Summary
What is life after leadership like?
What happens to you as a person when you leave a high-powered, highly visible role in civil society?
What happens with your sense of identity? Does this also perhaps touch on ego as well?
What offers new meaning and purpose, when we live our life-after-leadership?
In this NGO Soul+Strategy podcast episode, I interview Sam Worthington, former President and CEO at InterAction, who stepped down from a position with much positional as well as symbolic power just about a year ago.
Sam’s Bio:
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Resources:
Sam’s LinkedIn Profile
Book David Brooks, From Strength to Strength
Essay by David Brooks in The Atlantic: The New Old Age (gated)
YouTube video of this podcast
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