There was a brief mention in the last conversation about Echoes: We each carry Echoes — patterns of energy, instinct, and presence that move through how we live and lead.
In this Conversation, I’ll share how Echoes are part of cReative Leadership — and invite you to notice which may be most alive in you right now.
Why Look for Echoes in Leadership?
Because as we mentioned earlier, leadership is a journey and rarely a fixed thing. Becoming a leader of any kind is a journey shaped by experience, memory, instinct, reflection — and by the ways we absorb and amplify the energies around us.
An Echo is not a static type. It’s a sense of what patterns are strong in us right now, and how we are moving through the world as a leader, collaborator, human.
• Echoes shift. You may find one calls most strongly now, and another rises at a different season of your life or leadership.
In this journey, you are invited to listen for your Echo (or Echoes!) — not to define yourself, but to notice where you are most at home, most Centered, and where you might want to explore next.
How to Look for Echoes?
There are all sorts of ways to look for your echo(es). You might have felt the pull to take a particular assessment, like the StrengthsFinder, Meyers-Briggs, DiSC, EQi, or the myriad other tools and typologies out there. You might have explored astrology. Or faith.
And maybe you’ve gotten some answers. That’s great!
But maybe it feels like something’s missing or that the assessments and typologies, no matter how many you take, are not a full picture of who you are.
Part of the challenge with those assessments is that they often lead us to an exploration of where we are lacking or how we’ve fallen short of some standard measurement.
And that shouldn’t be.
We should have a way to follow a path that both shines a bright light on where we excel as well as how to use the skills we might never have realized we had for this work — for any work.
We shouldn’t need to look at comparisons to other people because we are all unique. But, you might wonder, if we don’t look to others, how can we know ourselves?
And this is where the cReative Leadership differs. The cReative Leadership path encourages us to look at the world differently, to see our connection to the world around us. If we think about Resonance, we must think about where and how we exist. We are surrounded by people, yes, but more. We are connected to it all.
In our next Conversation, let’s consider how the R’s connect to our Echoes. I hope to see you at that point along the path …
Your Journey Sentinel, Andree
