The Importance of Creativity in Leadership w/ Jennifer Paylor from IBM

Bio: Jennifer is a Visionary and bold people engineer and leader offering proven expertise driving exponential growth and organizational transformation through effective people development, employee & customer engagement, leadership coaching, management consulting, and strategic initiatives. Currently Jennifer works in Executive Development at IBM, which has 350,000 employees across the globe. She is working on a book on leadership to be published in 2020. Notes: Jennifer’s background starting off as a singer-songwriter and artist who got into engineeringThe difficult decision to sign a record deal or become an IBM engineerLeaders need to understand who they are to make decisions based on a clear vision of their identityHow Jennifer moved from engineering to exec developmentHow Jennifer built one of the talent development groups at IBMWhat it was like to be a black woman in a white men’s worldThe importance of being able to bring your whole self to workHow to build a new talent development group from scratchThe importance of soliciting help and contributions from the people you are developing“Learning is not just knowledge transfer. Learning is transformational”The importance of creativity (26 mins in, be creative)The importance of “cleaning out the closet” and simplifyingCreativity is a skill that you can learn and can help you see things in different waysHow to incorporate creativity into leadership development by breaking the rulesJennifer’s greatest accomplishment of touching so many livesJennifer’s mistake of trusting the wrong peopleTrend: AI and blockchain for talent development and the race to make it tangibleLinks: Book: The Holy BibleBook: Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive by Ned HallowellJennifer on LinkedInFor questions, comments and guest suggestions, contact the host, Andy Storch, at [email protected] Mentioned in this episode:Think Tank conferenceGet your tickets now for the Talent Development Think Tank Conference https://tdtt.us/conference/