Jason Safford

“I did something after my Leadership Capacity Review with Jason Safford - The Resilience Architect that I believe made the whole thing even more valuable: I gave my results to Kieran Leister, my right-hand man. There’s something slightly terrifying about handing someone you work with every day a report that basically says, “Here are the ways I might be making you and my job harder.” 😂 But that was also the point. As a founder, it’s really easy to have one version of yourself in your head and assume that’s the version everyone else experiences. The reality is that your team experiences your leadership every single day. They see the things you don’t. They feel your strengths, but they also feel your blind spots. Sharing my results gave Kieran Leister and me a common language for talking about some of those things. Instead of me just saying, “I want to be a better leader,” we could actually talk about what that means, where I need to improve, and what he needs from me. That’s one of the things I didn’t expect when I did this. I thought I was getting an assessment of me. What I actually got was something I could use with the people around me. I’ve said this before, but I really believe every founder should do a Leadership Capacity Review like this.”