The Quiet Drift Killing High Performers. | Blaine Bartlett

About this episode

Dov Baron and Blaine Bartlett discuss the hidden challenges high performers face in their pursuit of success.

The Quiet Drift Killing High Performers. | Blaine Bartlett: What if the version of success you've been chasing has not, in fact, delivered the life you were promised? Most leaders don't fail because of strategy. They fail because somewhere along the climb, they stopped being conscious participants in their own lives. They're hitting every mark, pleasing every stakeholder, performing the role flawlessly, and underneath it all is a question they stopped asking a long time ago: whose life is this? In this episode, Dov sits down with Blaine Bartlett, global leadership development master, CEO of Avatar Resources, six-time author, and the man behind the international bestseller Compassionate Capitalism and his newest book, Stop Drifting, Start Living. . Blaine has personally delivered programs to more than 300,000 leaders, and what he's watched, room after room, is the same quiet pattern: brilliant, decorated executives who have built entire identities around producing results, and somewhere along the way lost the soulful spark that put them in the room in the first place. . Blaine opens up about the moment his own life cracked open. . This is a conversation that interrogates the…

People in this episode

Host: Dov Baron

Guest: Blaine Bartlett

Topics covered

• leadership
• success
• self-awareness
• personal development
• executive coaching

Keywords

• high performers
• leadership development
• conscious living
• executive identity
• success

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Avatar Resources

Books & works: Compassionate Capitalism, Stop Drifting, Start Living

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