Leadership Lessons From the Performing Arts - A Conversation With Robert Snyder

A Leadership Beyond

This week we had the opportunity to interview Robert Snyder, author of the soon to be released book, Innovation Elegance: Transcending Agile with Ruthlessness and Grace.

In our community’s name is the word “beyond.” What we intend to imply is that leaders must manage the messy runway while at the same time collaborating, innovating, and creating a compelling future of work – at the individual, team, organization, and societal levels.

The good news is we don’t create from scratch, we can draw from what is currently working and find new applications.

Robert draws leadership and management ideas from the Performing Arts with a unique style, using analogy and metaphor in a way that makes the business application accessible and immediately actionable.

A glance at his bio and his business experience clearly shows how he’s made this strong connection. Listen as Robert tells of his journey from an awkward male beginner in Latin dance, to being part of a dance team, and now teaching dance. Every phase of his dance learning journey contains lessons for us all.

A Leadership Beyond exists to support the alignment between the business strategy and people strategy - to drive results with people not at the expense of people (Talent Optimization).

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As always, we’d love to hear from you about your insights, challenges, and successes around leading (self and others) through transitions.