OTS 216: Follow the Zig Zags - Glain Roberts-McCabe

Today’s guest’s personal mission is to inspire ambitious leaders to connect to their bigger purpose so that they can lead with intention and leave a legacy that feels good.

She is the founder and President of The Roundtable, a company that helps leaders navigate change, disruption, and growth. The Roundtable is best known for its group and peer-based coaching and mentoring programs that help organizations galvanize culture and accelerate business performance all while building leadership capability.

In 2014, The Roundtable was awarded a Gold Award by the Canadian Awards for Training Excellence and in 2016 they were named Best External Consulting Advisory in Canada at the Canadian HR Awards. In 2018, she was named one of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurs of the Year.

She is the author of “The Grassroots Leadership Revolution” and “Did I REALLY Sign Up for This?!”

Please join me in welcoming Glain Roberts-McCabe.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “A leader is a person that has followers. Leaders unlock other people’s potential.”
  her beginnings as a leader at the young age of 2 when she became a big sister AKA the boss.
• her 10 year period of diversion after leaving home at 17 to her return to teaching.
• her belief that there are patterns in everyone’s life that repeat until you take action.
• her pattern of leaving jobs/moving through employers every 2 years.
• how she came up with the idea for the Roundtable and the first 18 months of struggle to get it off the ground.
• how she learned to follow the path including all the zig zags.
• how she uses LinkedIn to maintain her network and leverage her network more.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com - episode 216.