Ep. 68: Slowing Down to Speed Up: Purpose-Driven PE with Tracey Abbott

Episode Links:Leadership Current Website -- https://www.traceyabbott.com/Your Personal Due Diligence Assessment -- https://tracey-eortr7th.scoreapp.com/Pearl Dive Assessment (Free) -- https://traceyabbott.com/aboutLinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracey-abbott-2340362Summary:In this episode of The Corvus Effect, I welcome Tracey Abbott, founder of Leadership Current and a strategist who has spent nearly 30 years transforming high-stakes leaders from performance to purpose. With nearly a trillion dollars in assets under management through her private equity work, Tracey describes herself as a thought provocateur helping PE-backed leaders move from doing to becoming. Her brutal wake-up call came during her first Chick-fil-A staff meeting when her team of 21-year-olds asked what the "N" in P&L stands for.Tracey shares her revolutionary approach to slowing down to multiply what matters in private equity, revealing why intellectual horsepower can create more problems than solutions. She explains her mission-metrics alignment framework and intuition accelerant methodology, drawing from her Kodak experience to share insights about adapting to AI while maintaining human intelligence as the greatest competitive advantage.Show Notes:00:32 Meet Tracey Abbott, Founder of Leadership Current03:07 Tracey's Career Transformation05:50 The Chick-fil-A Experience16:39 Intuition Accelerant21:06 Aligning Mission and Metrics28:12 Lessons from Kodak: Adapting to Technological Shifts29:31 AI as a Collaborative Tool30:46 Marathon Running and AI: Going Slow to Go Fast33:21 Coaching Leaders for Human-Centric Success36:27 Building a Legacy Beyond Financial Success37:28 The Importance of People in Business41:13 Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways