Want to be a better leader? Rumble with vulnerability

From tough conversations to simply being tougher in the face of doubt, being OK with being vulnerable is an essential asset.

By Mark Gordon
| 1:10 p.m. April 5, 2022
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Courtesy. Natalie Johnson, co-founder and chief visionary officer of Sarasota-based ViDL Solutions, says leaders need to be OK with being vulnerable and having tough conversations.

Leadership

If leadership consultant Natalie Johnson starts taking meetings on her phone, in an airport, between flights, then her colleagues know it’s quickly time to tell her: park it.

The co-founder and chief visionary officer of Sarasota-based ViDL Solutions, when Johnson gets in meeting mode at the airport, she’s at a point in the work cycle, she admits, where she’s taken on too much. And then the work begins to suffer, as do relationships with her team. That’s why Johnson is OK, even welcomes it, when her team calls her out.