Podcast Link: https://anchor.fm/neek3/episodes/SheLeadz-Lacey-Alexander-en8rr0
Lacey Alexander is the Founder and Owner of Creative Solutions A2Z, LLC. Her goal is simple: make the world a better place by helping people be their best selves. Her company provides Executive Coaching for individuals and teams, Organizational Consulting, and Leadership Development training, with a focus on identifying opportunities for growth and goal achievement.
She has over 20 years of experience in leadership, organizational management, and training and education. She has successfully led multi-national teams as large as 250 personnel with the belief of leading with a humanistic approach to knowing her people. Through valuing diversity and inclusion, she has leveraged her teams’ unique talents to accomplish the mission while supporting their growth and development. She is business savvy with experience in running a variety of operations, overseeing operations, budgets, marketing, and human resource tasks. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, with a minor in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Adult Education – Leadership and Workforce Development.
Lacey is growth-minded and believes in lifelong learning to continue to be her best to serve others. She believes people are creative, resourceful, and whole and simply need support and encouragement to align their passion and action to live in their purpose.
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Podcast Link: https://anchor.fm/neek3/episodes/SheLeadz-Keyona-Campbell-eoql65
Keyona is currently a Master Sergeant, serving in the United States Air Force. She is the Superintendent of the Air Force Personnel Center’s Innovation Cell. Keyona has served in the area of HR as a career Personnelist for over 14 years and has been placed in various leadership positions throughout her Air Force tenure. She has been assigned to multiple organizations within the Human Resources and Intelligence Fields within the United States and Overseas. Additionally, she has completed 4 overseas deployments. These unique assignments have afforded Keyona the opportunity to directly supervise, lead, and mentor approximately 300 Airmen (Employees).
Her sole mission is to use her gifts as keys to unlock inspiration and purpose and educate everyone around her, as her goal is to inspire the next generation of leaders and honor those who paved the way for her.
Resources mentioned during the interview:
YouTube: T.I. & David Banner Podcast
YouTube: Keyona: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTPoOUf7ngOWO6tldwnsozw
Podcast: The Point by Gloria Weatherspoon (Link: https://anchor.fm/andthatsthepoint)
People to Follow: Tyneka Howard, The LeadHer (IG: https://www.instagram.com/leadher10/ ) LeadHer Background: Lead(H)er is a healthy lifestyle brand for women building confidence in you by identifying and tapping into your natural gifts and talents. Source: IG
Podcast Link: Available Monday, 25 Jan 21
Resources mentioned during the interview:
Books: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Lowen
Leadership Lessons from Star Trek The Next Generation by Wess Roberts, Ph.D., and Bill Ross
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Additional Book Recommendations:
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great by Carmine Gallo
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together, and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
Podcast Link: https://anchor.fm/neek3/episodes/SheLeadz-Lt-Col-Tommi-Grant-epsbhf
Bio: Lt Col (Ret.) Tommi Grant served 21 years in the AF as a Force Support Officer. She was a Commander, a mortuary officer and worked at every echelon in her career field, from the Pentagon to Korea and Germany; she also deployed 4 times, serving twice in Afghanistan and once in Iraq. She ended her military career as the Deputy Division Chief for Accessions, Equal Opportunity, and Workforce Development at the Headquarters Air Force Personnel Center.
Resources mentioned during the interview:
Books:
First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Jim Harter, Marcus Buckingham
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
People to Follow:
Brene’ Brown: https://brenebrown.com/
Max Lucado: https://maxlucado.com/
John C. Maxwell: https://www.johnmaxwell.com/
T.D. Jakes: https://www.tdjakes.org/
Podcast Link: https://anchor.fm/neek3/episodes/The-SheLeadz-Podcast-Series—A-Discussion-Season-1-Wrap-Up-eq2hls
The Season Finale of The SheLeadz Podcast series is here! Neek sits down with the SheLeadz Series Panelists to discuss where they are now and to discuss some key points from their interviews. The panelists also answer questions from those in attendance during the live recording.
You don’t want to miss it!
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