Dr. Colleen Lyons on Purpose and Personal Leadership Models

Colleen Lyons is a leadership coach with a Ph.D. in value-driven leadership and received bioethics training at medical school. She also went through seminary school. Colleen is interested in the study of personal leadership models and how to build psychological safety in trust. Professionally, she has worked in fortune 500s, as an ethics officer at the VA in Seattle and most recently was a senior ethics advisor at Boeing. Colleen has had a front-row seat of company culture gone horribly wrong, and wonderfully right. In this interview, Colleen and Augustine Pasin discuss the importance of restructuring goals around one’s purpose, what it means to pursue purpose, what the acronym VUCA means, and how to build one’s personal leadership model (among many other things).This episode is a look into company culture and how to make changes not only in your workplace but in your own life as well.