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To Be a Good Leader, Learn to Be At Ease
What Elizabeth Gilbert’s story about horses taught me about leadership
A few months ago, I attended a conference in Toronto called the Archangel Summit. It was an event focused on entrepreneurship, leadership, and making a difference.
As a 30th birthday gift to me, my boyfriend got us tickets to the Saturday portion. It was a day of listening to keynote speakers like Seth Godin, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Lisa Nichols cover a wide range of topics, share their experiences, and tell their stories.
And that’s why I loved it.
I am an idea person and so is my boyfriend. We thrive on new ideas — on dreams and visions and possibilities. And this was a gathering of people interested in going for their dreams. Perfect.
Out of all the speakers, I was most excited to hear Elizabeth Gilbert speak.
She is one of my favourite writers, but she’s also much more than a great writer to me. She’s someone I aspire to be like; a kind of role model. She’s an intelligent, strong, courageous, and independent woman — all traits I admire and hope to emulate in my own life and work.
But the thing that I find so fascinating about her is that she achieves all of those things in an incredibly human way.
