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Queering Leadership with Liz Cruz: Accessing Our Humanity and Disrupting the Status Quo
Stories We Haven't Shared with Shanti Joy Gold
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In this episode, Shanti interviews Liz Cruz (they/them/she/her), a genderqueer, femme, healer, witch, white anti-racist and critic of capitalism. Liz talks about factors that played into her career, including her relentless work ethic - rooted in growing up in an entrepreneurial family - as well as the divide between her vibrant queer community life and the more constrained corporate spaces, where she never felt fully seen. She then confronts a tumultuous period that pushes her to her limits and leads her to step away from corporate and toward her dream of being a queer leadership coach. As she takes this leap, she learns important lessons about grief and letting go - and emerges with a sense of freedom, strength and alignment. Liz shares that “the time is always right to center our own humanity,” reminding us that the path to thriving can be found in reconnecting to our unique needs and values - and disrupting status quo narratives.
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Queer Your Leadership Interview with Liz Cruz
LGBTQIA2S Workforce Wellness: A Rainbow of Resistance LinkedIn Live Series with Heliana Ramirez, PhD, LISW
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Liz Cruz (she/they) is a leadership coach who specializes in helping queer folks build radical leadership confidence. Before leading her practice, Liz spent over 10 years in the corporate world as a coach, leadership development program leader, and organizational effectiveness consultant. A leadership development practitioner to the core, you’ll find Liz coaching individuals and teams, facilitating, nerding out about EQ, or ruminating on wholehearted leadership over a cup of (decaf) coffee.
Liz’s approach is informed by her deeply held belief that each of us is inherently brilliant and that the best solutions to our leadership challenges are found in our deep knowledge of ourselves. She is an eternal optimist, a queer leadership fanatic, a frequent teller of not-that-funny jokes, a lifelong artist (current love: watercolor), relentlessly curious, a deep empath, and despite all outward appearances, definitely an introvert.
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Queer Confidence: What LGBTQ+ Leaders Can Bring to the Table With Liz Cruz
The Disruptors
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Join us for a conversation with Queer leadership coach Liz Cruz on being Queer in leadership. How does inclusive leadership help grow your business? What does it mean being underrepresented as a leader? Is the path to leadership the same for everyone? We'll dive into her extensive experience in unlocking the talents of developing leaders, why she believes most everyone has the skills they need to become a great leader, and how to build your confidence in the workplace.
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Liz Cruz – Emotional Intelligence is Critical for Leadership
Enlightenment of Change with Connie Whitman
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So, what were some of the big lessons I learned?
Things like, how to become more empathetic by connecting deeply with my clients, then deeply with my sales teams, deeply with my husband and kids, and now deeply with my clients. As I look back, I personally understand the importance and beauty of being an Emotional Intelligent leader in our world. We have multiple roles in life and Emotional Intelligent (EI) helps with everything we do and with every person we engage with.
What’s the impact?
Great and deeper connections with everyone in my life both personally and professionally. Those relationships matter and for me are the cornerstone of my business and how I engage with my clients!
On Being Brave & Bold as a Coach with Liz Cruz
Coaching Through It! with Julie Larsen & Laura Pasquini
Show Notes:
On this episode of @CoachingThruIt we are joined by queer leadership coach, Liz Cruz (she/they). Liz works with folks who want to grow their emotional intelligence skills and hone their authentic leadership style, fully integrating identities, values, and experiences. Liz’s coaching approach is informed by her deeply-held belief that each of us is inherently brilliant, and that we’re already holding the solutions we’re looking for. Her process begins with exploring the client’s emotional intelligence strengths, and how to best bring them to bear in the challenges at hand. Liz helps their clients to learn about themselves, to investigate their feelings and beliefs, and to build a practice of taking small but powerful actions to create radical change in their leadership.
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