Bring Your Whole Self To Work

Shannon Adkins and I have known each other for almost 20 years, and it’s been fun to see her life and career grow to such great heights. She is the CEO of Future State, an organizational transformation consulting firm and has spent 15 years driving internal innovation and external collaboration. Shannon chats with us today about how her career started, challenges that go along with working with Fortune 500 companies, fostering cultures of engagement and belonging, and why it’s important for leaders to model healthy conflict.   Key Takeaways: [5:44] Shannon’s previous roles at Wells Fargo and Intuit provided her with examples of great leadership. It is possible for companies to do both engaging work on a large scale and treat their employees with compassion and transparency. This laid the foundation for how she sought to be as a CEO and leader herself. [12:43] While flexibility and freedom often come with being an entrepreneur, there are times where the stability that comes in working for a large company bette