Imposter syndrome and self-doubt affect even the most accomplished executives. On this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, executive coach Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine explains why leadership growth depends on safety as much as mindset.
Dr. Liz holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and spent seven years in nonprofit executive leadership before moving into coaching. She works one-on-one with leaders whose careers look perfect from the outside while self-doubt runs underneath. Hosts Dr. Steve Jeffs and Erwin de Grave explore three ideas from her practice.
First, success at the top brings loneliness. Few people around a senior leader understand the pressure of the role, so the leader keeps up appearances at a growing personal cost.
Second, mindset work alone fails. Dr. Liz argues coaches ignore the nervous system and the relationships a change threatens when they reduce growth to a thinking problem.
Third, discomfort and danger differ. A leader who believes a career move puts her marriage at risk faces a safety problem, not a comfort-zone problem. Dr. Liz shows how systems thinking pinpoints the one change worth making first.
Guest: Dr. Liz DuBois Erskine
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