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Hear Laura A. Davis on Podcasts at High Velocity Radio:

In this episode of High Velocity Radio, Lee Kantor interviews Laura Davis, founder of Laura Davis and Associates, celebrating 31 years in business. Laura shares her journey from corporate marketing to leadership development, specializing in emotionally intelligent leaders and high-performance teams. She discusses using the Everything DiSC assessment to help organizations understand behavioral diversity, build trust, and improve team dynamics. Laura highlights the importance of self-awareness, growth mindset, and coaching cultures in driving employee engagement, retention, and profitability. She advises leaders to seek feedback, appreciate their teams, and adapt their leadership styles to bring out the best in others.

What You’ll Learn In This Episode

  • Leadership development and coaching
  • Emotional intelligence in leadership
  • Building cohesive, high-trust, high-performance teams
  • Importance of self-awareness for leaders
  • Use of personality assessment tools like Everything DiSC
  • Evolution of the coaching profession and coaching culture
  • Challenges faced by leaders in modern organizations
  • Benefits of behavioral diversity within teams
  • Strategies for improving team dynamics and communication
  • The role of feedback and appreciation in employee engagement

In this episode of High Velocity Radio, host Stone Payton is joined by Laura A. Davis, CEO and Founder of Laura A. Davis and Associates. Laura discusses her transition from a corporate career to coaching, focusing on leadership and team development. She emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence, trust, and psychological safety in creating empowering work cultures. Laura shares insights on using assessments like Everything DiSC to improve team dynamics and highlights the rewarding aspects of her work, including witnessing clients thrive. The episode underscores the significance of empathy, effective communication, and continuous learning in leadership.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

  • What emotional intelligence is and how Laura helps leaders and teams develop it
  • The most important things for leaders to know and practice in today’s environment
  • How and why Laura uses the Everything DiSC assessment from Wiley, and how this is useful for leaders and teams
  • Why trust is so important in the workplace
  • Why teamwork is so important in today’s organizations

Leadership Development Resources and Media

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CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on Unlocking the Emotional Intelligence of Your Leaders and Managers – The Key to Catalyzing Culture Change

CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on What “City Slickers” Can Teach About Trust and Results

How to Give & Receive Effective Feedback 

In this audio presentation delivered to a group of Young Professionals at MHI, hear Laura discuss the following key points about giving and receiving feedback effectively:

  • Effective Feedback is a powerful means of helping individuals learn and grow by improving their behavior.
  • Reinforcing feedback (when delivered specifically and sincerely) is very important and is often underestimated in terms of its impact on an organization’s culture.
  • Effectively delivered developmental feedback can lead to stronger relationships, improved performance, and a more robust healthy company culture.
  • We all have emotional reactions to feedback. By understanding other peoples’ reactions to feedback and by managing ourselves, we can become more effective at giving and receiving feedback.
  • Feedback is appropriate at all levels of an organization and is not just reserved for performance problems or formal performance appraisal conversations.

CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on Giving and Receiving Feedback Effectively

CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on DiSC and Leadership

CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on Building Emotional Intelligence

CLICK ABOVE to watch Laura’s Presentation on Primary Leadership Dimension

Video Interviews

In this video interview, Management Consultant and Leadership Development expert Laura A. Davis provides a brief overview of the importance of helping leaders identify their unique talents and learn how to connect and communicate more effectively to create healthy, profitable work environments. The interview highlights the ROI anyone can receive by applying Laura’s brand of “people-whispering” and her “principles for inspired success.” For example, she mentions the importance of speaking to the other person in their language and removing the internal barriers to excellence that can get in our way. Laura also highlights her coaching approach of focusing on strengths and enhancing self-esteem. 

Podcast Interviews

Award Winning Articles​

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
— Edwin Schlossberg —

Choice Magazine article “To Assess or Not To Assess” – v12n2

ICF (International Coaching Federation) Coaching World article “Toward a Cartography of Learning”

For the entire issue containing this Laura A. Davis article and also featuring Nancy Duarte,
Abby Tripp Heverin, Lynn Berger, Amoráh Ross, Joey Harman, Dr. Bernadette Crompton,
and Charles Brassard – Click Here

The Coaches Exchange award-winning article “Leading the Way to Success”

American Society for Training & Development article “The Art of People-Whispering”

“Beyond Mars and Venus” by Laura A. Davis

Principles for Inspired Success Ezine — Tips, Tools, and Resources for People-Whispering:

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