To Be a Great Leader, Learn to Lead Yourself with Kim Hanson

Kim Hanson spent most of her life as a servant leader focused on everyone else before she realized that to be a great leader, she had to learn to lead herself. In this episode of The CEO Shift, Shawndel Spader sits down with Kim, CEO of LearningRx, to talk about what that realization changed, from the way she pre-decides every day of her week to why she only opens her email twice a day. Kim leads LearningRx, the global brain training company her father founded, which now has more than 170 centers in over 40 countries. A Certified Franchise Executive with more than two decades inside the organization, she is also the co-author of The Purpose Directed Business and a passionate advocate for helping leaders, educators, and parents understand the power of cognitive skills. She opens the conversation by explaining what brain training actually is, why the old belief that you are stuck with whatever you were born with simply isn't true, and why getting to the cause of a weakness beats spending years working around it. From there, the conversation turns to the CEO seat itself. Kim is candid that in her first couple of years as CEO she didn't really know what the job was supposed to be, and she shares how she learned the role, found who she was inside of it, and came to see herself as an ambassador for brain training. She talks about the hard habits she took on to lead herself well, including exercising every single day for almost four years, and she walks through the weekly rhythm that keeps important things first, with Mondays for her quarterly rocks, Tuesdays and Thursdays for outreach, Wednesdays for her team, and Fridays for learning. If you are a CEO who feels pulled in every direction and wants a clearer way to spend your time and energy on what matters most, this conversation will give you plenty to think about. Catch the full episode and every past conversation at https://spadergroup.com/ceo-shift, where you can also sign up to get new episodes delivered to your inbox each month. Connect with Kim Hanson LinkedIn:   / kim-hanson-cfe-bccs-2903729   Speaker page: https://www.learningrx.com/speaker-ki... LearningRx: https://www.learningrx.com The Purpose Directed Business (free download): https://www.purposedirectedbusiness.com/ Unlock the Einstein Inside (free download): https://unlocktheeinsteininside.com/ The Brainy Moms Podcast: https://www.thebrainymoms.com/ LearningRx on Facebook:   / learningrx   Connect with The CEO Shift and Spader Group Website: https://spadergroup.com/ceo-shift Shawndel Spader on LinkedIn:   / spadergroup   Spader Group on LinkedIn:   / spader-group-llc   Instagram:   / spadergroup   Facebook:   / spadergroup