Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Feat. Suzie Lewis – Managing Director at Transform for Value

Suzie is Managing Director at Transform for Value, Podcast host of “Let’s talk Transformation” podcasts and an Executive coach. Susie spent almost two decades at Airbus – holding various senior roles, from digital transformation, Head of leadership learning, and head of diversity & inclusion. Suzie describes her quest is to constantly bridge the gap between digital and human and create more inclusive and collaborative cultures in organisations. Suzie and Ross talk about coaching, transformation, bridging gaps, imbedding inclusion, inclusivity, impact, people, perfect imperfections, reacting to change, curiosity, perfectionism, letting go of control, strong leaders, nothings impossible, empathy, human reactions, getting comfortable with being uncomfortable, compromising, decision making, stress, fear and shame. The pair also discuss controlling reactions, observations, relationships, practice, listening, struggles, lived experience, creativity, culture, friction, Marshall Goldsmith, fitting in, communities, access to skills, mantras, reaching out for help, building for the future, empowerment and setting up a new business.

Timecodes:

00:25 Suzie’s intro and what she’s grateful for

03:33 Transformation’ and how it started

05:41 Dealing with challenges

10:06 Helping facilitate Transitions

15:41 Dealing with aversions to experiments

20:08 Insights from – Dare to lead

24:42 Emotional Literacy and book ‘your body is your brain’

28:37 Recrafting systems

35:58 Behind the scenes of being more inclusive

43:58 Practical ways to helping with discomfort

49:56 The last time Suzie did something for the first time