EP329: Dr. Elizabeth Moran - How To Embrace Change To Elevate Your Leadership

Michael Palmer: Most leaders make the mistake, especially newer leaders, like, "I've got to have all the answers. I've got to have it figured out." No, leadership is something you do with people, not to people. That's the same thing with change. Don't work so hard. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer.. And today's show is going to be a very good one. Our guest is an experienced leader, consultant, and executive coach who is passionate about helping teams and organizations successfully navigate and evolve through change. Her new book, Forward: Leading Your Team Through Change, is coming out February 2023. Dr. Elizabeth Moran, welcome to the show. Thank you, Michael. So excited to connect with you and your audience. It's wonderful to have you here. And absolutely, you've got a new book coming out, Leading Your Team Through Change. And we were just chatting before we started the recording. I mean, what isn't changing? So I'm so excited to have this conversation help our listener gain some inside edge on how to do that. But before we get into all of that, please, Elizabeth, tell us about your career journey leading up to this point.

Dr. Elizabeth Moran (Nov 8): So probably like many people, it's been a bit of a meandering path. So when I started my career, I was like, oh, well, I like people, so let's get into HR. So that was about the amount of thought that went into it. So I started in human resources and then at a certain point became disillusioned because when I was in human resources, it still was an unevolved, it's very different than it is now. And so, if they didn't know what to do with an executive, they put them in charge of human resources. So, at a certain point, I became disillusioned. And then, I left the corporate world to get a doctorate in clinical psychology. And towards the end of that, whilst I enjoyed private practice, I didn't feel done with the corporate world, primarily because I felt like organizations kind of did stupid things to demotivate people. Which really is humans in general. So, I wanted to get back into the corporate