Ep 199: Evin Shutt - Fearless - Fast

Edited highlights of our full conversation.

How do you greet change?

Evin Shutt is the Chief Executive Officer of 72andSunny, a role she took on in March of 2020.

Taking on the senior leadership position of one of the world’s most creative and innovative companies, at the very moment the world is shutting down, will instantly reveal your relationship with change. Do you look for it and high five it? Or work to minimize it?

During the months and years ahead, and across the entire spectrum of leadership, that difference in mindset will become more and more obvious.

The leaders we remember will see change as opportunity and currency, and they will seek it out.

They will recognize that they are living in a moment in which more is possible than at any point in human history, and they will quickly create new expectations that two years ago seemed unimaginable.

They will open the door and invite change and all of its relatives, uncertainty, unpredictability, apprehension and yes, fear, to come in and sit down.

They will offer it the best room in the house and the best seat at the table, and they will treat it like their oldest and dearest friend.

For one simple reason. It is. The best friend any leader interested in leading could have.

So, the next time your phone rings, your text chimes, or your email sings, hope against hope that change is calling. And then do everything you can to make it feel welcome.