Ask to Elevate: How Curiosity-Driven Leadership Accelerates Your Career

Episode notes

Getting results is important. But you don't have to have all the answers. In this episode of the Leadership Sovereignty Podcast, host Ralph Owens and co-host Terry Baylor introduce Shachella James - VP of Enterprise Systems at CenterPoint Energy and 17-year technology executive - for a five-part conversation on one of the most underrated career accelerators in leadership: strategic curiosity. This is Part 1 of 5. Shachella introduces three curiosity-driven leadership principles that have shaped her career and the careers of people she has led - including the concept of asking to elevate, building a culture of curiosity, and bending your personal arc from know-it-all to learn-it-all. She shares what it means to be the only woman, the only person of color, or the youngest person in the room - and how asking the right question changes everything.

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