26: The Truth Will Set You Free with Ron Carucci

Ron Carucci is the co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, where he works with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations and industries. He has a 30-year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization, and leadership, overhauling leadership and culture to redesigning for growth. He is the author of eight books, is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and a two time TEDx speaker. His work has been featured in Fortune, Inc, MSNBC, and Businessweek.

Ron started his career in the theater arts and while he was successful there, he felt restless. He translated that experience toward organizational psychology, leadership and systems change work with companies and government agencies which he has found to be engaging and meaningful over the past 30 years. During that time, Ron has worked in more than 25 countries on four continents and his career has taken some surprising twists and turns as he made several strategic choices that he often refers to as his “mitosis years”.

In this episode we discuss:

• How Ron began his career in the arts, living in NYC, yet he felt restless.
• The moment Ron’s career began shifting to organizational psychology and systems change work when he was in Germany.
• The various transitions he went through, “on accident,” that led him to the career he is in now.
• Ron’s moment of brutal honesty that led to him leaving a high-level firm and beginning his entrepreneurial journey.
• How he determines what best career moments look and feel like.
• The importance of making strategic career moves, instead of deciding what to do next from a place of pain.

Links:

• Ron Carucci on LinkedIn and Twitter
• www.navalent.com

Books mentioned in this episode:

• “Rising to Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives” by Ron Carucci
• “Leadership Stories From Tomorrow” by Ron Carucci
• “Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change: Leveraging the Client-Consultant Connection” by Ron Carucci and William A. Pasmore
• “Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing” by Ron Carucci

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