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E-Guides

This series of e-guides offer ways to achieve success, lead authentically and thrive professionally to uncover solutions to your most difficult organizational challenges.

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Videos

This series of presentations showcases the ways audiences can break through limiting beliefs, effectively using one’s voice in the workplace, building a personal brand, and techniques for growing in your leadership role.

How to Deal With a Boss Who Humiliates You
How to Break Through Limiting Beliefs
How to Tackle Disruptive Change and Empower Your Workplace Culture
Children's Hospitals Week
How to Deal With Loss and Adversity

Podcasts

I’ll share with you what it means to lead with a “gracious and strong” mindset and will share not only the personal stories and case studies from my own Fortune 1 career, but also those of other Fortune 500 leaders who have faced — and overcome — leadership obstacles. My hope is to empower you to become not just a great leader — but a “whole” leader — in both work and life.

Empowering High-Performance Teams

Empowering High-Performance Teams

Embracing Challenges through Falling Forward

Embracing Challenges through Falling Forward

From Unexpected Setbacks to Inspired Leadership

From Unexpected Setbacks to Inspired Leadership

Embracing Life’s Left Turns & Crafting Your Guiding Star

Embracing Life’s Left Turns & Crafting Your Guiding Star

The Art of Crafting Leadership Values and Leveraging Bentonville’s Opportunities

The Art of Crafting Leadership Values and Leveraging Bentonville’s Opportunities

Foundations of Servant Leadership: A Conversation with Andy Wilson & Celia Swanson

Foundations of Servant Leadership: A Conversation with Andy Wilson & Celia Swanson

Episode 12 | How to Lead with Curiosity, Clarity & Community with UA’s Ann Bordelon, Part II

Episode 12 | How to Lead with Curiosity, Clarity & Community with UA’s Ann Bordelon, Part II

Episode 11 | How to Lead with Curiosity, Clarity & Community with UA’s Ann Bordelon, Part I

Episode 11 | How to Lead with Curiosity, Clarity & Community with UA’s Ann Bordelon, Part I

Episode 10 | The Greatest Impact You Can Bring & Lead For Your Team

Episode 10 | The Greatest Impact You Can Bring & Lead For Your Team

Episode 9 | What’s Your Personal Mission Statement?

Episode 9 | What’s Your Personal Mission Statement?

Episode 8 | Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs Through Faith

Episode 8 | Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs Through Faith

Episode 7 | A Conversation with Former Walmart Executive, Gisel Ruiz — Part II

Episode 7 | A Conversation with Former Walmart Executive, Gisel Ruiz — Part II

Episode 6 | A Conversation with Former Walmart Executive, Gisel Ruiz — Part I

Episode 6 | A Conversation with Former Walmart Executive, Gisel Ruiz — Part I

Episode 5 | A Candid Chat with My Daughter, Kyndall Swanson

Episode 5 | A Candid Chat with My Daughter, Kyndall Swanson

Episode 4 | Reacting to Leadership Setbacks

Episode 4 | Reacting to Leadership Setbacks

Episode 3 | Six Strategies for Mastering Change

Episode 3 | Six Strategies for Mastering Change

Episode 2 | Fireside Chat with BIC Company

Episode 2 | Fireside Chat with BIC Company

Episode 1 | Leading Through the Unknown with a Gracious and Strong Mindset

Episode 1 | Leading Through the Unknown with a Gracious and Strong Mindset

Gracious
and Strong

Gracious and Strong is an essential guide for facing into adversity and making hard-right decisions that lead to life-changing opportunities.

Celia’s personal stories of her life and career are at the core of this book. She shares practical insights for you to apply to your own leadership journey.

You will learn how to:

  • Feel the freedom to be your most authentic self
  • Overcome leadership strongholds, appearing as fears and limiting beliefs
  • Inspire others to be a part of your journey and make it worthwhile for them
  • Expand your networks, and do not keep yourself in isolation
  • Change the voice in your head to one of confidence and belief in yourself
  • Align yourself with people and organizations that possess your values, and
  • Harness the secret ingredient of steadfast resilience.

More importantly, this book will teach you what it means to adopt a ‘Gracious and Strong’ leadership style that will help you experience a life well led.

General Book Info

TITLE: Gracious and Strong: How to Rise Above the Unexpected Left Turns of Life and Leadership
AUTHOR: Celia Swanson
PUBLISHER: Clovercroft Publishing
DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2018
RETAIL PRICE: Hardback – $24.95 | Paperback – $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-945507-76-2
PAGES: 164

Gracious and Strong is available at major online retailers

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