The Power of Intent: The Next Chapter in Leadership

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The Power of Intent: The Next Chapter in Leadership

What if one word could transform your team from passive followers into proactive leaders? Join Chris Baynham Hughes in a powerful conversation with former U.S. Navy submarine captain David Marquet to discover the principles of Intent-Based Leadership. Learn how shifting your team's language from asking for "permission" to declaring "intent" can eliminate bottlenecks, create profound ownership, and unlock your organization's true potential.

In this conversation, you will learn how to:

Build a team of leaders, not followers.
Create a bias for action by replacing "permission" with "intent."
Make smarter, faster decisions while boosting psychological safety.
Lead from any position, even without formal authority.

Behind the Insights: Meet The Expert

David imagines a workplace where everyone engages and contributes to their full intellectual capacity, a place where people are healthier and happier because they have more control over their work – a place where everyone is a leader.
A student of leadership and organizational design, former nuclear submarine commander, David is the Author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller: Turn the Ship Around!, and The Turn the Ship Around Workbook, Leadership is Language, and Distancing.
David retired from the US Navy in 2009, and speaks to audiences around the globe, who want to create empowering work environments that release the passion, initiative, and intellect of each person. This bold and highly effective framework is summarized as “give control, create Leaders.”

Speakers

L. David Marquet
Former Nuclear Submarine Commander, Author, Speaker

Chris Baynham-Hughes
Open Transformation Principal, Red Hat

Distancing: How Great Leaders Reframe to Make Better Decisions

Distancing, a superpower for making wiser, faster, better decisions.

This book shows us how to become our own coach by using a mental technique called psychological distancing. We do this in three ways: self-distancing, spatial distancing, and temporal distancing. First, we can be someone else, inhabiting another’s perspective. This activates the neutral observer’s outside point of view. Second, we can be somewhere else. We zoom out and see ourselves from afar, as just another person who is part of a larger context. Third, we can be sometime else, imagining that we are our future selves who are thinking back to what we wish we had done today.