✨Journeys of Empowerment✨ - Episode 34

Leading with kindness: Neil’s mission to humanize work and life

What if the most disruptive leadership tool of the future… is kindness?

I had the pleasure speaking with Neil Schambra Stevens, founder of Mercury Jam Coaching and former CMO for brands like Vans and Polaroid. His journey of resilience, empowerment and transformation is a true testament to defying expectations and creating meaningful change. 

In our conversation, we explored key challenges, turning points and the moments that reshaped his path to success!

What we explored:

👉🏾 Kindness as a leadership practice: moving from performance-driven to people-driven cultures;

👉🏾 Burnout & self-care: how personal loss and exhaustion led to a new philosophy of balance;

👉🏾 Corporate to coaching: why leaving global brands was the start of something more human;

👉🏾 The science of kindness: its link to innovation, retention, and psychological safety;

👉🏾 Technology with heart: building an AI-powered kindness & self-coaching app;

Nuggets of empowerment:

🙌🏾 “Kindness isn’t fluffy, it’s a strategic act of leadership”

🙌🏾 “You can’t pour from an empty cup...self-care is the foundation of service”

🙌🏾 “What we do with our 90,000 working hours matters. Let’s use them meaningfully”

Connect with Neil:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-schambra-stevens-mercuryjam/ 

Website Mercury Jam: https://www.mercuryjam.com  

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What’s one small, intentional act of kindness you can offer today, to someone else or to yourself?