“5 things I wish someone told me before I became an Executive” with Leanne Meyer of Carnegie Mellon University

An interview with Phil La Duke

Confident is not how you feel. Many of us spend a disproportionate amount of time ruminating on how not confident we are. We assume that one magically gets to a place where they consistently feel confident. However, research shows that the only difference between a confident person and one who isn’t is that the confident person moves to action, regardless of how they feel. Learn to be terrified but do what’s required anyway, as it’s the only way to be confident.

I had the pleasure to interview Leanne Meyer. Leanne is the Executive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center at the Tepper School of Business and Program Director of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women. Leanne Meyer’s work focuses on assisting leaders navigate critical inflection points where many have outgrown their professional identity and, given the demands and responsibility of…