Today’s guest breaks silos, works smarter, and gets things done.

She is the Founder and CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that helps organizations transform by delivering collaboration across teams, business units, customers, and other stakeholders.

She is one of today’s most provocative business thinkers on the future of work. She advises business leaders and companies to lead markets through innovations that matter, create increasing value for customers and clients, deliver sustainable results, and ensuring future global competitiveness.

She is the co-author of the bestselling book: “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence,” ranked #1 on What Corporate America is Reading.

An in-demand speaker, she has spoken, worldwide, to organizations and enterprises that range from the World Economic Forum at Davos to U.S. and global Fortune 500 companies. She has been listed on the Thinkers50 RADAR list for the emerging management thinkers around the world most likely to shape the future of business, management, and strategy.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “I define leadership as the ability to enable others to achieve a shared purpose in the face of uncertainty.”
• how attending a Global Entrepreneurship program when she was 17 was the catalyst for her becoming a leader.
• how her desire to self-reflect and continuously improve came from her failed attempts instead of her successes.
• various research she has conducted about connection and how that led her to create the concept of Connectional Intelligence™.
• the three types of connectors we all are and how we can use our connection type to better collaborate and network with others.
• her habits around networking and connection that allow her to deeply connect with others for a purpose.

Please join me in welcoming Erica Dhawan.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 131