"The vision will validate itself in time"
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Meet Amie Geall, Founder of City of Triumph, a call out to all city innovators, leaders, and architects of the future to join them in Standing in Triumph Together for city total recovery and flourishing economy in the pandemic era and beyond. By providing evidence-based coaching models grounded in psychology, City of Triumph offers socially conscious businesses solutions to workplace mental health. Providing this value, while helping business leaders make an important stand in their community and family for mental health and well-being during the pandemic is what makes their initiative truly unique.
The Flourishing Workplace Framework is poised to rejuvenate the fabric of our economy, our people, with cutting-edge social innovation. They make the statement that our wealth is in our people and organizational wellness matters. Flourishing People + Flourishing Businesses + Flourishing Leaders equals a Flourishing City economy that they call City of Triumph.
The Flourishing Framework is authored by Dr. Wayne Hammond and Abe Brown and is poised to rejuvenate the fabric of our economy, our people, with cutting-edge social innovation.
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Let’s learn a little about you and really get to experience what makes us tick – starting at our beginnings. Where did your story begin?
Amie Geall: My story began with standing by my Mom in her cancer recovery journey. I found the skillset and mindset to stand together and win under extreme circumstances. This concept of oneness of purpose came as many women rallied around me to see cancer conquered. Woman of Triumph was born on this battlefield. Being coached into total recovery was something I realized I could apply to any life setback. Especially as we see more people hit with life and income losses, inner resourcefulness to transform from the inside out is necessary during the profound social shifts the world experiences. So contributing my personal transformation to a world under transformational pressure became an obvious path to pursue for me.
I met Connie Jakab in an online challenge she hosted in October 2020. She co-founded Flourishing Life Coaching where the Flourishing Framework was born as the brainchild of Abe Brown and Dr. Wayne Hammond. Seeing the potential in the Flourishing Workplace Framework has to reach people with strengths-based perspectives around a culture of psychological safety in the workplace, I became inspired. How many workplaces are truly safe places for creativity and innovation with psychosocial safety at the cornerstone of productivity? Taking this concept of interpersonal safety with the psychology of flourishing that is derived from a strong sense of meaning, a sense of mastery, and a sense that they matter to others, the “Three Ms”, I envisioned the extrapolated effect of this construct for larger social innovation, and City of Triumph was born.
What would our cities look like with more psychological safety starting at work, then overflowing to family, and sharing the responsibility for a culture of wellness in cities of the future? It has become my compelling challenge to call leaders higher as architects of the future of flourishing enterprise that changes the world, one workplace, and one city at a time. Our cities have felt pain during adverse world events and lifting them with the Spirit of Triumph that lifted me when I needed it most, became my greatest joy to share with others.
Was there somebody in your life that inspired you to take that specific journey with your business?
Amie Geall: Abe Brown has inspired me to take the Flourishing Workplace journey which led to City of Triumph because of his systematic approach to total human wellness, which he has championed fearlessly. I had a realization that the journey of triumph was the journey of flourishing through Abe’s expert perspectives on evidence-based and practitioner-focused coaching. Experiencing triumph as a spectrum as much as psychological flourishing is a spectrum of wellness was a breakthrough for me.
Personal triumph always seemed like a state of self-actualization, however, the spectrum of total oneness of purpose helped me see the freedom to be flexible with dimensions of triumph. Seeing the opportunity to create a robust framework of whole-person coaching with Woman of Triumph in my Mom’s total wellness experience, was the catalyst to see whole city transformation on a spectrum of flourishing in like manner. The social innovation that the Flourishing Framework presents to the market is one of a kind. Being rooted in clinical practice by Abe’s partner Dr. Wayne Hammond, to ground those we journey with to total wellness discoveries, gave me the confidence to create a vision for a City of Wellness with Triumph of people, health, and profits in mind.
What are the most common mistakes you see entrepreneurs make and what would you suggest they do?
Amie Geall: The most common mistake I see entrepreneurs make is asking a blind person to proofread their vision. We seek validation from those around us. The vision will validate itself in time. Absorbing skepticism and doubt don’t serve you or the compelling vision of your future. Being around those who also are successful visionaries keeps the fire alive while providing realistically valid feedback is crucial. Surround yourself with the five people you most want to become like. You’ll find many doubters are afraid of who you will become. Be that person anyway.
Resilience is critical in critical times like the ones we are going through now. How would you define resilience?
Amie Geall: I define resilience as the byproduct of inner resourcefulness and social resourcefulness. Many focus exclusively on one dimension of resilience however with social resourcefulness in the mix, a person becomes truly triumphant. The tragedy of life is often that an immensely resourceful person lacks the social resourcefulness to overcome life’s challenges. Resilience can become depleted in solo journeys. In a society of sojourners, shared meaning and shared purpose are what binds people together for the long haul, thereby creating shared resilience.
The most resilient people create networks of meaning and bring others into their story of resilient tenacity. Humility and lifelong learning through interconnected living create a fabric of resilience that is unstoppable.
In your opinion, what makes your company stand out from the competition?
Amie Geall: City of Triumph stands out from the competition of Organizational Culture and Leadership experts because there is true alignment between the leadership behavior and cultural design of psychological safety. In addition to this, Security-Based Leadership or *SQ takes leadership transformation a step further because often in the absence of secure functioning of a leader, there is a severe edge taken out on the wellness of team functioning. We have all seen it, or maybe even become that in our weakness. When internal leaders see the cultural design of psychological safety as an outflow of daily leadership decisions, there is an awareness that takes place. Until a leader is secure within themselves to derive power to lead, there is no true psychosocial wellness for team health. Our human default is to seek to leverage power over others when our internal power or resilience runs low. This is the definition of bullying which is also at epidemic levels.
Building personal power from within to lead is what we call “flourishing from the inside out” in a strengths-based coaching relationship. This is a leadership behavior that is a game-changer for culture building. We often attribute wellness to external factors such as benefits planning or total rewards, yet the internal factors of culture are overlooked as teams languish. If compensation were enough for wellness, the case in the corporate world of rising costs of mental health claims would be a non-existent reality.
So your competitive edge rises from the psychology of flourishing, remembering the “3 Ms” of meaning, mastery, and mattering. In essence, a co-creation of secure leadership and secure functioning within a workplace construct is what makes Flourishing Workplace a groundbreaking innovation in the total wellness of people and profits. Our challenge to raise the leadership bar of wellness across our cities is unique because taking wellness home rather than toxic stress home from work is a catalyst to change the quality of life for many.
You are a successful business leader. Which three character traits do you think were most instrumental to your success?
Amie Geall: The three character traits that have been most instrumental to my success are discernment, analytical mindset, and empathy.
Success is caring for customers and maintaining value inside and outside the company. Discerning those who are able to continue the value chain inside and out is one of the most important leadership qualities I have. An analytical mindset will show you cause and effect so you can extrapolate the effect of your efforts. Empathy keeps you human and engaged in the process of delivering value that can keep you leading-edge because you care more than necessary. That is really it. Empathy will keep you from being complacent towards who you are becoming as the author of something that is beyond transactional value.
How important do you think it is for a leader to be mindful of his own brand?
Amie Geall: Brand is everything. Enduring brands capture the heart and soul. Even more, brands carry a message. So daily business interactions leave an imprint of your branding everywhere. Humans are emotional before tactical and the emotional resonance of a brand is priceless.
How would you define “leadership”?
Amie Geall: When you inspire people to be more and do more, you are a leader. Few leaders inspire on this level. Why should leaders aspire to any less? Transformational leadership is when you inspire their “being” as much as their “doing”. Permanent change is in their followers’ being because they have imparted truth that can shift them to stronger ground long term. Many people will do things to oblige a leader they feel an obligatory relationship to. True leaders transform by investing in others in ways that transcend toward purpose. The best part of being a transformational leader is they leave a legacy they can be proud of because they left hope not pain in their path.
What advice would you give to our younger readers that want to become entrepreneurs?
Amie Geall: Being an entrepreneur is a noun and a verb. Abe Brown of Flourishing Workplace taught me this. Early in people’s entrepreneurial journey, they aspire to be something that an entrepreneurial status will give them. The action taken to create something of value for market demand is a matter of separate significance and where longevity is found. Get beyond what the status will afford you and get into what will shift the quality of life for others in your market.
What’s your favorite “life lesson” quote and how has it affected your life?
Amie Geall: One of my favorite life lesson quotes is by Albert Einstein. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” This is one of my most favorite life quotes because especially in leadership, the art and science elements become intermingled, and we truly find ourselves in the business of delivering an experience for our clients. The mystery is never fully explained of how monumental leaders translate their message to the world in a massive way, yet their impact is undeniable.
There is always a mysterious element in the tension of their art and science that makes them beyond dynamic as a fascinating example to others. To keep the beauty of what lies in the art and science of wellness that all practitioners of transformational coaching and healing frameworks must keep in mind is a fundamental goal for me. The client experience must come first. We transform the quality of life through these principles of existence to create sustainable socioeconomic change for generations of leaders to come.
Mike Weiss, VIP Contributor to ValiantCEO and the host of this interview would like to thank Amie Geall for taking the time to do this interview and share her knowledge and experience with our readers.
If you would like to get in touch with Amie Geall or her company, you can do it through her – Linkedin Page
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