change and complexity of the business environment
  
• Empathy’s role in leadership
  
• The key drivers that lead to emotional drive
  
• Trust is a big driver for founders and entrepreneurs
  
• Accountability, authority, and autonomy
  
• Understanding what our emotional overdraft is and working on it
  
• Kindness and tolerance towards others could help solve some of the world’s biggest problems.
  

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Resources Mentioned in this show:

Andy Brown www.etc.co.uk
Andy Brown LinkedIn
Andy Brown Instagram
Craig Johns www.craigjohns.com.au
Craig Johns craig@nrg2perform.com
Craig Johns LinkedIn
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NRG2Perform www.nrg2perform.com

Book – The Emotional Overdraft