Donna Lichaw
Executive Coach & Author. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Donna Lichaw is an executive coach, keynote speaker, and author who works with founders and executive leadership teams. She has advised leaders at companies including Google, Disney, Microsoft, Adobe, Twitter, and Mailchimp.
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Everything Donna Lichaw said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lichaw: External storytelling matters less than leaders' internal narratives
“And the biggest thing is stories that we tell people, it's like the tip of the iceberg. And if anything, it even
Doesn't matter. I've worked with a lot of folks who their teams say, stop it with the storytelling, stop talking at us, and they don't want any of …”
Lichaw: Unkind startup founders are usually driven by insecurity
“Usually when founders are not nice people, they're insecurities at play.”
Lichaw: Imposter syndrome can be functional and doesn't always need fixing
“Certain stories we tell ourselves are actually
Quite functional and do not necessarily need to be rewritten.
So imposter syndrome, for an example, if you're going around saying, I feel like I'm an imposter.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
You can try to fake i…”
Lichaw: Storytelling cannot fix leadership dysfunction when teams face interpersonal conflict
“Like when that happens, and I talk about this in the book about a bunch, no one wants to hear your stories. You have to actually be able to connect with people and to work with people and feel good as a leader in order to really step up and lead.”
Lichaw: Senior executives want vision and goals, not top-down directives
“When you're hiring super senior whip smart executives to work for you, They don't want to be told what to do. They want to have a grand vision that they're excited about. They want maybe some goals to latch onto and help possibly with a strategy to get there a…”
Lichaw: Dyslexia is very common among founders and CEOs
“I work with a lot of founders, CEOs, and senior executives who are dyslexic. Very, very, very common, especially for CEOs.”
Lichaw: Dyslexic spatial thinking helps founders build companies and lead
“When you're dyslexic, you're thinking spatially, you're thinking big, you're thinking visually, you're not, you know, so yes, you mix up letters or you're struggling with big blocks of text. That's fine. If you're like founding a company, you know, you're not …”
Lichaw: Fixing weaknesses is mostly wasted energy compared to amplifying strengths
“You know, on the one hand, there's so many studies that show that when we play to our strengths, we're much more effective than when we try to fix what's broken. It's a waste of energy to fix what's broken for the most part, but when you can amplify your stren…”
Lichaw: Superpowers emerge from past peak stories, not standardized tests
“What I do and what I find works better for my clients as well is to pull your superpowers out of your stories from your past and your present and then eventually figure out how to apply them and transpose them to your future.”
Lichaw: Senior executives who solve every problem themselves fail their teams
“When
You're a super senior executive. At some point you can't be solving problems for everyone. And if you're just in the weeds solving problems all day, that's when you're not doing your real job and you're going to be driving your whole team and your whole c…”
Lichaw: Lean product hypothesis testing works just as well for human psychology
“Anything you think is true or you want to do, it's a hypothesis until you test it and you go out, get data, and then you can do a bigger version. So it works with human psychology and all the things we want to create and learn in life just as well as with prod…”
Lichaw: Uncover subconscious career goals by reverse-engineering a vivid future vision
“Start with the ending. Come up with how you want things to turn out and then work your way back and start as far out as you want. It could be, you know, decades from now. It could be five years from now. It could be three years from now. It could be a year fro…”
Lichaw: Zoom fatigue stems from lacking physical sensory stimuli during video calls
“There's a Neurological thing with zoom where it you know, we're just getting stimuli from through our eyes, but We and through our brains, but we're not getting like physical stimuli, the same I would be getting if we were in a room together, hanging out, even…”
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