Marisa Murray, CEO, and Founder, Leaderley InternationalMarisa Murray, CEO, and Founder
“We do not see the world as is. We see the world as we are.”

As a leader, what you don’t know can hurt you, since the most damaging problems are often the ones you don’t see coming. Blind spots can impair your decision-making, damage your relationships, and prevent you from enjoying the success you deserve. Intuitively we know this. Even when we drive our cars, we routinely and frequently check our blind spots to ensure our safety. Many leaders, however, struggle to identify their blind spots, which limits their ability to achieve their full potential.

How can leaders uncover their blind spots?

Leaderley International has the answer.

“There are seven key blind spots that we have identified as the most common plaguing leadership today. Our process enables us to quickly identify the most damaging ones and through one-on-one coaching, we support our clients to make the behavioral changes they need to improve their impact on their organization and their teams,” says Marisa Murray, CEO and founder of Leaderley International.

Driven by its mission to create: “Superior results powered by extraordinary leadership,” Leaderley International is at the forefront of delivering leadership development that supports enhanced business outcomes. It conducts workshops on many topics, offering a distinctive approach tailored to client needs in topics that relate to Leading Self, Leading Others and Leading Change. Its founder, Marisa Murray, is an engineer by training and takes a very scientific approach to behavioral change, the tools are based on neuroscience-backed approaches, proven to resolve the specific leadership challenges that are present in an individual, executive team or organization’s culture.

Your Blind Spots are your Breakthrough

Murray has seen powerful transformations once leaders identify their blind spots and follow the Leaderley International coaching process which includes the following six steps:

1) Conduct stakeholder feedback to understand the leader’s impact

2) Discern key opportunity areas to improve the client’s impact.

3) Explore intention with client to understand the gap.

4) Identify the blind spots hiding in the gap which are causing the unintended results/damage.

5) With new awareness of these blind spots, consciously modify and experiment with new behaviors which better align intention with impact.

6) Monitor what works best for the client and their stakeholders and repeat the modified behavior until it is fully embedded in their leadership style.

The key is to narrow the gap between Intention and Impact.

Leaders predominately have positive intentions but their blind spots can create a significant gap between their intention and their actual impact. This coaching process narrows this gap and enables them to respond to challenges that come their way and motivates them to move forward, regardless of circumstances.

Discovery Interviews with Stakeholders

Leaderley International’s methodologies enable individuals to gain a strong understanding of the quality of the relationships in their ecosystem.

For example, for a recent client, a CTO at a large technology organization, Murray interviewed his stakeholder and discovered that his core strength was that he was result-oriented and focused on driving business results. However during the interviews, she also understood that he had a negative impact on his team and peers because he could be overly controlling and directive. Consequently, his team and peers would disengage, and he would end up getting even more frustrated and have to work even hard to drive results.

We help leaders uncover their blind spots to unleash their next greatest version of themselves, which leads to unprecedented success for them, their teams and their organizations

Leaderley International worked with him for eight months to alter his approach to his collaborations. He modified the way he communicated about an initiative with his team, how much he involved them at the beginning, and how much he encouraged them and shared the spotlight. Drawing on Murray’s extensive business experience and supported by Leaderley International’s one-on-one coaching program, the client was able to transform the quality of his collaborations which bolstered the engagement and contributions of his whole team. His colleagues could not believe how quickly and authentically he made these positive changes.

As Murray notes: “My clients are incredible leaders that want to do the best job they can, they know that if they focus and simply get 1 percent better every day, they can remain unstoppable, even in a rapidly changing world.”

Murray a former executive herself benefited greatly from coaching during her career and is now a certified executive coach, author, and speaker focused on unlocking executives’ leadership potential to yield superior business results. She encourages her clients to be intentional about their professional development by continuously seeking to improve their leadership.

Unlock your Next Level of Success

Leaderley International provides various services, including coaching, consulting, and speaking for companies that aspire to develop the best leaders. Today, leaders are facing rapid and accelerated changes in their industry and the markets they serve; this business context shows no sign of slowing down. The need for extraordinary leadership is real and Leaderley International brings the foundational skills leaders need to Lead Themselves, Lead Others and Lead Change.