ML66 – Myths & Lies About Leadership with Anni Keffer

Anni Keffer is a nationally recognized educator, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Young Women of Influence Conference, how cool is that? She is a coauthor of Girls Lead: Extraordinary Girls Share How You Can Stand Up, Step Out and Lead in All Areas of Your Life and she has been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, & FOX. Her newest book is Leadership Built On Why: A Guide for Young Adults.

Anni Keffer

Top Takeaways: Myths & Lies About Leadership with Anni Keffer

  • Help children become leaders by starting the dialogue
  • Leadership permission- it is something we must give to ourselves
  • You can’t lead others until you lead yourself
  • Leadership is a process, pursue what we are called to do
  • Dealing with whack-a-mole with leadership
  • Fear and jealousy and labeling by others appear as you start to lead
  • What do you desperately want to change in the world?
  • You can’t want something more than they want it for themselves
  • Being a leader does not mean you need to be perfect
  • Why are you passionate, not what, is important
  • Knowing your why drives you, the reminder of why you did this
  • Your reticular activator- your brain conserving calories
  • Be the pebble that starts the leadership avalanche

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Learning From Leaders: 

Current Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results  by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

Leadership Superpower: Connecting with people on a deeper level

Motivational Mantra:

[shareable cite=”Mahatma Gandhi”]Be the change that you wish to see in the world[/shareable]

Book Most Often Gifted: Anything by the author Brene Brown

Additional Items Mentioned

Anni’s website: https://annikeffer.com/

 

About the author

Jake Carlson is a popular speaker, accountability partner, and host of the Modern Leadership podcast. Jake built his business while traveling with his family around the world. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn. Read more about him here.