Episode #244
True performance change starts with the heart—shifting from fear- and ego-driven, below-the-line behaviors to courageous humility and love above the line.
The Heart Styles Indicator is just a starting point; self-scores can lag behind who you’re becoming. Use 360 feedback and practice courageous vulnerability to align belief with behavior.
Build character through courageous self-awareness and action: admit mistakes, honor others even when they’re ineffective, take small daily steps, and keep asking why to move from fear/ego to courage/love.
We glorify the brain and we change our thinking, but if we're trying to change our thinking and our heart is broken or angry or frustrated, and there seems to be, say a heart's just driven out of fear or ego, I just found that until people shifted their heart, they didn't really become their best self.
I'm looking at my score for authentic, and I am so far below the line. I'm 1%.
I think don't be afraid of looking at your foibles because everyone else probably knows them anyway, and you're only hiding them from yourself and trying to toughen yourself against them like I did doesn't work.
Success starts inside.
Heartstyles co-founders Stephen and Mara Klemich are a husband and wife duo who’ve dedicated their professional lives to understanding how we can harness our minds to tap into the best of our hearts. The Heartstyles Indicator, the tool they created to measure effective thinking and behaviors, has helped individuals, teams and organizations all over the world to unlock their potential. Now, their book Above the Line: Living and Leading with Heart is doing the same.
Stephen Klemich is a longtime leadership consultant, speaker, and CEO and he’s the founder of Heartstyles. Stephen has worked with teams across the globe, from small companies to multinational corporations such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Unilever, AMEX, and PwC. Stephen is an avid mountain climber and guide who has summited the Matterhorn, Mount Blanc, Mt Rosa, Eiger, Monch and Jungrfau, in addition to other peaks in the Himalayas and New Zealand. In 2019 he climbed 6 peaks in the Italian Alps. He has always viewed mountaineering as an important part of his own character development journey, and he has incorporated lessons he has learned in the mountains into many of the Heartstyles programs.
Mara Klemich, PhD, is a consulting psychologist, with degrees in clinical psychology and neuropsychology from the University of Sydney and the University of Paris and a founder of Heartstyles. Her career began in hospital systems in those cities, and she spent more than ten years as a clinical neuropsychologist working in the areas of alcohol-related brain damage, neurology and neurosurgery, traumatic brain injuries, psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, eating disorders, pain management, and trauma counseling in emergency departments. She also practiced as a forensic neuropsychologist in the criminal system, working on some of the highest-profile criminal cases in Australia. Mara has also conquered cancer three times.
