Your Leadership Story: Part 1 of 8
A Reflection Series
Welcome to Your Leadership Story, an 8-part leadership reflection series designed to help you grow as an authentic, self-aware leader. This series is for leaders who want to pause and reflect on their leadership journey, reconnect with what shaped them, and lead with more clarity, purpose, and intention.
Reflecting on Your Roots
The people and experiences that shaped your leadership story.
Where are you from?
How has that shaped the leader you are today?
I grew up as a coal miner’s daughter in the Appalachian mountains of southwest Virginia.
I spent summer days breaking green beans on the front porch and evenings sitting on the back porch with my dad. No phones, no distractions.
Few words were spoken. It wasn’t a passive silence, but an active one.
It was about being present.
I didn’t realize how those quiet moments of presence would shape me—
as a person and a leader.
Where are you from?
How have the relationships and moments from there shaped the leader you’ve become?
🌱 Take a moment to reflect.
Your roots are part of your leadership story.