#309 Addressing Business Challenges through Effective Human Resource Strategies w/ Suze Q. Shaner
Live Your SPAlife
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| Launched: Jun 14, 2023 | |
| Season: 1 Episode: 312 | |
In this episode of the Spa Life Show, Diane’s guest is Suze Q. Shaner.
Suze is the Founder & Principal of Sage Leadership Strategies, LLC, a firm focused on leadership, team and organization development. She is an executive coach and a leadership & organization effectiveness consultant, wellness practitioner with over 30 years’ business experience. She has worked as an internal leader at Accenture, IBM, GE, Healthnet, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Data Switch Corporation.
Suze’s vision is to create a world where healthy expression of our whole selves is valued in the workplace. She supports leaders to achieve their potential, and deliver on sustainable results that matter to them and their constituents. In today’s complex, dynamic and uncertain environment leaders need to be resilient, wise and agile learners.
Suze is a catalyst, creator and collaborator who helps people and organizations to optimize who they are, what they do, and what resources they have, individually and collectively.
She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small business owners, and nonprofits in a range of industries including: healthcare, technology, financial services, entertainment, media, publishing, education, consumer goods, and manufacturing.
Before entering the corporate world, Suze started her career teaching Religion and English, and developing community-based self-help programs in the inner city of Kingston, Jamaica, WI; and she was trained as a mental health clinician (expressive arts therapist). She is also a yoga and meditation teacher.
Suze graduated with honors from Boston College and holds Masters Degrees from Fordham and Lesley Universities. Certificates held: Executive Coaching, (PCC) from International Coaches Federation; Holistic Health Counseling from the Integrative Institute of Nutrition (IIN); level 2 Kundalini Yoga Instructor.
Suze speaks to the challenge of balancing being a high achieving, sensitive person, working in cultures that drive, and balancing these dynamics with personal self-care needs. She started her business as a way to more effectively balance these needs for herself.
Important topics discussed:
- What leadership should be
- Creating a positive company culture
- Industries that exhibit incredible teamwork
- Maneuvering through differences
- Actions to create unity and togetherness
- What touching the wall means
- Lifestyle choices to impact your experience in life
- Suze’s favorite room in her home
- Know more about Suze
- Suze’s way of intentional living
Quotes:
[2:09 - 2:38]
“While there are some differences in the specificities of businesses and their business model, leadership is leadership. And at the end of the day, it's about having a leader with a clear and compelling vision who can clearly articulate that to their constituents. And then give feedback and recognition along the way when people are doing a great job.”
[17:33 - 17:47]
“Everything happens in the context of a relationship. So all significant change that anybody wants to affect themselves has to happen in the context of some kind of trusted relationship because change is really hard. “
[33:00 - 33:20]
“Having people around you that will help keep me in check is significant to live an intentional life. I might think I'm being very conscious, but it's always important to get feedback because we all have our blind spots. And there might be things I'm not seeing or doing that I think I am.”
Links and Resources:
Connect with Suze:
● Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanshaner
● Website: https://www.sagelead.com
● Twitter: https://twitter.c
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In this episode of the Spa Life Show, Diane’s guest is Suze Q. Shaner.
Suze is the Founder & Principal of Sage Leadership Strategies, LLC, a firm focused on leadership, team and organization development. She is an executive coach and a leadership & organization effectiveness consultant, wellness practitioner with over 30 years’ business experience. She has worked as an internal leader at Accenture, IBM, GE, Healthnet, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and Data Switch Corporation.
Suze’s vision is to create a world where healthy expression of our whole selves is valued in the workplace. She supports leaders to achieve their potential, and deliver on sustainable results that matter to them and their constituents. In today’s complex, dynamic and uncertain environment leaders need to be resilient, wise and agile learners.
Suze is a catalyst, creator and collaborator who helps people and organizations to optimize who they are, what they do, and what resources they have, individually and collectively.
She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small business owners, and nonprofits in a range of industries including: healthcare, technology, financial services, entertainment, media, publishing, education, consumer goods, and manufacturing.
Before entering the corporate world, Suze started her career teaching Religion and English, and developing community-based self-help programs in the inner city of Kingston, Jamaica, WI; and she was trained as a mental health clinician (expressive arts therapist). She is also a yoga and meditation teacher.
Suze graduated with honors from Boston College and holds Masters Degrees from Fordham and Lesley Universities. Certificates held: Executive Coaching, (PCC) from International Coaches Federation; Holistic Health Counseling from the Integrative Institute of Nutrition (IIN); level 2 Kundalini Yoga Instructor.
Suze speaks to the challenge of balancing being a high achieving, sensitive person, working in cultures that drive, and balancing these dynamics with personal self-care needs. She started her business as a way to more effectively balance these needs for herself.
Important topics discussed:
- What leadership should be
- Creating a positive company culture
- Industries that exhibit incredible teamwork
- Maneuvering through differences
- Actions to create unity and togetherness
- What touching the wall means
- Lifestyle choices to impact your experience in life
- Suze’s favorite room in her home
- Know more about Suze
- Suze’s way of intentional living
Quotes:
[2:09 - 2:38]
“While there are some differences in the specificities of businesses and their business model, leadership is leadership. And at the end of the day, it's about having a leader with a clear and compelling vision who can clearly articulate that to their constituents. And then give feedback and recognition along the way when people are doing a great job.”
[17:33 - 17:47]
“Everything happens in the context of a relationship. So all significant change that anybody wants to affect themselves has to happen in the context of some kind of trusted relationship because change is really hard. “
[33:00 - 33:20]
“Having people around you that will help keep me in check is significant to live an intentional life. I might think I'm being very conscious, but it's always important to get feedback because we all have our blind spots. And there might be things I'm not seeing or doing that I think I am.”
Links and Resources:
Connect with Suze:
● Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanshaner
● Website: https://www.sagelead.com
● Twitter: https://twitter.c
