Gaining a Voice and Professional Presence Through Values-Driven Leadership and Humility

Ella Webber (00:00) Amos was one 10 speakers who joined us for the Disrupt HR event. for Amos specifically, it was about the journey that he's been on, not only as a professional, but from a personal perspective. moving from place of origin all the way to new home in He just had a very new perspective that we had not brought to Halifax previously. And so that really for us was the opportunity to have Amos come join us. Audra McCreesh (00:40) I'm Audra McCreesh, I am an HR, IDEA and Business Development leader. I have been running Disrupt HR Halifax for the past three years. I'm the license holder and the event organizer. So twice a year we organize our Disrupt HR event. it's an event series that happens globally and that series of events are all around the disruption of the status quo in the field of HR. So whether you're a leader, a HR professional. If you have influence over others in the workplace, we want to hear from you with your disruptive idea, bold concepts that can the world of work and the experience of employees. So what I thought we were going to hear from Amos was his leadership lens on how to ignite values-driven leader. and what we received from Amos was so much more. we gained insight into his own world of leadership. We gained insight into the worlds of leadership that he works in, which is both military as well as business. we also realized that it doesn't matter where in industry you sit, as a leader, you need to have a very similar way of being, and that is to be a servant leader. So... For us, he brought so much new perspective and an opportunity for us all to walk away thinking, how can we become this leader? as an organizer we don't always have the opportunity to hear all of our speakers. For me hearing amos' content around how to gain a voice, how to be present, and how have humility at the same time as having confidence... that was really an important takeaway for me because it helped me understand as a woman I can still have a voice and still be my humble self. I don't see how anybody could sit on the fence. You have a conversation with Amos and you know that you want to bring him into your organization. That's all I can say.