385: Leading Together with Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, and Travis Marsh

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Is there a better way to organize work and scale your business?

Our guest trio today says, “YES, there is!”

Listen with an open mind to Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, and Travis Marsh as they explain a radical new approach to leadership – transforming top-down leadership into dynamic human systems of shared responsibility and accountability based on their latest collaborative book, Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path To Scaling Your Business

Lead Together

Brent Lowe is a performance coach helping leaders show up as their best selves within thriving, purpose-driven teams. As the Scale Coach for Founder CEOs, Brent works with entrepreneurs and leaders who are growing the size and impact of their businesses to tackle local and global challenges. Many of his clients are motivated by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and a desire to lead in ways that feel authentic, inspiring and personally fulfilling. He and his clients share a belief that leadership goes far beyond delivering financial returns, with ecosystem stewardship being a core responsibility.

Susan Basterfield is a catalyst and convener who believes that awareness and discernment can unblock drains and move mountains. From 35-plus years in business-spanning global multinationals, startups and schools-arose experiences that drive her work as a systems transformation partner. Her work includes standing shoulder to shoulder with leaders and organizations on their transformational journeys, often over many years, and convening virtual development programs, including the Practical Self-Management Intensive. She is an educator, coach, facilitator, writer and collective entrepreneur. Obsessed with building the capacity to build capacity, Susan seeks-out that which is life-giving, dances with complexity and weeds-out constraints to potential.

Travis Marsh is a facilitator, coach and trainer who works with companies and nonprofits by introducing mindsets and tools that help dynamic leadership grow. He started his career in engineering and has worked in sales, marketing, operations, software development and people operations, and has led teams in several of those areas. He has worked in multinational organizations as well as startups growing 10-fold per year, seeing the interconnection and big impact of small changes in leadership and followership. He also works at the Stanford Graduate School of Business facilitating a class on interpersonal communication. He coaches purpose-driven companies, both VC-funded and bootstrapped.

Topics We Discuss in this Episode

Discovering a different approach to leadership
Obstacles in implementing Lead Together principles
Framework of the Lead Together concept
Challenging scenarios and application
Meaningful impact: result of leading together

Podcast Highlights

[3:19] The discovery of this different approach to leadership as discussed in their book, Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path to Scaling Your Business

[6:05] The ecosystem of people: identified patterns in organizations through extensive research

[9:05] On dynamic leadership and dynamic hierarchy

[11:06] Transformation into new ways of working: three crucial steps

[14:07] The process of reflective practice

[16:57] The meaning of “Separating the role from the soul” and “Making the implicit explicit”

[20:00] The contrast of the traditional hierarchy pyramid and the new lead together way

[29:11] Normalizing the acknowledgement of the relational field

[31:15] Helpful ways to give and receive feedback

[33:07] Doing things differently and adopting the steps

[37:02] Susan’s message to leaders

[44:29] Brent’s message to leaders

[46:11] Travis’ message to leaders

Episode Resources

Book: Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path to Scaling Your Business
Audible Audiobook: Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path to Scaling Your Business
Book Website: www.leadtogether.co

Connect with the Authors

Brent Lowe

Website: www.brentlowe.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentloweconnects
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brentloweconnects
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brentlowetweets

Susan Basterfield

Website: https://www.greaterthan.works
Website: https://www.enspiral.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-basterfield-ab8104/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/opentogrow

Travis Marsh

Website: http://www.themastersmark.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travismarsh

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