Understanding how to bring your best self to work today as you continuously adapt, regroup and lead in a rapidly-changing and hard-to-predict future isn’t easy. For many years I’ve had the great privilege of working with The Art Of that brings world-class speakers, authors and influencers to the big stage across Canada to help bring the latest insights and tips to its audiences. The Art of Leadership for Women 2024 captivated its audience of 2,500 and my team and I were there, capturing the key points and insights from each speaker, in graphic recordings.

I’ve been reflecting on the event and here are the top 10 leadership tips I took away from my experience:

1. The way we treat ourselves is the way we lead ourselves. – Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
2. Value the uniqueness of everybody and how their magic contributes to the whole. – Denise Hamilton
3. It’s OK to be intellectually promiscuous. – Zahra Al-Harazi
4. We are all culture creators. – Dr. Mary Murphy
5. It’s about attitude, not altitude. – Dr. Roberta Bondar
6. Curate your life. – Zahra Al-Harazi
7. Don’t allow the disappointments of the past to rob you of the possibilities of tomorrow. – Denise Hamilton
8. Stress is a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. – Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
9. “People have to love something to protect it.” – Dr. Roberta Bondar
10. “Bring all of who you are to work. – Executive Panel

Here are the graphic recordings of the day’s agenda, which offers in a visual format the key points we heard. These can be useful artifacts to spark conversation with your colleagues and team about leadership and specifically how women in leadership roles can unlearn some of ways we’ve held back or questioned our own leadership style and bring more of all of who we are to work.

Denise Hamilton – Author of Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future

Dr. Mary Murphy – Author of Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations

Zhara Al-Harazi – Author of What It Takes…To Live And Lead with Purpose, Laughter, and Strength

Dr. Roberta Bondar – Author of Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau – Author of Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other

Executive Panel Discussion

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