This Episode: Unmasking the Confident Leader with Laura Ogilvie-Jones
Lucinda welcomes career and leadership coach Laura Ogilvie-Jones to explore the rising corporate phenomenon of “comparativitis” where high-performing, senior professionals secretly lose confidence due to the pressures of social media, rapid technological change, and AI.
Laura shares her insightful, values-driven coaching methods such as the North Arrow and Buzz Sheets to reveal how HR professionals can spot warning signs of fading confidence and foster environments of vulnerability to help leaders rebuild their self-assurance.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- High performers often project a polished professional image externally while secretly battling severe imposter syndrome and eroding confidence underneath.
- Constant bombardment from social media platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram pressures professionals to compare themselves to others, leading to self-doubt and second-guessing.
- True, sustainable leadership confidence is built not by maintaining a flawless, numeric-driven facade, but by embracing emotional intelligence, vulnerability, and self-awareness.
- HR can identify leaders struggling with confidence by watching for noticeable behaviour changes, such as withdrawal from opportunities, overthinking, or uncharacteristic defensiveness
BEST MOMENTS
“They may well appear very confident externally… but actually underneath they might be struggling, and they might be losing confidence and having wobbles, having doubts, but they don’t feel able to verbalise that.”
“The word I often use with my clients to talk about is ‘comparativitis’. We are absolutely bombarded with images, news, communication about other people and what they’re doing and how amazing they are.”
“When I’m working with someone one-to-one, it’s the first time they’ve ever actually been honest, vulnerable, and authentic about what is actually going on and how they’re actually feeling.”
“If you don’t have that self-awareness, you’re just, you know, blissfully carrying on.”
Valuable Resources
The HR Uprising Podcast | Apple | Spotify | YouTube
The HR Uprising LinkedIn Group
Mastering Motivation with Rob Lion (The HR Uprising)
How To Be A Change Superhero – by Lucinda Carney
HR Uprising Mastermind – https://hruprising.com/mastermind/
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About The Guest, Laura Ogilvie-Jones
Laura Ogilvie Jones is an ICF PCC accredited Career and Leadership Coach, qualified Careers Adviser and Emotional Intelligence Assessor (EQ i 2.0). With over 1000 coaching hours, she supports experienced professionals and leaders at pivotal career points, helping them regain clarity, rebuild confidence and move forward with direction and conviction. She also works with organisations delivering leadership development, career clarity and emotional intelligence workshops.
Connect with Laura
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-ogilvie-jones/
Website: www.lojcoaching.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraogilviejones/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lojcoaching
About The Host
Lucinda Carney is a Business Psychologist with 15 years in Senior Corporate L&D roles. Lucinda, for over 10 years as CEO of Actus Software has worked closely with HR colleagues helping them to solve the same challenges across a huge range of industries. Certainly, it was this breadth of experience that inspired Lucinda to set up the HR Uprising community. In order to facilitate greater collaboration across HR professionals in different sectors, helping them to ‘rise up’ together.
“If you look up, you rise up”
How To Be A Change Superhero – by Lucinda Carney
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