Siebe Van Der Zee - Get Over it- Don‘t create mental barriers.

                                                                 

Siebe Van Der Zee is President of Vanderzee & Associates, Executive Search & Coaching. For 28 years, Siebe has served as Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Arizona. More importantly he is one of the hosts of 10 Lessons it Took Me 50 Years to Learn!  Siebe talks with us about why we should "Get over it", Why it's important to "warm up the engine" and why you should "Be who you are". Hosted by Robert Hossary.

About Siebe Van Der Zee

Siebe is President of Vanderzee & Associates, Executive Search & Coaching. He has served as an international management consultant for over 25 years specializing in retained executive search, performance coaching and cross cultural consulting. 

His clientele includes business leaders in large multinational corporations as well as medium sized companies covering a wide area of industries including high-tech manufacturing, consumer products and life sciences.

Siebe started his career working for global financial institutions (Citibank and ING Bank) in Europe (London, Amsterdam), Latin America (Montevideo) and the United States (New York). Since 2002, he manages a successful retained executive search firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. The firm is focused on senior level executives (incl. Board of Directors).

For 28 years, Siebe has served as Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Arizona. He holds a Master's Degree in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management..

Episode Notes

Lesson 1: Warm up the engine before accelerating 06m 53s.

Lesson 2: Energy gets you going, integrity keeps you in place 10m 28s.

Lesson 3: Be who you are; don’t try to be a different person to impress someone 14m 05s.

Lesson 4: Don’t stay quiet if you notice something unethical 18m 53s.

Lesson 5: Get over it! Don’t create mental barriers for yourself 24m 35s.

Lesson 6: We all have blind spots 29m 34s.

Lesson 7: In business development, start at the top 34m 11s.

Lesson 8: Bad news can knock you down, resilience will pick you up 36m 27s.

Lesson 9: Don’t accept finishing in second place 40m 11s.

Lesson 10: Empathy is the key element of successful leadership 44m 13s.