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Transformative Leadership: Inspiring Positive Connection, Courage, and Culture in the Workplace with Rob Dube & Kevin Hancock

Original Air Date Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Where does power reside within your workplace? Is your company stuck in a trickle-down corporate leadership model where decision-making is only conducted by a few? Does the leadership team know or care about the level of employee engagement or employee satisfaction? Now may be the best time to reinvent the leadership strategy of an organization.

In this episode, Harvesting Happiness Podcast Host, Lisa Cypers Kamen speaks with two change agents who have turned traditional leadership roles into inspiring social experiments.

Rob Dube implements meditation and community strategies from his book, donothing at his business ImageOne and organizes donothing silent retreats for other business leaders.

And, Kevin Hancock cares for his business, Hancock Lumber, based on the principles of his book, The Seventh Power, a book that documents the leadership epiphanies he experienced after losing his voice.

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Meet Our Guests:

Transformative Leadership: Inspiring Positive Connection, Courage, and Culture in the Workplace with Rob Dube & Kevin Hancock

Entrepreneur Rob Dube is an avid meditator of 13 years, the author of donothing™: the most rewarding leadership challenge you will ever take, and organizer of the donothing™ leadership silent retreat.

Book: donothing: The Most Rewarding Leadership Challenge You Will Ever Take

Rob Dube — How Meditation And Positive Connection Transforms Leadership:

  • After experiencing subtle life shifts during silent retreats, Rob was inspired to write his book, donothing, and organize donothing Retreats. {1:36}
  • How senses are heightened and leaders bond and create positive connections during the times of silence. {9:05}
  • The Simple Six are six things we should all do every day but sometimes forget. {17:31}
  • Rob Dube shares his entrepreneurial journey from selling blow pops out of his school locker to creating the business he loves today. {20:36}
  • At ImageOne, employees are entrusted to be authentic in the workplace and do their tasks without oversight. {26:10}

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Transformative Leadership: Inspiring Positive Connection, Courage, and Culture in the Workplace with Rob Dube & Kevin Hancock

Kevin Hancock is the CEO of Hancock Lumber. In 2010, at the peak of the national housing and mortgage market collapse, Kevin acquired a rare neurological voice disorder called Spasmodic Dysphonia (SD). When his own voice became weakened, he developed a new leadership style based on strengthening the voices of others. He is now a champion of a work culture where everyone leads and every voice is trusted, respected, and heard.

Book: The Seventh Power: One CEO’s Journey into the Business of Shared Leadership

Kevin Hancock — Dispersing Power:

  • Kevin describes his family business and how losing his voice turned into a leadership strategy to create positive connections. {32:25}
  • How Hancock Lumber changed when Kevin dispersed power instead of collecting it. {35:27} 
  • Creating an employee-centric company helped Hancock Lumber produce a meaningful and engaging workplace for its employees. {39:58}
  • Implementing the strategies from Kevin’s book, The Seventh Power in the workplace {45:48}
  • Kevin shares an epiphany he gained while walking through the desert. {56:47}

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Shareables:

“As a company, if we are not sleeping enough, we help each other get more sleep by sharing restful tips.” @RobDDube on @HHTalkRadio Share on X “We were trying to make things work to the best of our abilities, we just didn't have a lot of abilities.” @RobDDube on @HHTalkRadio Share on X “If you are a CEO your tool is your voice. Suddenly, I couldn't use mine.” @hancocklumber on @HHTalkRadio Share on X “In nature, power is dispersed.” @hancocklumber on @HHTalkRadio Share on X

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