Adaptive Leadership: Serving Others to Shift Paradigms  

Mark Ashby is a highly-regarded specialist who helps multinational companies and their leaders in crisis awareness, cultural change & high-performance leadership. He possesses an extraordinary ability to perform optimally under stressful scenarios through extensive experiences as a member of the Elite Paratroopers and other Specialist roles in the Australian Army, with Operational tours of East Timor.

Mark was deployed to Iraq as a team leader in the highly-dangerous private security sector for eleven years in Iraq, before returning to Australia to work as a senior risk consultant in the corporate world for six years. Mark’s duties took him to high-threat, hostile situations daily, where he faced immense pressure to perform tasks in both covert and overt capacities with great emotional control, discipline, and accuracy.

In episode 33 of the Dominate Your Day Podcast, Mark Ashby discusses his experiences of using adaptive leadership skills in serving teams, creating cultural changes, and shifting paradigms. As Mark says “What’s the worst that can happen, we fail, we get up the next day and do it again”- a 360 lens view of how Mark sees leadership and teamwork. In this episode, you’ll learn…

• The basics of the Diamond Framework in decision making. How do you turn complex scenarios into simple ideas?
• What are the adaptive approaches to leadership in hyper agile and scrum work cultures?
• Why are assimilation and empathy crucial skills in leadership? A case from the “low-profile dress” strategy during his mission in Iraq.
• How to cement trust in the foundation of your leadership teams.

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Episode Overview: 

• 17:30 - Mindset, decision-making, strategy: from military to corporate culture.
• 25:30 - A “low-profile dress” leadership story- assimilation methods of management.
• 33:15 - What followers need from their leaders– Hope, Compassion, Trust, and Stability.

 Episode Links:

• Mark’s Website, LinkedIn
• Mark’s Masterclass on Collapsing Emotional Charges to Make Better Decisions
• The Strengths Journal
• Dana Williams Co. Website

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