Empowering Your Leader Within

Posted by Ann Deaton Share Your Voice

The question we most often get about Bounce is “what is it?” Bounce is empowering the leader in every young person, woman, and man. That is our mission; that is also what our blog is designed to accomplish. So in this first blog, I want to share what you can expect from us in this space.

Our Bounce blogs may be: 

•  Provocative---challenging you to grow
•  Informational---supporting you with resources
•  Applicative---providing a new skill or strategy to be applied in your life and work
• Celebratory--- affirming and celebrating the evidence of the powerful leaders—young people, women, and men---we see every day in all aspects of our lives.

Each blog will empower our audience by including a question, a call to action, or an invitation and permission to take a risk or try something new.  We know that this is a relationship between Bounce blogger and reader, and that it would be a boring relationship indeed if it were only about us. Our goal is to engage you in thinking about how to apply what you are reading in your own lives and work. We are hoping that you will share some of that with us too!

Each of our voices (Jay, Kelly, Ann) will be present in Bounce’s blogs. Jay’s voice may often be about the athlete, businessperson, and performance. Kelly will frequently focus on her own learning and practices, challenges and successes, and questions she is asking herself that are likely valuable to you too. And I will use my blogs to share my self-awareness, and examples of leaders, books, and events that will enlighten and empower the reader. You will sometimes see us building on, challenging, and expanding one another’s perspectives with our differing voices on a theme such as self-awareness, self confidence, responsibility, and curiosity that might be controversial and valuable to our readers. You will also hear an educator and parent’s voice in Nicki, and different young people’s voices through their own writing and interviews. We will be controversial, challenging, descriptive, or simply curious, and will let you know which is which. You can expect to see a blog posted at least twice each week, and occasionally three times or more.

What will help you to develop your best self, the leader within? Let us know so we can hear your viewpoint, and know what you’d like us to talk about as we share our own voices.

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Ann Deaton I am a leadership coach, and Managing Partner in Bounce. I love to coach and facilitate with individuals and systems experiencing significant change and growth. The clients I work with, regardless of their age or position, are talented and creative individuals willing to look with fresh eyes at their challenges and opportunities, and to take action based on their discoveries. As a result, they find that they are capable of accomplishing far greater things than they ever imagined. What do you want to accomplish today? Who do you want to be?