Stedman Graham - Finding Your Unique Identity as a Leader

You may not consider yourself a leader. Maybe you’ve tried but didn’t invest fully. Maybe you don’t think you have it in you at all.

Noted author, educator and leadership expert Stedman Graham is here to tell you that you’re wrong.

Graham joined Change Starts Here with host and FranklinCovey Education thought leader Dustin Odham to talk “Identity Leadership,” his book, and his philosophy that, to lead others, you must first lead yourself.

As Graham puts it on his website, that means that becoming a “passionate, purposeful, and meaningful leader [comes through] identifying who you are, your desires, and your abilities.”

If you can find the strength to come to know and invest in yourself, you’ll be able to pour that power and impact into those around you more effectively than you ever have before.

“Really, the foundation of my work is to get you to transform your own life by loving yourself, caring for yourself, organizing yourself and making love practical in your own life,” Graham said. “[You can then] teach your family that, live by that, create socioeconomic development around that … That allows you to create who you are [and] who you can be.”

Odham and Graham dove into self-talk, daily disciplines to take love of self from an idea to a practice, and more.