Our guests for this mashup are Tracie Ybarra, Mike Handcock and Nik Cree. Tune in as they tell the stories of their incredible career journeys, how they landed in their industries, the challenges they faced and which leaders inspire them to achieve greatness.
In this episode:
- Tracie shares her background and how she worked for HP
- Admiring a leader who is trustworthy and knows when to put aside their ego
- Looking up to Michael Dell and his leadership style
- Mike shares how he was orphaned at 15 and how he had to find work after high school
- Jumping from job to job and became an entrepreneur in 2002
- Learning from the life of Alexander the Great
- Nik talks about how he had a career change into the world of bank and finance
Key Takeaways:
- Leaders should be trustworthy and confident laying ego aside
- Being a leader is more than a job and title
- Great leaders have to have vision
- Sometimes you need to break the rules to understand them
Tweetable Quote:
“I look at a leader and to admire them, I have to trust them, that’s probably the first and foremost important thing to me. There’s nothing more rewarding to me than trusting relationships.” – Tracie Ybarra
“And it really takes people with some courage, conviction or someone to lead the way to get people to see things from a different perspective.” – Nik Cree
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