Leading Through a Crisis | Former CEO Shona Elliott | Episode 131

Shona Elliott is an experienced senior leader who is passionate about helping other senior leaders connect and engage with their greatest assets – their employees – for the purposes of increasing employee retention, employee engagement, and achieving an organization’s strategic goals. As a previous CEO, with fifteen years of senior leadership experience, Shona understands the many challenges and competing priorities of busy executives. Having been in their shoes, designing and successfully implementing her organizations’ strategic plans, she recognized and harnessed the power of employee engagement to achieve her organizations’ goals.

Throughout her fifteen years as a senior leader – both in healthcare and for-profit organizations in Canada and the United States – Shona has a proven track record helping organizations achieve cultural renewal with a people-centered focus. Through connection with leaders and employees, Shona has led an organization through the process to achieve two Top 100 Employer designations. Shona has extensive expertise in strategic planning, transformational leadership, organizational development, and quality management.

Topics

During this interview, Shona and I discuss the following topics:

• What getting up early means to her as a leader
• What leaders need to be aware of in the middle of a crisis
• How leaders can regenerate their resilience 
• How our people can help us lead out of a crisis
• How organizational culture will change post crisis

For the complete show notes, be sure to check out our website:

https://leaddontboss.com/131