E 197 Succeed Without Knowing it All! Build Executive Presence with Wanda Wallace

An accomplished keynote speaker and Managing Partner of Leadership Forum, LLC, Wanda Wallace’s work focuses on improving leadership by improving the quality of conversations.

She helps women and men advance, stick and thrive.

After 10 years at the helm of Duke's Fuqua School of Business executive education program, her most recent work helps managers break out of being the expert and build truly inclusive cultures.

This work is captured in her latest book "You Can’t Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise."

Laura and Wanda chat up ways leaders add value to their teams WITHOUT knowing all the technical details -> that becomes mission impossible once you reach senior leadership and can actually happen at any time.

They chat up a mini-tsunami of practical tips to be a better public speaker and how to get other people on board with your brilliant ideas.

Reach your stakeholders in their comfort zone, not yours.

Everything that happens in business happens in a conversation.

Catch these titanium diamond-studded insights including:

🔥Where to find your confidence when you don’t have all the answers

💎The point where your domain learning journey slows down

✅How to lead people who know more about the content than you do

🔑Ways you can add value when you’re not the one who knows the most about the domain (hint: it’s all about conversations)

🦏The key difference between a expertise leader and a spanning leader

🎯A “rinse and repeat” question you can use to add value at the enterprise level

📣Laura’s favorite communication tool that makes you unstoppable with any audience at any level

🚀Two proven tools to uplevel your public speaking

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